It just happens that a group of lawyers make a report on human rights in Syria. It just happens that they had previously done the same in the former Yugoslavia. It just happens that their report is based on one single and anonymous source. It just happens that this anonymous source claims to have been employed by the Syrian regime to, you guessed it, make photos of dead bodies. It also just happens that this “confidential” report was leaked just ahead of a conference whose main sticking point just happens to be whether the AngloZio Empire will allow Assad to stay in power or not. It just happens that nobody in the corporate media questions this sequence of events. And it just happens that Lavrov is the only one who says that any such report must be carefully investigated before it is believed. According to The Guardian, the three lawyers just happen to find the secret source “credible and truthful and his account “most compelling”. It also just happens that the three lawyers work for a firm contracted by the Qatari government.
Sadly, it also just happens that most people are zombified morons who forgot about Saddam, Nayirah and the Kuwaiti incubators, about Timosoara and Ceaucescu, about Markale, Racak, and the Serbian “concentration camps” in Bosnia and the Srebrenica “genocide”, about Gaddafi’s Viagra distribution to his soldiers to rape Libyan women or about how the Iranian Revolutionary Guard shot Neda in Tehran or how Chavez ordered snipers to shoot at Venezuelan people.
I don’t mean to say that most people are zombified morons for knowing about these horrors. I say that most people are zombified morons for not knowing that these horrors were debunked and for believing this laughable report about Syria.
I won’t even mention Iranian laptops with bomb designs or Venezuelan laptops with FARC-Chavez ties. Heck, I won’t even mention Saddam’s WMDs or the fact that it is the official narrative about 9/11 which is an absolutely ridiculous conspiracy theory which contradicts Newtonian physics at a high-school level of understanding.
I am *tired* of idiots who cannot add 2 and 2 or who can repeat the exact same “mistake” over and over and over again. I am *tired* of feeling like the world has gone apeshit crazy and that I am the only one who remembers events which took place only 20 or so years ago. I am *tired* of a world were photos are used in lieu of arguments and in which even basic rules of logic seem to have completely disappeared. And I am *tired* of trying to be polite and courteous to self-satisfied imbeciles whose ignorance and sheer stupidity has put them beyond reach of a rational argument.
I can forgive the world for being so friggin stupid about Bosnia. It’s unfair, it’s tragic, it’s sad, but ok, it was the first time. But when I see exactly the same shit taking place in Syria I get really really mad.
Man, there are days when disgust just overcomes me…
Sorry, I had to vent. Tomorrow is another day (hopefully).
Cheers,
The Saker
Saker Message:
Good piece on this from Craig Murray, and the motives of the lawyers preparing the report (money). The motives of the “journalists” trumpeting it are less honourable.
See: http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/
Gordon.
Anyone who believes anything from a western guv or the western media is a ambulatory nutritionless vegetable, IE: a walking head of iceberg lettuce.
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I’m much more optimistic. I’m guessing this story will fall apart and result in nothing but eembarrassment. Just give it a week.
That said, there is always the possibility that a sore loser might knock over the chess board and start a fist fight.
Putin and Lavrov are playing this just right and are probably having a little fun doing it.
@Anonymous1: thanks! Reading Murray made feel better :-)
@Anonmous2: agreed. the scary realization is that most people fall exactly into that category. What Mayor of London Boris Johnson called “great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies” (-: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg6SRlQervo :-)
Cheers my friends,
The Saker
@Ceausescu…
You forgot to mention that at Timisoara 60.000 people have been massacred in just few hours! It was in the news!
I do remember a little detail. I was following the events from far away. I just recived a phone call from Paris putting me to listen to the French radio which was reporting “live”:”the terrorists shoot in all direction, is a chaos, blah,blah”,from the center of Bucharest (extremely excited, as is fit for a reporter on the frontline). I could hear the machine guns. I grabbed the phone and I called someone I knew living just above the place. I asked worried what happened. The respondent look puzzled. I told him that I heard machine guns, etc. He said no, no, everything is calm, they are cleaning the street!
Not long after it was revealed that the spark of the Velvet Revolution in Prague (the killing of a student)was a montage, the student was not killed at all and he in fact was an officer of the Security!
So all the technics of Gene Sharp were applied long before OTPOR, Arab Springs et al. Not much comfort!
WizOz
“Heck, I won’t even mention Saddam’s WMDs or the fact that it is the official narrative about 9/11 which is an absolutely ridiculous conspiracy theory which contradicts Newtonian physics at a high-school level of understanding.”
You don’t seriously still support the controlled demolition thermite nonsense do you seeing how there is actual evidence even admitted partially by the MSM that calls into question the official narrative of 9/11?
Saker, I share your frustration. I too still get angry each time nasty manipulators manage to successfully spread such outrageous lies and manipulations among the gullible. But the mass of people is stupid, ignorant and pigheaded. Always. Everywhere. They believe the most obvious fabrications and lies and go on to defend and spread them like a gospel. They follow leaders and they always prefer those who are the most hypocritical, the most bigoted and the most reactionary like they persistently do in US, UK, France, Germany … and as they did in Poland where they flocked around the catholic church and the reactionary “working class hero” Walesa, in CSSR where they supported Havel and his CIA-sponsored Charter77 or in Croatia where they followed proto-fascists like Mesic, Tudjman and Sanader etc.
I often wonder what might be the reason for such behavior? Is it a lack of education? A lack of critical faculties? Or is it because these leaders cleverly exploit the peoples’ own prejudices, their hypocrisy, their bigotry, their narrow mindedness, their racism, their xenophobia, their secret and quiet pleasure at the suffering of the others? In 1946 Wilhelm Reich wrote an essay about this kind of behavior …
Listen, Little Man!
http://www.listenlittleman.com/
… very recommended reading, although I’m not at all d’accord with Reich’s more esoteric ‘research’ and notions.
Another question is of course whether it would make any difference if the vast majority of the people were immune to such disinformation and propaganda. I suspect it wouldn’t because western-style democracy works like a charm for those who organize and perpetrate it: Control the media – frame the debate – reduce electoral choices to meaningless alternatives and then, after the inevitable election victory – thank the electorate for their trust and claim to have a mandate to do whatever you see fit. Then continue to control the media – frame the debate – etc. etc. … And for those who look through the scam and are unhappy about it there’s always surveillance and the threat of violence.
What Is To Be Done?
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/
@WizOz: You forgot to mention that at Timisoara 60.000 people have been massacred in just few hours! It was in the news!
Not true! I wrote: … who forgot about Saddam, Nayirah and the Kuwaiti incubators, about Timosoara and Ceaucescu, about Markale, Racak, and the Serbian “concentration camps” in Bosnia and the Srebrenica “genocide”, about Gaddafi’s Viagra distribution to his soldiers to rape Libyan women or about how the Iranian Revolutionary Guard shot Neda in Tehran or how Chavez ordered snipers to shoot at Venezuelan people.
But yeah, looks like besides us nobody remembers the Timisoara hoax any more…
@Lumpy Gravy:In 1946 Wilhelm Reich wrote an essay about this kind of behavior …
Oh, I have not read that! Thanks, I will definitely read it now :-)
I often wonder what might be the reason for such behavior? Is it a lack of education? A lack of critical faculties?
Well, I don’t know for sure, but I wrote about how Milgram and Asch might help us understand the seemingly unbelievable blindness of folks about 911, check my post here: http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-am-i-not-hearing-endless-rumble-of.html
So social psychology is the key. Edward Bernays worked out the techniques to stupidify people, what we need is an “anti-Bernays” to help people recover their common sense and natural intelligence, however minute that one might be. We have the Matrix’s “blue pill” delivered to us free of charge each morning by the powers that be. What we need is to find a way for the boneheads to try the “red pill”. Some people are probably beyond hope no matter what. But enough could, in theory, wake up…
Cheers,
The Saker
@ Jack,
Something literally turned those building to dust, as to what that something (s) is/are who knows indeed?
Methinks that the situation on this planet, is coming along very niceky, events are shaping themselves for a something (s) to occur which will force a decision to be made by everyone individually or atleast as much of an individual as they are; and when it comes, we shall see the wroth of the biped creatures that have been called homo-sapiens.
There are other creatures in, on and around the earth, but I can only speak about that which I clearly percieve.
@Timisoara,
Saker,
I was talking tongue in cheek. I did not say that you forgot Timisoara (obviously your finger touched o instead of i). The 60.000 reported in the news were enough to show that it was a hoax (a hoax that worked nevertheless, at least immediately, inducing the state of hysteria necessary for “revolutions”).
Cheers,
WizOz
Be of good cheer, Saker. There are plenty of people who are very sceptical about this report, both its content and its timing. People are no longer so easily fooled.
@WizOz:I was talking tongue in cheek. I did not say that you forgot Timisoara
Ok. I understand. The reason why I cannot forget that is that when it happened I “bought it” 100%! I was horrified that this SOB Ceausescu and his bloodthirsty Securitate would commit such a brazen massacre. When I later realized that it was all bull (at least in Timisoara, not elsewhere, he was an SOB), I felt so stupid….
Also, what was presented as a popular uprising turned out to be very deliberately orchestrated coup, lead by regime insiders…
Oh well, at least I began learning my lesson that year…
Cheers!
The Saker
A good article about the chemical attack in Syria, the study blaming it on intelligence failure, is reminiscent of other lies such as as Iraq.
http://nsnbc.me/2014/01/19/corroborated-top-us-and-saudi-officials-directly-responsible-for-chemical-weapons-attack/
@Anonymous
It wasn’t turned to dust it was turned to rubble caused by the force of the plane slamming into the building and the resulting fireball and fire from the jet fuel that weakened the metal that caused the towers to collapse.
@Timisoara…
Indeed, people called the “revolution” Lovilutsia. From Lovi(tura de stat=coup d’etat)+lutsia from Revo… Romanians are great at jokes (when they don’t play jokes on themselves). Or, “Revolutia de la televizor”.
One of the fixtures of these lovilutions was to show or just speek about the “golden taps” in the bathrooms of the dictators.
Cheers,
WizOz
@jack
answers to any and all questions you can find at the following link. http://www.historycommons.org/project.jsp?project=911_project
anyone having any questions about the event actually.
THERE IS NO VERDICT PROVIDED, NO CONCLUSION AND NO ANSWERS. Just the chronology which will allow you to make the decision.
In all this turmoil, there is one ethnic group that is, after all its suffering, slowly emerging as a nation. The Kurds are more or less free in Iraq and now in Syria. All that remains is Turkey and Iran. Don’t want to see Iran break up but then I start thinking as an ethnic group the Kurds should have a nation. Read a lot about Israel’s involvement in the Iraqi Kurdish areas. I guess there is a lot of blood going to spill there as well before long.
http://rt.com/news/syria-kurds-autonomy-geneva-989/
Regarding negotiations destroying military victory, it’s not new. At the battle of Siffin (http://www.al-islam.org/restatement-history-islam-and-muslims-sayyid-ali-ashgar-razwy/battle-siffin) Ali ibn Abu Talib (a.s) had more or less defeated Muawia (l.a). But Muawiah’s ploy worked and a section of Ali’s army forced him to negotiate. Whatever followed the people brought on to themselves.
Iranians have long memories, they do know their history. When Craig Murry, in his excellent article, states “Iran has, as it frequently does, shot itself in the foot diplomatically by refusing to accept the communique as the basis of talks and thus getting excluded from Geneva”, he fails to realise the reason for their stand.
http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=131745&cid=19&fromval=1&frid=19&seccatid=32&s1=1
Mindfriedo
“Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice. Their suggestibility is increased to the point where they cease to have any judgement or will of their own. They become very excitable, they lose all sense of individual or collective responsibility, they are subject to sudden accesses of rage, enthusiasm and panic. In a word, man in a crowd behaves as though he had swallowed a large dose of what I have called “herd-poisoning.”
Reading is a private, not a collective activity. The writer speaks only to individuals, sitting by themselves in a state of normal sobriety. The orator speaks to masses of individuals, already well primed with herd poison. They are at his mercy and, if he knows his business, he can do what he likes with them.”
Aldous Huxley
“I can forgive the world for being so friggin stupid about Bosnia. It’s unfair, it’s tragic, it’s sad, but ok, it was the first time.”
It wasn’t the first time. There was the “Team B” report on Soviet military spending where Perle and Wolfowitz learned their craft. The “Gulf of Tonkin Incident” was another. Going back a bit further, there’s the “The Soviet Army deliberately halted before Warsaw to let the Germans crush the Uprising!”
That one ignores the presence of two freaking Panzercorps!
But yeah, most never learn, and the Anglosphere Foreign Policy Elite and Punditocracy ostracises those who do.
@Saker
Somebody just sent me this. Do you have any knowledge of this topic? First time I have come across this.
http://antioligarch.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/mass-starvation-of-germans-1945-1950-eisenhowers-death-camps/
Mindfriedo
Saker:
I feel your pain. Truly. And frustration. Disappointment.
Sorrow.
All those emotions.
And you are right, “we” do allow this to be done to us.
Because we believe in an illusion.
That said…. the skepticism is growing.
I disagree with Lysander that this latest psyop will fall apart.
These psyops don’t fall apart, not in the main stream media.
The media promotes them endlessly
To reinforce the lies
To keep the people dumb and down
9/11 has been reinforced endlessly
Where the psyop dies is amongst the people discussing them. Dissecting them. Amongst themselves
The whoring media can be counted on to reinforce all appropriate memes, never letting them die.
I agree with fern that more people are catching on. And that is a good thing.
Had a news item up the other day about how much distrust is growing amongst the populace towards government, banks and business..
Beautiful.
You keep doing what you are doing.
I will keep doing what I am doing
Everyone keeps talking…
And slowly, with people living mindfully.. the dynamic can shift
@Lysander & Penny:
I’m guessing this story will fall apart and result in nothing but eembarrassment. Just give it a week.
I disagree with Lysander that this latest psyop will fall apart.
It will be *worse*: yes, within a week this story will fall apart, but no, nobody will care, and the “collective mind” will simply ignore that debunking of lies.
@jack:
It wasn’t turned to dust
Wrong – most of it was dust; very little rubble remained
caused by the force of the plane slamming into the building
Wrong – the buildings resisted impact and fell much later
the resulting fireball and fire from the jet fuel
Lasted less then a few minutes
weakened the metal that caused the towers to collapse.
Not even NIST of any other agency makes that claim any more
so Jack, for the last time (sigh, rollyes),
1) get your facts straight
2) use your head
rkka:It wasn’t the first time.
Good point! I should have written “first time after theh end of the Cold War”.
@Mindfriedo: Do you have any knowledge of this topic?
A little. That, or the mass torture of Germans by Jews after the end of the war, or the mass deportation of Germans to create a bigger Poland, etc. etc. etc. The true story of WWII has still to be written.
Penny: you rock! thanks for being out there – you always cheer me up!
Cheers to all,
The Saker
Saker,
Thank you so much for this post! It expresses my feelings of frustration over the propaganda apparatus precisely! I do not have the same long memory and the same profound knowledge of world events as you do, but even with my limited experience and knowledge I get suspicious when I read stories like the one surfacing now on alleged massacres.
My thoughts go to Noam Chomsky, who outlined brilliantly and way ahead of us the functioning of the propaganda machine they call media. They also go to Robert Fisk, who when he gave a speech at my university said, “sometimes I get the feeling that somebody, somewhere pushes a button, and within an instant, the entire media circus is being flushed with the same message, which must be repeated, and never be questioned. This button is being pushed more and more often yet nobody seems to notice it” He said that in 2010 and I thought back then that he was a prophet.
The question remains, why do I feel so silly and so bad when we get news like the one you just described? After all I should be expecting to be lied to, and I should be vigilant and trying to see through the lies. And I am doing my best to do so. But to be honest, the fact that I am constantly being lied to, that I am willfully deceived, and can never quite be sure what to believe just feels terrible. It goes against all human decency. Maybe your experience is different, but in real life, I only very rarely meet people, sociopaths, who willfully and intentionally deceive me and lie to me for their own benefit. I like to think that I have quite a good nose for spotting such people, and whenever I do, I try to stay as far away from them as I possibly can and I try to warn my friends and those I care about. For the sake of psychological hygiene, I try to stay away from such people, because whether they succeed or not in deceiving me, their lying makes me feel bad. I believe, that these lying sociopaths are a tiny minority, and that in real life it is manageable to keep them out of your life.
With our media, I have the feeling, that the vast majority are lying at least some of the time, and if there in fact are any decent, non-lying and non-manipulated news outlets at all, you have to look for them like for a needle in a haystack. This is a terrible state of affairs. I am very curious about what’s going on in the world, but I don’t want to be constantly lied to. What I also dislike is documentaries and tv-news in general, because much more than written news, they appeal to our emotions and our subconscious. It’s as if their whole purpose is to bypass critical examination.
Some media sometimes bring well-researched, critical, good journalistic pieces, just to impress you, just to re-gain credibility, and you let your guard down just a little bit, just to be fooled again the next time.
My conclusion is that we should not be so hard on ourselves for feeling betrayed and hurt everytime anew, despite the fact that this is what is to be expected from the media. It simply is not a natural healthy state, and it causes massive cognitive dissonance in our primitive hunter gatherer brains. Perhaps an evolutionary explanation would give some piece of mind? For most of human existence we lived in small groups, like tribes, where very thick bonds of trust were essential for our survival. Whether the information received from another member of the group was accurate and truthful, could make the difference between life and death. And I imagine that pathological liars were quickly discarded from such groups.
I am happy your blog exists, and it already makes a world of difference, to share skepticism and frustration with other like-minded people.
Best
David
Bosnia was a precedent set up to bypass the international law from which the R2P (responsibility to protect) zionazi plot was developed.
Actually, before that was the story about the Kuwaiti babies (if we’re talking about the post-cold war era).
Bosnia was a stunning “humanitarian” success due to the ziomedia sphere because of which the war was solely started by yet another ziomaniac, Warren Zimmermann, ambassador to (then still) YU. It was a one way street: the opposing side (in that case the Serbs) had no access to it; any opposing view by a few brave journalists was muted. Later, the so-called academia joined in.
Do you know that Bibi even hosted a Muslim family from Bosnia at the time? The whole thing had one purpose only: to shift the worlds’ attention away from the israhelly genocide; thus the “genocidal Serbs” rhetoric. Hell, they recently added Milosevic’s poster in color (4 x the size of the other ones) to the Nuremberg Museum. More than 1.7 million Serbs killed in WWII – often for saving / protecting the Jews (M. Albright as well) – mean nothing to them. Goyim is goyim! No doubt, Assad’s poster has been printed as well!
Speaking of academia, also mainly controlled by the elders of zion, what’s your take on Chomsky?
E.g., in the case of Bosnia he claims that “he knows little about Balkans,” and “there were more intense conflicts at the time not taken care of. Same behavior when asked about 9/11.
Thus, it seems he doesn’t negate the ziomaniacs’ PR stunts, but pretends not to know enough about the most atrocious ones. To add insult to injury, in an interview to RT with Abby Martin, he said that “Christianity represents the greatest danger to the world.” Arguably, there is a difference between Orthodoxy and the rest of “Christianity”, but it seems it’s another area he is not quite acquainted with (?). I.e., did he actually mean Orthodoxy?
Apropos this latest PR stunt, they came up with it simply because they got away with the previous ones without consequences whatsoever! And that’s the worst thing of all; there will be no consequences for those who committed this crime.
Add to it the need to spoil Sochi Olympics. I wouldn’t be surprised if israhell doesn’t throw few bombs onSyria on the opening day.
All you need for evil to succeed is to have psychopaths at the top & bottom, and, most importantly, the members of the rest of society in between who “only do their work.”
@Sokenekos:Speaking of academia, also mainly controlled by the elders of zion, what’s your take on Chomsky? E.g., in the case of Bosnia he claims that “he knows little about Balkans,” and “there were more intense conflicts at the time not taken care of. Same behavior when asked about 9/11.
I actually met him once, in private. He is an extremely nice gentleman whom I believe to be 100% sincere in everything he says. He is most definitely not anything like an “elder of Zion”. He is a old-style Jewish Leftist, totally sincere and totally honest, who really believes in the ideals which are dear to him. About 9/11 he clearly takes the stand of “don’t confuse me with fact – I got my opinion already made” and I think that there are several reasons for that:
1) he is of a generation which simply cannot conceive that such a cynical ploy of murdered many thousands US citizens could have been actually planned. I know of other such cases here, in the USA.
2) he cannot cope with the consequences of looking at the truth as he is a de-facto member of the US elites.
3) he probably is smart enough to at least get a hunch of where a true 9/11 investigation would lead: to the Neocons and Israel. Since he always said that the US controls Israel and not vice-versa he probably just does not want to look into what 911 tells us about this relationship.
4) the official 911 fairytale also fits very nicely with the notion of blowback against US imperialism. That is a notion that a lot on the US Left really believe in – as do I, but not in the case of 911.
But, Sokenokos, we have to keep in mind that many people can SINCERELY be wrong even about things which you and I would consider self-evident. To accept the facts about 911 takes a HUGE amount of psychological effort. It took me EIGHT FRIGGING YEARS to have the courage to a) get all the facts and b) accept where they were pointing me. It is just that easy for a normal person to accept that there are folks like the ones behind 911 out there. The brazen arrogance of what they did on 911 makes operations like Gladio or Northwooods look timid and ethical, at least in comparison.
Anyway, give Chomsky a break, please! He did so much good in his life and showed so much courage and intellectual integrity, that we owe him the right to be wrong without being disparaged by us.
Does that makes sense?
Kind regards,
The Saker
hunt silently and relentlessly
strike with lethal accuracy
like an arrow that cuts the night
bring death to your prey
this be the saker’s TRUE way
Fisk says something similar to what you said
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/syria-report-one-is-reminded-of-nazi-germany-9075743.html
Mindfriedo
@Saker
Alright, I’ll take your advice since you know so much more.
It’s the case where a crime is large enough for which even Chomsky is not ready to pay the price by expressing his disagreement.
Sometimes he seems to me more of a facade: he gives nice talks on how the US regime is evil, etc.; many people attend & go hoem thinking to themselves they’ve done something good for the humanity.
But here is the catch: how many of them prevent their sons / other relatives to, e.g., go to Iraq & other wars? I’d say very few. I.e., his impact on the US society in real terms is next to none. Just look at all the wars after the end of Cold War. It would be very stupid to expect from Chomsky (and others like him) to be able to stop them, but he’s paraded around & shown to the world as the humane face of the US regime — not in spite of it — w/out which it’ll be clear it’s as fasciost as it can be. So, paradoxically, he is of more use to them than a liability.
BTW, once in the comments section of the RT’s YT channel I wrote that Syria is Stalingrad 2.0. So far, it turns out I was right. :) Kudos to the brave Syrian people & army!
Dear Saker,
Just to say I agree with every single part of this article.
Peace to You Saker:
You are not alone in your frustration regarding the ‘sheeple’. But I understand The All Mighty to have said in the Quran that He could have made ALL people believe. I take that to mean there must be necessity for contrast in all things.
I am simply thankful that I am on this side of the equation along with people like yourself and others of like nature.
I believe in a Judgment Day and that gives me great consolation for ALL the nonesense I see and feel helpless towards.
Thank you for you and people like you who help keep the world in balance towards good.
Zainab
Hello Saker and fellow commentators,
With regard to history of WW2, have a look into “The Greatest Story Never Told”. It puts an interesting alternative narrative on the history of Germany from WW1 through to the end of WW2 and subsequent horrors committed to them by Histories Victors.
As for false flags and duping of the public to support war, hell follow the money look at history with open eyes. Even Early 20th century decorated US Marine General Smedley Butler wrote of such fraud in his book “War is a racket”.
Also well summed up again in the anti war film Joyeux Noel at the beginning where the 3 sides propaganda is said by the school boys standing up respectively in front of each of their classes.
9/11, well who had the most to gain from that little exercise? Might give a little insight as to who the real perps are. Be nice for people to stop the wars and hell on earth that the few money hungry seem to delight in.
@Zainab: wa aleikum us sallaam,
I am simply thankful that I am on this side of the equation along with people like yourself and others of like nature.
Yes, I feel likewise. Maybe we are few, but at least we are free, if not always in our bodies, then out least in our souls.
In 1974 I was only 11 years old, Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote an amazing essay called “Live not by lies” which you can find here: http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/SolhenitsynLies.php. I read that a few years later, I must have been 15-16 and at that time I promised myself that I would never ever consciously repeat a lie or do something against my conscience. I have lived all my life by that simple code and, while I did many mistakes, I never regretted living by this simple code of conduct.
I don’t believe that I can change the world for the better, but I am determiend to resist Evil with every fibre of my body and soul and I am determined to never ever let the Lie subsist through me. That “not through me” decision is a big part of what keeps me going. That, and the desire to do God’s will in my life.
Kind regards, fi amanillah,
The Saker
@ Saker, Lumpy Gravy, Penny, David, …
Does anyone of you know “Ponerology” by Andrzej Łobaczewski? I found it very enlightening on psychopaths/sociopaths in politics and why normal people use to be far too long helpless against them. You can find a bit about it on Wikipedia and more about it here:
http://www.sott.net/article/203026-Lobaczewski-and-the-origins-of-Political-Ponerology
and here: http://www.ponerology.com/
I really, really recommend it. I found it very useful for learning to analyze the lies behind the lies and recognizing the art of lying with the truth.
Because it doesn’t help very much of believing nothing anymore or simply believing the opposite of what is propagated. A well-trained propagandist can handle people in this state of mind easily, he just tells them the opposite of what he wants them to believe and lo and behold! – they do. And feel very clever in doing so.
Only strict analysis and understanding of the psychology of the propagandists can point the way out of the trap. (Please excuse my preaching, it’s a side effect of old age).
@Saker
many thanks for the Solzhenitsyn’s essay. Sounds like Serbia today with its government in love with the EU commissars.
@Mindfriedo,
A useful introduction on the topic: inconvenienthistory.com
@VINEYARDSAKER
“Wrong – most of it was dust; very little rubble remained”
What are you talking about there was tons of rubble dispersed over a wide area that did not just affect Building 7.
“Wrong – the buildings resisted impact and fell much later”
I never said it collapsed automatically but the force of the impact and the resulting fire weaken the structure that caused the collapse.
“Lasted less then a few minutes”
Nonsense there was still fires in the buildings that’s why people were trapped above the point of impact and throwing themselves outside of the towers.
Not even NIST of any other agency makes that claim any more
I haven’t heard NIST say that just that they don’t have a full explanation but stand by the initial premise that the towers collapsed due to the impact of the planes, fire and heat that weakened the structure.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071016182908AAF25iJ
“so Jack, for the last time (sigh, rollyes),
1) get your facts straight
2) use your head”
Yes I think you should actually look at the facts not rely on 2nd hand info from 9/11 truth movement and use some basic knowledge and common sense.
Saker:
“Good point! I should have written “first time after the end of the Cold War””
Sure. It seems to me that the British acquired their Russophobia after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, when centuries of carefully-cultivated hatred of France was transferred effortlessly to Russia.
The US got its dose soon after it decided to become a global seapower in the 1880s.
What we have here is the permanent hatred of the only country in the world that cannot be blockaded into submission, by the last and present preeminent global seapowers.
Note that Russia has never really done any serious harm to either. That is irrelevant to the Anglosphere elites. However, this lack of actual harm to them done by Russia does complicate the process of stirring up hatred of Russia among the Anglosphere populations, which is why the Anglosphere elites and their media mouthpieces have to lie so much.
All I can say is get used to it.
Old auntie said…
@ Saker, Lumpy Gravy, Penny, David, …
Does anyone of you know “Ponerology” by Andrzej Łobaczewski?
Hi Old Auntie;
While I can’t speak for anyone else…
Yes, I know the book. And have read the book.
It’s one tough read, but, worth doing so.
He get’s into the psychopath-
A subject I have ran through more then a few books on
Another mode of thinking/learning I have been working on is the Trivium method.
Book/workbook and lots of writing
I am so old school that way, besides I learn better in that manner.
I am using this book
http://www.amazon.ca/The-Trivium-Liberal-Grammar-Rhetoric/dp/0967967503
Yah, I am big on learning.
funny thing? my words that prove I am not a robot are
socrates ousamin
I kid you not!