I was pleasantly surprised to be invited by Conference host Konstantin Malofeev to address more than 300 delegates and guests representing 115 countries attending the International Russophile Movement second annual conference. This was off-the-cuff.
With the benefit of hindsight I should have talked about Russia’s unique position with respect to the theme of “multipolarity.” Russia is not just a vast land mass, encompassing 11 time zones. How big is that? The United States of America contains six time zones — from Maine in the east to Hawaii in the west. Think about that distance and then consider the fact that Russia covers territory twice as large as the United States.
The real achievement of Russia is that it has at least 190 distinct ethnic groups and has managed to create a society where all of those groups identify as Russian while still embracing their unique ethnic heritage. Russia is not saddled with a history of racism like the United States and Europe. The average Russian does not recoil when confronted by a person with black skin. They embrace Africans, Arabs, Jews and Asians in the same way they treat Caucasians. This helps explain why many black Americans sought refuge in the former Soviet Union. Having black skin was not an obstacle to fully participating in Russian society.
I think that is the gift that Russia is in a position to share with the world, i.e., teaching the world to accept other ethnic groups as equals while preserving its national identity. I am not suggesting that Russia is free of social unrest. Wait a minute. What about the anti-Jewish pogroms? How does that square with what I am saying? The hotbed of anti-Jewish attacks was in the areas controlled largely by what we now know as Poland and Ukraine:
The use of the term “pogrom” became common in the English language after a large-scale wave of anti-Jewish riots swept through south-western Imperial Russia (present-day Ukraine and Poland) from 1881 to 1882; when more than 200 anti-Jewish events occurred in the Russian Empire, the most notable of them were pogroms which occurred in Kiev, Warsaw and Odessa.[3] They changed perceptions among Russian Jews and indirectly gave a significant boost to the early Zionist movement.[
Just consider Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s heritage. His great-grandfather, Meir Blinken, was born in in Pereiaslav, the Russian Empire. But where is Pereislav?
Pereiaslav or Pereyaslav (Ukrainian: Переяслав, IPA: formerly Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi or Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy[1][a] (1943–2019),[2] is a historical city in Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast, central Ukraine. It is located near the confluence of the Alta and Trubizh rivers some 95 km (59.03 mi) southeast of the capital Kyiv.
In other words, UKRAINE. Sort of helps explain why Ukraine today is infested with neo-Nazi elements who still consider Jews as untermenschen. The hatred that folks like Blinken and Nuland hold for Russia is misplaced. Their ancestors were persecuted by the ancestors of Ukrainians.
What does it mean to be a Nazi? The essence of Nazism is the belief in ethnic superiority of one group over all others. It was that belief that inspired the 1935 Nuremberg Race Laws. The move towards “multipolarity”, which was the theme of the International Russophile Movement gathering in Moscow last week is not “anti-fascist.” It is not a movement predicated on a negative — i.e., being against fascism. It is focused on a positive — accepting the right of all people, regardless of ethnic heritage, to be treated with respect and equanimity. That is why I attended. It is consistent with the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
This is the core of my belief — all are created equal and endowed by God/Allah with rights that governments are obligated to protect, not destroy.
Paul Robeson had warm welcome with Scottish miners and in U.K. overall and in USSR when fleeing USA
Black servicemen in U.K. in WW2 had freedom innUK unavailable in USA
See my post on James Earl Jones as “Paul Robeson,” play on Broadway. https://louismascolo.substack.com/publish/posts/detail/141499997?referrer=%2Fpublish%2Fposts
I usually appreciate your comments, but I wonder if you know much about this? There were numerous fights between British and white US and Canadian servicemen stationed in England, as it happens. If black soldiers escaped being involved, it was because black people were a rarity. Minorities rarely excite hostility until they threaten the way of life of the majority in some way.
At the time the policies governing admission to the Canadian military were as racist and bigoted as the U.S. No blacks, natives, no everything. However, on the ground unit commanders had the power to over ride this and recruit directly to the serving unit. Which meant quite some numbers of otherwise unwanted were very much wanted. And served. In the ranks any who risked and fought were valued.
To John Thurloe, Sorry for the comment hijack, but after reading down the comments as of 7:30AM EST, I feel something needs to be said where readers don’t have to scroll down through the all-too-common detritus. Thanks in advance for your understanding.
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You all REALLY want to open that religious can (or Diet?) of worms again? Theological? Absolutely. Historical? Hardly. All based on the Abrahamic Texts which are conclusively proven to have been miscopied, mistranslated and deliberately edited for political agendas. And Jews make up less that 2% of the world population, so WHY does 50% of the world act based on their questionable tomes?
Be that as it may be, the overwhelming majority of people who believe in God and religion do so for the best of reasons. My remarks are not directed at them.
But… to quote a popular meme:
Done with the best of intentions, for all the right reasons, WHAT COULD POSSIBLY COULD GO WRONG?
What we see below is what. And Gaza is what. And Ukraine is what. The irrefutable history of wars, crusades, inquisitions, pogroms and witch-hunts all in God’s Name spring from those unfettered and unquestioned Beliefs.
Larry presents a rational observation of religion and ethnicity as is underway (with flaws I’m sure) in the Russian Federation. Even as a non-believer, I have NO ISSUE with that approach, where ALL can believe what they wish (or not) as long as there is TOLERANCE FOR AND BETWEEN ALL. Y’know, The Separation of Church and State sorta stuff. Easy to say (like in a Constitution), difficult to do. Especially if the zealots are in charge.
Then the Proselytizer Believers of all stripes show up here and piss in everybody’s soup. You give your God a bad name, and refuse recognize what antisocial foundations your Extremist Beliefs are built on.
There is no reasoning or negotiation with such blind allegiance and furor. You might as well be Nazis for all the difference it makes.
So all together now, make specious claims that God is going damn my Immortal Soul to Hell, accuse me of murdering unborn babies and say it’s non-believer’s fault for every evil in the world. When it is FAR more likely the hatred, chaos and death in the world is founded on “theological, historical” zealotry.
FFS grow up. Or at least shove off and let the adults talk.
Interesting POV. Rather than attacking “Abrahamic” religions, spend time reading the source materials for these religions. Perhaps you will come to a different understanding.
Of course, the Schofield Bible, with its theologically incorrect annotations is NOT a primary source. I would suggest starting with the Talmud and Torah, if you can get unexpurgated copy of the Talmud.
To quote Maya Angelou: “ When someone tells you who they are, believe them.”
None of us are born inherently hating others. We are taught that from our mother’s breast. But if you make yourself my enemy, beware. I will fight you to the death.
You Believers can’t help yourselves can you? You’ve been here long enough to have repeatedly seen I was raised Christian, walked away in my mid-teens. And obviously never stopped studying religions. For over 55 years, I looked at all of them and they all have the same issues.
I KNOW THE DEAL ON RELIGION.
Which is why I don’t buy into the zealotry and blind allegiance so blatantly displayed here. I doubt Ms. Angelou would welcome your subversion of her message for your hate-filled rant.
Torah? Talmud? How about you stop leaning on whatever versions of the Abrahamic variations you claim are the Inviolate Word Of God and look at the REAL research. And acknowledge it was standard practice to destroy “worn out” previous copies of the Abrahamic Texts as new copies were finished. No “original” copies exist. NONE. That is why the Dead Sea Scrolls are so valuable… a look at what was the ACTUAL scripts 2,000 years ago. The next oldest copies are no more than 1,000 years old. Schofield? When did I EVER refer to that, except as something Christians need to come to terms with.
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-dead-sea-scrolls-bible-martin-g-abeggpeter-flinteugene-ulrich?variant=32207541108770
The volume of raw variations in the relatively few fragments available should give pause, but no, you plow on regardless. I leave it to the actual scholars to parse out the theological meanings of the differences. My point is those variations exist, so no current derivative version can be taken at face value. Therefore the theology based on them is also suspect.
You BELIEVE, HAVE FAITH, you don’t KNOW.
The only “open” question is if SOME “God” actually exists. I’ll admit, I don’t KNOW for certain either way. But neither does any other human on this planet. If there was such proof, there would be nothing to discuss, there would be ONE RELIGION. One set of scriptures.
Apologists have tap danced around the core issue for literal centuries, and non-believers who engage them make the mistake of allowing the Apologists to frame the argument. I go back to first principles. Those who make the positive assertion are the ones required to produce the proof of their position. You say YOUR God exists. It’s your job, by reference to at least two independent sources, to prove that statement. The Abrahamic Texts are incontrovertibly flawed, so suspect. Find other proof.
If the Tower of Babel has any actual presence on Earth, it is in the Big 3 Religions. Who literally fight each other to the death because of psychotic interpretations of “God’s Will” as set out beginning in the Abrahamic Texts.
And where does that internecine hatred keep being perpetuated? In the churches, synagogs and mosques, where the helpless, innocent children are indoctrinated into the “religions of peace” that invariably are at the core of the bigotry and warmongering.
And the few of us that escape the mental conditioning are forever castigated for refusing to join the hate-fest.
As you so blatantly, proudly express.
“None of us are born inherently hating others. We are taught that from our mother’s breast. But if you make yourself my enemy, beware. I will fight you to the death. are taught that from our mother’s breast. But if you make yourself my enemy, beware. I will fight you to the death.”
Let’s parse:
-None of us are born inherently hating others.
Agreed, and what have I ever said to the contrary? I gave personal anecdotes to show that was true and I saw it in my own life.
-We are taught that from our mother’s breast.
Disagree. The Religion Business is maintained on the mass indoctrination of children before they can reason for themselves, to believe lies about others and what they believe. Religions would die in a couple generations without the ability to brainwash children. Few psychologically-sound adults would adopt such arcane beliefs of their own volition.
-But if you make yourself my enemy, beware.
Disagree. YOU decided I was an enemy. My non-belief has zero impact on your right to your PERSONAL, PRIVATE beliefs. When you proselytize, especially on a geopolitical blog, you step into the secular public sphere and become fair game for being critiqued for what you are selling. So all who disagree with you are “enemies”? How Christian, what happened to “turn the other cheek”?
-I will fight you to the death.
I have NEVER threatened ANYONE with violence, even metaphorically. That is in YOUR mind, not mine. And before you try to crawl back under the “it’s only a figure of speech” rock… You HATE ME and wish me harm, if you only could reach through the computer and throttle me where I sit. So you’d kill me to shut me up? I have repeatedly said you are entitled to your beliefs, but that right ends where you try to impose them on others, especially forcefully. I refuse to physically fight over religion, for or against, let alone “to the death”. And the law is with me on that, morally and legally.
But if you think you’re going to shout me down, you are in for a rude awakening. I may be as irritating as Socrates reincarnate, but I refuse to drink the hemlock.
Thank you for so perfectly demonstrating the problem. We have met the enemy, and it is you.
Again, GO AWAY, the adults are trying to talk.
Readers, please excuse the cut/paste error where
“are taught that from our mother’s breast.” was repeated.
I missed it while the Edit window was still open.
“Religions would die in a couple generations without the ability to brainwash children”
+1000
Do you imagine a guy knocks at Larry’s door, and tells him he has been talked by the real god in a gas station while filling the tank? Larry would think that guy is crazy.
Because he was taught as a child to believe in something different.
PS: I don’t know if you are still worried about the downvotes/upvotes :))) The +1000 only shows that I fully share your POV.
I’m just pointing out how ineffectual such downvote tactics are, seems obvious but it appears to escape them.
It keeps the sandwich-board “The End Is Nigh” brigade off the street corners, not annoying others…
Enjoy!
You will make a great Bishop someday. You insist on truth.
When you write, “. I’ll admit, I don’t KNOW for certain either way. But …”
you are ripe for the grace of faith.
God bless
“But if you make yourself my enemy, beware. I will fight you to the death.”
Vomiting.
(Are you coming to Spain to fight me? You alone?)
If you read Israel Shahak’s book “3000 years…” you’ll find that the Jews intentionally isolated themselve, used different dress and shunned outsiders. A recipe for generating conflict. Without this approach Jewish communities would assimilate into the broader society and disappear. I look at historical antisemitism as cause and effect. The fact that this one group had so many problems with other groups doesn’t imply all the other groups behaved badly. Occams razor suggest just one group behaved badly. And they are doing it in spades today: neocons, Israel, …
Think for yourself for once. Still trying to deflect from the core problem…. as if reading yet another “historical” tome will make “it all make sense”…
Dancing on the Blame-the-Jews-go-’round. All the Abrahamic-based religions have a share of the complicity. The CHRISTIAN Old Testament is witness to those theological, ideological foundations.
Again, why should the Zionist ideology of less than 2% of the world population be adhered to, or otherwise countenanced, by over 50%? No one ever wants to answer THAT simple question.
You missed the apart where I was raised Christian?
Jesus said: “I come to fulfill the (Old Testament/Torah) prophesies, not to destroy them. ” A main ideological plank leading to the Second Coming is the Jews reclaiming Palestine, by whatever means necessary.
On the practical side, Jewish Zionists would not be able to do as they are without the overt support of the Christian Zionists. As the rest of Christendom sits back and allows it to happen with little outcry or pushback against the Congress critters and White House Swampers who hand over the tax-money and weapons.
And who are the apex Zionist Jews so firmly ensconced? The Rothschilds, which I have repeatedly documented as bringing the mid-late 1800s Zionist Movement into being, and manipulated the Apartheid State of Israel to be what it is. Balfour Declaration, Sykes-Picotte, paid to import the settlers into Palestine and UN Resolution 181, for starters.
Take the log out of your own eye before you come for the sliver in mine.
“Jews intentionally isolated themselves, used different dress and shunned outsiders. A recipe for generating conflict.”
Not necessarily. See Amish, for example.
In fact, here in Maine the Amish are welcomed with open arms, isolated, different clothes & all. But woe to the Massholes who dress & speak the same, but arrive with Massachusetts license plates.
What generates conflict is disrespecting the rights of others, whether trespassing, cheating, stealing, murdering, defaming, etc.
Read the old testament, where in one chapter God gives the Commandments to not kill, steal, etc…and in the next, instructs his “chosen” to kill, steal, etc.
Good point about the Amish
Not being drafted and sent to die was racist? Sounds like a privlege to me.
Like the Palestinians being denied the Pfizer jab by Israel…
Indeed!
“At the time the policies governing admission to the Canadian military were as racist and bigoted as the U.S. No blacks, natives, no everything.”
Such a bummer: You weren’t forced to fight and die like the white guys at the front.
Then again, as a non-white, you were guaranteed a safe war-time job as a behind-the-lines truck driver. Emmett Till’s dad has that kind of safe job, but he didn’t appreciate it. He was hanged in Italy for raping and murdering two local women during WWII.
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That was not the point
British forces were not racially segregated and Blacks from U.S. had freedoms not available in USA
Why Canadians feel the need to gatecrash the point I do not know
And for reference my family fought in British and in Canadian forces and landed on D-Day in 21st Army Group
Racism, racism! White privilege! Ugh!
All governments have historically gladly accepted, bribed, conscripted, or forced able bodied men of any stripe into their military as convenient to their political means. That barter with death does not equate to “non-racist” equality. How many blacks or Jews or other “races” are found in the historical and current pantheon of the British Commonwealth’s (or EU’Ss) royals? Just as I thought. (And the current actress and her progeny will of course be eliminated from the “true” lineage by royal edict at some future date.)
Nice in the UK “overall” yet they (like PR) believed communism was the answer…
IK was never even Socialist so Communist was off the scale and in fact until 1960s Communists were banned from Labour Party
Thatcher had a Communist adviser Sir Alfred Sherman
The PR that I referred was Paul Robeson, a card-carrying member of the Communist Party in the US, convinced, like many others, that communism was the solution to racism and indeed to all problems of the humanity
Paul Robeson was class conscious, he wasn’t just about race. Hence his warm reception with worker and a worker’s state.
This underlines the fundamental reason that the west is racist and Russia is not: the west has ‘competition’ as it’s most sacred Virtue, and the ruling class rules by divide-and-conquer internally as well as externally. Russia doesn’t. The ‘competitive’ model is a feature of bourgeois ideology, and the Russians never got a big dose of that. Nor did the Chinese, where cooperation is the sacred virtue.
This underlines the fundamental reason that the west is racist and Russia is not…”
Don’t kid yourself.
The average Russian or Chinese father would be far more upset that his beautiful white Russian or Chinese daughter married a black man than your average white American father.
I remember when black African students in Moscow were being beaten/tortured to death for “dating” Russian girls. Racially motivated murders of blacks by white Russians continue to this day.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/29/an-african-students-murder-sheds-light-on-russias-race-problem-a82605
Moscow Times is a neoliberal foreign agent propaganda rag. No credibility whatsoever.
But if you are neocon/ziocon/Genocide Lover you must follow it to know which zionist propagandists have been unmasked as foreign agents, like this “acclaimed” jewish writer who wrote a glowing bio of Kodorchovsky
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/04/15/russian-journalists-political-scientist-declared-foreign-agents-a77373
The name is fooling for an IQ less than 95.
Great speech! Kudos. Quoting the Declaration of Independence – also great!
Yes it was. Concise, very eloquent, and humble – in a good way.
Yes…the constitution of the US is one heck of a document.
“It’s just a piece of paper”; Little Bush.
Quaint piece of paper…Cheney
We’d have been better off keeping with the Articles of Confederation. The chief complaint against them was power was not centralized enough for the federal government to do anything (oh, darn). What happened in the summer of 1787 was a coup. And the seeds of the all powerful fedgov we have today were sewn that summer by Hamilton and others.
… merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Hey! Recall the Declaration of Independence was a “brief”, written and reviewed by committee of lawyers as justification for their treasonous actions!
While it was thoughtful and bore very noble sentiments in order to appeal to non-lawyers and regular men, it remains a defense of insurrection!
The average Russian does not recoil when confronted by a person with black skin. — Larry Johnson
I did not know average Americans recoil when confronted by a person with black skin. Say it ain’t so, Larry.
Perhaps it depends on the nature and circumstances of the black person’s confrontation…
A reasonable point and I cannot why it’s been down-voted. The great thing about Russia is that no ethnic groups are being replaced by others who are encouraged to be openly hostile to them. In my experience very few people are hostile to people of other races unless they feel threatened by them in some way. Russia has stable communities that have a long history of living side by side. It is a totally different situation when people are forced to live side by side with vast and seemingly limitless numbers of imported outsiders, whom they are not only expected to welcome and give way to, but pay for. Some very sinister forces in the west are hell bent on creating a bitterly divided society. God preserve Russia from these forces.
I do.
I see the signs of entering a black neighborhood and prudently change course. Camden is not my home.
That said, there are black Christians who I love to this day…Tony Dungy, John Lamb and my former neighbots leone and una are their names.
We also see revealed preferences in population distributions.
Strom Thurmond
Didn‘t that man Biden have a thing about Robert Byrd and the Klan ?
I don’t believe the Old Grifter ever had a “thing” about any ideology or convictions.
He just attached his crampons to whatever skis that at the time seemed likely to carry him to the trough, just as he has been a “zionist” for a few decades now.
He has always had “a thing” about LUCRE.
Great speech Larry 🫡
I agree with your appreciation of Russia as a multi ethnic and thus multicultural civilisation that has yet managed to secure the allegiance of these quite varied peoples to an integrating ‘Russia’. That indeed is an achievement. Our emergent multipolar or multicentric world is epochal – I believe. At the core of this cooperative ensemble of former empires, now termed civilisational states, is a new (ish) commons which brings together the old Indo-European civilisations: India, Iran, and Russia into active relations with an equally ancient China centered East Asia. My sense of things, and great hope, is that they will prosper in cooperation and even serve each other as models of desirable constitutional forms. We all have things to learn and to teach each other. The fundamental problem with the West (Russia included) has always been oligarchy (re: Michael Hudson). Two thousand years ago China overcame this problem and established an aristocracy (rule of the good/best) on non hereditary grounds. This actually remains the way forwards for all of us. I’m greatly heartened that President Putin has seen fit to openly recognise the honourable service of Russia’s servicemen and women as the foundation of the future governance of the country. This is a big deal, very important. This development takes place at a time when China has become Russia’s leading ally – or partner as some would say. I don’t think this is an accident. It’s to be expected that this emergent aristocracy will be different from the institutions that the Chinese have developed. But I’m sure that they will follow the Chinese lead in making the constituted governing estate non hereditary. At the same time I believe that the Chinese might learn to their advantage from their Russian neighbours how diverse ethnic minorities can be successfully integrated into a singular civilisation. Russia’s strong point is highly visible in their diplomacy. Lavrov, following the lead of his many notable predecessors, has won the friendship of all races and peoples (minus the Brits). Well, anyway, I appreciate your recognition of this absolutely crucial element of Russian civilisation.
All those peoples have seen many conquerors descend upon their lands and very well know that the world is full of covetous would-be Genghis Khans, Napoleons and Hitlers who’d invade them in a breath if it weren’t for Mother Russia.
To be honest, nobody cares about skin colour or religion. Only the overreacting blacks and the narcissist Jews and extreme moslems and Christians.
The rest of the people, the majority, dont show off with skin or “their God”- rantings.
Too bad we have politicians who live in the Middle Ages with their rituals
So you are a racist.
BTW. NOT funny. The moment you stop this black&white thing everytime you open your mouth, the world is a better place and there is progress.
Your comment has many upvotes .. and absolutely no sense.
“To be honest”, you can talk only for yourself, and maybe for the ones near you that you know.
In a planet of 8 billion people, how can you say “nobody cares for this or that?”
That’s untrue. Racial consciousness is at the very core of America and Americans. Foreigners are flabbertgasted at the strength and pervasiveness of American tribalism.
There are plenty of Americans who care a lot about skin color.
In USA, even Stevie Wonder cares about skin color.
Certainly the left woke crowd does. It’s called intersectionality. The less white, male and heterosexual you are, the greater your benefits. It’s blantantly stupid, but, that’s what Western governments have legislated.
“There are plenty of Americans who care a lot about skin color.”
Only the ones who are rewarded for their skin color and the ones who are penalized for their skin color. That’s a good reason to care, your life’s chances often depend on it. The best always rise to the top, affirmative action just makes it more difficult.
I thought it’s a Scandinavian female.
Finnish, most likely.
Interestingly, ethnic tensions relating to Jews are recorded in the Kiev area going as far back as early Ancient Rus. Back then there was the matter of the Judaic Khazar state entity that was neighbouring the Ancient Rus lands in the Caspian steppe area and was something of a “middle power” in that part of the ancient world. There was both tension and trade with the Khazarians, so Jews (both religious and ethnic) were on the scene early; as part of the former, conflicts around Jewish traders and usurers were noted in the annals.
That’s something that never carried over to “north” Rus, which became the de-facto sole inheritor of all Rus after the Mongols crushed the Kievan part of it and turned it into the Wild Fields. Yet in the now-devastated locales, both Jewish presence and tensions between Jews and other locals continued still, as history of the Zaporozhie host notes. As such, you could really say that it’s something endemic in the area for reasons going back to ancient history, ironically not unlike the Levant in some ways.
The duchies that formed the core of “modern” Russia in the High Middle Ages period, however, were all central-northern from the region roughly around Moscow (which only became its capital after a time), so it simply did not absorb those perennial issues for lack of subject matter; far fewer Jews were present for there to even BE any potential for tensions with. Meanwhile, in the now quasi-separate former Kievan area, they were only bolstered by Polish incursion and resulting influence, and Poland already had its issues surrounding the Jewish disapora going strong at the time, so they found common themes there.
In this sense, the cultures of “Velikorossia” (Greater Rus, the northerly-central, northern and northeastern parts) and “Malorossia” (Heartland/Origin Rus around the former capital of Kiev, in the steppes along the upper and mid-flow Dnepr) are indeed different. The former simply lacks the history of “the Jewish question” that the latter had from the start, and that is something which very few people seem to acknowledge or even notice. Especially in the rush to denigrate Russia, people ascribe “Malorossian” issues to all of Russia, and even seem to exculpate Malorossia itself for those issues in the process, as if it was “Velikorossia” that caused them.
After the emancipation of the serfs in Russia ( decree in 1859 but in power in 1862, from the top of my head), the Russian Crown purchased the serfs from their owners, and the Russian peasant serfs were left to fend for themselves with a small parcel of land granted by the Crown, illiterate and an easy prey to legal swindlers. I read Alexander III speech after one of the pogroms asking the Jews, ” you’re sophisticated people, you shouldn’t be taking advantage.”
Yes and Alaska funded the freedom of the serfs
I thought that I’d read that the payment for Alaska never actually reached Russia, so that there is potential dispute about whether the sale went through. (But it’s a bit late to argue about it now.)
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/check-for-the-purchase-of-alaska
My understanding is that the treasury warrant would have been “cashed” into gold in the United States, and the gold delivered to Russia by agents of the USA. The “Paid” stamped on the warrant would represent the completion of the first half of the process, not the second. Supposedly the gold left the USA, but never reached St Petersburg, leading to the doubts about whether the sale was actually effected. (But I’m only going by memory, so it’s quite possible I could be wrong.)
I can’t remember where I read about it, but I believe there is another reason why the tensions between East Slavs and Jews were mainly centred in the Ukraine and Belarus – namely the arenda system in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth that ruled for centuries in that area.
As I understand it, Polish and Lithuanian nobles, who were Catholic, ruled over serfs who were Orthodox. To gain an income from his lands, an absentee landlord noble would make a time-limited contract with an agent (or arenda) to effectively rule over an estate and to extract taxes, tithes and other imposts from the peasants. Because the contract was for a period of only a few years, the arenda was incentivized to take a pretty short-term outlook, caring little for the upkeep of the buildings on the estate, nor for the well-being of the livestock, human or otherwise. The lives of the serfs were therefore hell, not much better than those of chattel slaves.
Unfortunately, the arendas were overwhelmingly Jewish, and at least to begin with, most Jews in the area made their living directly or indirectly from the arenda system. This naturally caused friction between Jews and Orthodox, which sometimes became violent. Accounts of such violence come down to us almost exclusively from Jewish sources, and it is described as consisting of pogroms caused by the inherent and inexplicable antisemitism of the Slavs. If the patterns of cultural dissemination had been different, perhaps we would remember the same events as brave revolts against cruel slave-drivers.
Shahak talks about this at length
As a Dane my generation was taught our own Nations history including the history of the Viking age, where Viking of Scandinavia sailed the Baltic Sea into Lake Ladoga of Finland. From Lake Ladoga they sailed down the Russia and Ukrainian Rivers and into the Black Sea, in order to finally arrive at the East Roman Empire of Constantinople, to trade or fight as mercenaries for the Byzantine Emperor.
The Viking mercenaries in Constantinople were called the Varangian Guard by the Emperor, but were called Berserkers by the enemies of Constantinople, due to their ability to go insane (Berzerk) during fights.
The journey for the Vikings took more than a year, and thus Viking Camps were erected along the river route to Constantinople.
One of the first Viking winter camps war erected in 750AD in Novgorod (North of Moscow) by the Viking Rurik. The next Viking camp was erected in Kiev (Year 822) by Rurik´s son Oleg.
The Viking called Novgorod for Holmgard, Kiev was called Kænugard and Constantinople was called Miklagard.
The Vikings of Scandinavia are actually the origin of the Royal Dynasties of Russia.
The Imperial Russian Romanov Dynasty also has family relations to former Danish and German Royal dynasties.
We even have had 2 Kings of Denmark called Vladimir (Valdemar in Danish) who ruled the Danish Baltic Sea Empire all the way into Estonia.
In my History lessons, the territory of Ukraine was explained as a no-mands land with people often bought or taken as slaves by the Vikings, and bought back to the Nordic Nations. However according Viking Laws, no man or woman could be a slave for more than 1 Year, after which He/She was an equal and free person.
@ Red Outsider, Lika, Peppe il Sicario, Jeff, and Vojkan M.
You all touches on a very important subject, namely why an Anti-Russian but pro Ashkenazi sentiment is ruling Western Nations of Today. The entire History of Russia and especially the region of Kiev and former Khazaria have been corrupted by western historians and media (owned by people of Ashkenazi decent).
However, Nordic History confirms the real History of Russia and Ukraine which is now emerging form posters in this thread. This Historic fact was also mentioned by Vladimir Putin, during his Interview by Tucker Carlson.
Maybe we are entering the biblical End-times: Where all shall be revealed.
Your history lessons have been corrupted. Berserkers got their name from bear skins they wore.
Not Corrupted.
Yes they wore Bear-Serks, (Bear Skins) but ate toxic mushroom to get into a fearless insane state of mind, and in the Nordic nations this state of mind is still called Going Berzerk.
All history lessons are corrupted, and so is yours, but that’s not the point.
You wrote that they were called Berserkers “due to their ability to go insane (Berzerk) during fights”. That’s incorrect. They got name because of bear skins. Term going beserk came after that, because of some crazy guys called Berserkers.
Wrong.
Well documented UAF are hallucinating, not drinking Viking P*iss, rather pharma Sh*t.
Correct – they ate mushrooms, pissed it and drank the brew, went nuts, turned up at Ireland, where serious military dealt with them.
As for financing – it was Venice billionaires, their general from Baghdad, the true SS international model. Viking Runes all over the lions at Piazza St. Marco Doge Palace.It was Charlemagne who dealt with them in Jutland. Witness Azov burning Viking Longboats today at Rivne :
Thank you for that history lesson. Where can I read more information on this? I’ve been fascinated by the early history of Russia ever since I saw a documentary on YouTube discussing the early years of Kiev Rus up to the conversion to Orthodox Christianity.
Larry, you and the gang you mention have done great service to the continuation of civilisation. You have shone lights into the darkness and deception that is spreading from the West.
Humans are people of stories, it’s how we pass on information. The events that are unfolding now are like some of the most apocalyptic tales we tell. I have cheered you on as you fight against the darkness cheerful in the knowledge the good guys will win.
I’m beginning to think it’s not going to be that kind of movie, the one where right prevails.
It’s all a bit bloody Biblical.
Indeed Larry, great ad hoc speech! Honest and from the heart is how it came across. Your quote of the Declaration of Independence in this post pulls on my values, thus heart. I live in Germany and the level of ignorance, wilful or not, is shocking. Thank you for providing your voice and views. Brave you are Sir.
Germans thrive in ignorance. They blank their minds to anything that requires thinking and requiring change. They hate politics with choices. They seek to avoid responsibility and accountability and wish to bathe in warm waters of Gleichschaltung with one universal unquestioned viewpoint
It is a country where people are happy to demonstrate in support of government policy so long as it is funded by the regime as with recent protests designed to sideline the Farmers and Handwerker Protests
Germans resent tall poppies and feel secure when the One Ring binds All
“Germans thrive in ignorance.”
I have to disagree, my problem is that all the time all Germans are being put into the pot with all others. There are at least 20 % of Germans that are thinking straight and coming to conclusions. The millions of Germans who were protesting the corona politics show this clearly. But they were not only ignored, they were discriminated and found themselves outside of any discussion. So they were silenced, as if they not even existed.
Because these people are not stupid, they are silent, till they see a real chance for change.
For the protest of the farmers and craftsman, the people look and see and a great lot of them agree with them. The not reporting is coming back as a boomerang. But the Germans are really slow in finding their voices, pulling themselves up and to go out and do something.
For the majority of Germans you are right. They really are not capable to see behind the screen on which the film of gleichschaltung is projected directly into their skulls. The warm and cozy feeling to be on the correct side, when demostrating against the evil right, nazi, nazi, is making lots of peaple very happy. They are propagandised!
How is this different to the citizens of the population of the United States? How many citizens believed in the january 6th ‘revolutionary act’?
And even the Rings did not bind them all, who would have stood agains Mordor and followed Aragorn – the true king, if the Dunedain had not hidden in the northern forests?
You do not need to believe me, but the forests in Germany are full of people in hiding, waiting for the voice of the king to call them out.
Hope you do not mean Reichsbürger.
Many make much too much of Annalena 360degree Baerbock, kids author Habeck, and Rose Ladson , er, Ursula von den Leichen. I wouldn’t be in Scholz’s shoes for any amount of Deutschmarks!
No, i do not mean Reichbürger, they are just about 10.000, so they would not even fill one of our large forests. LOL
And the ‘Rechte’ (as in the extreme and radical right) is also not the problem in Germany, they are about 20.000 to 30.000, including the Reichsbürger, as the Verfassungsschutz finds out every year.
It is of course just a matter of speaking. But more and more people are looking behind the curtain, they see the propaganda and are waiting for the wheel to turn, so that their will, will be recognised again.
Which will not happen with the current parties in government.
Oh I forgot, I do not even mean the AFD. They are usurped by some extreme right people and not able to shake them of.
I do not like the AFD, but some of their arguments are true and the current government fears nothing more than the truth. So they try to propagandise everybody to be extreme, if they even talk to them.
I am sure you heard the term ‘clownsshow’! We adopted the term and use it regularly.
BSW is on the way.
Fear of Trump trumps all.
Cats on a hot tin roof at the Ranch of the Crooked EU.
So do the English, French, Canadians, Turks Americans and all other normal members of all ethnic groups!
Politics is an interest of only a few, power hungry individuals!
Yes, Paul, you are right, as always when this topic comes up.
Germans are (most likely genetically) predisposed, or shall we say doomed, to be obedient imbeciles, incapable of independent thinking, lazily accepting to just obey orders, as the Hollywood movies have so accurately and persuasively portrayed them.
They “thrive in ignorance,” as you say.
This explains to me why they were never capable to develop a culture of their own: no music, literature, no sciences, not to speak of philosophy.
It is only in recent decades that the sound of Kletzmer and Turkish music in Germany has developed a sense of appreciation of music in this deaf and dull nation.
It also explains why, despite the massive presence of US troops there that have been providing gentle guidance to them since WWII, they are still unable to think for themselves and develop a vibrant democracy with an authentic opposition, the kind we have in the US.
Great humor, you forgot one thing: Not even their national anthem was composed by them, recent history revealed that is was stolen from a turkish composer of the 16th century. Sad people, so sad.
I didn’t know that. I vaguely remember reading that it was composed by an obscure German composer with unruly hair (the name escapes me) who they recently said had African ancestry.
After the denazification program who can blame them.
The head of denazification center Wilton Park was Heinz Koeppler, head of the Psychological Warfare Division of the Political Intelligence Division, British Foreign Office.
The Crown’s Zionist project in action.
Paul, what a dumb think to say. I expected more for you.
So, all germans are idiots. Ok.
As easily to see no difference to US-americans.
And what’s your point, my dear exceptionalist friend?
Wasn’t the late 19th Century anti Jew pogroms caused by the Bolshevik, communist Jew-led assassination against the Czar? I believe Lenin’s brother was implicated in that too. Anti Jewish sentiments all over Europa had valid roots, reasons and did not come from thin air. Of course they were and still are totally innocent! Right?
Up until the Middle Ages, the Jews constituted over 6% of my island’s population. Then, with the annexation to the Spanish crown around the time of Colombus’ discovery of America, they began to be exposed for many of their crimes such as child sacrificing, poisoning of wells etc. and so, were rounded up from the ghettos and exterminated. My point, their heinous crimes against humanity didn’t start with Gaza.
“the Jews constituted over 6% of my island’s population.”
also in my peninsula…
The Jewish tradition of poisoning the wells are still going on strong. The public water supply of North America and Western Europe has been consolidated by ONE single company with Jewish ties, called VEOLIA!!
No wonder that we are poisoned with IQ-lowering Fluoride and many other chemicals. It’s no accident that sperm count, affecting fertility has dropped by 30+% in the Western world. Of course they are innocent, like always.
Dr. Strangelove :
General Jack D. Ripper : Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.
…
ROFL!
You don’t seem to realize what a sneaky, devious piece of propaganda that was to ridicule people raising the alarm over the noxious campaign of water fluoridation, whose nefarious consequences have come to light since then
Poisoning the wells/water supply is not a commie trait but a Jewish tradition.
No argument on your points. A people truly wanting to be told how to think and what to think.
Nice initiative Larry to which I would gladly adhere. Personally, the party in Italy which I now vote for is Democrazia Sovrana e Popolare, leaps and bounds the most pro-Russian party in the country but since it’s newly formed and attacks the ruling elites, is ostracized and obscured by the MSM in country. They call us “Putiniani” or Putinites as you’d say in English. Close to the party however, there are people such as 2 and 3 star ex-NATO generals the likes of Gen. Marco Bertolini, former commander of the Army’s elite Special Forces regiment and also of the famous paratrooper brigade Folgore and Gen. Fabio Mini, who was even Head of the Army’s General Staff in the 90s. In synthesis, the wheels are slowly but surely falling off the NATO wagon and believe it or not, at the party’s congress over a month ago, the Russian, Belarusian, Chinese, North Korean and Venezuelan embassies all sent a representative to it. Will you see that in the US, Britain or any other Western ZOG????
Very heart warming development on Italy.
“Putiniani” has a nice sound to it.
To italienize the group’s identity they should call themselves i Putignani…
Blinken, Nuland & co hate Russia for a very different, unmentionable reason and the pogroms are just a convenient pretext. As for Ukraine and its nazi impersonators, unless you believe that Bandera’s thugs managed to kill half a million Jews eighty years ago, Jewish “support” has killed far more Ukrainians than the latter have killed Jews. With friends like that, Ukraine really didn’t need to make Russia an enemy. But you can’t fix stupid.
Absolutely, your comment matches my experience growing up in NYC.
On the US Declaration of Independence. I know Americans won’t take it kindly, but it’s a piece of paper. Nothing more. I’ll neglect the French for now.
Roughly described. The British took possession of a piece of land in the east. That means they robbed it. Later they said to themselves: “We work it and London lives off our sweat” and the businessmen were of the opinion: “London is bad for our profits”. After independence from the British crown, disaster struck. A tsunami of European immigrants came over the natives and in the end the latter were almost wiped out, in other words it was a genocide from Canada to Tierra del Fuego. Including the Spanish, Portuguese and French. Slavery from the beginning of the colonization was another dark chapter. Every descendant of the European raiders should have this in mind when they say: “My country, the USA.” When I heard from the USA: “Russia committed genocide against the natives of this huge land mass and now a ‘decolonization’ should be forced there, I had to swallow hard. You can’t beat that for chutzpah.
I’m sorry to disturb the idyll. But that’s how the world outside the USA thinks. Where are the monuments or memorials in the US to the Native Americans or as a reminder of this genocide? Where are the government programs for reparations for the remaining surviving descendants of the Native American tribes? It should be a focus in textbooks and in all genres of culture.
Since 1776, the indigenous peoples have been permanently exterminated and “the land” stolen. From 1776 until today, the USA has been at war permanently. It is time for US-Americans to reflect and turn back. History cannot be undone. But you can learn from it. However, I believe it is too late for that. In the future, the USA will no longer exist in its current form. I don’t know when that will be. But I think peaceful reform in the USA is impossible. Especially in its current constitution as a plutocracy.
Due to the advanced murder technologies, the survival of humanity has not yet been decided.
“Where are the monuments or memorials in the US to the Native Americans or as a reminder of this genocide?”
There is only one “genocide” allowed to be recognised. No monuments to the tens of millions genocided natives allowed. But a Hollowhoax museum on every street corner is kosher.
“There is only one “genocide “…”
yes, they hold the “Patent” which has yielded (and continues to yield) capital, complicity, laws, impunity, and the right to plunder and kill other peoples
No, that’s not a genocide.Go up higher to the ultimate designation appropriately called by a biblical name: Holocaust
I agree with your sentiment about the Hollowhoax. But, give that there were only 1.8 million native Americans in North America, it’s hard to figure out how tens of millions were killed. Perhaps you too have a penchant for exaggeration.
The population of the Americas (plural) pre 1492 has been estimated at between 60 million to 112 million.
And as for your erroneous claim of1.8 million only in North America I think you have a penchant for huge under estimations.
I invite you to take a tour of “Hispanic America” and you will see in the faces of the supposed genocide the indigenous and black traces on the faces of the “Hispanic Americans”, we are mestizo nations and very honored.
Not if you go farther south…not on both banks of Rio de la Plata.
Los indígenas estaban protegidos por la corona española (ver las Leyes de Indias) y podían imprimir libros en su lengua (ver México). La situación del Chile y la Argentina republicana era la despoblación de territorios inmensos y por eso la inmigración europea mayormente católica…Milei no cuenta ;). México tenía los mismos problemas pero USA se encargó de ese problema.
Los Charruas no imprimieron ningun libro en su lengua.
Not exactly true. The Spanish crown’s prime directive was plunder and wealth extraction. One must remember that Spain just completed the Reconquista when exploration and exploitation of the Americas began under the united crown of Castile and Aragon. These were not pious, cloistered monastics, they were a finely honed war machine.
The exploration and exploitation of the Americas acted as an outlet for this conquistador forces and energy. Think if the America remained unknown to West Europa for another century. Where would this newly united Spanish engery be turned? North Africa against the Muslim states in a new crusade? Across Europe? would the english be speaking Spanglish today? Speculation, of course, but the ignorance of the West extends to viewing events as singular, isolated in time, and inevitable after the fact. See any parallels today? (laughing)
In Mexico the Spanish destroyed indigenous cultures and communities by appropriating the bests arable and grazing land and controling water sources. Then ‘offering’ food and care in ‘settlements’ that were run by papist clerics, whose condition was that the indigenous learn Spanish and be inducted into papism. That, over time destroyed the cultures and turned the free peoples into serfs. Although some of pre-conquistador practices made it into the mix of Mexican/Central American papist practices. Dia de los Muertos, cuanderismo, Santa Muerte, and such. https://dayofthedead.holiday
Now, of course, some of the clerics actually tried to protect indigenous peoples, not all were bad, this must be acknowledged, but the result over time was the same.
Contrast that to the Portuguese clerics in Brazil where many took their indigenous groups into the Amazon and remote areas away from the colonial settlements to protect them from enslavement. (Note: best sit down and put all liquids aside before continuing……the Jesuits, were prominent in protecting and relocating indigenous populations away from colonist enslavement in Brazil!) Then Portuguese colonials began to import slaves from Africa.
Also, the Russian settlements in Alaska and California saw Orthodox clerics protect indigenous populations from colonial
agents and translate Orthodox texts and prayers into native languages and in some cases even establish written forms of native languages. There are still some isolated Russian Orthodox native communities in Alaska, as well as some of the “Old Believers” who fled Patriarch Nikon’s changes and Peter the ‘not so great’ putsch against Orthodoxy. Start with St. Herman of Alaska for an intro to this:
https://orthodoxwiki.org/Herman_of_Alaska
History is must more complicated than the Western psyop “Narrative” makes out.
Out in Los Angeles, my Mexican-American aunt, who has a profound dislike for blacks, took one of those DNA tests and found out she was part black. When I heard the news I laughed out loud. I thought it was hilarious.
Since then, it isn’t considered a good idea to talk about it. I’m sure she’d come unglued if I jokingly called her the N-word.
My jewish uncle (as real your “Mexican aunt”) was in the habit of making up anecdotes pretending they all happened to him.
They all aimed for that perfection of slap-your-knees Borscht Belt humor while portraying him as a wise, eitses-dispensing, tolerant multiculturalist who would not call Blacks “Schwartze” out loud. He called them “Negroes”
The problem was not only the fact they were crude adaptations of Page 6 human interests stories. Uncle Shlomo had no imagination. He thought lying was imagination. But no, it was not that.
It was that we all knew he was full of shit.
Why such anger and bitterness? If you stay that way you’ll end up alone (excluding, of course, the cats).
Me having a Mexican-American aunt (my favorite because she lived near us and I saw her often) who found out through a DNA test that she was part black is an impossibility to you, therefore it must be a lie. Why? Because you think that it’s so.
Other than your stint as “a trained performance long-distance swimmer,” (Who freaked out when I asked you your distances and best times – LOL! They must have been terrible), you must have lived, and are continuing to live your life in an internet-accessible closet.
You and brussell deserve each other.
No “anger” or “bitterness,” Genocide Lover. Only repugnance.
By now it must have dawned on you, even dimly, that you are an execrable character in the eyes of normal people.
The last revelation you can expect (not guaranteed because of your arrogance) is that you are in fact very stupid.
Hey don’t leave me out! I have a thing for ladies who are smart, witty and wise to Jewish power!
There is an N word that suits Martine, and that is Nonce.
Re it’s Mexican aunt didn’t he also claim Cherokee heritage as well?
US Declaration of Independence is not just a piece of paper, but a piece of paper with obvious lies written on it, that some people are still worshiping like a holy scripure. Slaveowners preaching equality is like rapists preaching virginity. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
All legal codes are just pieces of paper. All books are just peices of paper. It’s a stupid argument. I’m sure people, such as yourself would be on the side of slavery when it was fashionable since you show little ability to understand that people in different times and different cultures generally accept and believe in the zeitgeist that surrounds them.
Russia also has been expansionist in the past. Czar Nicholas II sided with Britain and France and thought he would win some territory from the Austria-Hungarian empire and Turkey. Instead, he weakened his country and allowed the Bolsheviks to take over. They in turned murdrred his entire family. Talking about bad moves…
Agree with everything except that puzzling “God/Allah” shout out.
The God of Christians sent his Son into the world, thereby rendering us all–every single human being on the planet–a People, a Family, of God. Brother and Sisters IN Christ.
Muslims don’t believe, or accept that.
If you don’t believe in Allah, the professed source of Mohammad’s revelations–and Christians and Jews don’t–then you aren’t a Brother or Sister to a Muslim. I’m not making that up Ask them.
Theological, and historical, fact.
You’re back! And so help me if you are not a defender of Christianity against bad Islam.. appealing to “Brother and Sisters IN Christ”…
Of course you’re “not making that up,” hasbara boy. You got it on the little card you copy and paste from.
The Zionist rock spider emerges from the depths of the slime and lo and behold, he’s now a defender of Christianity. Don’t you sub-human animals spit on Christians Shizer?
Who knows, maybe Jesus knocked this particular Pharisee off his horse too? Pardon any sacrilege.
Pardon granted!
I objected to God/Allah for a different reason. As Larry was speaking English, he should have said God, as that is the English word for the deity. Allah is the Arabic word, Gott the German, Dieu the French and so on. Arabic-speaking Christians pray to Allah, the Father of Jesus. Jesus would have used Alaha to refer to God, as he spoke Aramaic (the version of Syriac spoken in Damascus).
By using the English and Arabic words for the same deity, Larry could be taken as meaning that they are not the same deity.
and where is Yahweh? At least in the preferred English rendition used by Jews: “g-d”
And Jesus in arabic is Issa, who the Muslims believe was a great prophet. I suspect similar in aramaic because in India there is an ancient shrine to the great prophet Issa, suggesting Jesus/Issa traveled there during the “missing” years.
Real God loves bacon. All others are fake,
no one is the brother of a Jew, not even his brother by blood; Cain is the progenitor
“Theological, and historical, fact.”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Unintentional humor…
Islam, a “religion” so secure in its righteousness that anyone who questions it – let alone leaves it – must die in the most gruesome manner possible (stoning anyone?) as a lesson to all others who might, internally, be wavering.
Those imams gotta keep the flock in line.
You’re correct about the Muslims Paul, all you got to do is ask them.
Ignore the trolls Paul, they get off on spewing their pent-up bile. Maybe they have no other way to get their jollies. Sad? Weird? Yes, but that’s what some lives are.
For some of these commenters, Gaza is the best thing that has happened in years and they have to seized this opportunity to sanctimoniously hate.
Let the few losers who spend full days on this site have their fun, especially brussell and ariadna, the “trained performance long-distance swimmer.” LOL
Wow who would have thought this possible; the whiney bitch Martine now has a bromance with the genocidal, sub-human Zionist animal that is Shizer.
Larry, I think you were invited, not to lecture them about multipolarity, but to comfort them that sane Americans still exist. It was a perfect presentation, imo. -JC
I agree, all except the colonialism reference. That ended a while back, but is being cleverly played by Russia to stoke resentment of the West.
You obviously have not read Perkins Confessions of an Economic Hitman.
BRICS+ knows and resents this colonialism well.
Ever hear of the post WWII colonization of Palestine in West Asia by Euro-khazaines and the zionazi/talmudist/mizrahi Genocice regime they named Israel?
Then there is the reality that colonialism didn’t end, it just shifted
form. Especially for the French and Americans. France ‘gave’ independence to former colonies in name only, retaining economic and resource controls.
The Americans used thier economy that was not damaged, but strengthed by WWII to assert economic hegemony over most of the globe and became the Blob’s enforcers with over 800 bases spread across the world. Then they stupidly destroyed their own industrial base, culture, educational system and are destroying their population.
Tech expanded and VVP and his group rescued RF. Xi and his group made China the world’s ecocomin powerhouse capitalizing on the greed, stupidity and West’s own destrucion of it’s economic base.
Very well said
As you said, it changed form. I’m not saying power and force is not being applied. I’m saying it no longer fits the colonial model. Word have meaning.
Too bad you don’t know what the word ‘colonial’ means.
Wie gehts herr untergruppeyfurhrer.
Dear Don Larry,
Allow me to be bold but the constitution of the United States of America is not Christian but Masonic, the god it names in its preamble is pantheist (the laws of nature take precedence and secondly those of the god of “nature” ) and the rights of man are not biblical ones and to demonstrate this I give two examples from the Book of Genesis as examples;
Genesis, 2; He created them male and female, blessed them, and called them “Man” on the day of his creation.
Genesis, 1, 27, therefore, God created the human being in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them.
The difference is that in the Bible man has Dignity because he is the image of God, in the other he does not. Nothing will prevent us from having even more iniquitous laws in an indeterminate future and the culture of death from being firmly established in the souls of the people.
Finally, freedom of religion is not the same as tolerance and because of this difference between the two, Traditionalist Catholics are persecuted by the FBI.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”.
Straight from German universal genius Leibniz. Britain’s John Locke’s Life, Liberty and Property was rejected, to reappear with the Confederacy Secession.
The founders knew history, always Oligarchy, and it was the first break ever in history with this ancient evil. Still ongoing and BRICS+ continues the break, all of whose members know Oligarchy first hand.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Those with wings. Flightless birds, though.
Are you referring to Juice who are above all?
KISS
Larry, watch out! You are quoting the Declaration of Independence which clearly says “all MEN are created equal..”, “Governments are instituted among MEN…” which proves that it is exclusively sexist and therefore you are going to be branded PUBLIC ENEMY #1 by the enlightened woke folk!
Watch out your six!
Sarcasm apart, your post makes me think that the root of all of today’s problems may actually be in the region surrounding Ukraine, Baltics and Poland. They persecuted Jews, they perpetrated the holocaust, so they gave rise to Zionism hence the state of Israel, hence the persecution of Palestinians and hence all the Muslim terrorist movements and hence all the airport security and the police state. Makes one think about karma being a bitch. May be the present SMO and related geopolitics is actually a surgical procedure being performed on the planet that is equivalent to surgery for removing an infected appendix. Painful when it happens but ultimately necessary. No point wasting one’s empathy in Ukraine when it is probably needed more elsewhere, in Africa for example.
Incidentally, India is another multi-religious, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual country where completely diverse people identify themselves as Indians.
“all of today’s problems may actually be in the region surrounding Ukraine, Baltics and Poland. They persecuted Jews, they perpetrated the holocaust, so they gave rise to Zionism hence the state of Israel, hence the persecution of Palestinians and hence all the Muslim terrorist movements and hence all the airport security and the police state. “
Now, THAT’s a nifty package that ties it all together1
Who wouldev thunk?
I’m busy making up he list of any of “today’s problems” you may have missed that these cursed people are responsible for. Will forward it to you when I’m done.
You’re a sorry-ass Slav hater. Maybe you hate Germans, Hungarians, Greeks and Latins too. You’re probably of the Tribe. Don’t worry, Judgement is coming upon you and your Satanic ilk.
God Save our Beloved Holy Mother Russia! Ark of Western Civilization.
The Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States of America is not Christian, it draws on Enlightenment naturalism and the founding of Freemasonry, which was anti-Catholic, not anti-Protestant. Ockham puts it this way: God acts through his own will and creates beings as he wants without having limitations of [[universal]] ideas that serve as models. This is pure nominalism, gentlemen.
So irrationality as in animal spirits of the market – sounds like Ockham ran a casino.
All Pogroms trace to Spain’s Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor, who expelled Jews and Moors.
Impossible to understand colonialism and Zionism without Dostoevsky’s tale-within-a-tale in the Brothers Karamazov about the Inquisitor, Torquemada who imprisons and interrogates Jesus before burning at the heretics stake.
Ivan Karamazov begins to tell his story: The Grand Inquisitor
https://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil100/11.%20Dostoevsky.pdf
“And do you think I would conceal our secret from you?
Perhaps it is my own lips that you want to hear it from—then listen: we are not with you, but with him, there is our secret!
We have long been not with you, but with him, eight centuries now.
It is now just eight centuries since we took from him that which you in indignation rejected, that final gift he offered you, when he showed you all the kingdoms of the world: we took from him Rome and the sword of Caesar and announced that we alone were the kings of the world, the only kings, even though to this day we have not succeeded in bringing our task to its complete fulfillment.”
Dostoevky precisely identifies the Synarchist satanic intent that had overtaken the West .
“All Pogroms trace to Spain’s Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor, who expelled Jews and Moors.”
BS
Cardinal Torquemada as “Catholic”. When these guys turned up in Central America they carried on with the Torque – look what thy did to Montezuma. Napoleon’s “catholic” Martiinist LeMaistre adored Torquemada. To this day all over South America one finds Torquemada followers. “Catholic” Poland amd UKraine integralists are infested.
Which is why Dostoevsky wrote that tale-within-a-tale.
Falso. Los musulmanes fueron expulsados en 1609
False, 1492 was the expulsion. Queen Isabelle and Ferdinand.
Your argument is false. I am descended from the Jews supposedly massacred by Torquemada (descendants of Jews) so in recent centuries my family has lived in peace…what a surprise I have been.
Hebrew word for Spain is Sepharad – they were expelled, if not massacred.
First Inquisitor-General, Tomás de Torquemada, features in Dostoevsky’s tale.
To whom is Ukraine important, and precisely why?
In at least one case, we have a clear answer to that question.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/02/25/politics/chuck-schumer-mike-johnson-foreign-aid-bill/index.html
This isn’t the Military-Industrial Complex, or a person seeking control of Russia’s resources, speaking.
Schumer understandably has his grievances against Nazis, and he somehow connects those to opposition to Russia today.
The triangle between Jews, Nazis, and Russia is utterly complex, and full of misery and complaints.
What a horrible set of relationships.
Different peoples living as themselves , presumably among themselves and not forcibly integrated, distributed over a huge landmass.
hmmmmm..,sonrs like 1950 America.
Regarding “created equal”.
Is this true?
Heiarchy permeates Heaven and Earth, God made it that way*.
Now, The Prince of Peace treats all His with all His munificence and virtue…i.e. God is good, true and beautiful. But, my guardian angel is not equal to St. Raphael nor St. Gabriel.
There were some angels who believed in equality, they suffer as a consequence.
I am not equal to my betters. I feel good being among them.
The Enlightenment is built on lies .* Chanting its shibboleths will not make them true.
Furthermore, God created the Nations for mankind’s own good. Yes, Nations can and should live in peace as themselves free from interference from malignant ‘elites’, such as what you see in Russia today.
Dugin’s expression of this seems right to me and an organizing principle worth pursuing worldwide. However, Putin just recently forbade the immigration of some “equals” intent on invading Russia.
America’s border is being overrun by many equals from many nations. By design, this will result in war among “equals”.
Jefferson , Bless his heart, is dead.
* This is supported at the biological level. In medicine, “equal” will get you killed even if you have fervent faith in civic nationalism.
** E. Michael Jones,a man who is my better, not my equal, in his book Logos Rising , touches on the thinking that gave birth to theEnlightenment.
All men are NOT created equal, that’s nonsense. But they do (or should) all have equal rights in a democratic society. In other words a mentally retarded citizen’s vote is equal to mine.
Quite a few dead and angels voted in 2020.
Today that is a Dominion system setting. Counting angels on a pin is passee.
Prety sure they were demons, demonrats, not angels…
Ok, fallen angels, worse than Boeing 737’s…
Speaking of E. Michael Jones, he wrote a hilarious take on Jordan Peterson’s coming to Judaism moment.
Jones, in the guise of being a jewish journalist named Moishe, gives the transcripted conversation between Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, and Bibi Netanyahu as they ate dinner in a Jerusalem restaurant.
Seriously, it is laugh-out-loud funny.
Check it out:
https://www.unz.com/ejones/the-full-truth-behind-jordan-petersons-recent-speech-on-logos/
The Bukovina and Pale of Settlement, where the Jewish population was known for it’s FECUNDITY:) Instead, imagine the ubermensch Jews being the 1st to step-up and liquidate the Untermensch Jews(Hungarians,Poles,Ukies..)as a deep bow to Eugenics. Yeah, that’s a strech but so is Eichmann and all the attempts to erase the Zio/Nazi nexus. Never should’ve create 23 and moi!
“…a society where all of those groups identify as Russian while still embracing their unique ethnic heritage. Russia is not saddled with a history of racism like the United States and Europe.”
Russia never had, not under tzarism nor under communism, any political leadership that saw fit to promote ethnic/racial divisiveness and strife as a means to confuse and control the population while hypocritically sloganeering about ‘civil rights,’ ‘equity,’ white privilege,’ ‘inherent anti-semitism of the Whites,” etc. Russia treats all its ctizens equally; it doesa not designate “protected minorities,” a wedge to create rancor and prevent unity.
In Russia, episodes of trying to incite Islamophobia have been rare, like the ephemeral buzzing of a fraud in the pay of foreign powers like Navalny who never got a following.
The history of racism in the US could have been just that, history, if it weren’t for those who feel that national cohesion is a threat to their power and so brand it as “nationalism,” even “fascism.”
In agreement with your core belief Larry. Just some thoughts which came to mind when reading your article.
German national Walter Hallstein! He of the European Coal and Steel Community, graduated to become the First Commission President of the European Economic Community, considered to be the Father of the E.E.C/EU project. Was a full blown member of the NAZI part whom attended gatherings of the upper echelons of the NAZI part and was officially appointed as a law academic/professional by the NAZI party becoming a defender/legal enforcer of the 1935 Nuremburg Race Laws.
Hallstein has and continues to be revered by the EU elites, whom choose to ignore his active NAZI past been cleansed by his US handlers, with records of his activities buried, painted as a non NAZI a simple German soldier. Needs must indeed, for the US led, rebuilding / managing of a new Europe required such Nazi professional elite as overseers/managers/supposedly respectable front men for the European project. Thus Hallstein the NAZI like many others in service of the USA escaped the hang mans knot, while those considered less useful, every bit as guilty of genocide as the elites met their fate.
The point relating to Blinken/Nuland valid indeed, but why not take that a step further. Considering the fact of degrading quality of intelligence reports as they climb the career ladder (you are the expert there Larry, the little I know on, comes from listening to you and you fellow outspoken colleagues). How about the puppet masters whom put them there?
The puppet masters have put them there as a tool to obtaining their objectives. Their hatred of Russia is a very good resource to cultivate Russophobia within both USA/West to choreograph wide spread fear, hate through lies/disinformation creating support, working the citizenry up to a frenzy in support of a Neo Nazis proxy war against the hated Russians. Demonize, Isolate, Eliminate.
The Transatlantic Anglo/Saxon Financial Gangster Elites, or maybe some would prefer the term Neocon, Neoliberal Corporate Globalists are ultimately driving this Russophobia, whose objectives are to Destroy/Balkanize Russia thus obtaining free access to its markets and feast freely on its natural resources like vultures after the kill. Then moving on to the next intended target/victim, rape/pillage the globe and its citizenry.
To this day “indigenous peoples” causes controversy, especially in Anthropology HQ Oxford.
The Olmec central American culture from before 1200BC, predating Maya, comes from Africa, China and Mediterranean, long before Columbus. Peruvian Paracas traces to Syria, and the La Venta giant heads and wheeled toys are well documented. The same basalt pole structures at La Venta are found in Micronesia Nan Madol.
The key is open ocean navigation, which the British Empire declared, as “anthropology”, mere colonial slave property could never have done before the Gloriius Maritime British Empire choose to declare itself Gods’s Chosen Empire where the sun never set (because God would not trust them in the dark).
Just a small sample of ocean navigating peoples from Micronesia to Americas
And this has what to do with anything in Nick Byrne’s post? So humans travelled further and wider than past historians could known, given the limited knowledge they had available. OF COURSE they got stuff wrong, and applied their own biases.
But again, how does the post you replied to instigate your exposition?
More noise and distractive sabotage.
Thank you, Larry, very well stated! A vivid portrayal of the current state of western ‘democracy’ can be gleaned from this short video from Sky news interviewing George Galloway, following his recent electoral victory in the UK.
See: George Galloway: ‘I despise the prime minister’ Sky News Mar 1, 2024;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7p7CAyxHgg
My friend, be careful about falling into the trap of creating good guys and bad guys in all this. The history of this region is far too complex for that.
As demonstrated here in the US, the creation of groups supposedly holding a moral high ground inevitably leads to the insanity of Victim-based Identity Politics. There are no winners in such scenarios, except so called “Citizens of the World”, aka WEF / Globalist scum.
Suggested reading: Martin Luther, “Von Die Juden und Ihren Lugen”, and Douglas Reed, “The Controversy of Zion”.
”Let him who has ears, hear”. We need to mind our own business, and stay home in America. 🇺🇸
Reed was probably on the right track, but some details matter a great deal. Funny how Reed managed to miss the primary role of Walter Rothschild in the writing of, and influence-peddling of in Parliament, to get the Balfour Declaration into being.
https://controversyofzion.info/Controversybook/index.htm
When Reed closeted himself, he obviously didn’t avail himself of the British Hansard, which documents Parliamentary debates etc. For any interested readers, all those Hansard Archives from about 1800 on (depends on what you’re looking for how far back the records go) have been committed to searchable digital format and are available online.
https://hansard.parliament.uk/
And more Balfour info here:
https://balfourproject.org/
Another case of unedited primary documentation proving the revisionists wrong. I’ve presented much of the Balfour info before, not that anyone here paid any attention. Facts don’t matter if religion is involved it seems.
But back to the subject… On that count alone, getting the actual history one of the most momentous Zionist events of the 20th Century so grievously wrong, the rest of Reed’s “history” is very suspect. Correct attributions of “who did what when” are essential to establish truth.
Luther was a man of his time? So What? Why dredge up that open sore, which the locals still struggle to assuage ancient outrages? Move into the present couple centuries FFS.
When do we get to the abolish part, we, the American people have let our institutions devolve into a full fledged mafia akin to everything Al Capone was, complete with bought judges, feds., banks everything.
I thing the late Airman, Aaron Bushnell mention this with the words “our ruling class”.
Our government is not supposed to be “our ruling class”, not in a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
I heard there are some 70 something oligarchs behind our criminal, ruthless governor thugs. Whatever new institutions the US citizens create, we’ll definitely need to keep money control out of it.
Putin’s argument is that Russians and Ukrainians are the same people, brother Slavs. If you had lived in the area of present day Ukraine when the Turks were enslaving so many Slavs that the word came to mean ‘slave,’ a trade financed by Jews, you might have some lingering prejudices too. Centuries of domination by Poland and Austria also. The Borderlands have been fought over and the people abused as for known history. If you had lived through the holodomor and what Stalin did to the Baltics and Poland in 1939, and in 1945 on you would have reason to hate Russia, too. Those old atrocities need to be dealt with, not covered up, for people to move forward. Communists were and still are as evil as the Nazis ever were. They changed hatred for those outside the tribe for class hatred, and killed their own people. Lenin and Stalin killed more Russians than Hitler, it’s not even close.
How about you deal with you own attrocities first, and leave others to deal with theirs.
I’m not sure I like the woke Larry. The racism meme is getting old and tired.
Blair-Obama-Macron.
The triplets’ incredible similarity:
https://www.unz.com/article/meet-blobamacron-three-gentile-narcissists-with-one-jewish-agenda/
The other article had more troubling indications.
“For different reasons, they exploited the crisis over the ceasefire vote to imply, without a shred of evidence, that demonstrations against Israel’s flagrant, months-long atrocities in Gaza constituted not just antisemitic behaviour but a threat to the democratic order and the safety of MPs.
As a result, the consensus of the English political and media establishment has swiftly shifted onto even more dangerous, and anti-democratic, terrain than the earlier antisemitism smears.”
https://www.unz.com/jcook/first-it-was-corbyn-now-the-whole-british-public-is-being-smeared-over-gaza/
Ah the old “antisemitism” line… again…
SEMITES are defined as native speakers of Semitic languages. Hebrew, Aramaic, a few other minor ones and… DRUMROLL… Arabic. And Arabic is by a couple orders of magnitude the highest number of native Semitic speakers. Most modern Hebrew speakers have it as their second language.
So how did “antisemitism” come to ONLY apply against Jews, any Jews, anywhere, no matter what their native language or ethnic heritage was?
The mid-late 1800s Zionist Movement redefined it using their political, religious and news-media connections. And who largely funded and provided political support for that Zionist Movement? The Rothschilds.
Almost like they planned this as preamble to endless chaos and destruction to condition the masses as they usher in the Great Reset.. y’know “you will own nothing,,, and you will be happy” They just left off the OR ELSE.
A convenient cudgel to beat on any who dared to speak out against the 100-year-old Apartheid Genocidal State of Israel Project. Y’know, cuz GOD SEZ.
Again, why does the Zionist ideology of less than 2% of the world population matter to the 98%? Ask the Christians, they claim 50% world believers…
I like Joe Sobran’s definition of an antisemite, “someone Jews don’t like”.
There was just an interest article over on Unz about the anti-Jewish programs in Russia. The punch line is much of it is fabrication and exaggeration akin to the 40 babies beheaded and mass rapes. But it served a purpose: to get money to help Jews immigrate to London and New York instead of wallowing in poverty in the pale of settlements. The strategy was so successful they’ve employed it many times since.
https://www.unz.com/article/great-variance/
Yes, a very informative article
Aw, c’mon, you missed the best part…
“The success of the atrocity-and-refugee narrative in Britain owed primarily to the sustained efforts of a network of interests increasingly committed to assisting the westward migration of Jews. This network centred on well-connected, intermarried and enormously wealthy members of the so-called Anglo-Jewish Cousinhood, including the Goldsmid, Mocatta, ROTHSCHILD(emphasis mine), Montefiore, Sassoon, Cohen, Nathan, Samuel, Montagu and Henriques families. ”
And that little Anglo-Jewish Cousinhood thing?
“IN 1847, London’s Jewish community had produced a statement for public consumption stressing that the election of Lionel de Rothschild would represent nothing more than the election of another politician who would work for “the welfare of the nation, and the prosperity of his country.”
“By 1900, through a process of ethnic and familial networking, the Cousinhood had secured many of the most significant administrative positions in the Empire.”
https://nationalvanguard.org/2022/06/free-to-cheat-jewish-emancipation-and-the-anglo-jewish-cousinhood-part-2/
I have read some Hansard sections of the speeches in Parliament touting that as a Jew, Lionel de Rothschild shouldn’t have to swear fealty to the Anglican Church. Money talks.
And here’s Part 1. Haven’t read it, but here’s the teaser…
“From the early 19th century until the First World War, English Jewry was ruled by a tightly connected oligarchy. Daniel Gutwein states that this Anglo-Jewish elite comprised some twenty inter-related Ashkenazi and Sephardic families including the houses of Goldsmith, Montagu, Nathan, Cohen, Isaacs, Abrahams, Samuel, and Montefiore.[14]
At its head “stood the House of Rothschild.”[15]
This network of families had an “exceptionally high degree of consanguinity,” leading to it being termed “The Cousinhood,” and among them “conversion and intermarriage [with non-Jews] was rare.”
https://nationalvanguard.org/2022/06/free-to-cheat-jewish-emancipation-and-the-anglo-jewish-cousinhood-part-1/
Oddly, Jones/Unz mentions the Rothschilds only once in the article, and once in the notes.
Given the plethora of well-referenced mentions in the National Vanguard articles on a similar vein of information, one wonders why?
Thing that make ya go HHHMMM…
And before y’all get bent out of shape about the National Vanguard source, referenced right down to the Rothschild Archives.
I AM NOT A WHITE SUPREMACIST. Don’t even try.
I’d like to see any other article linked here EVER that had more hard references listed.
Note: ariadna’s linked Unz article also appears at National Vanguard.
https://sonar21.com/my-speech-at-the-international-russophile-movement-conference/#comment-228778
Sorry, not at national Vanguard, at Occidental Observer… just as bad…
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2024/03/01/meet-blobamacron-three-gentile-narcissists-with-one-jewish-agenda/
Larry…it is not that the skin is black, it is the social behavior of the person that recoils the other races.
“The hatred that folks like Blinken and Nuland hold for Russia is misplaced. Their ancestors were persecuted by the ancestors of Ukrainians.”
So, Larry, their hatred of another country and its people is “misplaced,” and should be re-directed?!
Because in and of itself hating another nation (literally to death in the case of the neocons) based on stories grandpa’ told you of how he suffered back when he lived among them is OK?!
What if grandpa’ lied or his grandson lied on his behalf as seems to be Blinken’s case (per Putin’s statement in the Carlson interview)?
There is ample evidence the pogroms were significantly exaggerated in the West to ease the acceptance of a large influx of Jews from Russia into GB and the US
Millions of people were/are being persecuted for all kinds of reasons/pretexts ion many countries but why is it that only one ethnic group is hysterically inciting to war allegedly to assuage inherited rancors?
“There is ample evidence the pogroms were significantly exaggerated in the West to ease the acceptance of a large influx of Jews from Russia into GB and the US”
https://www.unz.com/article/great-variance/
What! You don’t think Blinken’s grandpa survived years in a concentration camp and twice outwitted Sargent Scholtz to escape the gas chambers? Following in Tertullian’s foot steps, I declare it must be true. How else could such an absurd story be uttered without laughter
OMG, what their doing in Kentucky???
“The legislation, House Bill 500, would allow employers to stop offering their workers “reasonable” lunch and rest breaks, mandatory under current Kentucky law, and end the requirement that employees who work seven days in a row receive overtime pay.
Yeah, time for new government.
Trying to put a band aid on a dying capitalist economic system.
It’s slavery with extra steps.
That is called Austerity, the master of such Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler’s Economics Minister and Labor Camp manager. Happened to be CEO of the Bank of International Settlements, the Bankers Bank. Even calculated daily calorie rations, all maths of course.
Banker gnomes need Bankers Boys when people will not accept austerity :
Dear Larry,
I stand with you and directly behind you, quote: “This is the core of my belief — all are created equal and endowed by God/Allah with rights that governments are obligated to protect, not destroy.”
With one exeption: I hold the Origin of the right we are endowed with as irrelevant.
May the disbelievers think their rights are coming from their natural birth out of their father’s whomb, as stupid as it sounds, they would perceive him as their creator.
As long as they do not deny these universal rights to others.
The problem is, that they do not only not believe in God, but because God is not real for them, the rights must be denied as well, because they were coming from nowhere. As in, they do not and have never existed at all.
Have you heard of what the philosopher of the WEF, Noah Yuval Harari said? That he looked into the body, the flesh and the cells of human beings and has found no evidence of human rights there? That there also was no hint of God.
And that simple kindergarten logic is coming from a ‘so called’ intellectual.
This line of thinking is really the inversion of the proof of God from Augustinus of the third century. Augustinus claimed, that because God can be thought, and thoughts exist, so God must exist. It took fifteen centuries and a thinker named Kant to break thrue this. With the simple agrument that it makes a big difference to think of having a coin of gold in the hand and having a real coin of gold in the hand. (I simplify of course)
One does not need to be a rocket scientist to understand this, or does it?
The question is, in my opinion, are we willing to grand everybody to bear this rights because we want this rights to be acknoledged for ourselves, or not?
Or do we, as human beings and communities and states, just looking for excuses to kill and murder our brothers and sisters? Because we feel like it or because someones ancestor did this to somebody of my ansestory or because someone told somebody else that it is moraly ok to kill Russians or Palestinians or Iranians or Germans or Christians or Jews or Muslims, do I need to go on?
If we deny others what is the basis for living together in peace (does not need to be harmony), if we do not claim these rights for ourselves and bestow them to all other humans, how are we different than the people of the old testament, who lived by teeth for teeth and eye for eye?
It seems to me, that the clock is being turned back to inhumane behavior, because it serves interests, that I do not even want to understand, because they are pure evil and I do not want to infect myself with these evil thougths.
My point is, to be clear, that we as humans have to accept these rights for ourselves, so we are willing to bestow these rights onto all other humans. Not because these were granted by God or a creator of whatever kind of justification one may believe in, but because they are true in themselves.
Is my thinking round, has it 360 degrees, or am I baerbocking? (What is life without fun, he?)
It’s “self-evident” that the petulant god(s) of Genesis, Exodus, etc. don’t believe in drivel such as “unalienable Rights”.
To Baerbock or not to Baerbock, that is the dilemma.
Gives a new meaning to spin like these guys chanting master, banned by Kemal Ataturk.
The dancing dervishes (probably written wrong)
I have seen them in Turkey, I would have banned them too. LOL
#Metoo.
The way things are going, they are more likely to ban you.
I am not alone, my neibours are turks and kemalists, they already live the banishment. If they can live with it, so can I.
You DO know the Rothschilds are self-proclaimed Zionist Jews? Harai works for them…
If they’ll lie about what they “believe”, why take their word for anything except that they are psychopaths.
Trying to smear non-believers with the WEF-Rothschild Brush is a LOOONG stretch. If there’s anyone here who has said more against these “humans” it’s me.
Oh, sorry, I apologise for not having consulted you before I wrote my view on this topic. And you, of course, are in the lead of saying more against “these humans”.
I go to my backseat now and cry a little for not having reached your high standards of human values.
I am sure to have missed understanding, what I wanted to say. Please exept my humble apology!
Larry, an aside. A few days ago, Andrei Martyanov posted an excellent conversation with Col. Jacques Baud. Do you think Judge Nap might reach out to him? Baud has been almost invisible on American media. Yet his English is very good, he is an engaging guest, and his just-published book The Russian Art of War is a must read.
I’m not sure about the “no racism” in RF. I think in all largely ethnically homogenous societies, there is going to be racism, primarily due to two factors: (1) there is a bias against darker skin that is ancient, and has nothing to do with Africa/Blacks. It has to do with the fact that working out in the fields made you darker; (2) Poverty: wealth buys class, respect, admiration. The fact that much of sub-Saharan Africa (or South Asia, for that matter) is very poor, as are many African Americans/Blacks, influences people, because they see it on TV, in magazines, on the Net, etc.
There is plenty of racism (in the classic sense of perceiving a group to be inherently culturally/genetically inferior) in India, China, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, etc. Not to mention developed economies in the West like the US, UK, and Europe. And let’s not even mention Latin/South America (where LJ has some expertise and language skills). Some of the most stone-cold racists you will find are among the (mostly) White elites in countries like Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico, and Chile.
And so while I have not (yet) visited RF – though I very much plan to do so – I suspect it will be the same. Just head to a “local” blue collar bar in some middle class neighborhood, if you speak decent Russian (and are White), and strike up an honest conversation with the lads about what they think about various races. [have done this in India, China, Sing, and HK – places where I do speak a couple of the local languages well enough. And, oh, I am not White].
>>> “there is a bias against darker skin that is ancient, and has nothing to do with Africa/Blacks. It has to do with the fact that working out in the fields made you darker”
That’s a tolerable partial explanation provided that you steer clear of Lamarckism, the idea that traits acquired during one’s lifetime can be passed on to offspring. It became a fetish of Lysenkoists in the USSR, where adherents of Darwinian evolutionary theory were persecuted harshly. You will need to add something also about light skin being a health hazard when outdoors at low latitudes during daytime. Most people with light skin will simply refuse to be outdoors in bright sunlight for long periods without protection, unless its fun to be outdoors.
Another explanation for the bias, which I have found to be justified, is difficult to imagine in the modern world where streets and alleys are lit brightly at night. Once upon a time, dark skin conferred a great advantage to both predators and prey. It could be difficult to see a dark skinned predator sneaking up on you, esp. at night, even with a full Moon and clear sky. For the same reason, a dark skinned person would find it easier to hide if it became alarmed. People who don’t have dark skin are at a great disadvantage in both cases, which suggests why people with light skin enjoy a better reputation for scholarship, inventiveness, and productivity virtually all over the world.
Larry,. your speech was excellent.
I hope though that the next conference will be better organized. Some speakers (like Cynthia) did not even know she would be called to the podium, it took the speakers for ever to get from their seats to the stage (why not seat them all in the front row?), the Japanese guy’s speech delivered by proxy was bad (why not let him speak in Japanese and provide simultaneous translation?) and the selection of speakers was… eclectic, to put it kindly.
Larry………you have written, at least, one thing in this musing that everyone will take issue with!
In my case, it is bring up Переяслав.
I take it my offer ‘for you to reach out’ has been declined.
Yup talking religion, politics or race at family gatherings will surely get you into trouble!
Its so bad today, Hunter can’t even talk about the big guy getting a piece of pie!
Oh, for the good ol’ days!
Oh, wait it’s Tony!
Diversity is not Russia’s strength Russia can sustain minority populations becouse Russia is nearly 80% ethnic Russians who are almost all Christian. A Nation must have a strong central core to preserve its identity and continue to exist. Ideology alone is not sufficient to hold a nation together as ideology exists at a lower order as a derivative of the immutable aspects of this existence.
We see now how weak and transitory ideology is in the U.S. as our invaders are declared more American, more worthy of being served and protected by government then those born in and only identity only as American. America as an Idea that does not associate with a distinct identifiable people is not in fact nation its an illusion that is in the process of being shattered.
The USA is being shattered by its only enemy. The very same that wants to shatter the Russian Federation, India, Brazil, Iran, China. E.g.
The USA is rife with internal contradictions in its operating system. She never had the right stuff to survive for ages.
The peace of the graveyard has no contradictions. As UKraine is finding out the hard way.
“A Nation must have a strong central core to preserve its identity and continue to exist. Ideology alone is not sufficient to hold a nation together as ideology exists at a lower order as a derivative of the immutable aspects of this existence.”
I agree. Ideology alone does not help to create and preserve national identity in the framework of abstractions on a birth certificate.
Yet this falsehood has been vigorously promoted by those who invented the term “the proposition nation,” who feel that national consciousness/identity is a threat to them as a minority and hence that the majority must be atomized by all means
Meh…. Needed to be said, I guess, but I’m sure you’ve written far better things.
I would have mentioned many details from the military science of nuclear war. I realize that God’s ways and Chomsky’s ways may not be my ways, like the scripture says, but if nobody will tell me why it’s not allowed, then I have to figure it out for myself. Is there some kind of treaty or agreement not to talk about the science of nuclear winter? Is it too close to climate science?
It seems that Putin can talk about innovative new conventional war hardware, new nuclear hardware and nuclear delivery systems all he wants, marketing Russia, as a tech based country, but he can’t talk about nuclear winter? He only mentions nuclear winter once on the Kremlin web site and that’s in the context of volcanic winter as it relates to climate science and it includes meteoric impactors, talking to schoolchildren. Welcome to being treated like schoolchildren?
There’s a Canadian analyst, Christian Leuprecht at the Royal Military College, and he came down heavy on Russia as a loser on CBC, in technology, on the battlefield and military praxis. Does he think their nuclear weapons don’t work? It seemed totally out of character. Did he seriously think the Ukraine offensive might work, thus his disappointment? Anything can happen in war but the correlation of forces still matters.
McGovern has made it clear that the Cuban missile crisis resembles this one except the Cubans were a very small power backed by a major nuclear power. Except now we ignore the nuclear risk, see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
Is it too scary and real? Is even the MICIMATT complex and their clients in MEDIA and social media playing the three monkeys when it comes to nuclear winter, nuclear summer and their relations to the science of climate change, because the military has remained too dim witted to do the science because it might really hurt arms sales? (Incidentally, there’s one reference to nuclear summer in Wikipedia, but I have seen projections about it for two or three hundred years into the future somewhere, not decades after the nuclear war as Wiki sources suggest.)
So they have a gentleman’s agreement and secret treaty somewhere or unwritten rule to speak no evil, see no evil and hear no evil?
The remnants of the TTAPS group and their associates are still doing their homework but with no big military money as far as I know. At least one of them is strongly politically anti-Russian. They still publish on the subject as computing hardware gets tougher and tougher and their climate models get bigger and can include much larger data sets, and those developments in the military science of nuclear war parallel the developments in climate science and paleoclimatology. It’s totally natural that they would continue to do that, even with limited funds, because they are real scientists, not big tobacco, big oil or big military proxy scientists.
Any one of us should now know deeply and personally that we are silenced, if we really have anything to say, but otherwise we can say as much we want.
The west can accuse Putin and Russia of threatening a nuclear war, but they are the real threateners and their misconceptions a threat. But the actual overall threat is nuclear war. If people need to talk about the military science and reality of nuclear war, to avoid war, they may feel threatened by the reality, but welcome to the big boys club. Nuclear war is a real threat. When Putin mentioned nuclear winter that one time to schoolchildren, he stated that all the science should be done on all of them, from volcanic winter to impact events to climate change to paleoclimatology, and incidentally, it seems, to nuclear war.
There’s no getting away from the demonization of Putin. It’s the excuse for war. It excuses arms profits. It excuses our judgmental excesses. Any fool can go to work attacking Putin to win social approval, for their 5 minutes of socially approved hate, a man they know nothing about, while it is strictly forbidden that they should know anything or tell anybody anything real about who the guy actually. That’s because they feel empowered by the mass delusion of very real population control and the power and hate of personal opinion can feel good when verified by mass delusion. It’s real enough to cause a nuclear war.
McGovern sees one flexion point as when politicians are so losing in the polls, that they feel that they can justify any risk to win.
To personalize and nationalize threatening behaviour is bullying ad hominem propaganda, but educating people about the science is part of the function of being a good politician, leader and communicator.
Every western leader feels his political future now rides on their forthcoming failure in Ukraine. That’s very dangerous because of the conceit of the politicians and the analysts. But the same goes for the people. It’s government of, by and for the people, we like to delude ourselves, especially when we have fallen for lies, or made mistakes, because to acknowledge them is embarrassing. But a nuclear war would be beyond embarrassing.
It certainly would have been nice if what you have written here was part of your speech, but, of course, I understand that was unplanned and simple extemporaneous off the cuff, that was still very good, simple and clear.
It’s a good thing just in the simple basic aspect of showing people there that there are still Americans who have sanity, intelligence, consciousness, conscience, and honesty, even while the people who seem to control things here now (if “control” is really the right word) seem to possess none of those characteristics.
In other news, The New York Times is back with groundbreaking revealation.
Surprisingly Weak Ukrainian Defenses Help Russian Advance
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/02/world/europe/ukraine-defenses-avdiivka.html
P.S. Next week’s feature:
If You Want To Win, You Must Not Lose
Sec. State Blinken at the MSC “speed dating for diplomats” (sic) :
“And if you’re not at the table in the international system, you’re going to be on the menu.”
Many blessings to you, Larry! 🤟
I wonder if anyone at the Conference had a chance to visit this memorial – Moscow Ecology Park.
Both survived many assassination attempts before being killed.
Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street,
Why start another religion war thread Mr Johnson? I know you dismisses the “kazarian mafia/synagogue of Satan”connection with Ukraine as easily you do the Israel connection to 9/11 and now 10/7, so why beat a dead horse? I think you must be bored!
You believe in the declaration of “Separation” (1st paragraph) because you were bowled over by expedient humanist claptrap which is worded eloquently. If we unpack the text, however, we find that there’s almost no solid food in it. For instance, it declares that people ought not to discard old systems of rule due to light and transient reasons, then it launches into a diatribe against transient reasons. A healthy declaration would have made a case against the old regime’s Semitic superstitions and abusive behavior. But the founders were in a hurry, so they preferred to demonize a single bad king on the basis of transient reasons, many of them light compared to what contemporary governments do habitually in the name of equality and democracy.
Probably most ministers would have denounced separation on those grounds alone, so the rebels needed to divide congregations sharply. They were successful, but the dishonesty of their rhetoric is catching up with us.
It’s just not “self-evident” that we are created beings. The most you can say with justification is that the belief is common among some superstitious peoples—especially Semitic supremacists like those who are at war against each other in Palestine. And just what, exactly, is the alleged evidence for creationism? What type(s) of evidence is it? What amount of it do you have? Is it equivocal in some way that the founding separatists were keen not to discuss, because THEY WERE IN A HURRY to complete the overthrow of the old regime which had begun in Germany?
It’s also not “self-evident” that there is a “Creator”. We could say ‘Creators’ with as much justification. They would be a consortium of beings, but we’d still have no evidence or a cogent argument to justify our belief in them. It’s worth pointing out also that theologians have struggled for more than 1,000 years to formulate plausible arguments which conclude correctly that their god(s) exist. So far, they have been unsuccessful, which could explain why the founding separatists cast aside traditional theology entirely in favor of a popular assumption worded ambiguously. If the founders had been honest, their declaration would read, ‘We hold these assumptions because we are in a hurry to complete the overthrow of the old theocratic regime and to replace it with our own murky system.’
The equalitarianism of your separatism is no better supported than its creationism. If we select at random any two “Black Lives”, do we find that they are equal to each other in terms of attributes which make some fit to rule but others unqualified? Probably not, but maybe we aren’t using the right meaning of equality.
So what does it mean? If life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, you have a wormy creed which entails pacificism and prohibition against punishing common domestic savages. The wild human is just pursuing life and liberty in ways which satisfy its own thirst.
What then is a defensible meaning of equality? Does it mean equality under the law? If so, whose law? That of a few people who preached equality as a tactic of division before declaring their alleged laws and imposing them by fraud and force on everyone else? Or is it equality under law which is declared, supposedly, by everyone, including those who aren’t fit to declare any law whatsoever? Maybe equal means sameness of intelligence, virtue, or dignity. If so, it’s an obvious lie. If not, we have a segue again to the conclusion that there’s no equality of the right to rule and, hence, no right to liberty as both savage humans and Semitic supremacists tend to think of it.
Now, let’s think about the phrase “unalienable Rights” and its practical application in the colonies of British America. Never mind low hanging fruit such as the condition of resident subsaharans. Let’s recall instead the struggle between rebels and loyalists. By July 1776, a civil war had been under way for more than a year, and it would become brutal in some places, esp. the southern colonies. The separatists were well aware of this; they’d done much to instigate it.
Since loyalists must be counted among “all men”, and since many loyalists were deprived of their wealth, their health, or even their lives, it follows that rebels and separatists were violating the alleged unalienable rights of the loyalists. These aggressors premeditated more of the same, too, so their declaration reads like a confession of guilt.
This raises an interesting question about the character and mentality of contemporary hypocrites and provocateurs who rule the USA. Their handwriting is sloppy, their loyalty is to a foreign capital, and their educations are crude. Yet are they really so different from the founding separatists?
Some miss the Mother Empire.
Mother-in-law
Just to be clear, you are between the horns of a dilemma. If you affirm the doctrine of unalienable rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, then you must condemn the means of separation from the Kingdom of Great Britain (1707-1800). You, yourself, have affirmed that loyalist lives matter. Otoh, if you affirm the means of separation and, thus its brutality, you must repudiate “unalienable Rights”, just as Jews, a few Levites, and maybe a smattering of Benjaminites have repudiated this dogma in Palestine.
Either-Or.
The case was clearly presented. Repeated entreaties were repudiated.
For the first time in known history a principle higher than Oligarchy was invoked successfully, against an ancient “tradition”.
Then in Switzerland :
“No, there is a limit to the tyrant’s power!
When the oppressed man finds no justice,
When the burden grows unbearable,
he appeals with fearless heart to heaven,
and thence brings down his everlasting rights,
which there abide, inalienably his, and indestructible as stars themselves.
The primal state of nature reappears, wherein man confronts his fellow man;
and if all other means shall fail his need, one last resort remains—his own good sword.
The dearest of our goods we may defend, From violence.
We stand before our country, We stand before our wives, before our children!
The ancient tyrant :
Will take $50 by money order? You know what for…