[I’m happy to post a piece sent to me by one of the readers, Kaz Dziamka. I must reiterate that I am humbled and honored to have so many smart, informed people reading and commenting on this blog. It gives me hope that the world can survive the current crisis — Larry Johnson]
The song “Wind of Change” by the German rock band the Scorpions was perfectly timed when it was released in 1990: the communist system was crumbling, and people in Europe felt that there was at last a chance for lasting peace and cooperation after the Cold War had ended. Klaus Meine, the famous voice of the Scorpions, was inspired by the band’s visit to Russia in the previous year to write what has since become one of the most successful songs in the history of popular music, with over 14 million copies sold.
The song, as well as this particular YouTube video to which I have given you a link below, capture “the magic of the moment”—the hope and the good will of the Europeans in the early 1990s in a way that probably no other song or video or book or editorial does. (I happen to know a thing or two about “the magic of that moment” because Barbara and I traveled to Germany and Poland in 1990.)
The Scorpions made the best of their opportunities to give unforgettable concerts in Europe, but particularly in Russia. According to a newspaper report:
“Wind of Change” has reportedly become one of the best-selling singles in history. And it is certainly the only power ballad to have been personally performed — and numerous times, at that — for former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (most recently in 2011, at his 80th birthday gala in London).
But while many Russians and Europeans in general were inspired and hopeful, the “war pigs” crowding the US government, the Pentagon, and the CIA (as well as NATO war piglets) were already working overtime to derail all progress towards international reconciliation and partnership. Without an enemy, real or imagined, the corporate-military US behemoth is like a monster fish without water. And so, in a matter of months, the promise made to Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev by James Baker, US Secretary of State, that NATO would not move “an inch” east of Germany was broken and the military march towards encircling Russia with NATO bases began.
This unique historic opportunity for lasting peace and cooperation between the West and Russia was missed. Forever.
At the same time, Russian economy was nearly crippled and its sovereignty almost destroyed by the Western-style, “free market” economy, relentlessly imposed by the West. As I see it, American foreign policy is moronically simple: it is either the “American Way”—or the highway (to hell). Libya is there already. So is Iraq. Syria would be there too, had Russia not intervened.
Ultimately the collapse of Russia was averted by the determination of actually only one man: Vladimir Putin. (This is why he has an 80+ percent support among the Russian population.) The rest is a recent story, leading up to Russia’s current status as, again, a military superpower, with superior, second-to-none military rocket technology. Add to this rapidly growing lethal Russian rocket arsenal (like the hypersonic Kinzhal or Zircon) a new generation of fighter jets (like the Sukhoi “Checkmate” fighter) and other military aircraft and hardware (like the super modern T-14 Armata tank), and you suddenly realize, the rules of the game have changed irrevocably this time. (The S-400, by the way, if you don’t know, is “the most capable and lethal long-range air defense missile system on the planet.” A new, superior, S-500 is being tested.)
As you listen to „Wind of Change” and watch the Scorpions live, just think for a moment what a magnificent, unique opportunity for peace and cooperation between the USA/West and Russia was destroyed by those American and European politicians, whom two decades earlier rock musicians of another famous band Black Sabbath called aptly “war pigs.”
An old adage says that the pen is mightier than the sword. But now I want to argue that mightier still than both the pen and the sword is a political protest song. And I hope that because of such artists like Klaus Meine, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, John Fogerty, or Czesław Niemen (little known outside of Poland), there may again be another opportunity for a peaceful world. Billions of people inspired by Klaus Meine’s “Wind of Change” or John Lennon’s “Imagine” or Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” cannot be powerless forever, cannot be ignored indefinitely.
Please look at the current number of views of “Wind of Change”: nearly 1 billion.
Here’s the link to the Scorpions’ Moscow concert:
I listened to the Scorpions in high school, excellent band, there is a Russian fable that comes to mind with that name, The Scorpion and the Frog. Russia is rocking the collective West like a hurricane. Peace be with you.
Hi Larry,
I enjoy reading your blog and your perspective on Ukraine debacle. But this time you really impressed me. Czeslaw Niemen – wow! Did not quite expect that. He was a unique voice in communist Poland. A voice that is really missed. Here’s his ‘protest song’ from ‘67 – ‘Strange is this world’, where he laments a world where some humans are held in contempt by others, and hopes that there is still more people of good will who will eventually save the world. Your post made me look up this old song. Thank you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aRz0IVMuW8&list=RD3aRz0IVMuW8&start_radio=1&rv=3aRz0IVMuW8&t=38
Kris, I think Czesław Niemen (and I would add Kaczmarski) were to Poland what Johnny Cash was to America. Legends.
Mike – certainly. I remember long nights in the 80’s, filled with cheap wine in a dorm in Gdansk, and Kaczmarski sounding from a bootleg cassette. He was singing his vision about the walls that will come down one day. Back then our hearts were pure and the enemy was clear 😀 Well, right now new walls are replacing the old ones and I am no longer so sure who is erecting them…
The great betrayal. The responsibility for this rests squarely on the shoulders of the United States. Peace divided embezzled.
Consider These…
A Poem by C. Day Lewis
Consider these, for we have condemned them;
Leaders to no sure land, guides their bearings lost
Or in league with robbers have reversed the signposts,
Disrespectful to ancestors, irresponsible to heirs,
Born barren , a freak growth, root in rubble,
Fruitlessly blossoming, whose foliage suffocates,
Their sap is sluggish, they reject the sun.
The man with his tongue in his cheek, the woman
With her heart in the wrong place, unhandsome, unwholesome;
Have exposed the new-born to worse than weather,
Exiled the honest and sacked the seer.
These drowned the farms to form a pleasure-lake,
In time of drought they drain the reservoir
Through private pipes for baths and sprinklers.
Getters not begetters; gainers not beginners;
Whiners, no winners; no triers, betrayers;
Who steer by no star, whose moon means nothing.
Daily denying, unable to dig:
At bay in villas from blood relations,
Counters of spoons and content with cushions
They pray for peace, they hand down disaster.
They that take the bribe shall perish by the bribe,
Dying of dry rot, ending in asylums,
A curse to children, a charge on the state.
But still their fears and frenzies infect us;
Drug nor isolation will cure this cancer;
It is now or never, the hour of the knife,
The break with the past, the major operation.
.a bloody fairy tale
It was in a country of peasants
in the hilly Balkans,
she died a martyr’s death
a company of students
in one day.
They are the same age
were all born
their school days were the same,
at the same ceremony
are led together,
from the same diseases all pelcovani
and all died on the same day.
It was in a country of peasants
in the hilly Balkans
she died a heroic death
a company of students
in the same day.
And fifty-five minutes
before the moment of death
she was sitting in the student desk
the company is small
and the same difficult tasks
solved: as much as possible
a traveler if he goes on foot…
and so on.
Their thoughts were full
and by the notebooks in the school bag
senseless lay countless
fives and twos.
A handful of the same dreams
and the same secrets
patriotic and loving
they were clutching at the bottom of their pockets.
And it seemed to everyone
that it will be long
that will be very long
run under the blue sky
while all the tasks in the world
it doesn’t improve.
It was in a country of peasants
in the hilly Balkans
she died a heroic death
a company of students
in the same day.
Rows of boys
they took each other’s hands
and from the last class of school
they went calmly to the shooting
as if death were nothing.
Comrade’s ranks are whole
they rose at the same time
to the eternal abode.
On October 21, 1941, the German “punitive expedition” shot thousands of Serbian civilians in Kragujevac, as a sign of retaliation.
The Germans had 10 dead and 26 wounded soldiers. During the shootings, the order of General Franz Beme from October 10 was consistently applied, which prescribes the shooting of 100 Serbs for one killed German and 50 for a wounded one. The retaliatory action was carried out on October 19 in the surrounding villages and on October 21 in Kragujevac.
Among the victims of that crime were high school students (from fifth to eighth grade). According to known data, 2,794 people were killed, of which 415 were in villages and 2,379 in Kragujevac. In memory of the terrible crime, not far from the monument to those killed in Šumarice, in Kragujevac, the Great School Hour is held every year
Thanks Mr. Johnson. Wind of change can push the boat toward right direction. But the world need some ‘Skippers’ able to sail with. Starting from the non-secondary Courts, referees, judges, civile trials and so on. Of course a wave of leaderships with political honesty, courage and a bureaucracy, I mean high ranking civil servants, ready to.
It seems, however, that the Scorpions have chosen the side of the war pigs: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/31/scorpions-say-they-changed-wind-of-change-lyrics-as-they-romanticised-russia
Thank you for the link. A few months ago I mentioned a book that explains and gives a solution to the transformation of the US and the western culture. The West has moved from stability and “good” to evil. A country like Russia has made strides toward stability and a care and respect for its people, a kind of repentance for past mistakes.
Abandoning rock foundation values ends in being given over to evil. When a nation looks within and truly seeks to embrace peace and mercy, it will awaken to good.
There is a real spiritual battle. “It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.”
The book is “The Return of the Gods” by Jonathan Cahn. It explains the “insanity” of the West at this point in history.
I should have identified the quote.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur: If we do not now devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door. The problem basically is theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence and improvement of human character that will synchronize with our almost matchless advance in science, art, literature and all material and cultural developments of the past two thousand years. It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.”
I am sorry, CF2, can you please explain when the West, and US in particular, was “good” and played the “stability” role?!!!!!!!!!!!
The history of the US invasions, government overthrows, assassinations of political leaders, etc. is so long some people even get lost compiling it as it so long.
Here is one, that lists hundreds (HUNDREDS) of wars, invasions, +hundreds of coups and kmurders to control these countries, to plunder their resources, to bend them to the US / Zionists knee:
https://davidswanson.org/warlist/
And if we add the invasions and the genocides by the Brits (or, they have Excelled at that way before America), and the French, and, don’t forget the Germans, and the Spaniards, Italians, Dutch (did I miss any “Westerners”?! don’t want to leave anyone out and hurt their feelings) — we are talking about thousands of invasions and hundreds of millions slaughtered, maimed, or “simply” raped around the world.
Maybe, just maybe, my eyesight is not good enough and I fail to see the “good” and the “stable” stuff that the “West” has been bringing to the World that you mention?!
please, help me out here…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/losing-christian-values-losing-families-no-longer-america-knew-international-arms-dealer-viktor-bout-gives-first-interview-since-release-us/
Why am I not surprised? The essay Larry offers today is excellent but I have to dissent from the notion that modern songs have anything to do with hope for overcoming the current malaise. Singers like Lennon are as fake as the proverbial 3 dollar bill, products of PR messaging and theatrical manipulation. Even the State Dept’s pet walrus, Vickie Nuland, generates more truth than the yodeling clowns whose voices assail us nowadays on every elevator in the land.
Has John Lennon really become elevator music? Maybe I need to get out more.
That’s why Roger Waters is the Roger Waters who likes his audience to think. And Bob Dylan is Bob Dylan. Who received the Nobel without the media when he went to play in Sweden. Is anyone watching him change the lyrics to Blow in the Wind or say he regrets the past?
The Scorpions are a market band. Germans who always sang in English for the global market. They knew they were going to Las Vegas and they didn’t want to disturb the audience. Especially now that they act for the nostalgia market. That the most certain thing was don’t give a shit to the lyrics.
I also confess that I always hated heavy metal. Noise, idiosyncrasy, attitude. Queer uppers and berets. But all heavy bands wrote great ballads. At the time I thought it was for the audience to endure the entire show without earplugs. As I’ve never watched any… Always very cheesy like this one! Which in Europe played to the point of vomiting. Even the paving stones were crying.
Wspomniany Czesław Niemen i piosenka. “Dziwny jest ten świat”
Dziwny jest ten świat
Gdzie jeszcze wciąż
Mieści się wiele zła
I dziwne jest to
Że od tylu lat
Człowiekiem gardzi człowiek
Dziwny ten świat
Świat ludzkich spraw
Czasem aż wstyd przyznać się
A jednak często jest
Że ktoś słowem złym
Zabija tak jak nożem
Lecz ludzi dobrej woli jest więcej
I mocno wierzę w to
Że ten świat
Nie zginie nigdy dzięki nim
Nie nie nie nie
Przyszedł już czas
Najwyższy czas
Nienawiść zniszczyć w sobie
Lecz ludzi dobrej woli jest więcej
I mocno wierzę w to
Że ten świat
Nie zginie nigdy dzięki nim
Nie nie nie nie nie
Nadszedł już czas
Najwyższy czas
Nienawiść zniszczyć w sobie
Larry,
Perhaps your fans might like to see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKQQs_96XBE
https://consequence.net/2022/06/scorpions-lyrics-wind-of-change-ukraine/
Hava nagila, hava nagila, hava nagila venismecha
Hava nagila, hava nagila, hava nagila venismecha
Hava nera’nena, hava nera’nena, hava nera’nena venismecha
Hava nera’nena, hava nera’nena, hava nera’nena venismecha
Uru, uru achim
Uru achim, belev same’ach
Uru achim, belev same’ach
Uru achim, belev same’ach
Uru Achim, belev same’ach
Uru achim
Uru achim, belev same’ach
Hava nagila, hava nagila, hava nagila venismecha
Hava nagila, hava nagila, hava nagila venismecha
Hava nera’nena, hava nera’nena, hava nera’nena venismecha
Hava nera’nena, hava nera’nena, hava nera’nena venismecha
Uru, uru achim
Uru achim, belev same’ach
Uru achim, belev same’ach
Uru achim, belev same’ach
Uru Achim, belev same’ach
Uru achim
Uru achim, belev samea’ch
…and that, Folks, is All She Wrote.
Thank you for this article. What comes to mind is Vladimir Vysotsky’s song, pertinent for today more than ever. Here with translated lyrics: Truth and Lie | “Правда и Ложь”
https://youtu.be/z1c6jicKlj4
The fall of the Berlin Wall, I experienced it from Paris, as the beginning of trouble and not as a hope. The country that screwed up the world had won. The SCORPIONS song celebrated his victory. The USSR, which had never been a threat to anyone, was collapsing with the hopes it had raised, for the non-aligned countries and for the proletarians of the capitalist countries. And immediately afterwards, we saw the USSR torn apart by hyenas, dismembered. Russia, now without arms and without legs, won over by the gangrene of chicago boys was led by a drunkard. I was worried about the Russians. I was sad for my lost dreams as a child of a French proletarian.
So interesting! I, the son of an American proletarian and an enlisted man in the US Navy, was shocked at the sudden end of the cold war and giddy with joy that America had won.
Yeah, I was brainwashed. You saw things more clearly than I did.
US did not win. The UDSSR had to change course and Gorbachev had the balls to do it. They almost lost with Jelzin, but were saved by his successor. Putin was the choice of Jelzin and it was his best decision.
Today the US is on the ropes, socially, financially, economically and military. They don’t want to change, they rather take everyone down with them. There is no way back. This has become a struggle for existence for the west, as they so far could not break Russia with their proxy but instead got themself deeply into trouble. Now it is about survival. Striking deep into Russian territory tells us too, that Russia has underestimated the abilities of the west. Things could go wrong at any time now, since Nato and US are willing to escalate more. They don’t thing Russia is willing to risk a deeper conflict. We will see.
Blinken and Austin are doubling down. They have no apparent intentions of backing off willingly. Russia’s existential struggle is real. The US government has an existential struggle. To hell with the people.
Russia simply can’t back down. Only if they get guaranties, but we all here already now that the west will never stick to anything they say or promise. The west can back down, as it has a lot of good explanations to do so at any given time. But they already stated, that Ukraine must win. They will use any given pause in this conflict to double their efforts for the next round. So this conflict will eventually obliterate Europe. US is, in my opinion, counting on that. They push their vassals more and more into that mess. Blowing up NS1 and NS2 was a clear massage that the US is not gonna waste that situation now and won’t tolerate any of their vassals to opt out. Is them or Russia now.
Tribunals for Russia, lies about Russian war crimes, seizure of Russian foreign assets, this all has catastrophe written all over it. They never ever mentioned what Ukie-Nazis are committing. They go with it and want certainly eradicate Russian people, which gives the Russian leadership no other option as to deal with those psychopaths in one and only way they will understand.
The USSR very much needed to change but Gorbachev’s balls led him in all the wrong directions. He screwed the citizens of the USSR over badly and mostly to get the approval of American leaders. He allowed phase I of the looting of the USSR; by 1991 all the liquid assets of the country were basically gone and never found. Yeltsin completed Phase II when the physical assets were looted.
Thing is that the liquid assets were all controlled by the party and still disappeared (to the west). So either Gorbachev knew and didn’t do anything or didn’t even know what was happening under his nose.
There were many paths of reform for the USSR. Gorbachev chose the most destructive for the people he was supposed to be leading. That’s why he wasn’t mourned in Russia.
Completely agree, Lex,
Westerners are clueless as to what has transpired in the USSR under Gorby, The Marked One (many people say it is the sign of Satan on his traitorous head) and the drunkard Yeltsin.
If you asked 100 people in Russia, who would praise either of these guys vs. who would have happily put a bullet into their skulls, you’d get 3 to 5 who would praise these loathsome bastards. I might be optimistic on this estimate though.
I must use the line from an old Meatloaf song. “Stop right there….!”
I am in complete agreement with the sentiments of most of this article. A gollden opportunity was lost, and largely due to the stupidity and greed of the U.S. defense complex and financial pirates from Harvard and the University of Chicago.
I was serving in the CIA at the time and I can say that there was a genuine desire to work with the Russians. Obviously, in different parts of the US government and business world, they had other goals.
What I absolutely will not accept is any attempt to whitewash the USSR, a loathsome aberration in world history, founded on hatred and dedicated to aggression against countries the world over.
The USSR was not Russia! The largely alien elements that created the Bolshevik Revolution hated the real Russia with a passion and came near to destroying it. Putin is trying to recover what was lost from the ashes.
A French “proletarian”. OMG! There are still nincompoops using such dated terminology. News flash. There was not and is not a French (or any other kind of) “proletariat”. There are just people.
Speaking of French Communists, they were largely responsible for the shameful collapse of France in 1940. They acted on orders of Stalin to undermine French morale and war preparations, to help his then buddy Hitler.
I have seen Communists in action. The Communist conspiracy was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions and ruined the lives of countless more. It is a crackpot scam used by losers to take revenge on the decent people of this planet. And, yes, I lived in a Communist state for two years and fought Communist terror gangs in several places.
Don’t cling to a fantasy, pal.
It is Newspeak that forbids us to pronounce the word “proletarian”. In France, you have to say “collaborator”. The proletarians, those who smell of rust and tar, still exist even if you stick a different label on them. We have seen American capitalism in action… I’ll let you finish the list: belated apartheid in the southern states of the USA, the dictatorships of South America set up by ex-SS, controlled by the URSA “United Rogue States of America”, Pinochet, SOHARTO the one who murdered 1 million Indonesian communists, the Vietnam War, the blockade of Cuba, the Bay of Pigs, Guantanamo, Julian ASSANGE, Iraq, Libya, Syria etc. For FRANCE, there is the war in Indochina, Algeria, the massacres in Mdagascar… I don’t know how we Westerners allow ourselves to judge the USSR. At the moment there is a lot of talk about a Red Emperor. And it is said that American capitalism has not recovered. Out of order.
This is the thing, you are absolutely correct. The USSR was torn apart by a pack of hyenas. More correctly, (((hyenas))).
The author puts it as ” Russian economy was nearly crippled and its sovereignty almost destroyed by the Western-style, “free market” economy, relentlessly imposed by the West. As I see it, American foreign policy is moronically simple: it is either the “American Way”—or the highway (to hell).”
The author is completely wrong. This was not about competing economic systems. It was about a country being pillaged by a voracious and merciless, much experienced, tribe of locusts. They’ve done it many times through history, this time they did it to Russia.
Now, of course, they’re finishing off what remains of the USA and Europe in the same manner.
When I first set foot in Moscow in 1993, I was introduced to Viktor Tsoi, his band Kino and the song Voyna (War) and it blew me away. Tsoi died in 1990, in a car crash like James Dean and was like Dean, a cult figure.
Voyna is about fatalism and I note it now because that same fatalism has now returned to Russia because of this foolhardy Ukrainian experiment.
A Russian friend from that time once told me “Russians can be your best friend and your worst enemy.” I think the West has 0 concept of what Russian fatalism is capable of wreaking upon it if pushed far enough. Let the buyer beware.
https://youtu.be/KxsHicO8RA0 With English lyrics: https://youtu.be/wo1g9n8yHyU
I’m sorry but I’m more cynical, please forgive
Dover Beach
BY MATTHEW ARNOLD
The sea is calm tonight.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!
Only, from the long line of spray
Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.
Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Ægean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.
The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Man, I was 5 years old in 1990, but I have vivid memories of that time, just before my family and I emigrated to Canada from Poland. This song has defined a generation and everything brings the soul back to that transformational time. It’s interesting thet evey time I would hear the song in the subsequent years without the teledisc in the background, I would think of exactly those scenes: the communist bloc, John Paul II, Gorbachev, Wałęsa, Solidarity, Gdańsk, watching reports from Desert Storm at my late grandmothers home in Trzebiatów, Poland. I think my generation born in the late 80’s is the last the one that can be moved by this song. I literally have tears in my eyes writing this. Larry, thanks for guest posting this!
Mike, I just mentioned to Andrei Martyanov that I like your interviews. I just saw you interviewing Dr. Hahn, saw you back with Martyanov sometime in the recent past. You’re informed, you ask excellent questions, then you allow them to give us their expertise uninterrupted. Funny meeting you here at Larry’s! So I thought I’d drop in to deliver my humble kudos. You moderating a chat with Andrei Martyanov and Larry would be a stellar event for those of us little people seeking the truth of all this. Be well young man! You’re very good at this!
this was a great article you posted mr. johnson. I am not trying to take away from the article above; everthing i have below shows the results of not having this promised peace from 30 yrs ago happen and the results of the war pigs winning so far are below. This death cult that is running the western world since before we were both born need to be put out of our presense. a place they could have their paradise i think is shown the old classic movie escape from new york starring kurt russell. i always like john carpenter movies .
Escape from New York (1981)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082340/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/b24KvWbJNPRE/
https://www.bitchute.com/embed/b24KvWbJNPRE/
regards,
ralph
https://republicbroadcasting.org/news/biden-diplomacy-wnba-star-brittney-griner-released-by-russia-in-exchange-for-international-arms-dealer-viktor-bout-known-as-merchant-of-death/
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-live-biden-explains-why-he-swapped-russian-merchant-death-wnba-star
victor bout was the basis for the character of the movie lord of war played by Nicolas Cage.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399295/
this movie is still on bitchute. links are below
https://www.bitchute.com/video/llDLHmaOHo6H/
https://www.bitchute.com/embed/llDLHmaOHo6H/
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https://republicbroadcasting.org/news/sacrifice-at-pearl-harbor/
This documentary produced by the BBC offers a revisionist look at the attack on Pearl Harbor, and it raises some tantalizing questions. It makes the incredibly serious and controversial claim that the U.S. government had definitive knowledge of the imminent Japanese attack, yet Franklin D. Roosevelt and other American leaders deliberately sacrificed Americans lives so they would have an excuse to enter World War II.”
https://youtu.be/6uA0DcGDx2k
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https://republicbroadcasting.org/news/the-far-left-death-cult/
i believe this movie also by nicolas cage sums up the ultimate conclusion of the practices above implemented by the canadian goverment and what may happen to anyone the goverment thinks is a useless eater. . it is still on bitchute. i really like the ending.
Propaganda Movie With Predictive Programming “The Humanity Bureau” (2017)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6143568/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/yjPM7IcKSYNc/
https://www.bitchute.com/embed/yjPM7IcKSYNc/
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https://republicbroadcasting.org/news/ny-times-kirstie-alley-emmy-winning-cheers-actress-dies-at-71/
https://republicbroadcasting.org/news/huge-update-on-anne-heches-deadly-crash/
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/wef-isnt-cabal-its-cult
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/putin-signs-law-sweeping-ban-lgbt-propaganda
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/finnish-mp-criminally-charged-after-quoting-bible-opposition-lgbt-event
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/project-veritas-chicago-dean-brags-about-giving-underage-students-sex-toys-during-pride
https://republicbroadcasting.org/news/new-zealand-health-officials-gain-guardianship-of-a-baby-whose-parents-refuse-to-use-vaccinated-blood-for-their-sons-surgery/
am sure this money will go to good use lol
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/ukraine-aid-audit-bill-voted-down-dem-led-panel-amid-record-858-billion-ndaa
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on the duran today at the beginning alexander talked about this. looks like the german goverment is getting paranoid and very nervous
https://rumble.com/v1znwni-ukraine-daily-losing-battalion-in-bakhmut-ex-us-officials-ukraine-cannot-wi.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbXYQPleZDM
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/germanys-massive-right-wing-extremist-raid-it-more-show-substance
regards,
ralph
This is the War Pigs video mentioned. Brilliant clip made by a film student(so i’m told don’t know if true).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQUXuQ6Zd9w
“In the Media of Record”
(a 21st Century Elizabethan sonnet)
“What if?” the science fiction writers ask,
and then propose (as premise for a tale)
a fantasy unequal to the task
of passing off a minnow for a whale.
In revenue producers hope to bask
while in the empty theaters they fail.
No artificial gravity contrives
To keep feet planted firmly on the floor.
No alien intelligence connives
with venal earthlings to invent a spore
that kills its host but somehow still survives.
No drama now. Just one colossal bore.
It seems we’ve lost another war. So be it.
As long as paying customers don’t see it.
Michael Murry, “The Misfortune Teller,” Copyright © 2022
Some things never change. Like the systemic corruption in Russia and poor performance of its military.
This article mentions Russia’s glorious air defence capabilities yet just the other day Ukraine struck 2 airbases deep inside Russia with 40+ year old Soviet drones.
Poor Troll. It must be frustrating to see the “super game changing” western weapons make no difference in Ukraine.
Some things never change, like low quality trolling. That old Soviet drone flew over 3 NATO countries before it fell down. If it didn’t ran out of fuel it could go all the way to Washington (a place of excelent military performance and no corruption).
Poor guy has nothing left to celebrate. Let him express the Russophobia otherwise it still explodes. Russia developed the ADMS with these old Soviet rockets, so no one should shoot them down like Russia. Which tells us several things. That Ukraine didn’t do it alone this time. Neither the modification nor the operation of the flight. There was American intelligence for him not to go to Croatia. And on the Russian side there were either many radars turned off, which I don’t believe in war with Ukraine or Russia wanted to see how far the old rocket was going and it was only shot down very close to the air base.
Without having read an expert, seem to me the most logicals hypotheses. And also why Russia did not retaliate symmetrically. What also wouldn’t happen if the radars were actually turned off. As a rule Russia does not advertising its mistakes. Like any force, the tendency is to minimize them and only respond symmetrically when there is no chance of defense. Which is certainly not the case in Russia with 50 year old rockets. And from the moment they are guided, they are more missiles than rockets. I also think that the drone nomenclature does not apply to these Tupolev devices. Starting with the propulsion. Anything between the first V1 cruise missile and the American Tomahawk.
Oh, and don’t forget Russian victories. They do that a lot too. Napoleon, Hitler and on…..you don’t think the Americans won WWII did you. Surely not.
The Red Army was a Soviet army, not a Russian one. All ethnicities fought and died fighting the Nazis, including Ukrainians. Many of the red army’s best officers were Polish or Armenian or Ukrainian like Rokossovsky, Bagramyan, Vatutin. They were the architects of some of the greatest victories against the Wehrmacht.
But even in victories, the amount of casualties the army suffered was grossly disproportional to the casualties of the Germans, even though the Germans were outnumbered and outgunned and lacking in everything.
The Red Army did give the Japanese an absolute trashing in 1945 though. They routed a million men army in record time taking very few casualties.
Recall the big excitement about the forthcoming Peace Dividend ? The War Party crushed that idea.
I’m a musician from germany. I do not know the Scorpions personally, but I do know people who do. Now get this: They’re planing to perform and release a new version (new lyrics) of Winds Of Change, to be performed on New Years Eve at the Brandenburg Gate/Berlin in support of Ukraine.
The entirety of german artist in the last almost 3 years have been an abysmal failure (Ukraine and Virus). No “Protest Songs”, no critical thinking. The Scorpions are just a bunch of saturated rich posers.
Another famous group from germany, Die Ärzte (supposed “Punk Band”), performed a song in support of the goverments CV-policies in the most watched news program (!) Die Tagesschau; pathetic.
Cheers!
Exactly. They sold their souls.
Until the hunting season for “war pigs” begins, the blood of innocents will continue to be shed.
Likely the hunters would just become the next War Pigs. Wishing for some grand awakening and rush of spirit won’t make it so. Here’s hoping Russia stays the course, China embraces it, the “‘unaligned nations” get on board and bear the Empire down. But concupscience is indeed original and manifest — every generation carries it in the genes and the shibboleths.
Hope for better, prepare for worst as best you can.
Bravo!
Great down to earth piece Mr. Dziamka. Citizen journalism at its best I think.
More please! Because us good folks need all if it we can get. Because information and knowledge is power. Particularly open source unfettered knowledge and information which the gate keepers are unable to silence. “They can’t stop the mesage” right? “Because, all there is is power”
I want to add that the dark powers that be so foul to believe they are the rulers of our good people world will not stand. That while their reach is intimate, vast almost beyond comprehension, meddling in every facet of the sphere of our lives, it is fear of what we are our potential to rise up and defy, resist, throw of their chains they impose upon us, just exactly who do these cabal of tyrants think they are, that it is enough to know there is good in this world, that there are things well worth fighting for, as Samwise Gamgee said to Ferodo Baggins. The great thing is it is the dirt people who ever effect positive change on this earth, because there are no others but ourselves to do this deed of honor, faith and humility, this i think is the message for all for all time, that it is repugnant beyond comparison that a mere handful annoint themselves as our masters and overlords, that even at their most foul selves even with powers to create mayhem globally to murder millions with their poison, they still have no power over our consent, and their manufactured consent is a weak sustitute, it is our power that reigns supreme as this sovereignty comes from God, a grant which no earthly man made diktat can destroy, that Liberty and Freedom is our natural state, that the power of “I WON’T!” is the most powerful weapon ever devised, that these overlords are so arrogant to think only they have the power to choose the path of our history and our activities is on its face ridiculous, a farce of unequalled hubris, and while yes they can kill me for uttering defience to them and their tyrannies, they must in order to silence dissent, as such resistance is a matter of hearts and minds, of ourselves winning the hearts and minds, such as this great song and this piece Mr. Larry so graciously guested on his most excellent blog. Do you see the power we all have? The power to choose, the power to act the power to resist tyranny and win Liberty?
It seems that this cabal which created the cauldron of misery and death going on today is reaching for straws, because while they use war itself as a weapon they can not uktimately win against the good folks of this world, that no matter hiw they try no matter how foul or depraved or deliberate their inhuman activities are, they are always two steps behind the audacity and motive power of good folks with freedom and liberty in their hearts. Russia is case in point. To have the audacity the motive power to claw its way out of this cabals hellmouth they created in Russia in irder to more easily rapine and pillage the good people of mother Russia, to now defy them openly, to stand and say No More! This is power, power created exactly for destruction of this cabal and its demons. It is just gobsmacking it is the Russians who not only have empowered themselves against such evil but that Russia revels in its Time Honored Traditions, after all Russia has suffered, it’s joy of being Russians, is the greatest power this cabal has ever faced. After all the good folks of Russia have been through, to rise up out of the ashes of its past and become the beacon if light in the darkness, to stand alone against the dark powers of this world, to have the guts and wherewithall to prepare and plan and act, against this dark power is itself the very doom of this cabal, that it can not stop Russia from acting is itself the very thing that is existential to this beast of tyranny, because this power is derived, is possible because goid people acted, they chose this path, they chose to act.
Can you see the power and the glory, the audacity and motive piwer of an enraged okurakity of goid folks? Because it is only possible if a legion of good people understand they are indeed a plurality, as it is then nothing can stand such people and that this is what Russia, her people have accomplished. Proof is right there to see, that this evil cabal must create false narrative, falsefy truth, implicate Russia in false crimes, to project itself upon its existential enemy, is the desperation of tyrants and proof their criminal institutional order has failed. The very fact somebody stands up and fights for what us right what is just, this itself is amazing, even if it is war and all its misery and brutality, it is that they fight in the first place just an incredible event, that it is Putin and his Warriors who save the world, it is beyond words how magnificant this is and the faith of this actuality itself is a weapon this cabal can not stand against no matter how much it sends no matter how many poor souls it feeds into the meat grinder. That cabal can not win that because in order to survive it must now feed the meat grinder for if it stops they are Kaput! That the supply of cannon fodder is not endless. That the meat grinder while it consumes many goid souls, even as terrible and unfortunate this is, it is this cabal’s vast network of minions and operators, its terror and reprisal agents I think it consumes and rids our world of what is an infestation of an agency of evil that oermeates our civilization. To reduce them to bones and ashes is an act of right, of purpose, how it cleanses our world. It is terrible to contemplate. But it us not us good folks who chose these things so evil. Out consent is irevelent to the acts of waste and death and destruction, regardless we are all Russia now, we who are freemen. Ukraine is how the world goes now. For as Ukraine goes so does the world. Defeated it takes with it this cabal. It may not seem so from our perspective in America, that this cabal in its death throws will lash out at us good folks in terror and reprisal, that we will probably find ourselves like Russia having to claw our way out of the depths of destruction this cabal creates out of our country for its profit, but that in the long run we too, us good folks prevail. Exactly because there is some good in this world that there are things worth fighting for.
God bless us all please, and thank you Mr. Larry, not only for your excellent digital age town phamplet, but for your courage and your virtue to give us knowledge and insight unfettered by, in fact in the face of such an evil entity which presumes to rule our way of life, that ruthlessly violates our sacred good folk codes. That you provide against the dark powers whishes a great truth, that in Russia we can see the really great thing, that Russian’s refuse to take council from their fears, as fear weaponized is the chouce of this cabal of tyrants, and instead, something so epic, just how mad good folks in this world get when our codes are so ruthlessly violated. Besides, how can anything stop this message. If I can see the message if it gets to me through all the filters and gate keepers, imagine how powerful the message is, how truly powerful the source? Even after all that is been done to stop the message, all who have been imprisoned and murdered to shut them up, to stop their audacity and motive power, and all that is imposed on us against our wills. We are still here. It says something really great and profound.
Excellent post. I wrote my conservative congressman and took him to task for voting money to Ukraine. It was like speaking to a tree stump. The ship of state is rudderless.
Thank God that truth and freedom are taking root in countries that are awakening, aware and hold tightly to a hope of justice and mercy for all, even for those who are in the grip of evil.
Excellent, all good folk are on the side which stands for goodness.
Oddly and also surprisingly I find the Russian spirit that’s being demonstrated to entire world is aligned with my spirit. It seems that we are indeed kindred spirits together we all stand against this evil generation. Not only does it (evil generation) oppose goodness it seeks to remove it.
What might have been
https://patrickarmstrong.ca/2020/01/20/a-new-years-fantasy/
Very nice article. I was glad to see you put free market in scare quotes, because western capitalism is nothing like a true free market envisioned by Mises or Rothbard. Unfortunately, too many people conflate the two with each other. Western capitalism is an insult to a truly free market, where people exchange goods and services under the protection of an institution or institutions which outlaw and prosecute force and fraud.
Free market is a lot like a Santa Claus for adults, except that fewer kids belive in fantasies nowdays.
Where is our Peace dividend? We were supposed to get it in1990. We’ve been waiting for thirty-two years. It still hasn’t shown up.
The Northern United States are still at war with the Southern, and now also, the Western United States. So why should they stop being at war with Russia and Germany either? Or with the rest of Europe, and the world, for that matter.
Thanks for touching on this subject. As a teen growing up in the 70’s and the variety of music was unreal. Was sure a lot of anti war screw the government type bands. Metal and Punk springs to mind. Been asking myself where are these bands voices now? They all seemed to hide under the blankets when covid came I noticed. Brick in the Wall was almost a bloody anthem of our youth. At least Roger Waters didn’t let us down. Its all woke garbage now anyway. But please boomers quit supporting these sellouts like Rage Against the Machine, Neil Young, Springsteen etc. As this war rages the silence from them is deafening.
I’m a boomer, born 4 years later and I wouldn’t have been, and so happy I’m not in my 20’s & 30’s. All of the music and movies, well there might be one here and there, but I’ve quit Hollywood & the music industry. Almost 2 yrs ago they made it easy for me once I learned about all of the pedophilia, sex trafficking, adrenochrome, etc etc.
Fortunately I grew up in the years before Rage, never liked Neil Young, and I thought Springsteen was cool back in the early 80’s. But now too many actors & musicians like Springsteen, Rod Stewart, Bette Midler (awesome voice, was in “The Rose” but no way no how would I watch it now!) make me sick.
Starting in the 70’s through the 90’s I saw a lot of concerts. One of my most favorite bands was The Who (3 times) and they have some awesome songs, and Roger Daltrey had a perfect voice to belt them out with angst. Roger Waters is awesome too, didn’t fold during covid & spoke up several times about the lies & tyranny of it. Three Dog Night had a lot of hits, and to this day when I hear “Shambala” or “Out in the Country” tears come to my eyes. “Mama Told me Not to Come” makes me smile…
Hello Larry I believe that the United States and Europe have crossed the bridge and have set it on fire with respect to Russia, I think that Russia has closed the doors to a future reconciliation, their bad experiences prove them right. I send you my regards.
Wow! There’s some really excellent poetry being supplied here. Love it!
Ordinary European and American citizens may have been hopeful, but those of us with any understanding of history were distraught. The war pigs were in charge, had been in charge in the West since forever, and in something resembling their current form since WWI. The destruction of the USSR- which was not simply a ‘collapse’ of communism, but the culmination of a pattern of actions by the west that began with the fall of the Tsar in 1917. We knew we were in for a period of imperial excess, and so it has proven to be. The ‘ordinary citizens’ were duped, that’s all.
We are now in moment that may destroy the imperial system. If it doesn’t destroy the war pigs at the same time, they’ll be back. As long as they have a base of power, they’ll just begin again with the tools at hand.
I have very little hope that, whatever the outcome of the current conflict with Russia, the war pigs will be rooted out of power in the west. Who would do the rooting? Even the most sophisticated westerners continue to think of the war pigs as an aberration, when they are simply the ultimate expression of the Liberal (in the deep historical sense) Project. Good luck to us all.
I was in high school at the time of the song and the fall of the USSR. I admit to being filled with hope then. But by 5 years later I generally understood the direction things were going. By ten years after the fall I had lived in russia and understood everything quite well. The last 20 years have been well, you know.
I would like to tell you that, this time, I don’t agree with your ideas at all. The song is certainly a beautiful melody and, surely, it represented well the atmosphere that was breathed in the early 90s among ordinary people. But ordinary people’s perception of political events is usually very distorted and extremely different from that of the elites who govern and decide. Certainly those elites, from the first moment of the fall of the Soviet Union, were very interested in exploiting the resources of those countries rather than in creating a new era of peace for mankind: the current events in Ukraine are only a foreseeable consequence of the approach, taken from the very beginning, by Western countries towards the States born from the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Rather what was hardly predictable was the resilience shown by Russia and its rulers and its ability to return to being a great power. Furthermore, as you well know, the elites, at least in the Western world, are often very different from ordinary citizens: you Americans, in general, are lovable and nice people but, of course, I would not say the same thing, for example, for the Kagan clan or for the Clinton clan and so on. If we observe historical events, we must recognize that the Western elites have, at least since the Middle Ages, shown a marked aptitude for imposing very brutal and extremely exploitative conditions on the subject populations without ever showing that capacity for syncretism, typical of the ancient Romans (who certainly did not lack brutality in war), which led them to assimilate the conquered populations together with their culture: we could call it the ability to create an empire rather than simply subjugating the enemies. For example, if we observe the expansion of the Islamic Arab empire, we can certainly say that the conditions reserved for the defeated people were certainly enormously better than those ever imposed by any western state in the conquered territories. The historical debate on the reasons for this phenomenon is open: some refer to the Aryan roots of Western peoples, others rather to the Judaic roots of Western civilization with its concept of “perennial holocaust”, just to name a few theories. In any case, Western peoples, beyond propaganda (including some naive songs), have never shown much love for peace and brotherhood among peoples. On the other hand I would like to add that we, who are part of the common people, are very inclined to sing songs about peace and good feelings, but, as Russophobia, which has spread so easily in recent months, shows us, when we feel threatened our interests we align very much quickly to the beastly attitudes of our elites. P.S. I am not a pacifist (indeed I believe that pacifists are only somewhat childish people), I only think that the duration of a civilizational process depends on its ability to coexist and absorb the other civilizations it encounters and eventually subjugates
You say: “But ordinary people’s perception of political events is usually very distorted and extremely different from that of the elites who govern and decide.”
But my article is all about people’s perception of political events. I couldn’t care less about the perception of the elites who govern and decide. I don’t give a rat’s tail about the “elites.”
Patrick Keefe started a podcast in 2020 over whether the song “Wind of Change” was CIA inspired, promoted and/or written: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/may/15/wind-of-change-did-the-cia-write-the-cold-wars-biggest-anthem
Not clear what the end result was.
Personally, I don’t see the CIA being that competent in music composition. However, it isn’t necessary to be a musical prodigy to derive benefit; if movies can put out open slots for new songs on a specific theme (think James Bond movie songs) then there is no reason to think the same can’t occur for national security prerogatives. Or that the well documented existence of CIA or other intel agency operations in mass media could be used to promote and expand an independently created song for maximum effect.
Stefano de Martino: “I would like to tell you that, this time, I don’t agree with your ideas at all. ”
You mean my ideas? Or Larry Johnson’s.
If I understand correctly, Larry, publishing your post, shares your ideas. So, sorry, but I disagree with both
Witaj Kazik
Pamietam Cie ze studiów w Krakowie. Ciesze sie, ze zrobiłeś karierę naukową
Myśmy sie do Stanów nie wybierali.
Ale serdecznie pozdrawiam Cie z antypodów.
Bardzo Ci jestem wdzięczna bo przywróciłeś mi krakowskie wspomnienia.
Osobiście, nie żałuje, ze pobierałam nauki i studiowałam w PRL-u.
Pamietam jak w czasie kolejnych Juwenaliów przyleciał do Polski John Steinbeck i próbował nam wmówic jak nam, studentom w Polsce jest dobrze. Ze studia bezpłatne, i akademiki i bezpłatna opieka lekarska … i te radosne tłumy na ulicach..Myśmy mu oczywiście nie wierzyli, bo wiedzieliśmy lepiej od Steinbecka gdzie jest lepiej.
Tak, kiedyś były radosne tłumy na ulicach..
Wyjechalismy, jak Polska “nie potrzebowala już inżynierów po AGH, zamykali hutę i stocznie i Elwro.
Przydaliśmy sie na Zachodzie.
Serdecznie Cie pozdrawiam
Rena
Hello Kazik
I remember you from your studies in Krakow. I’m glad you’ve made a career in science
We weren’t going to the States.
But I cordially greet you from the antipodes.
I am very grateful to you because you brought back my Krakow memories.
Personally, I do not regret that I studied in the People’s Republic of Poland.
I remember when John Steinbeck came to Poland during the next Juwenalia and tried to tell us how good it is for us students in Poland. With free studies, and dormitories, and free medical care … and those joyful crowds on the streets … Of course, we did not believe him, because we knew better than Steinbeck where it was better.
Yes, there used to be joyful crowds in the streets…
We left when Poland “didn’t need engineers after AGH, they were closing the steelworks and shipyards and Elwro.
We came in handy in the West.
I cordially greet you
Rena
Rena, what a surprise! Napisz do mnie do kazdziamka.com. My word is starting to malfunction seriously so for now that is all I can write. Na moim blogu napisz gdzie moge do Ciebie napisac prywatnie. Dzieki bardzo za komentarz, Kaz (ik)
we all agree and pray that the REAL people of the world will get their fill of the corrupt and vicious sociopathic leaders and rise up together and cast them out (with pitchforks and torches).in my country (USA) i am beginning to believe it will take a change of government.the great 1776 experiment looks like a failure beyond repair,much like the government it replaced.thank god for the 2nd ammendment,those guys knew what they doing beyond any wokeness we have today.
Bob Dylan and John Lennon, 2 POS commies. Lest you all forget the number of people killed by POS commies, Pol Pot, Stalin, and let’s not forget Hitler for Communism is Nazism non-Aryan Grandmother. Going out on a limb here, nothing will change until we meet a common enemy and that enemy can only be extra-terrestrial. So ‘keep on trucki’n’. Finally, F the Scorpions, they plagiarized (intelligently) Jefferson Starship’s Winds of Change….
Is that you John Bolton? Settle down light up a splif.
I guess inflation struck hard the price of your “happy pills”. It’s always the sick and poor that suffer the most.
Clue says: “Patrick Keefe started a podcast in 2020 over whether the song “Wind of Change” was CIA inspired, promoted and/or written.”
Thank you for bringing to my attention this stunning idea. I remain skeptical, of course. As always. In fact, I find this statement from the Guardian lunatic. (Not the only example of the lunacy and decline of one of the “World’s Best-designed Newspapers”):
“The CIA saw rock music as a cultural weapon in the cold war. Wind of Change was released a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and became this anthem for the end of communism and reunification of Germany. It had this soft-power message that the intelligence service wanted to promote.”
I remember reading that, which thoroughly bummed me out. Some of rock’s best songs were inspiring, amazing to listen too, encouraging, etc, and for them to take something & use it, warp it, all for control & propaganda was infuriating.
The mass media is tightly controlled for messaging to the proles. Look at what they did to Ye, regardless of the content of what he said, should they have been able to deplatform him across multiple industry contracts? Do you think the people who bought his shoes cared what he said enough to stop buying them on their own? Absolutely not. They would have been fine buying his shoes.
Now Ye is pretty big. Imagine being an entertainer at a more precarious tier of viability. They do and say what they have to to stay alive with the industry bosses and the fans.
Perception is reality and the media generates perception, so by controlling media one creates power.
The CIA and their mind-fuck MK-Ultra have been using rock music and musicians since the glory days of the 1960s: Doors Jim M (father CINC Atlantic Fleet), the weird scenes in the gold mine of Laurel Canyon …. check it out . Manson et al were all there. “What a trip”.
no wonder boomers were so fucked up.
And speaking of change? Kyrsten Sinema has just filed Independent. Our little Bi whackadoodle in Arizona has done more to slow the Dim insanity than Trump and McConnell put together. Now the question is Manchin. He had a coal deal cut with the Dims which they promptly reneged on. Does Manchin see 2024 coming and change? Or does to try to parlay his on the fence condition for another coal deal the Dims will back out of? Well, a rare bit of optimism from me. The MOST we can hope from Washington DC is gridlock. And we will have it for two years. Except Ukraine and nuclear oblivion of course. On that one note, our leaders are in accord. Full speed ahead for the Titanic.
Stefano de Martino: “If I understand correctly, Larry, publishing your post, shares your ideas. So, sorry, but I disagree with both.”
You don’t need to be “sorry.” We just need to agree to disagree. Adios.
Good morning Larry,
I agree that you have great commenters on your site
It’s interesting that you posted about the Scorpions and those hopeful times when the Iron Curtain fell. Last night on Ian Cummer’s site Readingjunkie.com, I read a near duplicate of your post.
My comment was, “Those were such hopeful times and then the War Pigs f*****d it up.”
Ian’s post at reading junkie.
https://readingjunkie.com/2022/12/07/winds-of-change/
I was in undergrad at Georgetown SFS in the early 90’s and remember this moment so well.
Wrote a paper saying that Russia’s historical tyranny and expansionism were largely driven by external threats and the need to end NATO since they see this as a threat for my IR seminar and was laughed at by the professor (the dean of the school). When I asked him why co-existence was impossible, he said “because we need their resources”. And here we are 30 years later…
So true and sad
Hoya Saxa
SFS 81
Sadly, for those who follow the two evil families’ power networks, namely Rockefellers from Wall Street and Rothschilds from City of London knows that we, the people, could be enslaved for another 2000 years.
Sam Parker,
Behind The News Network – Removing The Doubt
An unfortunate truth… the financial origins of our deep state institutions.
Great text and great courage Larry! Just two notes. Russia even collapsed economically. Technically failed to fulfill obligations for the first time in its history. Which is what justifies the entry of the US into its territory. And the last blow from the US to leave the bear lying on the ground was the drop in oil prices combined with the Saudis. Which curiously yesterday received XI with a red carpet. The great news of our time that the western MSM may not be disclosing with due importance but in geostrategic terms it is worth much more much more than any fake counter-offensive in Ukraine! Even if the conflict greatly accelerated a process that is already unstoppable!
And finally, we cannot absolve the EU of the entire process that led Europe to the current conflict. It was only up to Europe to integrate all of Eastern Europe, which would benefit all Europeans and the Continent. EU who was literally watching the US invade Russia! What was only possible due to its technical bankruptcy! That the EU was unable to prevent, nor did it occur later with the obvious help. Which speaks well of its role as a global player that it always claimed to aspire to on the great geostrategic board. When not even in Europe can play that role. What followed was a decade of bleeding the bear for the City and Wall Street! The main objective of the conflict in Ukraine again! Only an EU completely vassal of Washington and completely Russophobic to the point of infamy would think of not benefiting from a good integration/relationship with one of the richest countries in the world! The famous gas pump for assholes!
Overall, I like this article. It makes several good points. But John Lennon’s song “Imagine” is blasphemous. It is the song of an atheist. What all of today’s political theorists blindingly fail to realize is that our Triune JEHOVAH’s Ten Commandments, which He Himself wrote with His own finger of God (Exodus 8:19 & 31:18) are STILL in effect and apply equally to governments as well as individuals. No, keeping God’s Moral Laws and Commandments WON’T get a man into Heaven. Only the precious blood of Jesus can do THAT. (1st Peter 1: 19). You can sing songs around the campfire from now until doomsday. But only our Triune God’s Laws (and punishments) applied to entire societies, with Jesus Christ acknowledged as Lord and King of the universe (see Psalm 2:12 & Revelation 19:16), can ever possibly bring peace, happiness, and prosperity to peoples and nations living in our fallen, sin-cursed world.
The best expounder of God’s Moral Laws and how they should be applied to all nations is Rousas J. Rushdoony. He had one of the finest Christian minds since John Calvin. His website is an almost endless, ABSOLUTE GOLD MINE:
https://rushdoonyradio.org/
And was it with elections or without elections?
Paulo. Welcome to ‘Murica. It appears our future dictatorship will either be Mommy State Libs or religious Handmaidens Tale junkies. I’d trade them both for a straight up fascist dictatorship that had the trains run on time.
Klaus Meine is a germophobe Covidian and he changed the lyrics of Wind of Change to support Ukraine, just saying.
So it seems the CIA DID write the original song for him….
Being from Yugoslavia, I never fell for that “Wind of Change” bullshit. They should have made “Typhoon of Transition”, or something like that.
Just as the main Canada-US pipeline goes down.
Oh the environment, oh the endangered field slug, oh the unicorn reserve , we need more windmills built from hemp.
Oh the winds of change have crossed the pond.
Kris Gorny, Mike Krupa, Krzysztof,
Thank you for your comments.
Dziękuję za Wasze komentarze. Miło było mi dowiedzieć się, że jesteście fanami Niemena i doceniacie jego geniusz. Jak ja. I jak miliony Polaków. Polecam Wam inne arcydzieło Niemena, „Człowiek jam niewdzięczny”, równie wspaniały muzycznie i tekstowo jak jego bardziej znany przebój „Dziwny jest ten świat”. Na pewno go znacie, ale to jest dobra okazja posłuchać go jeszcze raz. To jedna z najlepszych piosenek filozoficznych.
Fragment tekstu „Człowiek jam niewdzięczny” (I Am an Ungrateful Human Being”)
A wokoło Wszechświat Bezgraniczny niepojęty / Nieskończony ogród żyzny / Myśli wiecznej Arcydzieło ! Uszanować chciałbym niebo / Ziemi czoło skłonić / Ale człowiek jam niewdzięczny / Że niedoskonały…
My quick translation:
And around us the boundless universe, unfathomable / Bounteous Garden without limits / Masterpiece of perennial thought / I’d like to honor the Sky / to bow my head to Earth / But I am an imperfect, ungrateful human being
Here’s the link to a shorter version. Hope you like it. This must be one of the best philosophical songs ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxBu8CJ565o
Sorry I didn’t realize the text wasn’t from Larry. Despite having found the expression “war pigs” strange. And also for not appreciating Scorpions. But the text, even if unconsciously, deals with a very important theme in the actual conflict. The subordination of the EU to NATO. It was never by chance the two headquarters in Brussels. This colossus of European capital city. Like any multinational, in this case the US, it greatly facilitates central administration. The integration of the East was carried out at the pace of the enlargement of NATO and not of Europe itself. Incidentally, there were countries that entered NATO first than the EU. Which explains a lot. Otherwise, Russia, as a large territory, should have received much more attention to dilute tensions of various levels.
Like some territories that even a child could understand that would provoke shit sooner or later like Crimea. And above all at the level of financial aid in the post dissolution of the USSR. Unfortunately, the US never let go drive that period in Europe. Neither did military bases nearly half a century after WWII! It is another key topic in this conflict that Putin rightly talks about a lot.The Russians who woke up overnight in a foreign country. Phenomenon that with proper attention any law firm could resolve. Which is precisely what else there is to Brussels without producing rien! At the time and to start with, it wasn’t a bad idea to keep dual nationality. Prevention has always been a good adviser. Unfortunately, the integration of the east even today only produces sanctions and not much has been taken care of. It is still reminiscent of colonization and decolonization in Africa. Some people never learn anything!
Billions of people inspired by Klaus Meine’s “Wind of Change” or John Lennon’s “Imagine” or Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” cannot be powerless forever, cannot be ignored indefinitely.
Where are the people from that generation (my generation) who protested against the Vietnam War, wrote or sang songs of defiance against ‘the man’, etc.? A good portion of them became ‘the man’ that we fight against today, sadly.
Yes, sad and true. I don’t know what could ultimately explain our irrepressible irrationality and violence. I thought I have read enough books and have listened to enough “wise men and women” to give me a hint. But they didn’t, and I am still “searching.” Well, it is what it is: there have always been wars, there have always been rapes and murders, and there has always been poverty. And they always will be.
But music does help a little.
Kaz, I’m a big fan of the great Van Morrison – who, to me, is a kind of modern-day Beethoven. I don’t think there is any modern musician, singer-songwriter quite like him. I see Van as God’s gift to fallen mankind.
But as to why there is still so many murders and rapes, violence and crime, only God’s pure Word can answer that. The 66 Books of the Bible tells us that all men are born SINNERS (See Mark 7:21. & Jeremiah 17:9). Also, check out The Westminster Confession of Faith, the Canons of Dordt, and the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms.
Near the bottom of this site, you’ll find some phenomenal resources. I would recommend Resource #23 — the late great Calvinist Protestant minister, J. C. Ryle’s exposition of the Book of Mark. Hope it will be a blessing to you and yours:
https://freegraceglencove.com/
… and check out some vintage Van…
https://youtu.be/8xMan-0B0jU
… here’s some more recent Van Gold…
https://youtu.be/CtMmPlPE2rg
Wow…one of the most thoughtful posts I have read (anywhere) in a long time…I’ve forwarded the link to this post to friends, family and my military brethren.
The 2022 US National Security Strategy plainly names China as an “adversary”…the document itself is a despicable piece that will result in less peace.
https://nssarchive.us/national-security-strategy-2022/
Imagine…just imagine how a US-Russia alliance would have thwarted China’s global rise over the past few decades. Tom Clancy actually wrote about such an alliance in his Novel
“The Bear and the Dragon” https://tomclancy.com/product/the-bear-and-the-dragon
In my mind, the lost opportunity to embrace Russia (Post Cold War) as a peer nation (not merely as a western vassal) is the greatest foreign policy failure of my lifetime. Instead of a US-Russia alliance we now have BRICS+ and that my friends is a global game changer.
Perhaps we need more musicians running the show and less Ivy League and EU globalist fucktards period.
There was another, legendary concert in 1991 Moscow. By Metallica, Pantera, AC/DC a few others… Metallica opened with their hit “Enter sandman”.
Say your prayers, little one
Don’t forget, my son
To include everyone
Tuck you in, warm within
Keep you free from sin
‘Til the sandman, he comes
Sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight
Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
We’re off to never-never land
Somethings wrong, shut the light
Heavy thoughts tonight
And they aren’t of Snow White
Dreams of war, dreams of liars
Dreams of dragon’s fire
And of things that will bite, yeah
(….)
After that, I hope the other three songs famously performed that day (Creeping Death, Fade to Black and Harvester of Sorrow) will prove less prophetic.
I am encouraged to see Poles like Mike Krupa and Kaz Dziamka commenting here. I lived in Poland in ’89-’90 (when Mr. Krupa was 5). During some of the hardest times imaginable I found the Poles to be a kind, generous, extremely well mannered and almost boundlessly patient people. The only people in Europe who may be have more raw endurance are the Russians. I have rarely met a Pole who I could not like. This is somewhat paradoxical as my own people (Carpatho-Rusyn) have often been ill treated in Poland, to the southern part of which we are native. It is a great shame that historically, like now, the Polish government rarely serves the true interests of its people very well. You give me hope that Poland will come out on the right side of things in the end. (I was almost ready to scrape the Solidarność sticker off my cars, but maybe I’ll keep it a little longer.) I am less sanguine about our chances here in the U.S., but the inevitable collapse will shake a lot out and maybe we’ll also find our bearings again.
Cześć!
Don’t forget Przemysław Gintrowski, a collaborator of Jacek Kaczmarski, who I heard play in a small school auditorium just outside of Warsaw. Gintrowski reminded me very much of the Soviets Vysotsky and Okudzhava (who I heard play in a large school auditorium in NYC in the early 90’s.
Thanks. I surely will check them out. Somehow I have missed the first two. But Okudzhava was big in Poland at the time, and I think most Poles knew and liked him a lot. So did I.
I disagree on John Lennon’s “Imagine” as for me, it’s literally right out of the WEF playbook with lyrics such as “Imagine no possessions too”, etc., etc. Now everytime I hear this song, I can’t help but connect the two events. Besides, every once in a while, I’ll hear it being sung by a protest group that are usually ill-informed or stuck in a Utopian world of rainbows and unicorns. Also unfortunately, I can’t help but turn away as in the “A Day in a Life” (All the people turned away… or The English Army just won the war.), everytime I see certain celebs or actors that came out on some mal-informed side of a particular issue. I can’t stand watching so many movies or listen to any of their music because of their stance that they should have stayed quiet on. Luckily, certain musicians from my past who never came out on either side, I stick to but am left guessing what they would think and I’m okay that they never made a public statement. I did love how Ricky Gervais stuck it to Hollywood when he was mc’ing one of their award nights. That was priceless.
I think the sooner we realize the defence and intelligence services of the Western world….and probably China.. are at war with their own populations…..while domestic law enforcement becomes militarized and the population becomes disarmed…they hit us with Psychological warfare on every front…..our video games and social media is weaponized….popular culture in our music and movies…. commercials. A great example is the Beatles and the Tavistock Institute. It’s all theatre.So a rule of thumb in my mind is the more successful and popular someone is in the public sphere the more likely they are put there. Don’t know much about this German band but I did get drunk with them in Vancouver at number five Orange years ago
I have a good German friend, and in January 1990, I went to Cologne to see him. We drove from there to Berlin (with hammers and chisels, of course) and it was amazing to us both to see the people from East and West Berlin, perched like pigeons and crows, partying on top of the wall near the Brandenburg gate. The sound of hammering was everywhere, and we found a spot to chisel out our chunks. We were just below some hipster slum apartments, and I remember some purple-haired artiste leaning out her window and shrieking at everybody to stop the hammering. We all just hammered harder.
Later, we exchanged our Deutschmarks for Ostmarks, and went into East Berlin. We had dinner in the rotating restaurant on top of the TV Turm. You could see where the wall was at night just by the darkness on the east side.
After that we drive to Leipzig, so my friend could buy some quality East German engineering textbooks. We actually saw a cliche in action when we walked around a corner and encountered some men furtively selling “black market” produce out of the back of a truck. The winds of change were not yet so gusty that far east. Soviet tanks were still parked in the fields along the way, and one time, we came up behind one lumbering slowly down the road, the soldier s on top waved at us, and we waved back, but we still kept our distance behind them.
Then we went to Wittenburg, saw the famous church, and were invited by some guys in a group called “Autonome” to visit their meeting place. They were young, and happy to meet people from the west.
But I am just rambling now…anyway, thanks for reminding how it was way back then.
Michaił!Michaił!
https://youtu.be/XM2FSf5IQa8
there was a super good video made to this song during the Crimean change-over – I wish I could find it again
Let me/us know if you ever find it.
You’re right Larry, you managed to assemble some excellent thinkers great insightful comments pleasure to come here and just soak it in.
Awesome, breathtaking !
This ”Winds of change’ are like the Sound of a
New American Revolution…
Deep thanks mister Johnson !
I thought Merkel’s “buying time” was taken out of context though- she never specifically stated for what was the time bought for.
Any treaty/agreement signed gives both parties time to adjust to the new reality – the treaty could be ahead of reality. Even if there were a bona fide Ukraine president, it will take time to reduce armaments and stabilize the various political forces within Ukraine back then to abide by the Minsk Accords.
Ukraine’s repeated violation of the Minsk Accords over 8 years by shelling citizens and the inability of France and Germany to guarantee that behavior is one factor that caused Russia to counter-push by increasing their military presence.
The others are NATO expansion into Ukraine (training/building of defenses), military exercises around Russia/Black Sea etc – both despite promises to Russia otherwise.
I still think Russia moving to take Odessa and other territories might be too much of a statement, much less marching to Kiev/Lvov – it really does put EU/NATO on tenterhooks, which does not bode well for relations between NATO-Russia. Both are neighbors after all.
EU/NATO seems to be imploding themselves, why antagonize them further?
Waow. Make want to dream of a better world. But there is no common sense, humanity or absence of prejudice. I hope in then people learn.
Putin is the effect, not the cause. Who will come after Biden? Who will lead the USA in 2024, DeSantis or Pompeo? Who will be the equivalent of Putin? Both have the same competence and knowledge as Putin, who succeeded Boris. Trump does not have the know-how like Putin. Putin was trained for this.Desantis and Pompeo also passed the appropriate old school. Trump was so afraid he couldn’t even go to Vietnam
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan laughing, spreads his wings
Oh lord, yeah!
Kind of a missed opportunity not to talk about the ‘Wind of Change’ alleged FSB agent releasing information about Kremlin and its operations. The one Igor Sushko has been translating and who has been communicating with Vladimir Osechkin, the human rights activist in exile.
I spent my whole youth in a small town 20 km from east Germany in West Germany. The border was there all my life. We could go to the USA, but not 30 to the eastern villages. The border was an endless high fence, solders on patrol behind it. During night, it was lit. 1200 km of a light band in the night divided Germany. You could not talk to the soldiers behind the wall. They were not allowed to answer.
When I once applied for a Visa to be able to visit a town in east Germany, I could see the rotten infrastructure together with the red propaganda. I felt sorry to meet people who could not, unlike me, leave this state. I had this undeserved privilege.
Knowing that world war 2 was cruel to Russia, we never expected that this border would ever disappear.
East Germany was grey. People demotivated.
Then, the border was open. We could not believe it. Like people from the Mars had come. It felt unreal. But we were happy. Everybody was friendly. The soldiers could speak now.
And then I heard the scorpions. And I hated that song. It was kitsch. Like a party where some poets start to sing. I did not need music for this event. It was too big for this.
I understand that you may have very different feelings. It is ok for me. But the opening of the east was a miracle. But also a big task. The industry was rotten. A lot of work waiting. No time to sing. Hard work. Singers just annoy.
I love music. I play piano. And I like “It’s a mistake” from down. It fits for today. It’s from the 80th.
thanks for posting my long comment mr. johnson. it took awhile to find all of the links for it .
i posted a link to your victor bout article on the website below in their comment section . i hope it gets your article more views.
https://republicbroadcasting.org/news/biden-diplomacy-wnba-star-brittney-griner-released-by-russia-in-exchange-for-international-arms-dealer-viktor-bout-known-as-merchant-of-death/
regards,
ralph
https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/laurelcanyon/
Late to the party, but here is Dave McGowans excellent series of articles on the Laurel Canyon scene.
Fascinating read.
‘As of 2022, the Scorpions still perform the song live but with lyrical changes in light of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The opening lines are changed to “Now listen to my heart / It says Ukraine, waiting for the wind to change.” Meine stated, “It’s not the time with this terrible war in Ukraine raging on, it’s not the time to romanticize Russia’
too bad they became woke
Thanks for the two that preceded my noting Scorpions altered that excellent song to support Ukraine as I discovered when I saw them in Portland, Oregon several weeks ago. I was extremely disappointed to say the least. It just revealed their ignorance of the situation, or worse.
Indeed. To me it is also devastating what has happened to the Scorpions. Still, there really was that moment over 30 years ago. And it was magic. Well, panta rei …
When I was at school and university I really liked this song.
Then I grow up and understood what it is about. We had hundreds of such “wind of changers” in USSR that time too (for example, famous and loved in Russia “Peremen” by Viktor Tsoi points straight the same direction).
So now I can’t hear to this song and I hate it.
From Russia with love.//