Thursday, November 6, 2014

Myths of the Globalist New World Order: Did German Nationalism Really Cause Two World Wars?

Nationalism is the enemy of empire. Genocide, the destruction of the racial and cultural identity of the nation states, is thus an essential policy of the New World Order.

The European nation states, subordinates of the US hegemon since WWII, are already in an advanced stage of dissolution as racially and culturally distinct communities. The process of universal genocide is driven by a combination of anti-natalist policies, including mass slaughter of the unborn and state-mandated education in the arts and perversions of non-reproductive sex, combined with unrestricted immigration and state-enforced multiculturalism. As a result, the indigenous peoples of Europe are already isolated cultural and even linguistic minorities in many cities including London, Oslo, and Marseilles.

Now Russia as an independent nation state is targeted for destruction by the forces of the New World Order. The assault is both internal and external. Internally, Russia is attacked by means of US-backed fifth columnists such as the punk anti-Christian group, Pussy Riot, and oligarch traitors and opportunists such as Mikhail Khodorkovsky.  Externally Russia is attacked both economically, by means of US-EU sanctions and other machinations to undermine Russia's foreign trade relationships; and militarily, including the the US-inspired genocidal assault on ethnic Russians in Ukraine, and subversion among non-Russian minorities, such as the Tartars and Chechens, within the Russian Federation.

To keep the ball rolling, unrelenting propaganda glorifying the historical necessity of globalization under a system of Western democracy while demeaning independent sovereign nations spews from the corporate-controlled founts of news and entertainment and the state-controlled educational establishment.

Francis Fukuyama, of Stanford, Johns Hopkins and George Mason Universities, the Rand Corporation and the State Department is among the more prominent scholarly propagandists for globalization. In his 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man he argued that Western liberal democracy marked the end of human sociocultural evolution and thus the end of international conflict.

Since publication of the book was followed by the seemingly endless "War Against Terror," the rise of ethnocentric nationalism in Europe, and the current US-NATO effort to dismantle the Russian Federation, the timing if Fukuyama's book declaring the arrival of the era of global governance, cultural uniformity and racial homogenization  was not ideal. Indeed it earned the author some ridicule. But undeterred, in his latest work, Political order and Political Decay — a curious mishmash of ideas and information on topics ranging from the rise of the Mafia to the origins of the US Forest Service, Fukuyama does not neglect the role of a globalist shill. Otto von Bismarck (German Minister President, Foreign Minister and later Chancellor from 1862 until 1890), Fukuyama writes, "forged a modern German nation through war, and unleashed an aggressive nationalism that culminated in the two World wars."

So there you have it. The sovereign nation state is a great and abiding evil that must be eradicated to make way for a New World Order, under which the entire world will live for evermore in liberal democratic harmony, consuming junk food and Internet porn, each self-actualizing individual boosting their self-esteem by Tweeting and Face-book posting to the vast profit of oligarchs who, reportedly, view their clients as "dumb fucks".

But was German nationalism really the cause of two World Wars?

Well, actually, no.

World War 1 was a direct result, not of German, but of Serbian nationalism. The trigger for war was the assassination in Sarajevo, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia, of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian imperial throne. The assassin, Gavrilo Princip, was a Serb nationalist backed by the Serbian state, which sought to incite a nationalist revolt among the slavs of Bosnia as a step toward the creation of a greater Serbia at the expense of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires.

Gavrilo Princip, a Serb nationalist, killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife
Austria-Hungary responded by declaring war on Serbia with the assurance of German support. What motivated Kaiser Willhelm's decision was not some upsurge of aggressive German nationalism. Rather, it was the belief that if a generally expected wider European war were to break out it was better that it break out before Russia completed its ongoing military build-up, the sequel to humiliating defeat by Japan in the war of 1904–05, and before Germany's only significant ally, the crumbling Austro-Hungarian empire, had grown even weaker.

Moreover, whatever Germany's responsibility for World War 1, neither the Kaiser nor his Chancellor wished for a general war. On the contrary, both hoped that if Austria-Hungary dealt promptly with Serbia, other European powers would accept the action without intervention, or that if a prompt settlement of the dispute were not achieved, Germany and Britain might somehow work out a deal to prevent other powers being dragged in.

And it was Russia, not Germany, that took the step that made a general conflagration inevitable. By declaring war on Austria-Hungary, nominally in support of their Serbian co-ethnics, but motivated also, if not mainly, by hopes of imperial conquest at the expense of Austria-Hungary and the Turkish Empire, Russia's action tripped the switch that made war between Triple Alliance (Germany, Austro-Hungary and Italy) and the Triple Entente (France, Russia and Britain) obligatory upon all parties.

In launching the war, Russia was strenuously urged on by the French, who hoped that, with Germany crushed by the weight of Russia's huge army, France could recover from Germany the territory of Alsace-Lorraine annexed to Prussia following the war of 1870–71.

Appalled once the reality of war emerged, the German Kaiser engaged in futile last-minute appeals to his cousin Tzar Nicholas II to halt the war on Austria-Hungary. He also attempted to halt implementation of Germany's strategic plan, which required an immediate and massive attack on France with the aim of knocking her out of the war at a stroke, before turning the weight of Germany's army against the slow-moving Russian behemoth. But by that time, Wilhelm, had ceased to count. The military, having received the command to advance, informed the Kaiser, falsely, as it now seems, that the strategic plan was immutable and irreversible. General war in Europe was the result.

Britain's declaration of war was delayed by liberals in cabinet who threatened resignation. However, Germany's strategic plan required not only an attack on France, but passage of the German army through Belgium, the neutrality of which had been guaranteed by all the European powers. Anxious to see their great power rival crushed, this breach of Belgian sovereignty, freed the war faction in Britain  to join the slaughter.

So much for German nationalism in 1914.

But what about 1939. Hitler's government was undoubtedly nationalist and undoubtedly aggressive. But German nationalism was by no means a key factor in the origins of the World War 2. Hitler never won more than 37% of the popular vote in a German election, he never gained a majority in the Reichstag, and after 1934, when he achieved power by backroom maneuvers involving manipulation of the senile chancellor, Field Marshall Hindenberg, he never gave Germans a chance to vote at all. So whether Germans under the Third Reich were nationalistic or not made little if any difference to German policy.

Rather, a strong argument can be made that Germany's dysfunctional and eventually pathological post World War 1 governments were a direct result of the stupidity of those who imposed on Germany terms of peace that included amputation from Germany of large tracts of territory with German majority populations and the imposition on Germany of a bill for vast and totally unpayable reparations.

Further a strong case can be made that Britain's policy of "appeasement," which entailed forcing Czechoslovakia to relinquish to Germany it's heavily fortified frontier region, provided Hitler with incitement to help himself to the rest of Czechoslovakia, which he promptly did. The result was to bring the hated German Nazis and the hated Russian Communists into direct confrontation, as may have been the objective of Neville Chamberlain's so-called appeasement policy.

Likewise, Britain's dishonored guarantee of Polish independence had a similar effect, perhaps intentionally so. With Britain's security guarantee in its pocket, the Polish government refused to negotiate Germany's demand for a corridor to the German city of Danzik on the Baltic coast. By such intransigence, Poland provided Hitler with motivation to join with Russia in the total destruction of Poland, an action the British resisted by dropping anti-war leaflets over Germany.

In response to questions about Britain's refusal to take effective action against Germany during the rape of Poland, Britain's Secretary of State for Air, Kingsley Wood, explained to astonished members of Parliament that the  Black Forest could not be bombed with incendiaries to burn German ammunition dumps there because the forest was "private property." He also explained that German munitions factories could not be bombed since the Germans might then do the same to British factories.

The implication that Britain sought to force the totalitarian powers into direct confrontation in the hope that it would lead to a war of mutual annihilation is compelling. But in any case, German nationalism, however much it may have been promoted by Hitler, did not drive Hitler's megalomanic plans. The nationalistic enthusiasm that greeted Hitler's early successes and which was vigorously stoked by the Nazi government may have discourage a coup d'état by responsible Germans who thought Hitler insane, but was never unanimous. Altogether, 77,000 Germans were executed during the war for resistance to Hitler, including Erwin Planck son Max Planck, the founder of quantum theory, and many religious figures including the Lutheran priest, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and the Catholic Bishop, August von Galen.

Related:

Timeline of Events Prior to the Great War, 1870-1914

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Russian Forces in Novorossiya?

The remarks below appeared as a comment on the Saker blog. The claim that Russia has taken control of Novorossiya, East Ukraine's breakaway provinces, has the ring of truth. The credibility of the Russian government with its own people requires that it protect ethnic Russians in Ukraine threatened by genocidal maniacs in Kiev. But to provide effective protection, Russia needs full control on the ground, which it now has, apparently. In addition, Russian control of defense-related manufacturing capacity of the Donbas may be viewed as a strategic necessity during the several years required to replace that capacity with new plants within the borders of the Russian Federation.

As for the optimistic (from the Russian perspective) assessment for the future, one will have to wait and see. The Empire surely isn't about to throw in the towel:
Larchmonter445 said...
Photo of Zakharchenko today with his wife walking to the voting station, surrounded by nine soldiers in green, unmarked uniforms, no patches, no St. George ribbon markers. Did not look like they were militia. Maybe they were contractors from an outfit called Greenwater. (joking)

So, the message I see is Moscow has taken over the government and has forced out the leaders they don't want in politics and out of the Novorossiya military leadership.

Bezler is out because he never submitted completely even to Strelkov.

The last big name unit leader to stand is Alexey Mosgovoy. With his attitude out of line with Moscow, he might be next to be pushed out.

So, the responsibility for the defense and success of the region and its 4 million people is completely on Moscow.

I think that Putin needed this control because the dangers are directly toward Russia. With only Russian military and political operatives running the Donbass, he will have no interference, delay or mistakes in outcome. I don't see how there is any room for oligarchs and fifth columnists now that all Russian flesh and blood is on the line. Any interference is treason, straight and simple.

Once, this is clearly understood, the West and Kiev will realize they are shelling Russia directly, not indirectly. And they are launching an offensive against Russia directly, not indirectly.

Putin has ended the proxy war. The proto war continues in all forms and dimensions. But the proxy war is ceased. New Russia is Russia de facto if not de jure.

It doesn't matter that no foreign country recognizes Novorossiya. It's a piece of the whole, and will operate with a long open border manned by Russians on both sides. Gas, electricity, water, and whatever they need will come through Rostov.

I wouldn't be surprised that Putin makes an appearance there on some significant day early next year. Flies right in to Donetsk Airport to tell the folks they won! Sort of like he did in Crimea.

It's not about elections and boilers. It's about Russia having a leader who understands strategy and tactics, hearts and minds of Russians, and what to fight with, where to fight, when to fight and with certainty of purpose. If you look at how things have changed and how impossible a proxy war is for the CIA and NATO now, you will see that the West has lost big.

Putin has not only called their bluff on nuclear threats, he has disassembled their 50-60 Billion dollar Ukie war and shoved it up their butts.

Novorossiya is a small item in this struggle. Putin has put it into perspective. It is another heroic event in Russia versus fascism. If the fighting flares up again, the results will be even more one-sided. MiGs will be based at Donetsk. And S-300's will be guarding the airspace. White truck convoys will be by the thousands in months ahead.

Watch for the return of Chinese investment which has been on hold. They had deals in East Ukraine. I suspect they'll be rebuilding some of the infrastructure. They do that faster than anyone.

It will be safe for Malaysian Airliners to fly over Donbass once again.

The underdog won. The bully got whipped. All along the battle was against the satanic. God wins those battles. You just have to have faith.
Related:

Zero Hedge:
US Army Sends 100 Tanks To Eastern Europe To "Deter Russian Aggression"
BBC:
Dumb Germans Quote:
Germany said Russia's recognition of Sunday's "extremely questionable" poll was "incomprehensible"

Tass:
Donetsk Republic hails Kiev’s decision to cancel law on special status of Donbass

Tass:
Over 20 civilians killed in shelling by Ukrainian army in Luhansk — acting police chief

Sunday, November 2, 2014

Why Won't Those Goddam Ukrainian Moskals Just Die, Instead of Holding Fake Stinkin' Elections

The Brainwashing of the West

CTV:
Pro-Russian rebels hold rogue elections in eastern Ukraine ...

CBC:
Ukraine rebels hold election despite international outcry
(Outcry by CBC, Foreign Policy, Reuters, etc. etc. LOL)

Wall Street Journal:
Pro-Russia Rebels Open Polls Across East Ukraine in Renegade Elections

Foreign Policy:
Eastern Ukraine's Fake State Is About to Elect a Fake Prime Minister

Reuters:


  • Europe won't recognize vote in eastern Ukraine, Merkel tells Putin 
  • (Merkel tells Putin! Why doesn't she tell the East Ukrainians that Germany doesn't give a damn about their right not to live under a Nazi-backed government that has just killed thousands of them, including hundreds of women who were raped before they were murdered.)
  • The PuffHo:
    Ukraine Breakaway Regions Hold Criticized Elections
  • Oh, and here's a good one:

    The Interpreter:
    Fake Monitors “Observe” Fake Elections in the Donbass
    The “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DNR) and “Luhansk People’s Republic” (LNR), which are officially considered terrorist organisations by the Ukrainian authorities, will hold “parliamentary elections” on Sunday, November 2, on the territories occupied by them with the help of the Russian army.

    These “elections” are widely considered illegal and illegitimate ...
    Yes these are clearly "terrorist" organizations, since they have been fighting punitive battalions in Nazi regalia sent by the US/UK/Canada/Austrialia/EU-backed Kiev government to "kill those damn Russians."

    Meantime:

    Incumbent Donbass leaders Zakharchenko and Plotnitsky win elections - final results

    US General NcNeely pranked to reveal NATO plans for military assistance to Ukraine

    Ukraine Lawmaker: Today we are ready to invade Russia

    Eric Margolis: Afghanistan, None Dare Call It Defeat

    USAma Bin Laden died in December, 2001 of Marfan Syndrome

    Saturday, November 1, 2014

    Ukraine Proxy War on Russia: the Empire Folds?

    In March this year, Henry Kissinger wrote: Ukraine must become a bridge between East and West. Russia, he said:
    must accept that to try to force Ukraine into a satellite status, and thereby move Russia’s borders again, would doom Moscow to repeat its history of self-fulfilling cycles of reciprocal pressures with Europe and the United States.

    The West must understand that, to Russia, Ukraine can never be just a foreign country. Russian history began in what was called Kievan-Rus. The Russian religion spread from there. Ukraine has been part of Russia for centuries, and their histories were intertwined before then. Some of the most important battles for Russian freedom, starting with the Battle of Poltava in 1709 , were fought on Ukrainian soil. The Black Sea Fleet — Russia’s means of projecting power in the Mediterranean — is based by long-term lease in Sevastopol, in Crimea. Even such famed dissidents as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Joseph Brodsky insisted that Ukraine was an integral part of Russian history and, indeed, of Russia.
    In conclusion, he wrote:
    1. Ukraine should have the right to choose freely its economic and political associations, including with Europe.

    2. Ukraine should not join NATO, a position I took seven years ago, when it last came up.

    3. Ukraine should be free to create any government compatible with the expressed will of its people.
    In the more than six months since Kissinger offered the only possible sane position on Ukraine, the US and its vassal European states, plus Canada and Australia have worked diligently to stoke civil strife in Ukraine as a means of provoking Russia into a proxy war with the West. The result has been a spectacular display of Western stupidity, dishonesty, grotesque hypocrisy, and the warm embrace of avowed Nazis and genocidal Russophobic maniacs, with results as humiliating, though not as painful, as they deserve to be.

    But, as Winston Churchill remarked, the Americans can always be relied upon to do the right thing — after they have tried every alternative, and the truth of Churchill's maxim as applied to Ukraine seems to be confirmed by the recent willingness of one America's most bullshit-ridden broadcast channels to allow the truth about Ukraine to be stated baldly, as in this interview with Prof. Anton Fedyashin of the American University, Washington, DC:



    Related posts by CanSpeccy 

    Russian Insider:
    Pro-West Snipers Murdered Kiev Demonstrators in False Flag: Canadian Academic Analysis


    Former Soviet PM: Kiev Leaders Are Freaks, Idiots - They've Lost Donbas Forever

    Thursday, October 30, 2014

    Deluded Atheists and the Secularization of Religion

    In my experience, comments on the blog of former UK Ambassador Craig Murray provide an endless source of information on the presently deluded state of Western society.

    For example, just yesterday, some poor soul remarked:
    Let me say also that religious belief is now largely only the preserve of the insane or mentally defective, it has been outflanked by commonsense and rationality...
    Let him say it by all means, but understand that it is utter rubbish.

    Religion is universal to humanity. Those who don't believe in God don't believe in nothing, they believe in anything — Spiritualism, Vegetarianism, Communism, Liberalism, or some other creed usually worse by far than that inculcated by the Christian gospel.

    Or to put that in more abstract terms, humans attach high emotional significance to socially approved rules of conduct. It is this characteristic that underlies all religions and without which civilization would be impossible.*

    The inherent human tendency to assimilate moral rules may be reinforced by belief in the power of  gods or ancestral spiritsto punish or reward. But today, when Anglican bishops in good standing openly avow their atheism, such theological reinforcements are of little significance. For most, fear of the moral disapprobation of peers and the desire for applause is sufficient to enforce a morality resting on nothing more substantial than the belief in historical necessity (Communism), the unmitigated evil of whatever is deemed by the arbiters of morality to be racism (Political Correctness), the moral equivalence of man and animals (Vegetarianism), or even crazier, the power of common sense and rationality to achieve the greatest good of the greatest number (Utilitarianism).

    But whatever it is that they believe or disbelieve, all but psychopaths have a religion, whether they know it or not.
    _____

    * This view of the nature and universality of religious belief is set forth in The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama's brilliant Darwinian study of the evolution of human social organization.

    Related:

    CanSpeccy:
    The Ugly Interior of Jeremy Bentham's Head

    CanSpeccy:
    Britain's Peeping State: Bureaucrats At the Washroom Keyhole

    Tuesday, October 28, 2014

    No Facts About MH17, Thankyou, We've Already Decided That Russia's to Blame

    The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

    Ron Suskind, NY Times October 17, 2004
    The trouble with the faith of the post-modernists in their capacity to create their own reality is that such faith can only be upheld so long as one can avoid the jarring intrusion of objective reality.

    Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States has proceeded in the deluded assumption that it rules the World, which is to say it believes itself free to destroy any country that resists being looted by the money power that pulls the puppet strings in Washington. This fantasy has been maintained with the aid of the world's greatest accumulation of weapons that kill far-away people in ways that upset no one's appetite for junk food, soda pop, TV trash, or fiddling with a cell phone — until now.

    Now the US has set about the looting of Eurasia, home to two-thirds of the World's population, starting with Ukraine's announced sale of hundreds of state assets. Thing is, this project depends on the destruction of the Russian Federation, which is pushing back.

    Economic sanctions on Russia intended to reverse the momentum of Russia's rapidly growing economy have rebounded strongly against America's European vassals who, with the exception of the Russophobic crazies in Poland and the Baltic trivialities, have become restive.

    The US–Ukraine false flag destruction of Malaysia Airways Flight MH-17, a cold-blooded act of mass murder against innocent civilians intended to inflame world opinion against Russia, was botched by the CIA-Ukie team in Kiev, necessitating a freeze on the publication of the results of the official international crash inquiry, a freeze opposed, naturally, by Russia, who the US and Britain  had so promptly and without evidence or reservation blamed for the disaster.

    But vastly more disconcerting to the Western fantasists intent on rolling up the Russian Federation was the vote by over 80% of Crimea's two million mostly Russian residents for accession to the Russian Federation. Shit: the plan was for the destruction of Russia, not the expansion of Russia.

    Then those stinkers in the Russian-speaking Donbas region of Ukraine voted for autonomy within a Ukrainian Federation. Prompted by the US, the real power in Kiev, Ukraine declared a genocidal war against the Russian-speaking people of Donbas, classifying them as terrorists and subhumans and launching against them an array of swastika-adorned neo-Nazi punitive battalions intent on butchery.

    Amazingly, this assault by the government of Ukraine against a large component of its own population was advocated by the former Ukraine Prime Minister, the Jew, Julia Tymoshenko, and put into effect by the Jewish NWO puppet, Prime Minister, Arse Yatsenyuk, under the leadership of the son of a Jew who changed his name, to Porochenko.

    The AskenNazi Jewis Homeland. Source.
    What makes this campaign for genocide even more remarkable is the location of the target population: Khazaria, or the ancient homeland of the Askenazi, or shouldn't that be AskeNazi, Jews.

    What's more, Jews in Israel are beginning to think hopefully about a return home, to an ethnically cleansed Khazeria, that is, upon which their co-religionists are already converging to promote Judaism.

    Trouble is, those pesky, amateur defenders of their homeland, the Novorossiya Defense Forces, have severely mauled their Ukie assailants, stripping them of their armor, and killing or injuring tens of thousands.

    Thus, without some rapid and highly improbable restoration of credibility, the fantasy of American global hegemony and moral superiority projected by the West's ZioCon leadership and its complicit media mouthpieces, is at risk of total collapse. If if begins to crumble, the people of the once proud European nation states will demand defection as the people of the Soviet satellites forced defection from Russia once its imperial grip was loosened. And as the cost of complicity in American war crimes escalates, the leadership in France, Germany and other European states may have little option but to follow the people if they are to remain their leaders. The outcome for America could be worse: something like the systemic collapse of the Soviet Union as the claims of the ruling elite are exposed as the lies and fantasies that they are.

    Meantime, the chief Dutch prosecutor investigating the MH17 downing in eastern Ukraine "does not exclude the possibility that the aircraft might have been shot down from air," further undermining the edifice of lies justifying the US/Nato assault on Russia via Ukraine.

    Related:

    The Saker:
    German intelligence report: Russian missile did not down Malaysia Airways Flight MH17

    The Saker:
    Ukraine and Novorossiyan Soldiers Agree on the Need to be Rid of Nazis and Oligarchs

    Zero Hedge:
    Ukraine's Security Service Has Confiscated Air Traffic Control Recordings With Malaysian Jet

    Slavyangrad:
    On the Receiving End of an Assault By Ethnic Cleansers in Novorossiya

    Monday, October 27, 2014

    How To End the Depression Now — Part 2

    In an earlier post of the same title, I argued that so far as ordinary folk are concerned, a depression is a time of high unemployment, not some trivial pause or reversal in the upward march of GDP, and that the current Western recession could be ended promptly by eliminating minimum wage laws and instituting in their place a wage supplement that would insure all workers, however low their wage, enough to live on.

    To liberals and leftists, belief in the absolute moral necessity of a minimum wage law is so deeply ingrained they are unable to contemplate the reality that minimum wage laws kill jobs, particularly when Western jobs are being either off-shored by the million to the sweatshops of Asia or automated out of existence.

    To those of the right of the political spectrum, the idea of any kind of aid to the poor is most often rejected as morally debilitating. Rather, the view seems to be that anyone unable to find a job should spend their lives rummaging through garbage bins for returnable cans and bottles, by which means they should be able to make ten of fifteen bucks a day, easy.

    Perhaps, then, a more feasible solution to the now widespread problems of unemployment, involuntary part-time or temporary work, and work-force disengagement is a less radical approach combining a scaled-back minimum wage with a scaled-down negative tax benefit. For example, a one dollar reduction in minimum wage could be balanced by a one-dollar-an-hour negative tax rate, the tax benefit to be clawed back at the rate of, say, 25% on income in excess of what is considered a living wage. The cost of implementation would be minimal, since it would be handled by employers through only minor modifications to the existing tax-remittance and payroll system.

    Such a program could be adjusted according to need. If unemployment remains high or increases, the minimum wage can be further scaled back while the compensating negative tax payment is scaled up, whereas in times of rising employment, adjustments might be made in the opposite direction. In this way, opportunities would be created for low-wage employment in areas such as textiles, shoes, electronic assembly, where jobs have heretofore been largely off-shored.

    Although there is the great disadvantage with such half-measures that those with the least valuable labor skills will still be denied access to employment, it has the advantage of containing the cost of the program within bounds that politicians can contemplate without panic.

    For example, for the United States, with a workforce of about 160 million people, a one-dollar-an-hour tax benefit would cost approximately $240 billion dollars a year, a rather small sum out of a multi-trillion-dollar federal budget, running a half-trillion-dollar deficit. Moreover, most of the cost would be recovered through the claw-back of the tax benefit received by those with hourly wages in excess of the former minimum wage. In addition, there would be substantial savings in welfare costs and in the costs of crime, mental illness and loss of workforce skills that are the consequences of long-term unemployment.

    In time, the enormous advantages of a free labor market that allows every willing worker, however limited their skills, the opportunity for employment would become obvious, and the program could be expanded, leading in time to the complete abolition of minimum wage laws that provide jobs only for foreign workers and those at home who must deal with the social havoc created by unemployment.

    Related:

    CanSpeccy:
    How To End the Depression Now — Part 1

    Thursday, October 23, 2014

    Parliament Hill Shooting: Muslim Terrorist Fails to Kill Canadian Cabinet

    How handy. Just as the Harper government has recommitted Canada to The War on Terror (TWAT) by sending the RCAF to bomb Iraq, an alleged Muslim terrorist, rifle in hand, enters Ottawa's Parliament buildings unopposed, and begins shooting, coming within meters, it is reported, of the Prime Minister and other members of the cabinet.

    I have to say that if the shooter had wiped out not only the Cabinet but also the entire opposition front bench I would not have grieved. Such a bunch of mediocrities could surely be replaced without the difficulty.

    But shooting people is wrong, and the Prime Minister's characterization of the shooter as a Muslim terrorist raises the question of how the public should view the event.

    Do we need stricter anti-terrorism measures, transforming Canada into a US-style police state with our very own homeland security forces supplied with enough hollow-point bullets to wipe out every Canadian five times over?

    And what about Islam? Maybe we'd be best to abandon our all-embracing religion of political correctness and return to our roots as a fundamentally Christian country that respects the great traditions of the West and in particular the Christian commitment to truth, beauty and justice.

    To that end, a bit of intolerance may not be a bad thing if the alternative is disruption to our whole way of life. For example, perhaps we should simply outlaw Islam. After all, how many Canadians really want to live next door to a polygamous family of armed terrorists whose women dress in tents.

    But then it has been suggested (and here, and here) that the Ottawa shooting could be just another Gladio-type event to manage public perception, perfectly timed to justify Stephen Harper's latest mission to bomb Muslims, and the government's plan to enhance the powers of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service.

    So far as I am aware, there is no convincing direct evidence that Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, the Parliament Hill shooter, was an actor, witting or otherwise, in a false flag attack. More reasonable, it seems to me, is media consensus that Bibeau was a mentally unstable Islamist angered by Canada's commitment to war on Muslims in Iraq.

    This conclusion is consistent with the fact that thousands of European Muslims have volunteered for service with ISIS (and here) where they are waging war against Western-backed governments or factions and in some cases fighting directly with the forces of their own country of origin.

    That being the case, my argument for barring Muslims from immigrating to Canada and for banning the preaching of Islam in Canada stands. Not that I have anything personally against moderate Muslims in Canada some of whom I know personally and whom I regard as fine people. But Islam is not merely a religion is also a political system and the assumption that Western Muslims can be tamed to the point that their religion is as meaningless as Episcopalianism or Anglicanism is unwarranted.

    Given the chance, Muslims will always turn aggressively political and seek to dominate the society in which they live. Anyone in Canada who doubts this should listen to Shahid Malik, Britain's Justice Minister in the government of Tony Blair:

    Related:

    Aangirfan:
    OTTAWA FALSE FLAG - Updated

    Herald News:
    Stephen Harper hid in broom closet during Ottawa shooting

    CBC News:
    Harper sorry for hiding in closet then doing a bunk

    Senile Nazi Billionaire Calls for Third World War

    George Soros, a Jew whose happiest days, by his own account, were spent betraying Jews of Budapest to the Nazis, has issued a call to arms by the people of Europe in defense of the US-installed Nazi-backed junta of Kiev and the war to dismember the Russian Federation.

    G. Soros. Source
    Nothing surely could better illustrates the catastrophic idiocy of American policy in Ukraine than that this senile billionaire, loathed and despised by all and sundry, has been wheeled out to make a direct appeal to the people of Europe to ramp up a third fracticidal war to promote the American goal of smashing Russia and expanding Nato to China's Western border.

    Europe, says Soros, "is facing a challenge from Russia to its very existence," a preposterous claim in the wake of the US-backed overthrow of the elected government of Ukraine by a Nazi junta intent on the genocide of ethnic Russians in South Eastern Ukraine of whom they managed to kill and maim many thousands while making refugees of hundreds of thousands more.

    Soros provides no evidence of any actual Russian threat to European security because no such evidence exists. In fact, Soros says nothing whatever of interest about Ukraine, and offers merely a pathetic bleating reflecting the fact that Putin failed to to act like the "New Hitler," but merely took care of Russian interests without harm to any except the freaks and lunatics in Kiev and the Ukrainian forces sent on a criminal "punitive" mission against their own people.

    Related:

    RT:
    ‘Russian troops in Ukraine? Got any proof?' Putin's best quotes from French media talk

    Energy, Economy and Environment

    A year ago it seemed that $100 dollars might be a floor for the price for oil. Now it looks more like a ceiling. As the price was falling there was talk about what price the Saudis or the Russians or the frackers needed to balance their budgets, as if the question of price was for producers to decide. But weak demand may prove that notion untenable. The four- to five-fold increase in crude oil price since the Year 2000 is driving a multitude of changes in the way we live, travel, and consume that will vastly reduce use of fossil fuels while massively increasing energy-use efficiency.

    Housing:
    The suburban villa is obsolete. It takes up too much space, creates urban sprawl, necessitates huge expenditures of time, material and energy on commuting. Apartments and apartment-sized houses are increasingly in demand. Apartment living has accustomed people to combining living space in a single room comprising kitchen, dining and sitting areas. In fact, people like that better than a collection of smaller partitioned areas. The result is that, in the future, the typical North American family living unit will be no more than 800 to 1200 square feet in area consisting of, for example (in square feet): living room, 400; three bedrooms, 100 each; two bathrooms 75 each; den/office, 80; and entryway and closets, 100.

    Not much room for stuff, but North Americans will get used to living like the Japanese. No point in keeping cribs and high chairs and rocking horses for the grandchildren. Manufacturing is cheap and will stay cheap as Asia's sweatshop workforce is replaced by robots. If you are no longer using it, junk it. If you need it again buy the new and improved model.

    Recycling:
    Trash will not go in a bin, but down the chute, to be taken by underground conveyor to the recycling plant. Every manufactured product will be bar-coded or chipped to tell robot trash handlers how it is to be processed. Products without an approved recycling process will be excluded from the marketplace.

    Alternative energy:
    Thus far, alternative energy has amounted to nothing much. But it's getting there. Much more is known today about what doesn't pay economically or environmentally. Bio-fueled thermal power plants will probably never be of much importance, and ground-based windmills operate too intermittently to add more than marginally to energy supplies. But solar power is more interesting. Solar panel manufacture is a high tech industry where huge cost reductions and efficiency improvements are rapidly occurring.

    Solar panels with an efficiency of 20% or better are now available for 50 cents per watt: that's peak power, so per watt of year-round average output, the cost is more like $5.00. The year-round average electricity consumption per person in the developed world is about 1 kw, which could thus be generated with solar panels costing $5000, and occupying about 100 square meters (1000 square feet), which seems a feasible alternative to nuke and coal-fired power.

    There are problems of course: where to put all those panels, how to store the power for when it's needed, at night or in the winter when solar radiation in the temperate zone is only one tenth what it is in mid-summer. So we're not there yet. But further improvements in solar panel efficiency, which could rise by a factor of two or three within the next decade, in electric battery technology, and in grid storage solutions could make solar power a mainstay of electrical generation.

    Energy-Use Efficiency:
    A transition to small homes will mean large reductions in home heating and cooling costs. A small home adequately insulated and well sealed and with a heat exchanger to handle ventilation can be heated in the coolest climate with nothing more than a hair dryer.

    Energy efficiency in transportation is also about to improve radically. Automobiles are getting more efficient but are nowhere near as efficient as the latest prototypes. Renault's four-seat Eolab concept, for example, is reported to be capable of 100 km per litre, or about ten times better than the typical American sedan. VW's two-seat XL1, has comparable fuel efficiency and may go into limited production.

    LIT Motors, gyroscopically-balanced, two-wheel electric car. Source.
    Despite GM's misconceived Volt, a vehicle for carrying a lot of batteries a short distance, the range of which can only be improved by adding more batteries, light-weight electric vehicles have real potential. This potential has been conclusively demonstrated by the SunSwift, produced by engineering students at the University of New South Wales, Australia. This solar-electric two-seater with a carbon-fibre-reinforced plastic body recently completed a 500 km run on a single charge at an average speed of more than 100 km per hour, and using only 44 cents-worth of electricity. Covered with solar panels, the SunSwift's range on a sunny day extends to 800 km.

    Then there are electric bikes, 200 million of them in China alone, which do about 40 miles to a penny worth of electricity.

    The Environment:
    The industrial age was driven by the use of dirt cheap energy, which drove down the cost of goods and transportation by orders of magnitude, while massively driving up consumption, at the cost of the relentless exploitation of mines, forests and the capacity of the earth, the air and the waters of the earth to absorb the resultant waste products.

    We are now well on the way to the information age, in which dirt cheap information drives increasing efficiencies in the use of energy, materials and labor in manufacturing, transportation and the satisfaction of other human needs. The result will be either a population explosion leading to a high-tech Malthusian limit in the hundreds of billions, or population stabilization at the UN projected total of around ten billion and a huge reduction in human environmental impacts.

    Saturday, October 11, 2014

    Does the Rise of UKIP Mean That the British Are Really Free to Govern Themselves?

    Western democracy is, for the most part, a depraved form of plutocratic rule. The corporate-owned mainstream media oligopoly and the state-controlled education system indoctrinate the plebs with the idea that government is in the hands of the people. Then the people are offered a choice among mainstream parties owned and paid for by the money power: the banks, the global corporations, and the politically engaged billionaires. What those mainstream parties offer are interchangeable platforms dressed up to appear in the public interest but designed to serve the interests of  the money power. Only if public pressure for significant deviation from the plutocratic line becomes intense will the leadership promise a change of course, a promise more often than not to be honored in the breach.

    In Britain today, the contradiction between the interest of the money power and the people is stark. The people of England, like those of most other European states, are the victims of an ongoing genocide by mass immigration, multi-culturalism and public policies that depress the fertility of the indigenous population. The process has already gone more than half-way to completion in the cities of London, Leicester and Luton, and Birmingham, England's second city where only one school-age child in three is ethnically English, will soon join the list.

    Public opposition to mass immigration has been loud and clear for decades and now totals 70% of the population, including the majority of immigrants. At the last election the current Prime Minister said that the problem must be "gripped." But clearly he is a liar or a feebleton without grip, since net immigration to the UK today is at an all-time high.

    In the past, the only political party in Britain that campaigned against mass immigration to Britain was the British National Party (BNP), a near Nazi outfit almost certainly run by MI5, which, at the last election, threw whatever chances it had by means of a series of truly bizarre antics by the party leader, Nick Griffin, antics that could only have been intended confirm the mainstream media claim that the party was a neo-Nazi outfit, led by loons and buffoons surrounded by knuckle-dragging thugs.

    Now Britain is witnessing the rise of a new anti-genocide party, the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), which is a much more serious contender than the BNP, having just won the national elections to the European Parliament. Moreover, the party leader, Nigel Farage, has given no hostages to fortune in the way of fascistic remarks or loony behavior. On the contrary, he speaks of immigrants and of Europe from whence most immigrants to Britain come, in terms of friendship and reason.

    The question, then, is this: does UKIP represent a real opportunity for the British people to put some meaning into the term "democratic government," or is Farage programmed either to take UKIP down at a critical moment, or to transform UKIP into another agent of the plutocracy once ensconced in power?

    It will be interesting to watch as next year's national election approaches. So far, Farage has offered only straight talk and good sense, suggesting both sincere patriotism and an intelligence in excess of that of the combined IQ of the mainstream party leaders.

    Here's a sample:



    Related:

    Tobias Langdon:
    Diseased Defectors: UKIP, Islam and the Hand of the Board of Deputies

    Taki Theodoracopulos:
    Neocon Cowards and Russian Ingrates

    CanSpeccy:
    Race: Why Liberal Globalists and Communist Revolutionaries Agree There Is No Such Thing

    CanSpeccy:
    The European Nation State: Sold Out By a Treasonous Globalist Elite

    CanSpeccy:
    European Genocide: Explained by a Diagram

    This piece will cause the politically correct to yelp about the bigotry of singling out Muslims as a problem in Britain. But the diagram illustrates, in a way that those who are less than fully numerate cab easily grasp, both the arithmetic of genocide by mass immigration, and the cultural dimension to genocide.

    CanSpeccy:
    The Dissolution of America and the Transition to Plutocratic Global Governance

    Monday, September 29, 2014

    Minerals and Madness: Magnesium Deficiency and the Western Epidemic of Mental Illness

    What if there were a substance said to prevent, cure or ameliorate schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, Tourette's syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, anxiety disorder, geriatric cachexia and memory loss, ischemic heart disease, hypertension, insulin resistance, and osteoporosis, while increasing life expectancy and lowering the risk of stroke?

    What would you call it?

    A wonder drug?

    Or a scam?

    Little is known about the cause of most of the diseases listed, but each must have a distinct and complex aetiology.

    So how could one substance cure all?

    Well, what if there is a widespread deficiency of an essential nutrient with many biochemical functions? Then enhancing the supply of that one substance should cure a wide array of distinct diseases.

    Magnesium may be that nutrient.

    Half of all Americans are believed to have a dietary magnesium intake that falls short of the estimated average daily requirement for good health.

    How can that be?

    The reason is complex. In part it reflects changes in eating habits, from a reliance on mostly unprocessed dietary staples including cereals, fresh fruit and vegetables, plus milk, meat and eggs from free-range animals, to increasing dependence on processed food, high in cheap calorie-rich, mineral-poor commodities such as corn starch and fructose syrup, supplemented by highly flavored fast food rich in fats and factory-farmed meat from animals fed on the cheapest available commodities.

    Perhaps even more important in accounting for widespread magnesium deficiency is the documented decline in the mineral content of fruit and vegetables produced under intensive agricultural regimes. Two factors responsible for this decline in quality are:

    First, maximization of crop yield through fertilization with nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus, which results in reductions of up to 40% in the content of other minerals in the harvested crop.

    Second, yield improvement through genetic modification of crops that results in measurable declines in mineral and protein content of both vegetables and cereals.

    In addition, the adoption of irrigation to enhance crop yield can leach the soil of minerals essential to human nutrition, thereby reducing the content of these minerals in food crops.

    Yet another cause of deteriorating mineral nutrition is urbanization. Rural populations are largely reliant for drinking water on ground water drawn from wells. Such waters are generally much richer in dissolved minerals than the lakes or rivers from which most urban water supplies are drawn. Moreover, where urban water supplies are from groundwater rich in minerals, the minerals are normally removed to prevent scaling of pipes.

    The risk of magnesium deficiency is further increased by a rising trend in consumption of calcium. Most are aware that calcium is essential for strong bones and that milk is an excellent source of dietary calcium. Consistent with this understanding, the quantity of milk and milk products in Western diets has increased over recent decades. But what few understand is that, within the cell, calcium acts as a magnesium antagonist, which means that even with an otherwise adequate supply, a physiological deficiency of magnesium may arise through excess consumption of calcium.

    So what does magnesium do?

    Magnesium is the second most abundant intracellular mineral. It has over three hundred known biochemical functions. It is a co-factor in several hundred enzyme-catalyzed reactions. It is required in energy metabolism, being complexed with ATP the energy carrying molecule. It is required in the synthesis of nucleic acids, and it plays multiple roles in the regulation of both the central and peripheral nervous systems.

    The increasing prevalence of magnesium deficiency, either absolute or induced by excess calcium consumption, provides a recipe for widespread mental and physical debilitation.

    Does this explain why one in four American adults is diagnosed with a mental illness in any year? Does it explain why Europeans are even crazier than Americans with 27% of those between the ages of 18 and 65 having been diagnosed with a mental illness in the last year? And does it explain why, depending on age, between 10 and 87% of the American population is suffering from cardiovascular disease?

    I leave it to you to draw your own conclusions. For your further consideration, here are links to some of the many studies on magnesium and disease:

    Aging
    Billard, J-M. 2006. Ageing, hippocampal synaptic activity and magnesium. JL Eurotext

    Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
    http://www.drhoffman.com/page.cfm/609

    Rosanov, A. 2010. Rising Ca:Mg intake ratio from food in USA Adults: a concern? Magnesium Res. 23:S181-S193.
    Galland, L. 1991. Magnesium, stress and neuropsychiatric disorders. Foundation for Integrated Medicine.
    Nechifor. M. 2008. Interactions between magnesium and psychotropic drugs. Magnesium Res.
    Australian Gov't. Magnesium and human health.
    Seelig, M. 1964. The Requirement of Magnesium by the Normal Adult. Am. J. Clin. Nutr.

    Depression
    Serefko, A. et al. 2013: Magnesium in depression. Pharmacol. Rep. 65:547-554.
    Nechifor, M. Magnesium in PsychosesIn Yoshiki Nishizawa et al. (Eds.) New Perspectives in Magnesium Research: Nutrition and Health. Proc. 11th International Magnesium Symposium, Osaka, Japan 22-26, 2006. Springer, e-book.

    Epilepsy
    Epilepsy therapy project

    Fitness
    MacDonald, R. and C.L. Keen. 1988. Iron, Zinc and Magnesium Nutrition and Athletic Performance. Sports Med. 5:171.

    Heart Disease

    Heterogeneous Diseases
    Milagros G. Huerta, et al. 2005. Magnesium Deficiency Is Associated With Insulin Resistance in Obese Children. Diabetes Care 28:1175.

    Magnesium deficiency Prevalence

    Migraine

    Nutritional Therapies for Mental Disorders
    Lakhan, S.E. and K.F. Viera. 2008: Nutritional therapies for mental disorders. Nutritional J. 7:2.

    Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

    Schizophrenia
    Kirov, GK and KN Tsachev. 1990. Magnesium schizophrenia and manic-depressive disease. Neurophsychobiology.
    Schizophrenic and depressed patients had lower plasma magnesium concentrations than healthy controls. Plasma Mg increased on achieving clinical remission in the schizophrenic patients.
    Nechifor, M. 2011: Chapter 22. Mangnesium and psychosesin Magnesium in the Central Nervous System. University of Adelaide Press. (Whole Book Text. PDF format here.)
    Changes in plasma and intracellular magnesium found in both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Drug therapy (antipsychotics) significantly raise intracellular magnesium, without changing plasma Mg.
    Stroke
    Kupetsky-Rincon E.A. Uitto J. 2012. Magnesium: Novel Applications in Cardiovascular Disease – A Review of the Literature. Annals of Nutrition and Medicine Vol. 61, No. 2

    Tetany
    Galland, L. 1992: Magnesium stress and neuropsychiatric disorders. Magnes. Trace Elem. 10:287-301.

    Tourette's Syndrome

    Sunday, September 28, 2014

    World War III: Reports From the Front Line

    David Cameron:
    “Non-Violent Extremists” Including “9/11 Truthers” and “Conspiracy Theorists” are Just as Dangerous as ISIL Terrorists

    Many people seem to think this is insane. But its actually quite true. If the truthers persuade the majority that 9/11 and 7/7 were some kind of "inside job", then its game over for the warmongers — at the end of a rope.

    Tarpley.net:
    Metaphysical Doubts Concerning the Existence of Modern Ukraine, a 1918 Creation of the German General Staff

    NEO:
    Will France and Germany challenge NATO?
    ... today’s U.S. and NATO policy is dominated by grand policy architects like Obama administration adviser Zbigniev Brzezinski ... who is literally, and in the opinion of several professional psychologists, clinically obsessed with encircling Russia, dividing Russia into six or more, smaller states, to then force Moscow into a U.S/U.K.-dominated hegemony.

    Z-Big’s latest book “Strategic Vision” ... is essential literature for anyone who has not fully comprehended [the] scope of NATO’s policy and the fact that it aims at establishing a U.S./U.K. hegemony over continental Europe, Eurasia and the Middle East. This necessarily implies that continental European powers, including France, Germany and Russia have to be subjugated by this U.S./U.K.-dominated hegemony.
    iPolitics:
    A Difficult Week For a Warmonger

    Stephen Harper advocating for war to a rapt audience at the UN. Source




    The Saker:
    Dmitri Rogozin, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, On Russia's preparation for war

    The Saker:
    The Russian response to a double declaration of war

    Zero Hedge:
    "The Information War For Ukraine"
    When one of the most watched German channels - south German state TV channel ZDF - releases an 8+ minute satirical spoof of all the fabricated "news" surrounding the Ukraine "ïnvasion" by Russia and all the associated newsflow from the region (in which "any similarity to the current news is unintended and accidental, but absolutely inevitable"), you know that the time has come to double down on the propaganda effort because if ground zero of media indoctrination, Germany, is starting to see through the fog of endless media BS, then how long until the rest of the world follows?


    The Spectator:
    Former Czech PM, Vaclav Klaus: the West’s lies about Russia are monstrous

    MH-17;
    Russian Union Of Engineers Accuses Ukraine Airforce In MH17 Crash

    Tony Cartalucci:
    Dutch MH17 Investigation Omits US “Intel”

     NBC News:
    $30 Million Reward Offered in Hunt for Culprits Behind MH17 Attack

    Wednesday, September 24, 2014

    Obama, the “Peace Prize” Winner, Lying His Way to a World War

    Craig Murray, sacked UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan, is a clever fellow who, among bizarre and and sometimes absurd blog posts, occasionally writes exceedingly well something well worth saying. 
    His current post provides an example:
    If bombing a country really made it better, we would have made a paradise of Iraq by now. Instead it is a total disaster, with access to electricity, drinking water, education and health services all far worse than they were before we started bombing it. That is even without the growth of the Caliphate, or ISIS, a direct result first of our deposing Saddam and conniving in the intolerant Shia rule of Maliki, and then of our connivance in arming and funding anyone willing to fight Assad. 
    So now we are told we have to bomb Iraq yet again, and this time, finally, that will make it all better. There are two extraordinary contradictions in the British position. 
    1) The justification in international law given by the neo-cons for the current bombing of Iraq is that it is at the invitation of the government of Iraq. But simultaneously they propose to bomb Syria to attack the government of Syria. This is the most astonishing hypocrisy. 
    2) The Caliphate forces were encouraged and trained by the CIA initially. They continue to be massively financed from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States. In fact, the Caliphate is still funded to a massive degree from the very states who are currently bombing them alongside the United States – Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE. It is the ruling families of those states which are attacking ISIS in an official capacity, who are financing ISIS in a private capacity. The BBC manages to avoid any mention of Saudi funding for ISIS. The interests of the City of London are, as always, the most important factor for the British establishment.
     From which he concludes:
    The security state here in the UK needs the “War on Terror” to justify its continued existence and the power and jobs of those who administer it. One thing that is certain to keep the conflict going, and thus keep the security state going, is for us to start bombing the Middle East again.
    Which I find to be something of an anti-climax, and indeed quite inadequate as an explanation. The truth, I believe, is much more horrific. The US needs a world war now. The pro-Nazi Ukraine intervention was an attempt to get things going, but Russia declined to take the bait.

    So, now, more bombing in the Middle East must be seen as an another way to achieve the desired flare-up and spread of violence.* It is clear, however, from Obama's September 24 speech to the UN General Assembly that the Ukraine approach to war is far from having been abandoned.

    Quote:
    ...Russia’s actions in Ukraine challenge this post-war order. Here are the facts. After the people of Ukraine mobilized popular protests and calls for reform, their corrupt President fled. Against the will of the government in Kiev, Crimea was annexed. Russia poured arms into Eastern Ukraine, fueling violent separatists and a conflict that has killed thousands. When a civilian airliner was shot down from areas that these proxies controlled, they refused to allow access to the crash for days. When Ukraine started to reassert control over its territory, Russia gave up the pretense of merely supporting the separatists, and moved troops across the border.
    Wow. How many lies?

    If you can't spot them, I won't waste my breath elucidating them, since your ignorance of events in Ukraine is so deep and so wide and so high that it would take a month to educate you.

    Suffice it to say that (a) it was the US that financed a Nazi-backed coup against the legitimate democratically elected government of Ukraine, and backed that government in its genocidal onslaught on the "terrorists" and "subhumans" comprising eight million ethnic Russians in East Ukraine; (b) Crimea, Russia`s Black Sea naval base since 1793, which has a population that is 80% ethnic Russian, voted overwhelmingly for independence from Ukraine in an internationally observed referendum, following which Russia accepted the request of the government of Crimea for admission to the Russian Federation; (c) the violence in Eastern Ukraine was driven entirely by the US–Nazi-backed Kiev junta which launched virtually all of the armed forces of Ukraine on a "punitive" mission, involving Nazi-forces proudly bearing Nazi symbols, the Swastika and the Wolfsangel, against Eastern Ukraine during which civilians were the main targets of shelling, bombing and ballistic missile attacks; (d) there is no evidence that Russian troops crossed the border into Ukraine, although Russian volunteers aided in the defense of the people of Eastern Ukraine who sought autonomy within a federated Ukrainian state. Moreover Russia likely provide aid to the self-defence forces of the Donbas region, or Novorossia, in the form of weapons, ammunition and and other supplies, although most of the weapons in the possession of the Novorossian Armed Forces were  captured from the Army of the Ukraine; (e) the failure so far of the inquiry into the downing of Malayasia Airways Flight MH-17 to release the cockpit voice recordings or offer any explanation as to the cause of the catastrophe supports the conclusion of the Russian Union of Engineers that MH-17 was downed by gunfire and an air-to-air missile from a Ukrainian Forces SU 25 or Mig-29 aircraft, as observed by Russian radar and reported within 24 hours of the crash.

    Or, in brief, Obama is bare-faced liar who seeks to lay blame on Russia for the creation, through a five-billion-dollar US intervention, of a genocidal, Russophobic, Nazi-backed state led by freaks intent on killing their own people. The intent, clearly, is to continue baiting Russia in the hope of setting Russia to war against America`s West European EU-NATO puppets.

    And the reason is clear. The US needs a war to smash all rivals. The US economy is stagnant, while Russia`s GDP tripled since 2000, and China`s has grown even faster. So, just as WW1 knocked the stuffing out of the British Empire and neutered Germany, as WW2 sucked the marrow from the bones of the British empire and re-gelded Germany and dished Japan, while accidentally raising Russia to great power standing, and as the Cold War drained the life from the Soviet super power, so now the US seeks to smash all rivals in a war from which it aims to emerge relatively unscathed and thus once again on top of the manure pile.
    That’s the context in which I’d view Russia’s recent giant military maneuvers.

    As noted by the Saker:

    Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov commented: “As for the U.S. President’s speech, we earned the second place among the threats to international peace and stability: number one is the Ebola virus, number two is the so-called Russian aggression in Europe and ISIL and other terrorists who are now taking hold of the Middle East and primarily of the countries, which have evidenced U.S. interventions, are ranked as number three.”

    * There are also more specific reasons for bombing folks in the Middle East: to pave the way for pipelines to carry gas from the Persian Gulf to Europe, thereby cutting demand for Russian gas, overthrowing the Assad regime in order to expel Russia from its Mediterranean naval base at Tartus, in Syria, etc.

    Related:

    The Saker:
    September 27, 2014: The Russian response to a double declaration of war

    Russia in Global Affairs:
    Serge Glazyev – The Threat of War and the Russian Response
    U.S. actions in Ukraine should be classified not only as hostile with regard to Russia, but also as targeting global destabilization. The U.S. is essentially provoking an international conflict to salvage its geopolitical, financial, and economic authority.
    RT:
    Russia calls for intl probe into Ukraine burials with signs of execution

    The Saker:
    M. Khazin: Is peace in the Ukraine possible?