THE SNOWDEN BLOVIATION
Edward Snowden is starting to chap my hide. His recent support of the "protests" in Moscow and Hong Kong
and his criticism of the legitimate reaction by government forces are
inaccurate, naive, counter-productive and simply bad manners. The facts
are clear - the protests in Moscow and Hong Kong are illegal, backed by
foreign secret services and enemies of the respective states, and they
have exactly nothing to do with freedom of speech or human rights.
They.are intentional provocations that have caused major disruptions,
and they have, in fact, been dealt with far more leniently than they
would have been in the USA, France or England. So where does Snowden get
off dissing his hosts and backing Navalny's phony liberal hipster
protests?
I was in Moscow on Russia Day (June
12th) and saw a Navalnik "protest march" of a couple hundred losers
schlepping through the city center. The regular people going about their
business ignored it, the same way as when you meet a friend out walking
their dog, stop to chat, and the dog starts taking a dump. You know
it's happening, but good manners require you to ignore it. Like
Navalny's phony protests; somewhat disgusting, not really interesting,
and not a worthy subject for polite conversation. As Dmitry Orlov noted,
"
These protests are strictly for Western mass media consumption. In Russia they are a stale joke."
Of course, Snowden seems
to have done the world a favor when he exposed the depth of the illegal
surveillance and lies the US government was complicit in, but I
personally have never considered him a "hero". He comes from a family of
cops, spies and government lawyers, and got paid a quarter of a million
dollars a year to spy on his fellow citizens from Hawaii, living the
good life as a tool of the Empire and the parasite class it serves. It
should be noted that as of today, he has still spent more time working
for the CIA and NSA than he has as a "whistle-blower". (And in light of
his recent comments, he may still be working for them.)
His
escape to Hong Kong and later to Moscow was far more Walter Mitty than
James Bond, and his entrusting of the info he stole to the likes of Glen
Greenwald and Laura Poitras can only be described as an epic and
self-defeating failure which has ensured that the majority (and all of
the most important information) will never be seen or known by the
public. It is hard to say exactly what Edward Snowden is today, who he
is, what function he serves, but it is easy to say what he is not.
He
is neither an American patriot nor an outlaw journalist, though he has
posed as both and convinced many gullible naifs. He did not keep the
secrets the CIA and NSA paid him to keep, nor did he fully expose their
lies and crimes when he had the chance. Both as a spy and as a
whistle-blower, his work can be described as half-assed at best, and
perhaps more accurately as failures. Or simply as a fake drama, much ado
about nothing, by a pretend patriot who morphed into a fake
whistle-blower. This is a dude who volunteered for the US Army special forces in 2004 to fight in the Iraq War "to help oppressed people". Seriously. That's what he told Glenn Greenwald, and Greenwald reported it. With a straight face.
You know who's a badass whistle-blower in my book? Bradley Manning or Seth Rich. Christopher Boyce comes to mind as well.
You know who's a badass whistle-blower in my book? Bradley Manning or Seth Rich. Christopher Boyce comes to mind as well.
Snowden has tried to play both
sides, has failed, and continues to do so. His recent tweets and
comments about the Moscow and Hong Kong "protests" are just the latest
example. No serious journalist or even well-informed person can help but
see that both of these "protests" are US-backed attempts at
destabilization and "color revolution" based on phony complaints about
"freedom and human rights". When the USA, this century's worst war
criminal, violator of human rights, enemy of freedom and threat to the
future of Humanity itself, starts talking about "human rights", only
idiots listen, and only professional liars ape the propaganda. Snowden,
Greenwald and Poitras, are professional liars, living embodiments of the "limited hang-out", telling just enough of the truth to perpetuate the
Big Lie. They're in it for the money, and will say what they are paid to
say. And conceal what they are told to conceal.
Russia has provided Snowden with
asylum for over six years now. And if not for this, Snowden would
certainly be looking at life in prison or death in the USA, rather that
the upcoming world-wide publication of his book by Macmillan, available for pre-purchase on Amazon. I don't know what Snowden says
in his book, but if Jeff Bezos didn't like it, it wouldn't be on
Amazon.
(Try searching "Donetsk People's Republic" on Amazon, see what comes up.) And whatever Snowden does say in his book, I bet he's going to be
very well-paid for it. And outlaw journalists who speak truth to power
are never well-paid for it. Take it from one who knows. But Snowden
better consider his criticism of his host more carefully, or he may end
up spending his money at the commissary in USP Terre Haute.
I applaud
and support legitimate criticism of any government in defense of freedom
of speech and human rights. But Snowden's criticism distorts the real
situation about both the government "repression" and the "protesters".
He in fact mirrors exactly the propaganda of Russia's, his, and our own real
enemies, and since that's the case, Snowden should re-consider his
words or STFU.
THE ZELENSKY GAMBIT
As
the old saying goes, "If I had any sense, I'd listen to my own
advice." Maybe I do, and maybe I will. I was recently involved in a
minor imbroglio of my own here in Donetsk for criticizing the petition
to Zelensky. The petition's alleged "million signatures" were clearly
fake, and a lot of good patriots here were extremely concerned by the
implication that the petition was a request by the Donbass Republics to
return to Ukraine. I wrote an article and made a short video
about it, basically saying there was nothing to worry about, that I
trusted our leaders, and that the ukrops would never control our cities
or borders again as long as a single Donbass patriot was still alive. I
also said that the petition was an ill-advised gambit, an attempt to
pressure Zelensky into agreeing to the Minsk protocols, which if he did,
would put him in conflict with ukrop nazis and if he didn't, would make
him look intransigent and warlike to the EU. But the authors of the
petition failed to take into account the stress and confusion the
petition did cause among real patriots, and the advantage that would be
taken of the situation by some rather questionable characters.
Roman
Manekin is a dude who has been here for several years as an "advisor"
from Russia. Who he advises and where he gets his advice are not clear. I
have known of him, but have never met him. But this I do know - Manekin
is the one who applied for the anti-petition protest on July 27th. When
I asked my wife if she was going to come with me to the protest, she
answered that she was going whether I did or not. So, we both went.
There were about 50 people in total, only one other veteran besides me,
and he was in a wheelchair with one eye, one hand and one leg. The rest
were mostly babushkas and what I might call "unsophisticated" types. But
one person conspicuous in his absence was Roman Manekin. He wasn't
under house arrest or in a basement cell, he just decided not to come.
Strange, that...
As far as I was concerned, the
matter was settled, the point was made, everyone understood that there
was nothing to worry about. But the counter-petition protest organizers
couldn't leave well enough alone. There was talk of legal action and
changing the Constitution, and all of a sudden what had been a minor
protest to express a legitimate concern based on a simple
misunderstanding started to take on a distinctly "Navalny-esque" hue.
And I want nothing to do with that type of shit. What, you think I'm
Snowden or something?
So, to be finally and absolutely
crystal clear - I trust the guys who are calling the shots here. They
are not perfect, but they are doing good work, and 5 years later, we and
our Republics still survive. Not only survive, but life continues to
improve for pretty much everyone here, so kudos to the guys in charge.
Keep up the good work. There is exactly zero need for any major
political changes or upheavals, no need for protests or contention in a
time when we are still at war and solidarity is one of our strategic
assets. Our leaders must trust the People, and the People should trust
our leaders, as long as they keep doing as good a job as they have been.
So far, so good, so "Davai!"
EPSTEIN'S ESCAPE
These
are the only facts we know for sure - Epstein isn't in prison any more,
and he won't be going to trial. And the "suicide" story is bullshit.
As Paul Craig Roberts recently noted, "
It is not possible to commit suicide when a person is on suicide watch. Former
inmates and prison guards and correctional personnel have stated with
certainty that Epstein did not commit suicide by hanging himself."
Jeffrey Epstein may or may not be dead. If he is, he was murdered, but
he didn't commit suicide. Narcissists and psychopaths don't commit
suicide. The scum who rule the planet and availed themselves of
Epstein's "services" generally do not kill their own, as long as the
secrets are kept. Billionaires don't do hard time and they don't die in
prison. The "investigations" being clamored for and promised will only
be cover-ups. Who has the power to murder someone in prison has the
power to help them escape. And escape is most likely what Epstein did.
Escape from prison, and like all his chimo friends, escape from justice.
Consider the facts...
Epstein has many
millions of dollars. About $550 million of them, according to recent court
documents. The kind of money that can buy prison guards and coroners by
the dozens. He not only has friends and fellow perverts in the highest
positions of power, he also has them by the balls with the kind of
blackmail dirt that could start a revolution if it were revealed. You
think he isn't smart enough to have a "deadman switch" that would
publicize all of it if he were imprisoned or killed for doing exactly
what all his buddies have been doing for decades? His cohorts can't kill
him without risking their own necks, and besides, why would they want
to? The only way to guarantee Epstein stays quiet and on their side is
to keep him alive and happy. They can do it, they have done it, and
they'll do it again anytime they want. They are the "Masters of the
Universe". The laws that apply to us do not apply to them.
Did you ever see that photo of Hitler in Colombia in 1955,
and the FBI reports about it? (And, yes, I know The Sun is on par with
The National Enquirer, but the photo and declassified FBI reports are real.) Or perhaps the "death" of Kenneth Lay is a little closer to Epstein's. How about the most hideous example of human evil in modern history, Dr. Jozef Mengele.
do you remember what happened to him? No? Well, guess what - he got
away. He personally murdered thousands in Auschwitz concentration camp,
was in fact captured by the US OSS at the end of the war, but somehow
"slipped away". It's not a rumor or conspiracy theory. Click the link,
read the article for yourself. Mengele was a pervert connected to money,
power, secret services and secret societies, who escaped justice for
his unimaginably heinous crimes. Sound familiar?
In
the end, whether Epstein was killed by his clients or whisked away to
some other private island, he escaped. He escaped justice, and the secrets
and the truth escaped with him. And those who did it can leave the
smoking gun lying in plain sight on the table, need not even bother with
a plausible story, because they know most people will be too stupid
and/or too fucking cowardly to even question it. And by failing to question the
obvious bullshit story, again, they ensure further crimes will be
committed by those who get away with murder and can openly laugh about
it. Again. As Harold Lasky once noted, "Their impudence is the measure of your impotence." Think about that...
AND NOW, A LESSON FROM THE DOCTOR
The
real "useful idiots" in this world are those who believe everything
their masters tell them without question, who prefer the comforting lie
to the hard truth. Who deride as "conspiracy theorists" those who look
at the facts and come to conclusions based on them and not on what they
wish were true. Useful idiots say "The CIA wouldn't kill Kennedy",
"Bush, Cheney, PNAC and Silverstein would never do 9/11 themselves",
"Powell wasn't lying about Iraq WMD's", "The USA would never invade
Libya to steal oil", "The White Helmets would never gas innocent
children", "NATO and the IMF would never order ukrop nazis to shoot down a civilian airliner to blame on Russia", "The Brits would never make a phony chemical attack on their
own land", "They can't just walk into a federal prison and replace
Epstein with a dead look-alike", etc, etc, etc. Fucking idiots.
Mengle
did thousands of horrifying and grotesque "experiments" on his victims,
both physical and psychological, and at the end of the war, the US
secret services and military went to great lengths to obtain the results
of his evil work. Most of it was useless trash, torture and murder
simply for the sake of sadistic pleasure and curiosity, but one of the
most profound revelations in modern history came from these files. One
simple fact, one simple observation, a single sentence that is the
keystone to mass deception and thought control, the reason the nazis of
the 21st Century get away with it, and keep getting away with it, and
will keep getting away with it and laughing in our faces while they do.
It is one of the nazi's most powerful tools, but if we can understand it
correctly, in it also lies the key to our real liberation. The ability
to discern and face reality, and to deal with it as such, is the most
important, the most vital ability a human being can have today. To
eschew this responsibility is to ensure your victimhood in perpetuity.
Learn what Mengele and modern nazis learned from their victims, and do
not be a victim yourself.
They are doing it. Believe it! The less you believe they are doing it, the more they will.
