How to bring down the elephant in the room

April 16, 2017 thesaker.is

First, a painful, but needed, clarification:

Basement crazies.  Neocons. Zionists.  Israel Lobbyists.  Judaics.  Jews.  Somewhere along this list we bump into the proverbial “elephant in the room”.  For some this bumping will happen earlier in the list, for others a little later down the list, but the list will be more or less the same for everybody.  Proper etiquette, as least in the West, would want to make us run away from that topic.  I won’t. Why?  Well, for one thing I am constantly accused of not discussing this elephant.  Furthermore, I am afraid that the role this elephant is playing is particularly toxic right now.  So let me try to deal with this beast, but first I have to begin with some caveats.

First, terminology.  For those who have not seen it, please read my article “Why I use the term AngloZionist and why it is important“.  Second, please read my friend Gilad Atzmon’s article “Jews, Judaism & Jewishness” (or, even better, please read his seminal book The Wondering Who).  Please note that Gilad specifically excludes Judaics (religious Jews,) from his discussion.  He writes  “I do not deal with Jews as a race or an ethnicity.  I also generally avoid dealing with Judaism (the religion)”.  I very much include them in my discussion.  However, I also fully agree with Gilad when he writes that “Jews Are Not a Race But Jewish Identity is Racist” (those having any doubts about Jews not being a race or ethnicity should read Shlomo Sand’s excellent book “The Invention of the Jewish People“).  Lastly, please carefully review my definition of racism as spelled out in my “moderation policies“:

Racism is, in my opinion, not so much the belief that various human groups are different from each other, say like dog breeds can be different, but the belief that the differences between human groups are larger than within the group. Second, racism is also a belief that the biological characteristics of your group somehow pre-determine your actions/choices/values in life. Third, racism often, but not always, assumes a hierarchy amongst human groups (Germanic Aryans over Slavs or Jews, Jews over Gentiles, etc.). I believe that God created all humans with the same purpose and that we are all “brothers in Adam”, that we all equally share the image (eternal and inherent potential for perfection) of God (as opposed to our likeness to Him, which is our temporary and changing individual condition).

To sum it all up, I need to warn both racists and rabid anti-anti-Zionists that I will disappoint them both: the object of my discussion and criticism below will be limited to categories which a person chooses to belong to or endorse (religion, political ideas, etc.) and not categories which one is born with (race, ethnicity).

Second, so what are Jews if not a race?  In my opinion, they are a tribe (which Oxford Dictionaires defines as: a social division in a traditional society consisting of families or communities linked by social, economic, religious, or blood ties, with a common culture and dialect, typically having a recognized leader). A tribe is a group one can chose to join (Elizabeth Taylor) or leave (Gilad Atzmon).

Third, it is precisely and because Jews are a tribe that we, non-Jews, owe them exactly nothing: no special status, neither bad nor good, no special privilege of any kind, no special respect or “sensitivity” – nothing at all.  We ought to treat Jews exactly as we treat any other of our fellow human beings: as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise (Luke 6:31).  So if being Jewish is a choice and if any choice is a legitimate object of discussion and criticism, then (choosing to) being Jewish is a legitimate object of discussion and criticism.  Conversely, those who would deny us the right to criticize Jews are, of course, the real racists since they do believe that Jews somehow deserve a special status.  In fact, that notion is at the core of the entire Jewish identity and ideology.

Now let’s come back to our opening list: Basement crazies.  Neocons. Zionists.  Israel Lobbyists.  Judaics.  Jews.  I submit that these are all legitimate categories as long as it is clear that “Jews by birth only”, what Alain Soral in France calls “the everyday Jews”, are not included in this list.  Thus, for our purposes and in this context, these terms are all interchangeable.  My own preference still goes for “Zionist” because it combines the ideological racism of secular Jews with the religious racism of Judaics (if you don’t like my choice, just replace “Zionist” with any of the categories I listed above).  Zionism used to be secular, but it has turned religious during the late 20th century now and so for our purposes this term can encompass both secular and religious Jewish supremacists.  Add to this some more or less conservative opinions and minsets and you have “Ziocons” as an alternative expression.

[Sidebar: it tells you something about the power of the Zionist propaganda machine, I call it the Ziomedia, that I would have to preface this article with a 700+ explanatory words note to try to overcome conditioned mental reflexes in the reader (that I might be an evil anti-Semite).  By the way, I am under no illusions either: some Jews or doubleplusgoodthinking shabbos-goyim will still accuse me of racism.  This just comes with the territory.  But the good news is when I will challenge them to prove their accusation they will walk away empty-handed].

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The reason why I decided to tackle this issue today is that the forces who broke Trump in less than a month are also the very same forces who have forced him into a political 180: the Neocons and the US deep state.  However, I think that these two concepts can be fused into on I would call the “Ziocons”: basically Zionists plus some rabid Anglo imperialists à la Cheney or McCain.  These are the folks who control the US corporate media, Hollywood, Congress, most of academia, etc.  These are the folks who organized a ferocious assault on the “nationalist” or “patriotic” wing of Trump supporters and ousted Flynn and Bannon and these are the folks who basically staged a color revolution against Trump.  There is some pretty good evidence that the person in charge of this quiet coup is Jared Kushner, a rabid Zionist.  Maybe.  Maybe not.  This does not really matter, what matters now is to understand what this all means for the rest of us in the “basket of deplorables”, the “99%ers” – basically the rest of the planet.

Making sense of the crazies

Making sense of the motives and goals (one cannot speak of “logic” in this case) of self-deluded racists can be a difficult exercise.  But when the “basement crazies” (reminder: the term from from here) are basically in control of the policies of the US Empire, this exercise becomes crucial, vital for the survival of the mentally sane.  I will now try to outline the reasons behind the “new” Trump policies using two examples: Syria and Russia.

Syria.  I think that we can all agree that having the black flag of Daesh fly over Damascus would be a disaster for Israel.  Right?  Wrong!  You are thinking like a mentally sane person.  This is not how the Israelis think at all.  For them, Daesh is much preferable to Assad not only because Assad is the cornerstone of a unitary Syria, but because Daesh in power gives the Israelis the perfect pretext to establish a “security zone” to “protect” northern Israel.  And that, in plain English, means fully occupying and annexing the Golan (an old Israeli dream).  Even better, the Israelis know Daesh really well (they helped create it with the USA and Saudi Arabia) and they know that Daesh is a mortal threat to Hezbollah.  By putting Daesh into power in Syria, the Israelis hope for a long, bloody and never ending war in Lebanon and Syria.  While their northern neighbors would be plugged into maelstrom of atrocities and horrors, the Israelis would get to watch it all from across their border while sending a few aircraft from time to time to bomb Hezbollah positions or even innocent civilians under whatever pretext.  Remember how the Israelis watched in total delight how their forces bombed the population of Gaza in 2014?  With Daesh in power in Damascus, they would get an even better show to take their kids to.  Finally, and last but most definitely not least, the Syrian Christians would be basically completely wiped out.  For those who know the hatred Judaics and Jews have always felt for Christianity (even today) it will be clear why the Israelis would want Daesh in power in Syria: Daesh is basically a tool to carve up an even bigger Zionist entity.

Russia.  Ziocons absolutely loathe Russia and everything Russian.  Particularly the ex-Trotskyists turned Neocons.  I have explained the origins of this hatred elsewhere and I won’t repeat it all here.  You just need to study the genocidal policies against anything Russian of the fist Bolshevik government (which was 80%-85% Jews; don’t believe me?  Then listen to Putin himself).  I have already discussed “The ancient spiritual roots of russophobia” in a past article and I have also explain what rabbinical Phariseism (what is mistakenly called “Judaism” nowadays) is little more than an “anti-Christianity“(please read those articles if this complex and fascinating history is of interest to you).  The bottom line is this: modern Neocons are little else than former Trotskyists who have found a new host to use.  Their hatred for everything Russian is still so visceral that they rather support bona fide Nazis (isn’t this ironic?) in the Ukraine than Russia, which is even more paradoxical if you recall that before the 1917 Bolshevik coup anti-Jewish feelings were much stronger in what is today the Ukraine than in what is the Russian Federation today.  In fact, relations between Russians and Jews have, I would argue, been significantly improving since the Nazi coup in Kiev, much to the chagrin of the relatively few Russians left who truly hate Jews.  While you will hear a lot of criticism of organized political Jewry in Russia, especially compared to the West, there is very little true anti-Jewish racism in Russia today, and even less publicly expressed in the media (in fact, ‘hate speech’ is illegal in Russia).  One thing to keep in mind is that there are many substantial differences between Russian Jews and US Jews, especially amongst those Russian Jews who deliberately chose not to emigrate to Israel, or some other western country (those interested in this topic can find a more detailed discussion here).  Jews in Russia today deliberately chose to stay and that, right there, show a very different attitude than the attitude of those (Jews and non-Jews) who took the first opportunity to get out of Russia as soon as possible.  Bottom line – Ziocons feel an overwhelming and always present hatred for Russia and Russians and that factor is one of the key components of their motivations.  Unless you take that hatred into account you will never be able to make sense of the Ziocons and their demented policies.

Making sense of Trump

I think that Trump can be criticized for a lot of things, but there is exactly zero evidence of him ever harboring anti-Russian feelings.  There is plenty of evidence that he has always been pro-Israeli, but no more than any politician or businessman in the USA.  I doubt that Trump even knows where the Golan Heights even are.  He probably also does not know that Hezbollah and Daesh are mortal enemies.  Yes, Trump is a poorly educated ignoramus who is much better suited to the shows in Las Vegas than to be President of a nuclear superpower, but I don’t see any signs of him being hateful of anybody.  More generally, the guy is really not ideological.  The best evidence is his goofy idea of building a wall to solve the problem of illegal immigration: he (correctly) identified a problem, but then he came up with a Kindergarten level (pseudo) solution.  The same goes for his views on Russia.  He probably figured out something along these lines: “Putin is a strong guy, Russia is a strong country, they hate Daesh and want to destroy it – let’s join forces”.  The poor man apparently had absolutely no idea of the power and maniacal drive of the Neocons who met him once he entered the White House.  Even worse is the fact that he apparently does not realize that they are now using him to try out some pretty demented policies for which they will later try to impeach him as the sole culprit should things go wrong (and they most definitely will).  Frankly, I get the feeling that Trump was basically sincere in his desire to “drain the swamp” but that he is simply not too clever (just the way he betrayed Flynn and Bannon to try to appease the Ziocons is so self-defeating and, frankly, stupid).  But even if I am wrong and Trump was “their” plant all along (I still don’t believe that at all), the end result is the same: we now have the Ziocons in total control of BOTH parties in Congress (or, more accurately, both wings of the Ziocon party in Congress), in total control of the White House, the mass media and Hollywood.  I am not so sure that they truly are in control of the Pentagon, but when I see the kind of pliable and spineless figures military Trump has recently appointed, I get the feeling that there are only two types of officers left in the top ranks of the US military: retired ones and “ass-kissing little chickenshits” à la Petraeus.  Not good.  Not good at all.  As for the ridiculously bloated (and therefore mostly incompetent) “three letter agencies soup”, it appears that it has been turned from an intelligence community to a highly politicized propaganda community whose main purpose is to justify whatever counter-factual insanity their political bosses can dream up.  Again. Not good.  Not good at all.

Living with ZOG :-)

ZOG.  Or “Zionist Occupation Government”.  That used to be the favorite expression of various Jew-haters out there and it’s use was considered the surefire sign of a rabid anti-Semite.  And yet, that is precisely what we are now all living with: a Zionist occupation government which has clearly forced Trump to make a 180 on all his campaign promises and which now risks turning the USA into a radioactive desert resulting from a completely artificial and needless confrontation with Russia.  To those horrified that I would dare use an expression like ZOG  I will reply this: believe me, I am even more upset about having to admit that ZOG is real than you are: I really don’t care for racists of any kind, and most of these ZOG folks looks like real racists to me.  But, alas, they are also right!  Facts are facts, you cannot deny them or refuse to correctly qualify them that because of the possible “overtones” of the term chosen or because of some invented need to be especially “sensitive” when dealing with some special group.  Remember – Jews are not owed any special favor and there is no need to constantly engage in various forms of complex linguistic or mental yoga contortions when discussing them and their role in the modern world.  Still, I am using ZOG here just to show that it can be done, but this is not my favorite expression.  I just feel that committing the crimethink here will encourage others to come out of their shell and speak freely.  At the very least, asking the question of whether we do or do not have a Zionist Occupation Government is an extremely important exercise all by itself.  Hence, today I ZOG-away :-)

Some might argue with the “occupation” part of the label.  Okay – what would you call a regime which is clearly acting in direct opposition to the will of an overwhelming majority of the people and which acts in the interests of a foreign power (with which the USA does not even have a formal treaty)?  Because, please make no mistake here, this is not a Trump-specific phenomenon.  I think that it all began with Reagan and that the Ziocons fully seized power with Bill Clinton.  Others think that it all began with Kennedy.  Whatever may be the case, what is clear is that election after election Americans consistently vote for less war and each time around they get more wars.  It is true that most Americans are mentally unable to conceptually analyze the bizarre phenomena of a country with no enemies and formidable natural barriers needs to spend more on wars of aggression then the rest of the planet spends of defense.  Nor are they equipped to wonder why the US needs 16/17 intelligences agencies when the vast majority of countries out there do fine with 2-5.  Lastly, most Americans do believe that they have some kind of duty to police the planet.  True.  But at the same time, they are also sick and tired of wars, if only because so many of their relatives, friends and neighbors return from these wars either dead or crippled.  That, and the fact that Americans absolutely hate losing. Losing is all the USA has been doing since God knows how long: losing wars against all but the weakest and most defenseless countries out there.  Most Americans also would prefer that the money spent aboard on “defending democracy” (i.e. imperialism) be spent at home to help the millions of  Americans in need in the USA.  As the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd (which hails from Jacksonville, Florida) once put it in their songs “Things goin’ on“:

Too many lives they’ve spent across the ocean
Too much money been spent upon the moon
Well, until they make it right
I hope they never sleep at night
They better make some changes
And do it soon

Soon? That song was written in 1978!  And since then, nothing has changed.  If anything, things got worse, much worse.

Houston, we got a problem

ZOG is not an American problem.  It is a planetary problem, if only because right now ZOG controls the US nuclear arsenal.  And Trump, who clearly and unequivocally campaigned on a peace platform, is now sending a “very powerful armada” to the coast of the DPRK.  Powerful as this armada might be, it can do absolutely nothing to prevent the DPRK artillery from smashing Seoul into smithereens.  You think that I am exaggerating?  Business Insider estimated in 2010 that it would take the DPRK 2 hours to completely obliterate Seoul. Why?  Because the DPRK has enough artillery pieces to fire 500,000 rounds of artillery on Seoul in the first hour of a conflict, that’s why.  Here we are talking about old fashioned, conventional, artillery pieces. Wikipedia says that the DPRK has 8,600 artillery pieces and 4,800 multiple rocket launcher systems.  Two days ago a Russian expert said that the real figure was just under 20’000 artillery pieces.  Whatever thee exact figure, suffice to say that it is “a lot”.

The DPRK also has some more modern but equally dangerous capabilities.  Of special importance here are the roughly 200’000 North Korean special forces.   Oh sure, these 200’000 are not US Green Beret or Russian Spetsnaz, but they are adequate for their task: to operate deep behind enemy lies and create chaos and destroy key objectives.  You tell me – what can the USS Carl Vinson carrier strike group deploy against these well hidden and dispersed 10’000+ artillery pieces and 200’000 special forces? Exactly, nothing at all.

And did I mention that the DPRK has nukes?

No, I did not.  First, I am not at all sure that the kind of nukes the DPRK has can be fitted for delivery on a missile.  Having a few nukes and having missiles is one thing, having missiles capable of adequately delivering these nukes is quite another.  I suppose that DPRK special forces could simply drive a nuke down near Seoul on a simple army truck and blow it up.  Or bring it in a container ship somewhere in the general vicinity of a US or Korean base and blow it up there.  One neat trick would be to load a nuke on a civilian ship, say a fishing vessel, and bring it somewhere near the USS Carl Vinson and then blow it up.  Even if the USN ships survive this unscathed, the panic aboard these ships would be total.  To be honest, this mostly Tom Clancy stuff, in real warfare I don’t think that the North Korean nukes would be very useful against a US attack.  But you never know, necessity is the mother of invention, as the British like to say.

I don’t believe that Trump is dumb enough to actually strike at North Korea.  I think that his dumbass plan is probably to shoot down a DPRK missile to show that he has made “America great again” or something equally asinine.  The problem here is that I am not sure at all how Kim Jong-un and his Party minions might react to that kind of loss of face.  What if they decided that they needed to fire some more missiles, some in the general direction of US forces in the region (there are fixed US targets all over the place).  Then what?  How will Trump prove that he is the biggest dog on the block?  Could he decide to “punish” the offending missile launch site like he did with the al-Sharyat airbase in Syria?  And if Trump does that – what will Kim Jong-un’s reaction be?

To be totally honest, I don’t think that the “very powerful armada” will do anything other than waste the US taxpayer’s money.  I am getting a strong sense that Trump is all about appearance over substance, what the Russians call “показуха” – a kind of fake show of force, full with special effects and “cool” photo ops, but lacking any real substance.  Still, being on the receiving end of Trump’s показуха (po-kah-zoo-kha) must be unnerving,  especially if you already have natural paranoid tendencies.  I am not at all sure the Kim Jong-un will find the presence of the US carrier strike group as pathetic and useless as I do.

Both Russia and Syria have shown an amazing about of restraint when provoked by Turkey or the US.  This is mostly due to the fact that Russian and Syrian leaders are well-educated people who are less concerned with loss of face than with achieving their end result.  In direct contrast,  both Kim Jong-un and Trump are weak, insecure, leaders with an urgent need to prove to their people (and to themselves!) that they are tough guys.   Exactly the most dangerous kind of  mindset you want in any nuclear-capable power, be it huge like the USA or tiny like the DPRK.

So what does that have to do with the ZOG and the Ziocons?

Everything.

They are the ONLY ONES who really want to maintain the AngloZionst Empire at any cost.  Trump made it clear over and over again that his priority was the USA and the American people, not the Empire.  And yet now is is playing a crazy game of “nuclear chicken” with the DPRK.  Does that sound like the “real Trump” to you?  Maybe – but not to me.  All this crazy stuff around the DPRK and the (few) nukes it apparently has, is all just a pretext to “play empire”, to show that, as Obama liked to say, the USA is the “indispensable nation“.  God forbid the local countries would deal with that problem alone, without USN carrier strike groups involved in the “solving” of this problem!

[Sidebar: by the way, this is also the exact same situation in Syria: the Russians have single-handedly organized a viable peace-process on the ground and then followed it up with a multi-party conference in Astana, Kazakhstan.  Looks great except for one problem: the indispensable nation was not even invited. Even worse, the prospects of peace breaking out became terribly real.  The said indispensable nation therefore “invited itself” by illegally (and ineffectually) bombing a Syrian air base and, having now proven its capacity to wreck any peace process, the USA is now right back in center-stage of the negotiations about the future of Syria.  In a perverse way, this almost makes sense.]

So yes, we have a problem and that problem is that ZOG is in total control of the Empire and will never accept to let it go, even if that means destroying the USA in the process.

I can imagine the gasp of horror and disgust some of you will have at seeing me use the ZOG expression.  I assure you, it is quite deliberate on my part.  I want to 1) wake you up and 2) show you that you cannot allow the discomfort created by conditioning to guide your analyses.  As with all the other forms of crimethink, I recommend that you engage in a lot of it, preferably in public, and you will get used to it.  First it will be hard, but with time it will get easier (it is also great fun).  Furthermore, somebody needs to be the first one to scream “the emperor has no clothes“.  Then, once one person does it, the others realize that it is safe and more follow.  The key thing here is not to allow ideological “sacred cows” to roam around your intellectual mindspace and limit you in your thinking.  Dogmas should be limited to Divine revelations, not human ideological constructs.

Where do we go from here?

Things are coming to a head.  Trump presented himself as a real alternative to the ultimate warmongering shabbos-shiksa Hillary.  It is now pretty darn obvious that what we got ourselves is just another puppet, but that the puppet-masters have not changed.  The good news is that those who were sincere in their opposition to war are now openly speaking about Trump great betrayal.  From Ann Coulter to Pat Buchanan, many paleo-Conservatives clearly “got it”.  As did the real progressives.  What we are left with is what I call the “extreme center”, basically zombies who get their news from the Ziomedia and who have so many mental blocks that it takes weeks of focused efforts to basically bring them back to reality.

The key issue here is how do we bring together those who are still capable of thought?  I think that a minimalist agenda we can all agree upon could be composed of the following points:

1.    Peace/pacifism

2.    International law

3.    Human and civil rights

4.    Democracy

5.    Pluralism

6.    Anti-racism

7.    Ethics and morality

Sounds harmless?  It ain’t, I assure you.  ZOG can only survive by violence, terror and war. Furthermore, the AngloZionist Empire cannot abide by any principles of international law.  As for human and civil rights, one quick look at the Patriot Act (which was already ready by the time the 9/11 false flag operation was executed) will tell you how ZOG feels about these issues.  More proof?  How about the entire “fake news” canard? How about the new levels of censorship in YouTube, Facebook or Google?  Don’t you see that this is simply a frontal attack on free speech and the First Amendment?!  What about Black Lives Matter – is that not a perfect pretext to justify more police powers and a further militarization of police forces?  To think that the Zionists care about human or civil rights is a joke!  Just read what the Uber-Zionist and [putative] human right lawyer, the great Alan Dershowitz writes about torture, Israel or free speech (for Norman Finkelstein).  Heck, just read what ultra-liberal super-mega human righter (well, after he returned to civilian life) and ex-President Jimmy Carter writes about Israel!  Or look at the policies of the Bolshevik regime in Russia.  It it pretty clear that these guys not only don’t give a damn about human or civil right, but that they are deeply offended and outraged when they are told that they cannot violate these rights.

What about democracy?  How can that be a intellectual weapon?  Simple – you show that every time the people (in the USA or Europe) voted for X they got Y.  Or they were told to re-vote and re-vote and re-vote again and again until, finally, the Y won.  That is a clear lack of democracy.  So if you say that you want to restore democracy, you are basically advocating regime-change, but nicely wrapped into a “good” ideological wrapper.  Western democracies are profoundly anti-democratic.  Show it!

Pluralism?  Same deal.  All this takes is to prove that the western society has become a “mono-ideological” society were real dissent is simply not tolerated and were real pluralism is completely absent from the public discourse.  Demand that the enemies of the system be given equal time on air and always make sure that you give the supporters of the system equal time on media outlets you (we) control.  Then ask them to compare.  This is exactly what Russia is doing nowadays (see here if you are interested). Western democracies are profoundly anti-pluralistic.  Again, show it!

Anti-racism.  Should be obvious to the reader by now.  Denounce, reject and attack any idea which gives any group any special status.  Force your opponents to fess up to the fact that what they really want when they claim to struggle for “equality” is a special status for their single-issue minority.  Reject any and all special interest groups and, especially, reject the notion that democracy is about defending the minority against the majority.  In reality, minorities are always much more driven and motivated by a single issue which is why a coalition of minorities inevitably comes to power.  What the world needs is the exact opposite: a democracy which would protect the majority against the minorities.  Oh, sure, they will fight you on this one, but since you are right this is an intellectual argument you ought to be capable of winning pretty easily (just remember, don’t let accusations of crimethink freeze you in terror).

Last, my favorite one: ethics and morality.  The modern western society has been built on a categorical rejection of ethics and morality.  Slogans like “God is dead” or “Beyond good and evil” resulted in the most abject and viciously evil century in human history: the 20th century.  Furthermore, most people by now can tell that Hollywood, and its bigger brother, the US porn industry, have played a central role in basically removing categories such as “good” or “truth” or “honor” from the mind of those infected by the US mass media, especially the Idiot-box (aka “telescreen” in Orwell’s 1984).  Instead unbridled greed and consumption became the highest and most sacred expression of “our way of life” as Americans like to say.  Hollywood movies proclaimed that “greed is good“.  In fact, at the very core of the capitalist ideology is the belief that the sum total of everybody’s greed yields the happiest and most successful society possible.  Crazy and sick stuff, but I don’t have the place to discuss this here.  All I will say that that rehabilitating notions such as right and wrong, good and evil, truth and falsehood, healthy and natural versus unnatural and pathological is a great legal way (at least so far) to fight the Empire.  Ditto for sexual morality and family.  There is a reason why all Hollywood movies inevitably present only divorced or sexually promiscuous heroes: they are trying to destroy the natural family unit because they *correctly* identify the traditional family unit as a threat to the AngloZionist order.  Likewise, there is also a reason why all the western elites are constantly plagued by accusations of pedophilia and other sexual scandals.  One Russian commentator, Vitalii Tretiakov, recently hilariously paraphrased the old communist slogan and declared “naturals of all countries – come to Russia” [in modern Russian “naturals” is the antonym of “homosexual”).  He was joking, of course, but he was also making a serious point: Russia has become the only country which dares to openly uphold the core values of Christianity and Islam (that, of course, only adds to the Ziocon’s hatred of Russia).

[Sidebar: by the way, and contrary to popular belief, Russia is not an especially religious country at all.  While only a minority of Russians is truly religious, a majority of Russians seem to support religious values as civilizational ones.  I don’t think that this is sustainable for too long, Russia will either become more religious or more secularized, but for the time being we have this apparently paradoxical situation of a generally secular society standing for traditional and religious values]

You might wonder how pacifism, international law, human and civil rights, democracy, pluralism, anti-racism, ethics and morality can help avert a nuclear war in Korea.  In truth – they cannot directly do this.  But in the long term, I firmly believe that these values can corrode the AngloZionist Empire from within.  And look at the alternatives: Organizing political parties does not work in a system where money determine the outcome.  “Direct action” does not work in a system which treats libertarians and ecologists as potential terrorists.  Public protests does not work in a regime where the Ziomedia gets to decide which demonstration gets coverage and which one does not.  Civil disobedience does not work in a regime which has no problem having the highest per capita incarceration rate on the planet.  Running for office does not work in a regime which selects for spinelessness, immorality and, above all, subservience.  Even running away abroad does not work when dealing with an Empire which has 700-1000 (depends on how you count) military bases worldwide and which will bomb the crap out of any government which strives at even a modicum of true sovereignty.  The only other option is “internal exile”, when you build yourself you own inner world of spiritual and intellectual freedom and you basically “live there” with no external signs of you having “fled” the Empire’s ugly reality.  But if nuclear-tipped ICBMs start flying no amount of “internal exile” will protect you, not even if you combine that internal exile with with a life far away in the boonies.

Orthodox Christian eschatology teaches that the End Times are inevitable.  However, the Fathers also teach that we can push the End Times back by our collective actions, be it in the form of prayers or in the form of an open resistance to Evil in our world.  I have three children, 1 girl and 2 boys, and I feel like I owe it to them to fight to make the world they will have to live even marginally better.  And even if all my efforts are vain, it least I know that I resisted with everything I got.  At the very least, I hope that it will inspire them to fight for their own children.  I also believe that I have to resist this Empire because of all the good, decent and kind people I met in my life, including the Americans I have been living next to for so many years now.  I don’t want any of them to die in a useless and stupid war triggered by the demented minds of a tiny demonic minority of mankind-hating psychopaths who, driven by their apparently infinite capacity for evil and self-delusion, apparently have convinced themselves that either they will own the planet or they will destroy it.

Saint Paul very accurately explained that “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Ephesians 6:12).  As for Ernesto Che Guevara, he wrote that “the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love” (Love of living humanity).  Today is Holy Paskha, the most joyful and sacred day in the Orthodox year, the day which marks the victory of Christ even against death itself!  In the beautiful words of Saint John Chrysostomos:

O Death, where is your sting? O Hell, where is your victory? Christ is risen, and you are overthrown. Christ is risen, and the demons are fallen. Christ is risen, and the angels rejoice. Christ is risen, and life reigns. Christ is risen, and not one dead remains in the grave.

These words and this promise should give us the courage to resist no matter how ugly, evil and insane the world around us can become.  Because we do not struggle against flesh and blood, but against wickedness in high places, and because we are not moved by hatred, but by the love for our fellow human being.  Finally, the following words written by a true Jew several millennia ago will, I hope, give us all the courage to struggle until our victory: “I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, who beset me round about. Arise, Lord; deliver me, my God: for thou hast smitten all who were without cause mine enemies; thou hast broken the teeth of sinners.  Deliverance is the Lord’s, and thy blessing is upon thy people” (Ps. 3).

I greet you all with the ancient Christian greeting of Christ is Risen!

The Saker

PS: I pretty much know what to expect next.  First, some will make me say things I never said by beginning their dishonest paraphrase with the words “in other words…” and then fill the blank with stuff I never said.  Others will try to summarize this 6300+ words long text in a one line slogan which will grossly misrepresent my analysis.  I won’t ask the mods to ban such post, but I just want to warn you that the use of either one of these techniques will guarantee that I will ignore your post.  Likewise, I have included a lot of pointers to outside texts and sources and if you decided not to read them and that shows in your comment, I will likewise ignore it.  You have been warned ;-)