Joseph Goebbels' technique of the big lie entails deceiving people with big, brazen lies and repeating them unrelentingly. If truth is to set us free, we must spread it with boldness and determination. We must push back and expose the lies. They who desire wars are few, and we who desire peace are many. Even if they can silence some of us, they can not silence us all. Do your part, reject fear and the lies, and together we can put an end to today's dystopian state of permanent war.
A good example of the big lie is the way Bill Browder "proved" Putin's corruption. His proof is laughable, yet corporate media treat Browder as an expert on the matter and repeat his allegations as though they were unquestionable facts. As suspicious as such blatant bias should be, the big lie technique seems to work. Today, most westerners seem inclined to believe that Putin routinely has critics and political rivals assassinated, that he amassed a vast personal fortune and that he runs Russia as his own personal fiefdom.
The demonization that gave rise to these beliefs is not an accident of chance. As we've already seen through examples of Slobodan Milosevic (Serbia), Saddam Hussein (Iraq), Moammar Gaddafi (Libya) and Bashar Al Assad (Syria), vilifying a foreign leader is regularly used to generate public consent for war. Negative perception of target nations' leaders predisposes the public, especially those who deem themselves fair minded and progressive, to accept war or regime change operations as a way to "help" that nation free itself from political oppression and gain greater freedom and democracy.
Wars for resources or hegemony may not be acceptable to the public, but fighting wars to protect human rights is a different matter. Over the years I've heard many otherwise well-meaning and learned intellectuals strain to justify even clearly illegal wars, so long as they believed them to be motivated by human rights considerations.
Another big war could happen
In the age of permanent warfare we should not complacently believe that another world war is impossible. There are well understood (but never discussed) systemic reasons why a part of the western economic/political establishment regularly resorts to war as their preferred policy tool. They positively desire such a war and their agenda is not burdened by moral scruples that would inhibit 99.9% of us.
Having lived in the 1990s through the outbreak of war in former Yugoslavia I felt the obligation to discover the truth and to do my part to expose the big lie that could catalyze the next world war. The product of my effort is the book Grand Deception (now banned by those who wish for war against Russia) from where the following series of articles was excerpted.
Excerpt: why even bother about who Putin is as a man?
For a long time, even after Bill Browder alerted me to the fact that Putin might actually be a force for good in Russia, I had little interest in understanding Putin as a man. I thought of him as a politician and I generally subscribe to the idea that political power attracts precisely the sort of people who should not have it. I also believe that power corrupts even otherwise decent men and women, and I expected that Vladimir Putin was no different. It was not difficult for me to believe that he probably was corrupt and that he used his position to enrich himself, his family members and his associates. That, at any rate, is what everyone else in the west knew about Mr. Putin.
It was only as a consequence of the shrill and constant demonization of Vladimir Putin in the aftermath of the 2014 coup in Ukraine that I felt compelled to try and find out more about who he was as a person. I started by watching many of his speeches and interviews, listening carefully at what he was saying, as well as the way he was speaking.
In his famous "Munich speech" the Russian President delivered on February 10, 2007, Putin called attention to the crumbling system of international relations in the post-Cold War era and the inevitable doom of the unipolar world order. In many respects his warnings proved prophetic.
I also watched a number of documentaries about him - a few flattering films and many unflattering ones. I also searched online for testimonials from people who knew him personally and worked with him. The portrait of the man that emerged from many such testimonials as well as his own actions seems to be in a complete discord with the reputation Vladimir Putin had gained in the west. Here are some of the incidences that impacted my own perception of him.
Putting the people first
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis Putin declared publicly that he bore responsibility to ensure that the 1998 crisis would not repeat itself on his watch. His government also took proactive steps to limit the fallout from the crisis. In July 2008, Putin personally went to the town of Pikalyevo in Leningrad Oblast to confront the directors and owners of a large metallurgical factory. This was not long after the owners had shut the facility down, suspending without pay thousands of their workers.
Addressing the gathering, Putin excoriated them, saying that because of their unprofessional conduct and greed, thousands of families would find themselves destitute. This was unacceptable to his government and he ordered the owners to restart the facility, else the government would do it without them. He further ordered the management to immediately ("deadline today") pay all workers' salary arrears, amounting to more than 41 million rubles. This episode was recorded in a news report that subsequently became a very popular video on the internet. This almost certainly served a public relations event, but even so its intent and message was to alert the oligarch class not to treat the lives of their employees as a disposable resource.
Then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chastised Oleg Deripaska, once Russia's richest man, and other Russian businessmen at a meeting in Pikalyovo.
Putin took similar action protecting the ordinary people in another crisis situation. During his first winter as president, entire towns and villages across the far east of the country counting as many as 400,000 inhabitants, lost heating for the lack of coal. A serious crisis emerged with mines shutting down, workers out in the streets and even hospitals ceasing to function because of the cold. But the coal for heating was available in Russia, only most of it was already allotted for export. Vladimir Putin didn't think that Russian people should suffer freezing conditions all winter in order for that coal to be exchanged for American dollars. He decreed that export of coal be stopped immediately and that all available quantities be sent back to Siberia to fuel the boiler stations.
What these examples show is that in Putin's world, well-being of the people takes precedence over financial profits of the investor class. This concept may seem exotic and alien to Westerners who for a generation had been brainwashed with neoliberal economics where profits trump any and every other concern, including health and well-being of the people.
In stark contrast listen to what Larry Kudlow, currently the Director of the National Economic Council under President Donald Trump, had to say in the immediate aftermath of Japan's March 2011 tsunami that killed at least 20,000 people: "The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll and we can be grateful for that."
I do believe however that, beyond the brainwash, every normal person - even western-educated economists - would agree that in a crisis, the decent thing to do would be to take care of the people and let the oligarchs cope with one quarter or a year of impaired profitability of their enterprises.
To be continued...
Alex Krainer is a hedge fund manager and author. His book, twice banned by Amazon in September 2017 and again in August 2018 is now available in pdf, kindle, and epub formats at the following link "Grand Deception: Truth About Bill Browder, the Magnitsky Act and Anti-Russian Sanctions." Paperback version published by Red Pill Press is now available here. Alex also wrote one book on commodities trading.
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Mr Putin has saved Russia from western neoliberal economics, i.e, plundering for the benefit of them. Obviously, such deeds must be masked behind democracy, freedom, virtue, and what not. BUT, it is nothing of the sort. Quite the opposite actually.
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And what happened, those things have to come pass, we are seeing that reality right now, most are on the borders of Russia.
I think this a dilemma for the west, because, Putin is incorruptible (hence all the MSM smears that are so outrageous, it deserves an entry in the Guinness book of world record) for the most outrageous comments by journalists world wide,
It not only demonstrates, there intellectual ability, but also journalistic ability as purveyors of pure slut.
And that is what is bandied around today as truth, slut, more suited to to something that can be picked up at the checkout counter of any grocery in the west, the click bait phenomenon.
After all it sells copies, its's OK when I see it in the grocery store, I have a choice, I can pick it up or leave alone, but when it invades the space of my home, that is another matter.
To sell ones intellectual ability to the highest bidder, truth or lies, good or bad, it is up to the individual to decide.
YOU DROPPED THE BOMB 2X ON JAPAN AFTER THEY SURRENDERED, JUST TO SEE IF ALL YOUR HARD WORKING STOLEN MONEY AND THE USE OF THE NAZI SCIENTISTS WHOM YOU ADOPTED AND PROTECTED AFTER THE RUSSIANS LIBERATED BERLIN, AND YET YOU FINANCED THE NAZI WAR MACHINE TO RAPE AND DESTROY EUROPE AT THE VERY BEGINNING, WITHOUT THE FRIENDLY RUSSIANS, GERMANY WOULDNT OF FALLEN,
NOBODY IS BORN EVIL, ITS A CHOICE THEY MAKE, THE USA, WELL, FFS, LOOK IN THE FRIGGIN MIRROR, LOOK AT THE WORLD, LOOK AT WHAT YOUVE DONE, KILLED MILLIONS, DESTROYED FOREIGN CITYS, ALL FOR WHAT? "OIL"
WORDS FAIL ME, WHAT A JOKE!!
They are psychopaths and none of any of that matters to them in the least.
Nothing matters to them, they have no. conscience; there is only 'wining' the game.
Personally, I think Putin is the greatest.
And once he acquires more technology, he will be greater still.
For we all know technology is the way that man improves, both individually and as a whole.
Technology is how the good people get better and how we get rid of and/or control all the bad people.
You better believe it!
It also helps that Putin looks just like my uncle Elmer Fudd.
Totally.
signed,
Gulag Fudd
@Gulag:
Putin looks like Uncle Fester.
But I do agree with you, technology is how men become kings. And how kings bercome ruthless.
Stars in their very own prolonged and garish nightmare.
Though they may not know it, yet.
What goes up, must come down.
ned,
out
About 20 years ago, I had begun asking people in different forums to relate live with evil, and lived with devil.
They are not co-incidentals. To this day, no one has been able to make a relation. Yet we think we can discuss evil.
Get serious.
Shalom
Evil = Live spelled backwards.
Meaning Evil Lives. And for me Evil Is Alive, evident in evil acts that both intentionally violate and/or destroys any Human dignity, respect, freedoms, inalienable rights, property, living environment, future, Etc. War and Human and Animal Slavery are the most perfect examples of disgustingly Evil Acts that I can possibly think of.
So, if Evil are in fact Acts of Man, than this should be easily ended and resolved by the majority of good Men of Morals, Yet it has Not, Yet been Done!?! Not an abstract concept.
How did I do? Because I believe that I completely understand your well made point and frustrations. Evil lives and thrives because WE The People allow it to do so.
We don't know Putin and will never meet him so must make an educated guess from his actions, and he has, in fact, made a lot of sensible and humane decisions while building his country back up from the edge of utter disaster. He possesses a great deal of energy and determination along with an implacable calm courage that most people can only dream of.
But before he goes on a pedestal, one does note his human blind spots: He's a 'believer' (Russian Orthodox), he fails to see women as equally capable (remarked on 'monthly moodiness' as a weakness), and does not accept LGBTQ as a normal part of humanity.
The frantic and relentless Putin/Russia-bashing in the Western media is probably related to the extreme difficulty and frustration for whichever 'intelligence' agencies wish to attempt 'regime-change' or outright assassination. All in all, Putin is a remarkable human.
Intelligent... diplomatic... and not shy about asking for his pen back. And when Israel shot down a Russian jet, Putin showed sooo much restraint...
Thankfully Iโm not him, the probability of pissing off everybody that believed a lie, which is mostly everyone... would be high, though only a probability. I would need time to calm down.
โHe came to town for the Republican National Convention and will stay until the election in November TO DO GOD'S BIDDING: To tell the world, from Kansas City, this country has been found wanting and its days are numbered [...] He gestured toward a gleaming church dome. โThe gold dome is the symbol of Babylon,โ he said.โ [...] He wanted to bring to the Publicโs attention an โidea being put out subtly and deceptivelyโ by the government that we have to get prepared for a war with Russia.โ
That 1976 FUTURE is NOW with the Revelation of the details GENERALLY unfolding in the spirit of the letter. The World is waking up to see Trump may hasten โits days are numberedโ part of the 1976 Vision.
Trump and the Republican Congress rescinded the few Regulations put in place to prevent another Global Financial Collapse-Economic Pearl Harbour as happened in 2008. Withdrawing from the Iran Nuclear Deal and effectively Declaring War on Iran with Economic Warfare designed to destroy the Iranian Economy supporting it's 80 million People before resorting to bombs, withTrump's "easy to win' Trade War against US Allies will hasten the Day. It's not a question of IF but WHEN?
The Kansas City Times did a follow up on ALL SOULS DAY , November 2, 1976. The TV movie 'THE DAY AFTER' Kansas City was incinerated in a Nuclear Holocaust appeared in 1983.
At THE END, the movie pauses at the very same picture frame The Kansas City Times chose for the ALL SOULS DAY record 7 years earlier, except I had nothing to do with the movie.
Any way you look at it, those HISTORICAL FACTS are a confirming SIGN for our Generations, the World has finally arrived at this point of Decision, of an โidea being put out subtly and deceptivelyโ by the government that we have to get prepared for a war with Russia .โ
The constant US anti-Russia/Putin Propaganda in the media 24/7 for the last 2 years, confirms that part of the preparation in the 1976 Vision is well under way.
Few will recognize, โthis country has been found wanting and its days are numberedโ as the 1st two parts, of the 3 part "Writing on the Wall" from Daniel 5 and the Captivity of Babylon some 2600 years ago.
The whole world saw โThe Writing on the Wallโ for the 1st TIME at the same TIME, with the Global Financial Meltdown-Economic Pearl Harbour in September of 2008, even if the world does not recognize it as such,
"They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone." In other words, "It's the Economy, Stupid!"
The 3rd part of the Writing on the Wall tells of the decline of Babylon, the 1st Biblical model of the Nation reaching Imperial Military-Economic Superpower Status, and the rise of Persia.
Ancient Babylon is now Iraq, and ancient Persia is now Iran.
The US is the latest, greatest, of all the Nations reaching Imperial Military-Economic Superpower Status in the 2600 year old Biblical Babylonian superstructure.
The TAIL struck the HEAD , invading Iraq in violation of International Law, causing the unravelling of the Earthly Babylonian superstructure/infrastructure, undermining the Global Order as represented by the United Nations since WWII, and ushering in the Law of the Jungle to the Middle East and this World.
It also paved the way for increased Iranian influence in their own region of this world where the US is the interloper.
The Iranian Revolution happened in 1979, 2-1/2 years after the Public Historical Record in the 1976 Kansas City Times Timeline.
All the chaos in the Middle East since then, including the WORLD WAR in Syria, is the consequence of the vain attempt to reverse that God ordained, repeat of History, as a SIGN of The Times for our Generations.
The 2 original 1976 newspaper records, clips from 'THE DAY AFTER' Kansas City was incinerated in a Nuclear Holocaust, and much more not included in this comment can be examined following the link below.
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Quotes "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." and "The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed." are widely and incorrectly attributed to Goebbels. It is probable that these are the paraphrases of the Goebbels' text "Churchill's Lie Factory" where he said: "The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous." - Jospeh Goebbels, "Aus Churchills Lรผgenfabrik," 12. january 1941, Die Zeit ohne Beispiel. Or Churchill's Lie Factory
No wonder they've no shame selling the salacious Salisbury Saga.
In Reading 3976-10, given on Feb. 8, 1932, the suggestion to the sleeping Cayce included a request for a "plan for establishing peace on earth and good will among men."
(Q) What should be the attitude of so-called capitalist nations toward Russia?
(A) On Russia's religious development will come the greater hope of the world. Then that one, or group, that is the closer in its relationships, may fare the better in the gradual changes and final settlement of conditions as to the rule of the world.
(Q) Should the United States recognize the present government in Russia?
(A) Many conditions should be considered, were this to be answered correctly. You could say yes and no, and both be right, with the present attitude of both peoples as a nation, and both be wrong; for there is to come, there will come, an entire change in the attitude of both nations as powers in the financial and economical world. As for those of raw resources, Russia surpasses all other nations. As for abilities for development of same, those in the United States are the farthest ahead. Then these united, or upon an equitable basis, would become - or could become-powers; but there are many interferences for those already investments, those already under questions, will take years to settle."
Edgar Cayce responded:
What then of nations? In Russia there comes the hope of the world, not as that sometimes termed of the Communistic, of the Bolshevistic; no. But freedom, freedom! that each man will live for his fellow man! The principle has been born. It will take years for it to be crystallized, but out of Russia comes again the hope of the world. Guided by what? That friendship with the nation that hath even set on its present monetary unit "In God We Trust."