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TONY LANE • 6 years ago

this creature Rycroft does not speak for the UK he was speaking for his American controller this circus Pony Show, as many people in the UK are completely pissed off with this Cold War which began 72 years Ago when Europe was enjoying trade with Russia, and the US could not take it because they were not included, the world was a much better place when the US stayed on the other side of the Atlantic and minded their own business, and this US jealousy has continued until this day, and thanks to the Internet we have known that since the state of Israel was created by the ROTHSCHILD Family just who the Real enemy is, so instead of calling them by the names of the countries which are AMERICA, BRITAIN and ISRAEL, we can just them ABI,

Willy B • 6 years ago

The plot, however, is not American. It's the British who want war between the US and Russia and the Russians know this. Vladimir Safronkov, Russia's ambassador to the UN said so on April 12, when he confronted the British ambassador at the UN Security Council.

Responding to Rycroft’s anti-Russia diatribe, in which he had charged that Russia
had lost all credibility in the eyes of the world because of its support
for the "barbaric" Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, and had
consistently "abused" its veto at the UNSC, Safronkov got right to the
point.

"What you are afraid of," he told Rycroft, is that "we might work with the
United States. That’s what you lose sleep over." As Rycroft looked away,
Safronkov told him, "Look at me! I’m speaking to you! Don’t look away!"
The United Kingdom does nothing to achieve a political solution in
Syria, he continued. On the contrary, "you invite illegal armed groups
to London," groups that murder Christians and minorities in the Middle
East. "You advance their interests. What are you doing" to advance a
political solution, Safronkov asked. "Regime-change is more important to
you" than what the majorities of the UNSC think.

It would be more accurate to refer to the "deep state" as the British Empire
in America, for that's what it is. American patriots would do well to recognize
this reality and work to throw the empire out of the U.S.

Kapricorn4 • 6 years ago

Matthew Rycroft is a poisonous snake, who needs to be removed from office. He was the personal assistant to Tony Blair, when he was prime minister.

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Kjell • 6 years ago

The deep state is global, using US as their army. The (global) Elite is in all European states, and North America, and South America, and Australia, and Singapore, and more.
John Kerry is not Brit, but Habsburger. ECB head is an Italian. Pope is an Argentinian (that will be one center for the Elite. Peru is a Nazi center. The biggest center is Antarctica? - the Elite made an escape attempt from Earth but was forced to return by a fleet of hostile spaceships guarding Earth?)

tapatio • 6 years ago

The "deep state plot to demonize Russia" is unchanged from the days when the Rothschilds sent Lev Bronstein (AKA: Trotsky) and Vladimir Lenin to destroy Russia. The west's oligarch family and its minions want Russia's resources and land. Until they are stopped - permanently - they will continue their criminal endeavors.
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Shahna • 6 years ago

It is "necessary" for the US to demonise Russia (and China.) It's necessary because war is coming and it's too late to start demonising "the enemy" once the shooting starts. It must be done, and it is being done, in this, the "bankers' wars" phase.

Think on just these 2 cutiepies for a moment:
Russia and China are in cahoots.
Fed-up to the gills will with a global financial system that benefits the US only in the sense that it creates US dollars only ("I'll just print more!"-Trump), they're running their own ... parallel financial system. They have been remarkably successful -it's less than 20 years and now 40% of the world's GDP and 50% of its people are dealing in own currencies between themselves. That means, gas deals between R+C are in Yuan and Rubles, no dollars are bought to the trade, less dollars are held as reserve currency; money lent to countries in yuan and rubles are yuan and rubles (not US dollars) created. But why's that such a big deal?

Well, every morning of every working day the US taxpayer has to fork out $1B to pay the interest on their national debt, and $2B to pay for that mightiest military machine this world has ever seen. That's $3BILLION dollars gone every working day before they crack the first egg for breakfast or fix a pothole in a road. It's estimated that by 2023, nat.debt will exceed the defense budget. (IOW - it's not going to get better.)

So what happens when the US no longer earns and creates sufficient dollars to pay their interest and their bills? They default and withdraw - or they go to war. (Unless you think the exceptional people will go cap in hand to their unexceptional people debtors and beg for truly massive debt-forgiveness that would hurt their own economies badly?)

That default point may be pretty close - the US is doing some very serious scrabbling for money now.... US forcing NATO members to pay up, a suggestion that the NATO membership fee is increased, more countries forced to join NATO (ie. subject themselves and their economies to "NATO's" hegemony and pay to do so,) European banks fined by American justice, and now .... the cherry on the cake .... more "sanctions against Russia" where the US will fine European companies in what is a blatant attempt to force the EU to buy more expensive Yankee gas and prevent them dealing with those pesky-in-cahoots-with-China Ruskies on pipelines and gas .... and in .... Euros and rubles.

.....It's that old, old story - All wars are bankers' wars - follow the money.

Kapricorn4 • 6 years ago

“History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance.” - James Madison

EmilyEnso • 6 years ago

Another deep state plot.
Have you seen it
http://jamesfetzer.blogspot...

CHUCKMAN • 6 years ago

I am always glad for new sources which confirm old beliefs, but, I must say, there is little here that is new to informed and critically-minded observers.

Concepts such as “humanitarian intervention” are, and have long been, of the same nature as the White Helmets in Syria.

The US has never intervened where a genuine humanitarian crisis occurred. It did not in Rwanda while it understand perfectly what was happening at a very early stage. It did not in Cambodia. It did not in Indonesia. Indeed, in the slaughters of Indonesia after the fall of Sukarno, the State Department was on the phone submitting lists of "communists" that were best added to the hundreds of thousands getting their throats cut and having their bodies thrown into rivers.

The US intervenes where it has a geo-political goal or interest only.

As far as phony American liberal outfits like Democracy Now! there are many of them in the US.

Despite formal rules against being involved in local affairs, the CIA has long used the method of such media to "get out its messages." In the 1960s, good magazines like Saturday Review were secretly supported by CIA.

What do formal rules mean to an organization where it is accepted that lying under oath is just fine? Director Helms himself established that fact in the 1960s.

The Internet has many seemingly liberal or independent sites which I believe are in fact CIA zombies. In some cases, they may know it. In other cases, they may not. The CIA works both ways, just as it has paid employees and paid outside assets.

You can tell such sites just by the nature of the material they favor, the way they treat things, and the rules they establish.

Mother Jones magazine seems certainly one of these. Daily Kos is another. Pacific News Network is yet another. Vanity Fair belongs in the list I believe.

The American publishing industry is filled with the same effort. Some publishing houses go along to get along, some are unwitting tools, and some are just covert operations.

Remember, publishing in a country like the United States is a very difficult business, fraught with risk. How nice to have a source of funds, whether understood or not, streaming in to steady your business.

There has been an entire industry in advocacy books about such crucial matters as the Kennedy Assassination, the downing of TWA Flight 800, and 9/11. The manipulative nature of a good many books is apparent. This CIA effort, by the way, goes both ways.

Books trying to reestablish the authority of the pathetic Warren Report by one route or another - books like Gerald Posner, Priscilla Johnson, Vincent Bugliosi, Edward Epstein - clearly have CIA influence embedded one way or another, directly or indirectly.

The Agency also takes another route of attack. It has books attacking the Warren Commission published, but ones so poorly researched or written that they effectively discredit the genuine critics.

It was a publicist at the Agency decades ago who came up with the derogatory term, "conspiracy theorist" to be used against genuine critics, and the term remains in wide use today.

American society is deeply penetrated by CIA and sister agencies, and it has been since long before the Snowden revelations about the NSA snooping on everyone.

As far as what it has done to Trump, well, in the past we've had everything from a CIA president (certainly George Bush senior who was in the Agency in the 1960s we know from old documents, and I think quite likely Obama) to presidents being manipulated by CIA stunts (Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon) to Kennedy, one really tough opponent, having his brain splattered across the streets of Dallas.

Lord Snooty • 6 years ago

Putin did not say that the collapse of the USSR was “the major geopolitical disaster of the century”!!!!

This a Western meme much beloved by pseudo-journalists and Western politicians, who mostly have no knowledge of the Russian language.

What Putin said on April 25th 2005 to the Russian Federal Assembly during a televised speech is almost always misquoted out of context by Western commentators, their intention, no doubt, being to suggest that Putin regrets the fall of the USSR and yearns for its resurrection.

A translation into English of what Putin actually said at that time as regards the collapse of the Soviet Union would be that said collapse was “a major geopolitical catastrophe of the century”.

Putin then continued, expressing his opinion that that which befell former Soviet citizens after the collapse of the Soviet Union became a “drama”.

The problem in translating from Russian into English is that Russian has no "articles", words for "the", "a" and "an".

Using the definite article "the" before "major geopolitical catastrophe" instead of the indefinite article "a" gives a difference in meaning to the expression.

Here is what Putin actually said on April 5th 2001:

Прежде всего следует признать, что крушение Советского Союза было крупнейшей геополитической катастрофой века. Для российского же народа оно стало настоящей
драмой. Десятки миллионов наших сограждан и соотечественников оказались за пределами российской территории. Эпидемия распада к тому же перекинулась на саму Россию.

And here is the official Kremlin translation of the above, which has been available to all who care to read it on the Kremlin web-site since almost that day when Putin spoke those words that are almost invariably misquoted:

"Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century".

Note the indefinite article: the collapse was a catastrophe, it was a major one, but not the greatest catastrophe of the 20 century!

And what Putin then continued to say is totally ignored by Western hacks and politicians such as Mr. McCain and Mrs. Clinton:

Для российского же народа оно стало настоящей драмой. Десятки миллионов наших сограждан и соотечественников оказались за пределами российской территории. Эпидемия распада к тому же перекинулась на саму Россию.

Which above the official Kremlin translation gives as:

"As for the Russian nation, it became a genuine drama. Tens of millions of our co-citizens and compatriots found themselves outside Russian territory. Moreover, the epidemic of disintegration infected Russia itself".

And that which Putin went on to describe was in his opinion "a genuine drama", namely the consequence of "a major geopolitical disaster of the century".

Putin then went on to say:

Накопления граждан были обесценены, старые идеалы разрушены, многие учреждения распущены или реформировались на скорую руку. Целостность страны оказалась нарушена террористической интервенцией и последовавшей хасавюртовской капитуляцией. Олигархические группировки, обладая неограниченным контролем над информационными потоками, обслуживали исключительно собственные корпоративные интересы. Массовая бедность стала восприниматься как норма. И все это происходило на фоне тяжелейшего экономического спада, нестабильных финансов, паралича социальной сферы.
Многие тогда думали, многим тогда казалось, что наша молодая демократия является не продолжением российской государственности, а ее окончательным крахом, является затянувшейся агонией советской системы.

Те, кто так думал – ошиблись. Именно в этот период в России происходили крайне значимые события. В нашем обществе вырабатывалась не только энергия самосохранения, но и воля к новой свободной жизни.

Again, the official Kremlin translation into English of the above is:

"Individual savings depreciated; old ideals were destroyed; many institutions were disbanded or reformed in a slapdash fashion. Terrorist intervention and the Khasavyurt capitulation that followed damaged the country's integrity. Oligarchic groups — possessing absolute control over information channels — served exclusively their own corporate interests. Mass poverty began to be seen as the norm. And all this was happening against the backdrop of a dramatic economic downturn, unstable finances, and the paralysis of the social sphere.

Many thought, or seemed to think at the time, that our young democracy was not a continuation of Russian statehood, but its ultimate collapse, the prolonged agony of the Soviet system.
But those who thought that were mistaken, for that was precisely the period when significant developments were taking place in Russia. Our society was generating not only the energy of self-preservation, but also the will for a new and free life".

Note how Putin refers to the "prolonged agony of the Soviet system" and the "young democracy" that replaced it following the collapse of the USSR.

Note how he states that that young democracy survived the collapse of the Soviet Union and that during those dramatic times Russian society "was generating not only the energy of self-preservation, but also the will for a new and free life".

Yet Western liars constantly maintain that in this speech Putin seems to voice regret over the collapse of the SU and, therefore, yearns for its return.

He in fact went on to say

"In those difficult years, the people of Russia had both to uphold their state sovereignty and make an unerring choice in selecting a new vector of development in the thousand years of their history. They had to accomplish the most difficult task: how to safeguard their own values, not to squander undeniable achievements, and confirm the viability of Russian democracy. We had to find our own path in order to build a democratic, free and just society and state".

[Official Kremlin translation, although I would have given "a most difficult task" or "the most difficult of tasks" instead of "the most difficult task" .]

Choosing a new vector of development in the thousand years of Russian history?

Confirming the viability of Russian democracy?

Finding their own path in order to build a democratic, free and just society and state?

He clearly wants to resurrect the USSR?

Really?

That is what the liars, the propagandists, still repeat ad nauseam over 16 years after Putin made that speech that is so frequently misquoted.

Another translation error that non-Russian speaking commentators make concerns the translation of было крупнейшей геополитической катастрофой века, which is usually given as "was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century", because крупнейшей is a superlative form of the adjective крупный, meaning very large, important, major, significant, outstanding etc., in the instrumental singular case ending (meaning in this context "as" or "in such a manner/form"), feminine singular gender (as "catastrophe" in Russian is a feminine noun).

However, though крупнейшей is superlative in form, it does not mean here in context "the greatest" but, as stated by me above and in the official Kremlin translation, "a major".

In Russian, the superlative, especially this form of superlative (the other being, in this case самой крупной) is often used for emphasis.

For example, the Russian for the comparative of "good", namely "better", is лучше. However, the Russian for the English superlative of "good", namely "best", can also be лучше. To express "best", Russians often add bits on to лучше for emphasis, e.g. лучше из всех (best out of everyone), лучше всего (best of all); хороший, лучше, наилучший (good, better, best), самый лучший (the best, literally: "the very better").

Below: original sources to Putin's speech of April 25, 2005 and its official translation into English.

Послание Федеральному Собранию Российской Федерации, 25 апреля 2005 года

Official Kremlin translation into English

Constantine • 6 years ago

Gratified to see your post, LS. Very informative.

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Constantine • 6 years ago

Communism and Zionism have nothing in common. As for Putin, he has good relations with the modern Russian communists and it was Putin's government which established the Victory Day and the Victory Flag, both carrying numerous Soviet and communist references.

Further, when Bush and cohorts established a commemoration day and a monument for the crimes of communism (NOT just Stalinism), Putin slammed the action and accompanying statements with a balanced one of his own.

That the Soviet regime had numerous sins to atone for is an unquestionable fact. But this is no reason to engage in baseless vilification, all the while ignoring the crimes of other powers.

As for the oligarchs who looted Russia and now hide in the west, they are all fanatic anti-communists who bash the Soviet past and Putin for respecting aspects of it (even imaginary ones), while the communists demand the disempowerment and destruction of the rest of this class that remains in Russia. This is the reality and it's also how Russians see things.

As for the neocons, they were all fanatically opposing the USSR long before Putin and an important factor for their hostility was Soviet support for the Arab states that opposed Israel. And once the USSR dissolved, these people went completely out of control. In short, the conflation of Zionism/neoconservatism with communism is simply absurd.

Angus Gravestock • 6 years ago

Thank you !

Walter • 6 years ago

Good man Dan. Your book is a must read. We need and honor authors like you.

John Tosh • 6 years ago

Everywhere you smell horse poop... the CIA is lurking behind the curtains. The useless intelligence agency that is turning everything to horse poop. Killings destruction useless idiots. May God punish the CIA and all its people.

Lord Snooty • 6 years ago

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose!

THE GREAT CONSPIRACY
The Secret War
Against Soviet Russia
By MICHAEL SAYERS and
ALBERT E.' KAHN

LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY BOSTON
1946

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