[I]n general clarity is more maturing than illusion….
Whittaker Chambers
Discussion with Victor and Thomas
Today I had the privilege of discussing communist subversion in Brazil and Poland with Victor Cameron in Brazil and Thomas from Germany. I wanted to get a Brazilian’s perspective on what happened with President Jair Bolsonaro. Why did his presidency result in the demoralization of the Brazilian people? I wanted to get a European perspective on what is happening in Poland now that the Law and Justice Party has lost the elections. Americans may notice certain similarities to their own situation.
109 responses to “On Losing in Brazil, Poland, and the Plight of Wagner PMC: Plus, the Psychometrics of Subversion”
Jeff not sure if you can comment, around 2023 in September, an journalist in New Zealand interviewed me on the 4th anniversary of the Hong Kong Protest, one of the questions they asked on what they achieved in Hong Kong during the protests, when i responded to the journalist in what way is it an achievement when around 30,000 to 40,000 people are missing or killed and people were encouraged to go in the streets which resulted in deaths and abductions how is that an achievement, when i asked the journalist that they should write Hong Kong in 2019 was more of a conquest rather than a protest with so many people dead or missing and young people who had no clue that they were encouraged by controlled opposition personalities within the Hong Kong Democracy Movement who are also known to be controlled opposition and there are still grieving parents who are still hoping their children will come back, the Hong Kong Protest of 2019 is not a victory or achievement when many people end up dead or missing, at the end i told the journalist that i dare her to put write about the interview on the internet in a blog or newspaper on what was discussed in the interview, the journalistnat the end replied by saying ‘i don’t think my bosses or managers will allow me to write an article about the interview’.
Well, that’s curious. A journalist who does not want to tell the truth about the Hong Kong protests unless it aligns with some happy face. So we have to sweep everything under the rug. Doesn’t this journalists know that the Beijing communists conquered Hong Kong in their usual murderous way? And why would her bosses not print the truth? Are they afraid of Beijing, even in New Zealand?
Good Morning Jeff — I pray for you.
I took this clue from a semi-autobiographical novel. When your country is dying, (or the world is in a lot of trouble) a good person stops smiling.
I’m close to finishing “Jeff’s Warbook” all of your articles, all comments; on a few WordPad documents – so I can quickly search for all suggestions about the most relevant subjects.
Currently “War” . . . . and then arranged with the most useful comments.
Regards,
Librarian
Most journalists aren’t concerned with truth anymore.
Well, it is curious — because truth-telling is what journalism is for. Imagine the curiosity of doctors who go around poisoning people instead of healing them, or the curiosity of politicians who oppose their own country’s interests rather than guarding those interests — or businessmen who destroy wealth instead of creating it. Such curiosities need looking into.
Jeff not sure if you can comment, another thing i noticed with the Hong Kong protest is that the incident came 5 years after the Russians started the 2014 war in Ukraine
Perhaps it was more significant that the Hong Kong provocation immediately preceded or coincided with the pandemic.
There are several arguments in support of Prigozhyn’s revolt being real. One, is that Yuriy Felshtinsky noted that Putin and Medvedev had rushed to leave Moscow. Also many other people in power decided to run away from the country. Their behavior was a bit panicky and chaotic. Nobody had openly defended Putin. Everyone was waiting to see how things will turn out.
Second argument is that it did not benefit Putin, making him look weak. No political technologist would suggest staging such mutiny.
Third piece of information to consider comes from the insider Valeriy Solovey, who I generally tend to believe. From his words Prigozhyn did not act alone. Kremlin has different groups of power. Prigozhyn was supported by one of these groups. So he went while he had this support. And he stopped and turned around as soon as this support for unknown reasons was withdrawn from him.
I tend to believe Valery Solovey because I remember his insider information before the war started in 2022. There were lots of voices about Putin bluffing. But Solovey had said that the meeting had already took place. And decision to start a war was made. He gave a range of dates and it all happened within that range. When I listen to him talking he does not make an impression of a liar.
Good arguments, Valentyna. Many thought Putin looked frightened in his delivery before the cameras. Then there were the stories of helicopters being blown out of the sky by Prigozhin’s column, and the command plane shot down. Of course, this scenario is as puzzling as the provocation scenario. Why didn’t the Army move agaisnt Prigozhin immediately? How embarrassing to let him take Rostov. Could it be that Shoigu and Gerasimov were behind it, using Prigozhin’s accusations against them as an alibi? Could they have run Prigozhin as a provocation which was simultaneously used to weaken Putin, and to secure more power for the generals? Was Prigozhin killed by Putin or by Gerasimov? So many questions. Thus, Putin’s fear could have been genuine either way. To stage a fake mutiny, under the circumstances, would have been asking for trouble. Indeed, this is the biggest problem as you point out. No political technologists would have suggested such a mutiny. But somebody staged it, provocation or not. Perhaps it did not cause a general uprising as hoped. Maybe that was the plan. Has Putin lost a degree of power as a result of the mutiny? Did anyone benefit? Is there more power sharing now? There have always been curious and contradictory statements from deep inside the regime, like the one made by former Ukrainian President Kravchuk that Putin and Medvedev were really the men in charge. He said they were merely standing in for persons who remain in the shadows. Very odd thing for a former high-level Communist Party insider and Republic President to say on Ukrainian television back in December 2011. It is difficult to understand what happened and why, unless Prigozhin simply got too big for his britches and got put down like a mad dog.
Prigozhin’s “coup” was rather a fake one. Back in the day, Soviets set up the Operation Trust good enough to lure all anti-revolutionary traitors out in the guise of monarchism, ultra conservatism and Christianity. This operation was masterminded by the Cheka under Felix Dzerzhinsky, and it was the modern precursor for false flags. If the Soviets and communists were willing to stage false flag operations for decades, then Prigozhin’s one was nothing more than an episode of a long campaign. I suspect the goal of Prigozhin’s false flag coup was to lure any remaining far-right, conservative radicals in Russia who can pose a threat against global communism. Keep in mind that Russia doesn’t like keeping crazed ultranationalists and fascists around. If those crazies can be spiritually converted to communism and have great talents like Kamo (legendary bank robber), then they could be used for further operations. Prigozhin is not on the level with Kamo.
He was eliminated because he was asking the Soviets more than what he deserved. The Soviets were aware of this and lured him into doing soft coup. After it, Soviets were able to arrest all crazed extremists in Russia. Prigozhin’s saga is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things but what is most surprising that Russia scored a psychological win against the West out of nowhere. The Western leaders refuse to support Prigozhin or make any statement about it at all because they were terrified of any crazed person like Prigozhin becoming the next leader of Russia which is never possible. The West was suckered by the communists again to later use this reason of Prigozhin to withdraw and downgrade aids to Ukraine.
Without wider support, Prigozhin’s mutiny could not have replaced the government. One has to wonder what he was trying to accomplish. All who joined him, and some who winked at him, exposed themselves to retaliation. Why?
Xeno, if Prigozhin was crazed, then so is Putin.
Looking forward to listening. I’m really curious about what’s going on in Poland. There are supposedly a record number of elections going on world wide. It’ll be interesting to see how they turn out.
Elections are a curious thing these days.
Dear Matt, the election loss of Polish Conservative Law and Justice Party is a great tragedy not only for Poland but also for the Europe and the entire World itself. Until now, Poland was growing and emerging as a major military power and an economic powerhouse slowly replacing even Germany itself. Poland has also been one the last bastions of sanity in Europe.
This is also a personal drama for me as well even if I don’t reside in Poland for the last thirty seven years.
Whether the “elections” in Poland were clean or not, I personally cannot say, however the Law and Justice Party decided not to contest its outcome so the matter is closed.
Unfortunately, Poland was now taken over by truly criminal gang that has already embarked on the permanent destruction of Law and Justice Party’s legacy, both in a political and economic sphere.
There is, obviously, no comparison between the former government and the current anti Polish regime of Donald Tusk. Nevertheless, Law and Justice Party’s leadership has made quite a few strategic blunders that allowed its’ enemies to present the Polish Conservatives in an extremely bad light.
The current Polish President Andrzej Duda, thanks to whom Law and Justice Party won the 2014 election anyway, contributed to the present fiasco in two strategic cases:
He vetoed two major reforms proposed by Law and Justice Party, one related to the Polish Justice and Law system allowing the remnants of the post communist apparatus to almost entirely control the Polish law.
The second proposal of reform was related to the ownership structure of Polish mass media. Presently, the Polish media are owned in app. 70-75% by the foreign media companies and the German in particular. Those “media’ have always been extremely hostile towards the Law and Justice Party, its government ant the entire conservative sector of Poland. Such a position allowed them to brainwash Polish masses and the younger generation in particular and thus profoundly deform the political landscape in Poland.
Then there was a very clumsy approach of the former Conservative government of Mateusz Morawiecki to the Covid scam. Not only the medical advisory body formed by Morawiecki consisted almost entirely of the medical “professionals” with strong links to the pharmaceutical lobby but the government has entirely failed to investigate the efficacy of hydroxy chloroquine, ivermectin and others, like oleandrin, for example. That coupled with many instances of the compulsory vaccination being enforced locally and in the Polish armed forces as well, eroded significantly the trust of the Poles in their conservative leadership.
The next strategic factor was the sudden and unexpected raise of the government debt which although still the lowest in the Europe, grew to staggering 57% of GDP and resulted in raise of inflation to 12%, if I remember well.
Obviously, the sudden raise of the government debt was a direct result of the Russian aggression on Ukraine; Poland was not only the first to offer Ukraine gigantic military assistance (in shape of hardware, of course) but also Poland absorbed initially almost five million of Ukrainian refuges.
That situation pas put an enormous strain on the Polish finances.
Finally, the young Polish MORON, who has never experienced the barbarity of communism, has become bored with stability, security and prosperity provided by the conservative government of Law and Justice party and wanted a change.
There is, unfortunately, very little chance that the present regime of Donald Tusk will be removed by peaceful and democratic means especially in a situation when it enjoys support from both BEASTS — Brussel and from Moscow as well.
Regards – Bogdan the Aussie
I personally think Bolsonaro is a very misunderstood politician, and that his politics, as well, have been overlooked in their internal intent by most. This is natural in politics; “Secrecy is of the nature of power.”
There was so much corruption in his government, including his attempt to secure a get-out-of-jail pass for one of his sons in small-time charges kept from being brought up in the Supreme Court through a deal. It is also true that in the first few days of his government, as Allan dos Santos mentioned a number of times, an attempt/maneuver was made to neutralize him completely and make him president in name only, so he had to strike yet seemingly not-fully disclosed deals with the army to prevent that from happening.
I think the thing to keep in mind is that ever since President Fernando Collor in the early nineties, thirty years ago, no right-wing politician sat in the presidency/the Planalt Palace. So, Bolsonaro had to feel his way and wait for people around him to reveal themselves to form any kind of plan. It is also the case that Bolsonaro had no sufficiently powerful news organization behind him. There is no Fox News in Brazil; Allan dos Santos did his best, and did a lot, to serve as a news outlet to challenge the leftwing media.
Bolsonaro’s strategy was very simple and very effective. He knew the Brazilian media, completely infiltrated and controlled by communism, had all kinds of international contacts with foreign mainstream media; so he devised a tactic to isolate the local media from the international media and confuse them/their communication, breaking apart to a degree their coordination. He would assume a very “high-handed”/daring conservative stance in general within the scope of international affairs; and this would excite the international news media; and a very neutral and technocratic tone in domestic affairs to appease and discredit the charges that his government was primarily concerned with an ideological pursuit. He indeed managed to convince many domestically that every conservative position he took was essentially a favor carved out of him for convenience. Thus, in his first UN speech, he made the Cuban representatives leave the precinct; he demonized “socialism.” He made subliminal insinuating/slightly effrontery remarks to Al Gore in a conference, suggesting Gore was interested in control of the Amazon region, disguising it with environmental ideology. He called Greta Thunberg a “pirralha”/”brat”, as well as displayed a mocking or dismissive attitude towards Hollywood environmentalists/activists; he essentially did the same to Macron, who is a leftist. He managed to get the American conservative influencer class, e.g. Daily Wire, closer to the Brazilian social media influencer class.
Meanwhile, domestically, he managed to pass a bill that ensured dramatic pension spending cuts, with the full support/crowd support of his base, as well as other economic freedom-related bills; and he was, it seems, well on his way to using this crowd/popular support to corner Congress into passing a long-overdue tax reform bill. These achievements were kept from prolonging themselves largely by the pandemic plight, and before the pandemic, Olavo de Carvalho described this series of achievements as “almost miraculous” or words to that effect.
The flip-side of Bolsonaro’s policies would be that, when push came to shove, he would likely have to invert the strategy: being mild and tame before the international spotlight, being ruthless at home against the Sao Paulo Forum lobby beholden to Russia and China. Olavo de Carvalho seems to have suggested he should have begun the other way around. Bolsonaro did initiate a process that would make Brazil more economically sound, and thus more prepared for a civil war or an internal turmoil; but the opportunity to play on this better scenario never came; and he perhaps was never tailored to that end, for his experience was as a congressman, not a fighter.
Interesting defense of Bolsonaro, Pedro. Many thanks for writing it.
No problem. I just remembered that the Indian news outlet, Wion, reported in the past that Bolsonaro attempted to limit or not increase trade with China. I also remember him keenly and almost nervously saying to an American journalist, it might have been Tucker Carlson, something to the effect that the US should put more money by way of investment in Brazil to counter Chinese influence. Some time after, a Fox News Business segment had someone essentially arguing the same point.
If I am not mistaken, a few days before the Ukraine invasion, Putin invited Bolsonaro to Russia and made some kind of wartime trade deal with him on the spot, perhaps taking Bolsonaro by surprise with the invasion. This implies Putin wanted to give him no room to try and weasel himself into an essentially anti-Russian trade position in the middle of the conflict. Putin may have done that anticipating a move from Bolsonaro and trusting in Bolsonaro’s instinct to play it safe.
Victor pointed to a number of “mistakes” Bolsonaro made, and perhaps such mistakes are unavoidable under the circumstances; but an outside observer like myself, hoping for consistency from a self-described anti-communist politician, is very disappointed by the inconsistencies and the lack of forthright opposition to China and Russia. Bolsonaro should have pulled out of BRICS. He should not have met with Chinese and Russian leaders. Engagement is something I have always argued against, because engagement always serves the communist side. It does not serve us. We just get exploited. If Bolsonaro went into office failing to understand how engagement works, then he was doomed from the beginning. This is the problem with all American leaders, too. Nobody seems to understand what kind of enemy communists are. They can kill you with an embrace.
Arguably or possibly, this engagement thing is playing out right now with Vivek Ramaswamy’s endorsement of Trump. Vivek spoke before Trump and his audience recently, giving the isolationist spin that is a source of contention from the conservative side, as in the Shapiro vs. Candace skirmish. Meanwhile, Trump’s take on these matters was never quite about avoiding conflict at all costs and dismissing its possibility as essentially treason; instead, he threatened the possibility of conflict to avoid one: “I will do it, and that’s why you won’t do it.” I fear Russia may be, whether through inadvertent agents or not, closing in and making serious efforts to control the MAGA movement.
I think Russia is trying to manipulate the MAGA movement, and to box Trump in to a set of policies they can play off. They are also manipulating the left, though they are careful to hide their tracks.
Not all of MAGA are fools, but many of them are, alas. If anyone wants to see a demonstration where the problem is so glaring it can’t be missed, just read the comments on any post over at Gateway Pundit (TGP) to any Post by “Leningrad” Larry Johnson. Johnson posts the worst of lies and the commentariat, and editors of TGP, eat it up like it’s the rarest of delicacies.
Yes, Larry is pretty crazy. When I argued with him once he got so emotional in his defense of Russia I thought his head would pop off.
😆
Didn’t Swift write a story where only a fraction of the populace voted in the National Election, and they could vote only because they had gathered authorizations from fifteen citizens? I’ve forgotten the title it was some fantasy set in the year 5000 A.D. I believe.
In what regard is Tusk pro-russian? That man is total western puppet.
Discernment is not for ideologists.
Who controls the “West”?
Nobody controls the West. It’s too complex and diverse a thing for anyone to “control.” It consists of many nations, many polities, overlapping elites and “movements.” It is complex and multifaceted. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the freedom to buy and sell, the protection of property rights, makes it richer and more difficult to “control” in the sense you mean. Big Government, socialist programs and agencies, threaten to take control. The movement toward socialism threatens to strip the whole, and drag it down, because socialist do not understand economics and freedom. The socialist camp includes “controlled” places like North Korea, China, and Cuba, where individuals enjoy very little freedom or prosperity. That is the kind of world we we have if socialism prevails everywhere, once and finally.
While no one entity entirely controls the West, I think it’s fair to say that Russia and China exert the most influence and control. No other power bloc comes close. How else to explain why things get more precarious for the West with each passing year, and why no matter how many elections conservatives win, the advances made by the Communists and their allies never get rolled back (the only significant exception to this trend being the recently overturned policies enacted by Poland’s Law and Justice Party). Even as Russia gets more brazen, pro-Russian governments are elected in Slovakia and Poland. Even if the Communists control only 20-30% of a country’s politicians, business, media and culture the other 70-80% are so disunited and confused that no effective resistance can be mounted. Until there’s an equally smart and committed anti-Communist movement, even if this is only 10-20% of the population, I’m worried that the Communists will keep advancing until they reach full control.
Yes. The communists have significant influence which other key groups are not adequately countering. They want total control. If they get control, many of us will die.
Committee of 300.
It’s a discredited conspiracy theory.
“The socialist camp includes ‘controlled’ places like North Korea, China, and Cuba, where individuals enjoy very little freedom or prosperity. That is the kind of world we [will] have if socialism prevails everywhere, once and finally” — a vision of an extremely dismal world populated by utterly wretched and miserable people. Full-on Communism sounds like hell on Earth. I would rather be dead than endure such a horrible fate.
Sorry, Jeff. Perhaps you would think me weak or lacking in courage when I say that last part, but that’s how I feel about it.
I think we all sympathize with that feeling, Janelle. That’s why it’s better to fight than succumb to the communists.
Dear KNHACKER, it is a public secret in Poland that Tusk, as a young man was an agent of the infamous East German secret police STASI and then of reunified Germany BND (Bundes Nachrichten Dienst). His codename was “Oskar” (Oscar) so his links with KGB and Putin himself are obvious. There are also strongly suspected links of Tusk to the murder of the Polish President Lech Kaczynski close to the Smolensk Aeroport in Belarus in 2010. There are photos of him meeting with Putin right after the Smolensk terrorist act clearly showing him and Putin celebrating death of Pres. Kaczynski.
Unfortunately, the Polish Conservative administration has failed to prosecute Tusk and his cohort as he was protected by the BEAST from Brussels and there was never clear evidence of his personal participation.
Also, before 2014, during his first tenure as a Polish Prime Minister, Tusk strengthened links with Russia especially in the field of Polish dependance on the Russian energy supplies.
The main reason for the murder of President Kaczynski by Putin/Tusk criminal syndicate was Kaczynski’s determination to make Poland energy independent from Russia.
There is much more than I presented about Tusk.
Regards
Thank you.
Bogdan: Please elaborate more on Tusk. My Polish friends have always described him as a Kremlin agent. Perhaps you could mention Anne Applebaum’s husband as well, former foreign minister under Tusk — Radislaw Sikorski. He is such a curious personality I cannot resist asking your opinion.
Dear Jeff, from what I “know” or rather remember (I read a lot but my reading is, I admit, very perfunctory) Tusk’s links to East German STASI and later to unified Germany BND is well established although never fully proved. On the other side, his links to Moscow have been neither clearly established nor proved. However, his actions during his entire “political” career speak for themselves more than enough. Unfortunately, the former semi conservative government of Mateusz Morawiecki has always been very docile (for various reasons) in dealing with the crimes of the cliques that took over the so called “Third Polish Republic” after the staged and obviously false “fall” of the Soviet Union.
Shortly, before the last election the Polish Parliament (Sejm) passed the legislation envisaging the establishment of special commission for investigation of the links between Moscow and member of, those mentioned by me above, cliques. This legislation triggered as hysterical as fearful reaction among those criminal circles.
Now, when those criminals returned to power this commission is dead so we shall never know the full extend of their collaboration with both Moscow and Bussels.
About Radek Sikorski I know very little apart from the fact that he is a compulsive liar so any scenario around his murky persona is possible.
In the end, neither Tusk, Sikorski nor their criminal cohort need to work too closely with Putin as they do an excellent job for him by having embarked on the strategy of destroying Poland both economically and militarily.
If you would like a bit more about the current situation in Poland, including the dealings of Tusk and his cohort, I’d suggest you to get into a closer contact with Witold Gadowski who is, for obvious reasons, a walking cornucopia of the knowledge in that field.
It is worthy to be in close contact with Gadowski in the future because the degenerative processes put in motion by the current criminal clique of Donald Tusk will have a profound impact on the political, economic and military landscape in the entire Europe.
There is also another exceptional politician who is currently a member of the so called “European Parliament. His name is Dominik Tarczynski, a very patriotic, courageous and conservative gentleman in command of excellent English. He can be sometimes watched on YouTube as he fights the Beast from Bussels’ strategy to flood Europe with illegals.
Dominik Tarczynski is also a walking encyclopedia of criminal, parasitic elites in charge of the “European community” and its parliament. He knows everything about links of those “elites” to Moscow and Putin himself.
Regards – Bogdan
Very good, Bogdan. Thank you.
Perseus, Commercials, commercials for happy happy products and services.
Vivek dropped out and endorsed Trump. This speech is interesting:
https://twitter.com/ModernityNews/status/1747630185501901207
There are several things I find curious. One, this is promoted by ZeroHedge, which in my opinion is a Russian operation to influence the Right. It produces a lot of very carefully nuanced “right-wing” positions, with very specific toxic pro-Russian positions mixed in. The comment section is filled with what I am convinced are FSB operatives using “Zionist” every other sentence. Even BEFORE the Israel war, the commenters would be talking about Jews.
Additionally, they are promoting this “Modernity News”, a new, professional looking site. “Modernity” is a keyword promoted in Russian-adjacent “right-wing” cultural operations, where they say “reject modernity”. They use these cultural ops as feeder tubes into their “alt-right / white” main ops.
Telegram is filled with these “culturally right-wing” sites, very professional, with nice aesthetics, promoting “traditionalism”. It will be 99% culture, and then every now and then they will forward a post from a clearly racial channel. Click on that and it gets more explicitly racial. I have noticed the Russian ops tend to work in this iterative, incrementalist manner – the goal is to shift you from one position to the next, barely noticing that you are moving. Start with something broad and non-toxic and appealing, like cultural traditionalism, which appeals to people disillusioned by the constant sex, drugs, and chaos promoted today, and then slowly introduce other positions.
Aside from that, aside from how much Vivek seems like a likable, smart personality, there is something I find rather suspicious about him.
He is incredibly polished, he almost seems like a trained orator, and someone posted recently how he uses many of the same phrases that Obama did.
All of his positions seem to line up with Trump, except for Ukraine. There might be others. He uses the term “war” here. He references 1776. I don’t know, it is possible he is a sleeper plant designed to instill very gentle ideas and opinions and terms, as an influence agent for Trump. Even his endorsement here and this speech will improve his standing with Trump. I would like to believe he is just some citizen operating alone, but something about him is too polished. I hope Trump does not get too close to him.
There is also a possibility that he is a long play. There is a possibility that his role is to get close to Trump and pepper certain terms and words in the general political vicinity of Trump, either for Trump to use himself, or for his enemies to play the clips later when perhaps a loose cannon does something using these same phrases. Another possibility is his goal is to get Trump to embrace him and to win his trust, to get as close as possible, and then drop a toxic position later. And the final one is that perhaps his goal is to gain Trump’s trust and then use that influence to convince Trump to abandon Ukraine.
I don’t know. Perhaps I’m being too suspicious. Curious what others thoughts are. Vivek’s constant harping on abandoning Ukraine does not sit well with me. I do not have immediate access to a link, but I could have sworn his isolationism extends even further; I believe he has advocated something like withdrawing all troops from the world or something to that effect. Even in this speech, “the US military should be used for the southern border”. These are very dangerous positions and would cede the entire globe to Russia.
Certain words, used in a domestic context, become dangerous, or lead to something inflammatory. The left has moved people off center, and now it is happening to the right — as if the objective is to destroy all middle ground.
I think you have pegged Vivek. Being the most powerful country in the world is like being the greatest gunslinger. There are always people jealous of you and want to take you out. Withdrawing the military back to states is more than just abandoning the world to our enemies. It is also abandoning the country to its enemies.
Hitler’s Festung Europa did not work for him because of the weakness in natural resources and, eventually, men. There are many resources we have to trade for and withdrawing the military abandons the ability to trade with the countries that have what we need to maintain our military power.
Frankly, Vivek is being stupid.
Vivek does not know much about global strategy. That makes him dangerous as a national figure.
“I don’t know, it is possible [Ramaswamy] is a sleeper plant designed to instill very gentle ideas and opinions and terms, as an influence agent for Trump… I hope Trump does not get too close to him.”
Given Trump’s personality, I doubt he will put much stock in the opinion of a first-round primary drop-out, even if Ramaswamy did endorse him. The latter’s isolationism is strategically clueless, but more and more people on the right support this radically simplified version of “traditionalist” foreign policy. The danger is that there are already plenty of Russian agents of influence within and around Trump’s circle, and many more within the broader MAGA movement. Between Trump’s cult following and his craving for popularity, and the ease with which Russian memes and talking points are gaining in popularity on the conservative social media scene, this combo is the perfect opportunity for Russia to gain a firm hold on the American conservative movement. And from the American conservative movement, most of the Western conservative movements as well. Alex Benesch was reading from a report which described Trump as the “perfect opportunistic algorithm” and maybe this is not far off. Trump may not be controllable or bribable under a formal arrangement, like with the Clintons or Biden, but he is very malleable and egotistic, traits that can serve Russian interests just as well. All someone has to do is flatter him, and that person will have Trump’s ear. The impression in the conservative and mainstream media that Putin liked Trump and wanted him to win elicited a lot of gushing and nary a bad word about the former from Trump. Ever the salesman, Trump also has a knack for tailoring his politics to reflect whatever positions are wildly popular on conservative social media. He was able to win in 2016 with slogans like “Build the wall!” and “Lock her up!” but when he got power he faced such resistance from the bureaucracy that he was able to do very little. I think if he were to win in 2024, he would face very little resistance from the Dems on the issue of withdrawing support from Ukraine, and from the MAGA side a vocal desire to enact just such a policy. It’s not hard to predict what he would do in such a case.
JN wrote: “I think Russia is trying to manipulate the MAGA movement, and to box Trump in to a set of policies they can play off.“
Exactly.
Laura: I think you have succinctly described Trump and MAGA’s vulnerability to manipulation by Russian agents of influence and to counter-play by leading Democrats. The enemy is in such a position within the U.S. Government and states that MAGA’s hostility to collective security is potentially more damaging to the country’s position than anything communist agents would dare attempt from within the government; for whoever destroys collective security damages America and opens themselves to charges of treason. Like an enraged rogue elephant, MAGA may do irreparable harm to our collective security system vis-a-vis Europe and Japan by opposing support for Ukraine and Taiwan even as Russia and China initiate invasions or blockades. Our currency and trade systems are entirely intertwined with our collective security arrangements established under Truman and Eisenhower in the early years of the Cold War. This interlocking system of security, trade, and finance served as the main strategic instruments of containment and deterrence for decades — protecting the free world from the communist bloc. The liberalization of the Soviet Union was engineered to break up these systems, yet they were so beneficial for Japan, America, and Europe, we kept them in place despite the belief that Russia was no longer a threat. This has been very frustrating for Moscow, and now — at long last — they have realized a way to break up the West’s security arrangements by demonizing the West’s financial and security structures as inimical to traditional values and as part of a conspiracy to depopulate and pauperize and vaccinate/murder the citizens. We can see that Dugin’s traditionalism is linked to the KGB, and the alt-right is the leading edge of this new type of right-revolutionist creed. RFK, Jr., for example, represents a right-left convergence version of the same. Conspiracism has also been used to spread hysteria, disinformation, and hostility to facilitate the destruction of key defensive structures. I think you are exactly right, Laura, in suggesting that Trump would find little Democratic resistance in withholding aid to Ukraine.
Yes, this is a good way of putting it. MAGA is acting like an enraged rogue elephant, or a bull in a china shop, with regards to collective security arrangements with Europe and Japan. What Moscow couldn’t achieve with the angry, radical Left of the 60’s and 70’s they might achieve now with MAGA conservatives. Back then the angry Left was a minority, but the new incarnation today threatens to be a broader coalition of far-left and far-right. I think this broader coalition was made possible by two key events in the last 7 years – the “Russia collusion” hoax and the Covid scare. The first one deeply alienated conservatives from the nation’s top law and security institutions, the second one radicalized them against the larger overarching structures of America –government and big business—and especially against the military-industrial complex. With the benefit of hindsight, it seems that Covid and the Russia collusion hoax were other than what they appeared, and maybe the key objectives were always to radicalize moderates and conservatives. With Covid especially, killing a large chunk of Western populations would have required a years-long sustained effort (lockdowns, strict vaccine mandates) that would have been politically impossible given the eventual popular backlash. But Covid did achieve two things: 1) it weakened NATO militaries and 2) it deeply alienated conservatives and even some independents. Maybe it was an elaborate psy-ops more than a bioweapon. A deep psychological injury (similar to what you said about extreme narcissists suffering psychological trauma in their childhood) that sensitized people and made them vulnerable to wild conspiracy theories.
These are good points, Laura. The “Russia collusion” hoax and the Covid scare alienated conservatives and disoriented them. It is entirely possible, as you say, that the communists can accomplish their gaols through MAGA more readily than they through American leftists alone. As I go through Michael Waller’s book on the Deep State, I am shocked to see how he depcits America as a threat to the world. The CIA is now the KGB. Our woke LGBTQs want to force their gender neuroticism on the planet. Here is a dangerous misconstruction of the situation. The Marxists in the U.S. Government are against building nuclear weapons or new ICBMs. If we were talking about an aggressive communism here in Washington, D.C., threatening the world the way the Soviety Union threatened it, why have they blocked nuclear weapon development for nearly twenty years? There is only one answer: Our domestic communists must be taking their orders from Moscow and Beijing. I remember Peter Pry saying, not long before his death, that the Biden administration was the most anti-nuclear weapon administration in our history. If America was the new threat, and Russia merely the victim of American wokeism, we would be building nuclear weapons like crazy in order to impose Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. But that’s not what we are doing. Our leftists are following someone else’s plan — not their own.
Laura, I think you hit on some very good points.
“Between Trump’s cult following and his craving for popularity, … he is very malleable and egotistic, traits that can serve Russian interests just as well. All someone has to do is flatter him, and that person will have Trump’s ear.”
I never trusted Trump. I see him more as an opportunist than a principled leader. I was shocked when he chose Pence as his running mate in 2016 as I had seen enough of governor Pence to recognize that he was not trustworthy. Republicans did not do as well as they had hoped in the 2022 midterms, and I blame Trump for at least part of that. Often the people he endorsed were not the best people in the general elections nor for the jobs. I also blame his cult following for blindly following his endorsements. I’m in contact with some of his cult followers, and have found them unable to admit to the most trivial criticisms of the man. Sometimes I wonder if Trump is part of the controlled opposition.
On the issue of civil war, I see the left as doing all they can, short of starting the war itself, to goad the right into starting a civil war. I see that as part of the tactics of the lawfare against Trump as well as weaponizing government agencies against MAGA and the right. Robert Toombs, first Secretary of State for the Confederacy, opposed attacking Fort Sumter because he recognized that the side that fired first would thereby lose moral legitimacy, but he was overruled. Likewise the left is trying to make any violence leading to a civil war appear to come from the right, because if it appears that the left started the civil war, the squishy middle will side with the right leading to the left losing. Even so, some of the loose cannon within the left BLM and Antifa may yet start the shooting. That is, if we aren’t attacked first by Russia and China.
Retraint and non-violence is the rule in domestic politics.
I feel the same about Swamy. I just hope this time Trump doesn’t hire on so much wrong headed help, and If they cheated on the election last time you can be sure they’ll be stepping up the fraud this time. I have little confidence Trump will actually sit as president.
Off topic and going solely on memory here but i asked facebook’s ai chat to tell me about jeff nyquist. it informed me that jeff nyquist is a conspiracist and sensationalist who promotes 9/11 conspiracy theories and supports dictators like vlad putin and viktor orban.
i asked it why it says jeff is a sensationalist. the ai claims its because of his claims that the soviet collapse was a contrived event. i asked it for evidence that jeff nyquist supports 9/11 conspiracy theories. it apologized to me for being mistaken about that claim. i asked it to show me where nyquist supports putin and the ai said it was mistaken, it could find no evidence of statements supporting putin. note: while the ai will admit it’s wrong it won’t correct it’s erroneous claims.
i started quizzing the ai about how jeff can be a sensationalist or conspiracy about the soviet collapse when there are published statements from ranking subject matter experts and credentialed academics affirming this view. here’s where this post has potential value in understanding the ai: it insists on defining anything outside of expert consensus as a “conspiracy”. failing expert consensus, it will fall back on social consensus. but i couldn’t get it to formulate any novel conclusions. it appears to be limited from doing so by design. it will rankly dismiss dissenting arguments to prevent the proliferating of an excess of competing narratives. the whole exercise emphasized to me that the real imminent threat of ai is custom tailored misinformation at a trivial cost.
side note: i’ve seen this ai chat blatantly lie about bls figures on food inflation to maintain the biden administration’s figure of 4.5% inflation in 2022. it the ai would admit it was wrong and correct itself by only for my account.
source: https://huggingface.co/chat/
That’s very disturbing. It is truly dangerous to discover that an AI can slander you. Do you suppose I can file a lawsuit against Facebook? An AI that lies, deceives, and reports the opposite of the truth about you can wreck your reputation. But isn’t it odd that an AI would confabulate when it comes to me? Am I important enough that the AI should make stuff up about me?
There is a saying in software engineering, garbage in garbage out.
I would say that since Facebook is operating the Ai, they would be your target. Suing the AI is a dead end.
I was suggesting suing Facebook. I know the AI is not a legal person.
If you actually won, it would be huge. Are you seriously considering it?
If I could figure out how to access the Facebook AI and find that it slanders me, yes. I would see a lawyer.
The anti-anti-Communist AI is scary.
It might tie in to the Russia-friendly algorithms that have flooded social media. In the video Alex was quoting research saying that Russian-linked internet firms/troll farms played a role in disseminating pro-Trump campaign ads on American social media. I think he quoted “one out of six” ads which were not reported to the election commission –and hence were illegal—were spread by Russian companies. That number could easily be higher considering how many Russian agents of influence in the West have no obvious links to Russia. Then there is Bannon, the VP of Cambridge Analytica, who made use of CA’s algorithms in Trump’s social media campaign, the same algorithms that were shared with or illegally obtained by Russian intelligence-linked companies. Did Bannon’s admiration of Dugin and Russia have anything to do with conservative media beginning to be flooded with Russian troll-created memes in 2015-2016? Was Trump’s wild candidacy just a great opportunity for Russia to try out its new internet radicalization scheme on conservatives, or did Russia actually help Trump’s candidacy? Did Russian bots push him over the finish line, (inadvertently?) compensating for the Dems’ dead American and illegal alien vote? Obviously without more thorough research its hard to quantify all of this, and hard to know how much of an impact Russian internet campaigns had on the 2016 election. But more than election results, Russia hit upon a perfect means for shaping conservative mass opinion, one which they deployed to full effect during the “Russian collusion” and Covid scares.
Putin knows what he’s doing when he repeats conservative claims about rigged US elections as aid to Ukraine is up for debate.
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/putin-us-election-lies-mail-in-ballots-rcna134365
Yes. Putin’s approach to information warfare is quite sophisticated. To talk as if he sympathizes with American conservatives is truly remarkable. Yet we know he does not wish us well. Does he really approve of making America “great again”? No way. He is trying to ingratiate himself with a new set of dupes, Imagine how this game is supposed to play out.
Brazilian military has been penetrated by communists and so they have not helper Bolsonaro to take over the country after Lula’s communists cheated…the same applies to Bolsonaro himself who was promising all kinds of changes and “fights” against the fraud and then he was glad to leave for a while and now he’s in the same position (or similar) as Trump in the US.
The Kerensky type of mentality does not work against the communist fanatics, so they always first subvert and infiltrate the government and judiciary and legislature and armed forces BEFORE they attempt any electoral fraud and power grabs, because they know that without being secure in their evil operations they could easily face the gallows themselves for treason (not literally but in the sense of some just and stern punishment).
Bolsonaro quit fighting them – and in fact was trying to calm down the population, and now they are all slaves of Lula’s Bolsheviks and it will only get worse and worse.
The same possibility lays over the United States, where the will to fight the communists is hampered by infiltration and perversion of manners and lifestyle of immorality and so on, and so the will to defend the principles of liberty of conscience are crippled and people will just accept the gradual changes, first toward socialism and when that is implemented then towards communist enslavement and tyranny (provided the Russian and Chinese nuclear and biological/chemical etc. attack doesn’t come first).
Civil War may be the option (or a fake and communist provoked one which could result into communist revolution – meaning it would be run by the communists themselves with Russian GRU etc. advisors at the helm).
But their main weapon is subversion – and then gradual changes towards crossing the limit and reaching the point of no return….where there is no more chance to obtain any true justice against this diabolical atheistic plague BUT full blown armed resistance (and they are trying to prevent that by propaganda, judicial maneuvers including injustice and gun grabbing laws…etc.).
Evil times are here and those who don’t understand it will most likely fall victims of their error among the first…and the useful idiots as they are called, with them.
We are working so that people will wake up. They ought to wake up. We just need the right words to open their eyes.
Nobody wants people to suffer evil (unless that person is evil himself and enjoys wishing it or doing it to others) because human nature has its goodness as its foundation and its natural quality of mutual love one for another….
That said, those who prefer evil ideology over common good for all, and those who have subscribed to it with their blood (as if signing up with the devil), they take on his evil nature and diabolical possession by him, so that when the time comes to do good to others they fail and cannot recover themselves as by that very fact they sold their soul to evil causes (including implementation of communism), they cannot remedy that unless they come clean and admit it or at least remove that stain on their conscience by amending the evils they have caused already – even when they had a chance to do good and willfully failed in it so that the evil succeeded instead.
It is the results that matter – and when they are evil then it doesn’t matter if there is admixture of good in them once in while, the overall result is still evil. So likewise those who obstinately refuse to believe the truth help the evil cause of communism to succeed – by their apathy, indifferentism and such like perverted defects of their conduct or intellect.
They don’t realize that there is the Supreme Judge, God Himself, from Whom they will not escape and that all is written in the Book of Life and those who are missing there will have to endure their punishment in Hell – eternally. God cannot be deceived and is never deceived.
I seriously doubt there are words that will work to open eyes. It will take the black events to wake people up.
But the words must be ready when the events unfold.
Illustrate by sports analogy. Video’s under four minutes. Just because you have a big hammer don’t assume you’re working on the railroad. Goal: Just become known. Speak of Nature. Bring the puppets back. Tell people you’ve partly changed your style because we are out of time. Drop links to past articles; with one sentence excerpts. Ask a natural born marketer for ideas; and reject most but not all of her suggestions. Reach out to non-intellectuals. Use fast-chalk board on some of your videos. Don’t use the word dialectics so much. Argument by fishing analogy, driving also. Hit Buchanan over and over again. Talk to purple haired grass eaters. Make a feud. Use these words: SEX, now that I have your attention. Use Star Wars references and other popular movies. Write some four paragraph articles – no comments allowed. Post a comment by you or someone else. Link out. Go for the very biggest platforms. Be a sports announcer, a weatherman, Introduce a Christian Crusade idea. Write: Ten days after, Twenty days after. Appeal to pride, honor, self-interest. Less secret agent stuff. Practical Sociology – a guide for people that want to relax in there spare time. Explain about continental sociology. Post more references from the physical sciences about lack of fallout if an airbursts. Compare Narratives. Think about what you’re actually trying to accomplish. Be. Invade all Objectivist forums with only one post. Focus on the under 16 crowd. Run for office, well walk anyway. Take down the Paypal button for the next six months, remember how to do the job. Have Moore stop mentioning supporting your site – in any way. Become a comedian, a fabulist. Take a break, become more inspired.
A tad’ sorry for the slightly assaultive writing style, but you asked.
Half-Bean Man: If you know how to convey the information more effectively, and you are financially independent without other obligations, please jump in and create your own platform. Good luck to you. I’d love to see someone try this, because i have a longstanding intuition; namely, that you would quickly find yourself derailed or sidelined or co-opted the minute you had success — because there is a living enemy out there, and he is interested in diverting you from the idea that a communist bloc exists — coordinating with a communist movement that operates in every country. That is what I think is going on, and it is an idea that has been mocked and ridiculed, buried by the media, ignored by politicians, eclipsed by today’s all-consuming political clown show. There are many entertaining presenters and charismatic comedic commentaries out there. They have large audiences. They have big funding. I have a small audience and almost no funding. Should I apologize for not being funny, rich and popular? — for not being an entertainer? One cannot be all things — a comedian and a thinker/questioner at the same time. One task must suffer at the expense of the other. As the scripture says, “No one can serve two masters.” And so, on many levels, your advice is mockery. It is a polemical insult which contradicts itself even as it unconsciously rises to self-parody. You forgot to add, in your assaultive style, that I should be multiplying loaves and fishes, walking on water and raising the dead. In all this mockery, in which you are curiously annoyed by my PayPal button, there is not the slightest interest or attention given to THE SUBJECT. Oh yes. You want everything to be easy when it is hard. You want everything to be simple when it is complex. You want everything to be entertaining when serious study and drudgery is required. Don’t you know that American entertainment culture is poison? If I could perform miracles, as you mockingly suggest, I would say to you — “Arise from your couch and leave your potato chips behind.” Do not put everything on me. In response two cliches come to mind: “Who do you think you are?” And “What’s the Big Idea?” The answer: You are impertinent and rude while thinking yourself clever; and you have no big ideas of your own. If you had big ideas of your own you would be presenting them rather than mocking and denigrating me. My current postings on the site are conversations with people in other countries and cities who see that something dark is happening. I have found interlocutors who want to share their thoughts, research and experiences. The videos are long, yes, because my interlocutors have something to say. But the message is not the medium here. We have to cultivate our understanding, and that means work, it means immersion in serious ideas and facts. I am not engaged in a popularity contest, but an inquiry. I think I have discovered what is happening to us. Most people do not agree, so it is a long slog to make my case. As for taking a break, this is exactly what I am doing. I am taking a break from writing essays every week. I am listening to other people. I am reading more. At the same time, I have been taking care of sick and dying parents for the last two years, and that occasions reflections of a more personal nature which should not impinge on this work. Sometimes you do not put pen to paper when overwhelmed by personal loss. Now go away and mock someone else.
I have found that it is always easy to watch what someone does and criticize; another person’s flaws are always easy to see, their mistakes easy to diagnose, and advice easy to give.
It is far, far more difficult to do: to create something, to do the work necessary. Whenever I watch Jeff’s stuff and am tempted to give advice on marketing, style, format, I am reminded that he has done more than any of us. The giving of advice and criticism should be reserved for those who actually step into the arena, who take the risks, who do the work. I would not know anything about Lunev, Golitsyn, Suvorov, Sejna, or countless others were it not for Jeff. None of us would be here fraternizing if he did not create this micro-community. Let those who have done nothing first create something before we deign to critique those who have. I simply say thank you, Jeff, you did not have to do any of this.
I am one person. I do not have a staff or a budget. It is a one man show, and I have no resources for fancy bumper music, a joke writer or other show biz necessaries. Someone talked me into doing a video series awhile ago. I lost almost three weeks and was spending all my time learning editing audio and video — and realized dozens of hours go into high production values. In the end, I was unable to produce something visually compelling without money and employees. When you see someone doing something slick, you are seeing something with money and lots of helping hands. This is do not have.
Mr Nyquist, this is currently a clear evidence of Iran and Pakistan strategic alliance. They recently staged a fake drama to have an excuse to persecute minorities in Baluchistan which was a thorn against both of them for years. The fighters in Baluchistan are affliliated with Israel and the US to seek freedom against Islamic communism.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/18/world/iran-pakistan-attacks-tensions-explainer-intl-hnk/index.html
The whole thing is very organized as both sides literally turned off each other air defense for the strikes. It’s mutually helping both sides. This supported my experience with many Islamic scholars (pro-West) who assert that Iran and Pakistan are Islamic, communist revolutionaries who seek to reform Islam into communism.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202401172896
The ongoing events in the Middle East seem to camouflage the rising attempts of utilizing nuclear weapons from Iran. I suspected that Iran already had nukes but they didn’t choose to utilize any of them because they fear Saudi Arabia, Libya, Iraq and other Sunni states to follow. Thanks to either stupidity of the US or deep communist agents in Western Deep State! The West got rid all of Iran’s potential, nuclear competitors like Iraq, Libya and possibly soon Saudi Arabia. On the subject of Brazil, Iran moved their warships on a trip to Brazil last year for a suspiscious reason. Some people suspected that Lula probably aided Iranians to store their nukes in Brazil to help the Latin American communists and mutually prepare to nuke the North America in the worst case!
This also makes thinking like a communist to deduce on what Iran is planning next. I see the ongoing events in Israel are too obvious for Iran to conduct. I deeply fear that Iran is using chaos in Israel not to only win the population support from global Islam but it seeks to dethrone Saudi Arabia as the global leader of Islam. It was very successful as now almost every Muslim profess admiration towards Iran’s agenda and detest the Saudis and Sunni leaders. If everything goes smoothly, Iran could potentially stage a revolution in Saudi Arabia and all of remaining Sunni states to implement Shia socialism.
A week ago, I heard a rumor in the Islamic world that there was potentially a coup de’tat in Bahrain who has been traditionally pro-West, anti-Iran, anti-communist. Iran could potentially stage a revolution in Bahrain under the guise of Bahrain’s leaders failing to protect Palestine. It will rile up the Islamic radicals in Bahrain’s deep state to help Iran! If Bahrain becomes Shia, then Saudi Arabia will be certainly next. Either way, Bush and Obama always helped Iran more than anyone can imagine. Now, Biden will help Iran finishing the jobs in the Middle East. Of course, Biden has probably approved China taking over Taiwan as more Chinese warships surrounding Taiwan tighter each day!
These are interesting speculations, Xeno Man. America is losing its Muslim allies one by one. The communists have been strengthening their hold on the oil-producing countries. I believe they are following an oil strategy.
On the John Moore Show you recommended a book by a Mike “Something” about the deep state. What was the last name?
Michael Waller “Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains”
Mike Waller’s new book. Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains https://a.co/d/8ZykJiA
In Poland we now have Donald Duck.
Oh, how the Communists cried when I suggested that Donald Trump was more popular in Poland than Donald Duck.
What I find of greater significance other than the subversion of the election is the subversion of the referendum. The referendum was as close to unanimous as it gets and the questions asked were of existential importance. It has been conveniently been swept under the carpet, as they claim in an election with record turn out, not enough people voted in the referendum, this stinks to high heaven of corruption.
Who is “we”, your name is English.
What concern is it of yours?
Respond to the points or jog on…..
Poland used to be very Catholic country but when they accepted a communist agent as their “pope” (because he was Polish so the national pride took over their intellect instead of realizing that is non-Catholic religion he proposes) and they dare to call such an apostate a saint, they are now being reminded by God in their evil government that He is not pleased with them.
And to accept communist run Union and their communist agent leader as their Solidarity savior (financed by the long-term KGB asset Soros) and to call it “collapse of communism” when there has never been true justice served on that terrorist atheistic Mafia, that of itself is a direct denial of the essential anti-communist principles laid out by the Catholic Church in times past (for example Divini Redemptoris – Pius XI or Syllabus of Errors – Pius IX etc..).
It is a sad thing to watch people who have realized finally how bad communism is to watch them at the same time to betray the Catholic religion and accept this new perversion of the devil, which most likely came from that KGB directorate (as the Liberation “theology” that swept over South and Central America and destroyed their Catholic Faith also – Pacepa wrote about it how that was KGB work from the beginning).
God is offended with such people who betray Him and He allows evil governments to rule them and enslave them, which communists are quite capable to do….and this is not only situation in Poland but in every country that dares to claim to be Catholic and practices this new non-Catholic Modernist perversion instead.
And then there are the communist provocateurs who claim to know the truth and only produce evil comments and misleading opinions that border on heresy and deception.
The world is upside down, but God has created man to His image and likeness and so there is no mistake in God, only in wicked men…by their own so doing.
CONCERNED says:
JANUARY 19, 2024 AT 1:52 AM
Nobody wants people to suffer evil (unless that person is evil himself and enjoys wishing it or doing it to others) because human nature has its goodness as its foundation and its natural quality of mutual love one for another….
Uh, No. Human nature, the bottom 85%, this is their nature, breathing, sleep, water, sex, food, shelter, speaking, getting along, less risk, figuring their tribal members out, looking for danger out there, comfort, taking care of their addictions, habits, showing off, putting other people down, being cruel for the sake of being cruel.
And on a bad day, a bad childhood, a temporary lapse in goodness from an actual good person, 99.99999%
They’re are labeled Saints to differentiate them from the herd.
Sorry for disagreeing but you were making a mistake.
Just a comment,
Since in the world of the future, hurricane politics and otherwise, trust is going to such an issue, I suggest that all WhiteHats become trustworthy to the theoretical maximum, and not merely noticeably superior to most other people.
There can be no betrayal in high places.
Just a possibility,
Jeff, could you send this link to Miss Morris, it mentions open source intelligence.
China White Paper Protest Redux
Just have 100 million patriots dropping blank white paper everywhere, sometimes with a message sometimes without. Prepare to be versus more suppression.
http://www.thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/06/25/how-patriots-can-win-intelligence-offensive/
“What God says is best even though the whole world is against it”~ John Bunyan. Gods word never fails yet we refuse to do what He says because we think our ways are better? Yet we are filled with a world of suffering, pain, disease, anxiety and mental health disorders, that could be solved by doing what God says? Instead we listen to demonic psychopaths that everything they do fails over and over and just destroys ours lives and livelihoods and they still have positions of power? We only have ourselves to blame.
Life is hard but God is good & He asks that we just keep on “doing good.” We were created in Christ Jesus to do “good works” & advance His Kingdom. “His kingdom is not an earthly kingdom.” It is a kingdom set up within men, full of spiritual power & riches to share Gods goodness, set the captives free & help the blind see. For it is Gods will that by “doing good” we should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men. Even If we suffer in “doing good” and endure it, this is commendable before God, to this we were called, because Christ suffered for us, leaving us this example, that we should follow in His steps. We are to live such “good lives” among the unbelieving that though they accuse us of doing wrong, they may see our “good deeds” and glorify God on the day He visits. Anyone, then, who knows the “good” he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins. We are just unworthy servants doing our duty to “do good” and to be thankful (That was all scripture).
So is our problem people cannot discern who is good and who is evil? We live in a world where evil is good and good is evil because we don’t do what God says and all the so called “good men” do nothing about it.
“The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men do do nothing” ~Edmund Burk
I am very suspicious of the so called conservatives with platforms who keep telling us to “do nothing” knowing evil has been triumphing the last 75 years in our country…like just voting has ever changed anything in the last 75 years, but things keep getting worse and worse. It seems obvious most are all controlled opposition, acting like something is going to happen to save us. No one is coming to save us, God saved us and told us what to do. Where are all the good men? It’s time for you to “do” something besides getting paid to “talk” about it. Faith is an action, you believe what God says, so you “do” what God says. Men we are called to sacrifice our life to “do good” to our fellow man and country.
No matter how evil a man may be, He can call on God and repent and God will save him and strengthen and empower him to do what’s good and right.
Thanks for doing all you do Jeff!
It is interesting, Mary, that people want a man on a white horse. But in Ukraine, and in Brazil when the left was being swept away, it was good people who were spontaneously standing up. It was a spirit of goodness coming to the fore and expressing itself. And when the man on a white horse appeared, it was a setback. The enemy can put inhuman pressure on one man. The communists are good at this. But when the whole people stood up in an inexplicable way, the left shrank in fear. I think we have an interesting lesson here.
The way to fight the communists, before any physical resistance should be considered (at the right time that is and no sooner), is to derail their own ranks with the truth and presenting them as they are – a communist atheistic terrorist state run Mafia with very bloody history of murder, terror, denial of the existence of God and enforcing all subjects to think the same way, usurpation of the educational system to destroy the minds of people through Marxist-Leninist indoctrination and so on.
The communists are perverted deranged psychopathic fanatics that should never have any recognition as valid form of government nor should they ever be permitted to become part of any political system at all…their perverted godless ideology should make this point clear and their bloody history should make them all outlaws.
Anything less leads to communist subversion and takeover, which is why the worldwide communist advancement is the outcome today. Shaking hands with the servants of Satan does not help nor does it protect from his evils either.
But then you mention the word communism and the truth about this Mafia on various public forums and some of them shrink in fear or censor it or the overall present communist snitches immediately step in and flood the front page in the comments section with their own sometimes even nonsensical postings so that the truth about communists is swept to 2nd or 3rd page and nobody sees it directly anymore. They are well organized to divert the blame elsewhere – for that they supply the “Jewish”, the “Masonic” and the “globalist” and the “bankers” conspiracies, so that the blame of Moscow and Beijing Bolsheviks is set aside or at least minimized by pointing to these idiotic or communist produced conspiracy theories.
Of course when their assets inside the FBI and such like communist penetrated entities of the government bang on your front door at 0600 hrs to scare you and your family and perhaps to do other evils as well, then the point is that your work bore the good fruits and the atheistic communist enemy got offended.
And they don’t need demoralization in their own ranks, these criminals want to be as much united in their evil cause as possible. So call them who they truly are – criminals atheistic Mafia, terrorists, infidels, evildoers who don’t deserve anything else but scorn and stiff punishment for their evils.
Attack them with the truth.
The the truth is our best weapon against people who tell lies.
I agree, with one proviso. Too often, given human nature, which is often blind and arrogant, the truth is most often seen only in retrospect.
It’s interesting that in the same few weeks we have Xi addressing his own nation bragging about imminent/inevitable worldwide communism … and then at nearly the same time we have a gathering of nearly all white, Western “elites” openly discussing a “new world order” (yes they embrace the phrase now) that will retain the core “principles” and “institutions” we have today.
Connecting the dots should be obvious. This gathering embodies the outward pretense of retaining Western “principles” and “institutions.” It’s a sophisticated infiltration/operation but it isn’t THAT hard to recognize. It’s funny to think these WEF people actually think they’re going to keep control. Useful idiots indeed.
Agree re telling the truth. Can’t just be labels though, like evil and criminals. Have to lay bare the how, what, and why. The noble work Nyquist undertakes. James Lindsey with his New Discourses series is IMO indispensable, as well. Many may dismiss him because he isn’t onto the China/Russia collaboration as the key driver… but he expertly describes the dynamic of how communist “active measures” are being employed in the West in real time (and he at least uses these correct terms). His analytical breakdown of the “how” and part of the “why” is extremely helpful in trying to navigate our current cultural dynamics.
That’s an interesting juxtaposition. Xi addressing the Communist world-wide movement at the same time when a Communist front is holding a big summit for all the Western leaders. The first one is for the victors of the coming ‘New Order’, the second one is for the dupes who will be serving that order. The WEF is also a great distraction. The Canadian conservative media outlet Rebel News, for example, is giving me daily updates of their round-the-clock coverage of the WEF summit, but not a word about Xi’s big plans. And yet Canada, and especially big cities like Toronto and Vancouver and the major universities, are filled with Chinese and their money. Their influence is huge. But, although there is some coverage of this, it seems a distant second to the clear portrayal of Klaus Schwab and the WEF as the #1 villains. Russia and China’s ability to divert people who see that there is something wrong with the way things are heading is one of their best weapons.
Hope is a virtue and one must entertain to practice it, or rather try to acquire it when the question of telling the truth arises, even when they obstinately refuse to hear it or scoff at it – and the very reason why it is so does not absolve one from that obligation of telling the truth in the first place, so when it comes to knowledge or at least ideas about the evils and strategies of communism, one who does understand them and has the ability to convey them to others, by the grace of God, has the duty to do so no matter how many or few do hear him or not – because God Himself demands it, as He is the Truth Himself.
No setting aside the skepticism of the potential results and whether there will be any at all, that is never the guiding principle at all, but the duty of one’s soul to please God in good deeds, as then and only then the proper results are granted by Him.
————-
This following is from the Life of St. Anthony of Padova (Padua):
https://archive.org/details/LifeOfStAntonyOfPadua/page/n75/mode/2up?view=theater
If the preaching of the Saint was occasionally despised by men gifted with reason, God made use of irrational creatures to honour it. Certain heretics in the neighbourhood of Padua openly ridiculed his words ; Antony approached the river which was near, and said to the heretics in the hearing of all the people :
Since you show yourselves unworthy to hear the Word of God, behold, I turn to the fishes, that your unbelief may be put to shame.” He then began to preach to the fishes with great fervour and to remind them of all the benefits God had bestowed upon them : how He had created them and had given them clear, limpid water to live in ; what freedom He had granted them, and how He fed them without any labour on their part.
At these words, the fish began to assemble in crowds ; they approached the Saint, raised their heads out of the water, looking attentively at him, and even opened their mouths. As long as it pleased him to speak, they listened with as much attention as if they had been gifted with reason, nor would they depart until he had given them his blessing.
————
The truth is worth to be told in itself, and the results are those by it, when God is pleased with them, men will follow when the time comes for them to realize the truth in the consequences of it.
The Victor and Thomas interview was very helpful to sort out things in Brazil and Europe.
Victor’s take on Bolsonaro was very interesting and worth pondering further. Thomas is outstanding when he calls in on the Moore Show. Lauren Morris does some really good research and covered many subjects that were very interesting. Still working on the Alex interview but he is a good one too. Thanks so much for posting these interviews!
About the Brazil’s part:
Weintraub said on the video that if it was for him all ministers of the Supreme Court would be in jail, and what this guy in the video speaks is true, the bureaucracy in Brasilia started to ask for his head. Abraham Weintraub hoped it was another moment of those he would say a thing and not be held accountable for doing that thing he said he would, he is a showman, he did that all the time when he was on Government, dropping microphones for the cameras (literally), appearing dancing with ridiculous umbrellas, he is not the kind of guy that SOLVE problems. I am not against jailing criminal judges of today’s Supreme Court, what i want to make clear is that If Bolsonaro said that and didn’t do nothing he would be a coward, but Weintraub did the same, and fled because he couldn’t solve the conflict, then he was seen as a “badass”, that is the advantage to brag about something you can’t do, the failure is not a risk.
After that, Bolsonaro provided a safe passage for him and his brother Arthur Weintraub to the US where they stood on a comfortable position for some time on a Bank apointed by the Brazilian Federal Govenrment, and they kept that way, until they started to curse Bolsonaro himself, speaking against him and his administration, but pretending to still be supporters, so they tried to build their particular power outside Bolsonaro’s influence at the same time they were sitting on a comfortable position arranged by Bolsonaro, thinking on the upcoming 2022 elections. At some point, the President confronted those two and said he would fire them if they continued to make hostile statements. If they wanted to dispute, it was their right to do so, but then they should leave their positions and start their own path. They considered that statement a “threat”, because for them Bolsonaro should have allowed a hostile agents to grow on his political field and in the future move against him. Weintraub also donated to a Worker’s Party candidate in 2016 that goes by the name of Paulo Fiorillo.
He also said about the election of 2022 in Brazil that “If Lula does not wins, then things will only get whorse”. In other words, convincing people they shouldn’t vote or care about the elections, because it was useless, so he joined those who said both Lula and Bolsonaro were bad, but only speaking against Bolsonaro. That “equally bad” is a ridiculous slogan used by morons or smart politicians trying to remove Jair Bolsonaro from the election as an option and put themselves on his place for the right.
Those guys had nothing to do with important plans and decisions, political government plans are just piece of papers presented to the electoral justice in order to get your candidacy approved. The important elements in Bolsonaro’s administration were some military like General Heleno, Braga Netto, Villas Boas and some old friends Bolsonaro had on center parties, relations he made throughout his career. Finally, in 2022, Weintraub brothers then started to seek their goals when the election came and openly became saying what they would only dare on a concealed or indirect way before. The number of votes they got was ridiculous, most part of the patriots saw them as traitors and oportunists, which is a pretty accurate assertion. When they came to dispute elections, suddenly the guy who said that”for him, he would put all ministers of the Supreme Court in jail”, started to focus only against Bolsonaro and spoke nothing against the politics of the Supreme Court (strange…).
The image of a Bolsonaro that uses the right on his own interests can be better applied to what the weintraubs were trying to do, also the criticizing of Jair is similar to that directed to Trump, when a lot of channels were being shut down after his election and he couldn’t do nothing about it and made concessions to his enemies. Also the image of a Donald Trump that just cares about himself is a common accusation. But generally speaking, the person that says that kind of stuff has also a side and supports others political agents. Does that accusation applies also to those he supports or they are just naive and noble souls with no self interests?
The former brazilian President is a guy that doesn’t know how to use irony. He spoke about “finishing Lavajato” meaning that, in his government, operations like that would not be needed since corruption was not a problem. Leftists journalist and his enemies took that phrase and fabricated a version that made him look as the responsible for ending the operation, literally.
The person invited said that exact accusation, that Bolsonaro was responsible for finishing Lavajato operation, and that is a lie. Lavajato ended on the Supreme Court with the judges apointed by 30 years of leftists in power.
Most people forget that, allied to the Supreme Court and judicial oligarchy, there are those in judicial lobby that publish books and articles for the purpose of protecting the system, by making the political activity of the Supreme Court and its minions look as something regular, legitimate and constitutional. For example, those that write books about Criminal laws and processes censored Sergio Moro about what they considered constitutional violations in Lavajato case, but that is a fabricated claim, because when the Supreme Court did political activity on 2022 elections and started to jail people based on convenience, those same law writers silenced and said nothing. Law writers are cowards or just corrupts as the judges they protect, because they want to be friends with them or be on their position in the future.
I repeat, the guest said that Bolsonaro finshed the Lavajato and that is a lie. This is out of context, the President was trying to make a joke, which he is not good on doing, and people interested in distorting it and make it sound as a proof that the Lavajato sabotage has Jair Bolsonaro’s prints did the rest to fabricate that version and spread it.
What finished the lavajato was the oligarchy formed in bureaucracy, appointed by leftist presidents and governors on all those years (since 1988), and last, but not least, the ideological basis universities and teachers provides to judicial actors to go on pretending to do judicial acts, when what they do it is just politics (Dworkin is one of the references for the brazilian Supreme Court to throw laws on garbage and make up decisions as if they were based on principles and not on an usurpative activity, those decisions are always mixed with the supreme “judge’s” own opinion)
Sergio Moro was the judge of Lavajato, he supported Bolsonaro even in 2022.
Also a congressman that was a prosecutor on Lavajato (Deltan Dallagnol) was elected and supported Jair Bolsonaro on the same elections. The Supreme Electoral Justice decided Dallagnol had to leave the Congress because he allegedely violated an abbsurd interpretation fabricated by corrupt judges in order to satisfy Lula’s request of removing him of the Congress.
Bogdan, If you’re reading this before the comments close, please explain what the “beast from Brussels” is?
I know we shouldn’t judge people by the way they look, but this Donald Duck fellow just looks shady and untrustworthy. How the hell did he seize control of coalition that he is minority member of?
What can I do (I live in Poland) to oppose his leadership?
I do not work in Poland, but have been offered work near to where I live, should I withhold my labour and starve his economy a little?
Any ideas gratefully appreciated. I do not want to feed any beasts!
I also have a few more questions for Bogdan.
Why would President Duda veto those two crucial bills? Was he not with the Law and Justice Party too? Since he is still President, does he have the political power, and more importantly the willpower, to veto some of Tusk’s reforms?
You said that Morawiecki’s government was very docile in dealing with the crimes of Tusk and the Russia-friendly Polish Left. Was he more of a regular conservative rather than an anti-Communist like Kaczynski ?
What is the state of the Polish media today, are there still any anti-Communist outlets or were they all thrown into limbo by the public media reforms passed by the new government?
As for Morawiecki’s government falling for the Covid scare, I wouldn’t hold that too much against him since every government in the West did the same, more or less. But did anyone in the LJP eventually figure out that Covid might have something to do with the CCP and that the vaccine was not to be trusted? Was any LJP faction advocating alternative remedies, and an end to lockdowns and forced vaccinations?
Dear Laura, your questions are as mind burning as those I’m asking myself.
President Duda, at the beginning of his tenure, was very successful and much loved and, as I mentioned in my first post, greatly contributed to the electoral win of Law and Justice Party in 2014.
However, after a while, it seemed that his successes started to get into his head and convincing him that he is serving the entire nation and is above the petty matters projecting by the very party that has produced him and on behalf of which he became elected as a Polish President. He also became arrogant, less and less willing to listen to his constituency and began playing on behalf of both sides of Polish politics.
Many disillusioned conservatives started to suspect that he was still representing the post communist legal lobby and was preparing himself to take over some lucrative, administrative position in the so called “European Union”.
It seems that he is showing now some backbone and trying to resist the onslaught by the PARASITES from the so called “Civic Coalition”.
We will see how effective he is going to be but I’m not that optimistic that he can do much in a current situation.
I’m not entirely condemning Morawiecki for his and his government actions during the Covid scam scare. At least, they refrained from introducing statewide compulsory vaccination and draconian restrictions as here in Australia, for example.
However, their failure to investigate the efficacy of Ivermectin and other effective, cheap and easily available medicaments against Covid is simply unforgivable.
There was also a well known case of doctor Bognar and doctor Ratkowska who have pioneered the successful use of a bit less effective Amantadine with some very slight side effects thus saving thousands of patients and they were persecuted and prosecuted by the Polish medical lobby.
For obvious reason, such a policy didn’t win either Morawiecki or Law and Justice Party any more followers.
The reasons for Morawiecki’s docility towards the PARASITIC and CRIMINAL opposition are very complex. One of them was an enormous political and financial pressure coming from Brussels. Every time the leadership of Law and Justice Party attempted to launch more far reaching legal reforms to remove post communist legal lobby it would trigger hysterical reaction from the BEAST in Brussels and to such an extend that they (the criminals there) would be talking even about the military intervention that, in their twisted opinion, would be necessary to restore (their version) of “democracy” in Poland.
There were and still are many more attempts to undermine and, eventually, destroy Law and Justice Party’s position and its political power in Poland. The Polish political landscape and there are many hostile players (Germany and Russia in particular) who are working hard to deform it.
It is my belief that in such an enormously complex circumstances, Morawiecki, his government and the leadership of Law and Justice Party have abandoned the idea of bringing the former communists together with the entire post communist criminal structures in order to maintain the resemblance of social harmony and focused on the task of rebuilding Polis economy, finances and also the Polish armed forces where they achieved a great (there is no doubt about that) success.
Regard – Bogdan
I think he is referring to the European Union.
Dear John, my definition of the BEAST is a collective quasi spiritual existence of all human PARASITES.
It is not that difficult to observe that both the legislative and administrative branches of the so called “European Union” have been taken over by PARASITES representing socialist, ecofascist and, whatever you name them, sector of the so called “Western society”. It is obvious for any discernible observer that the EU “leadership has embarked on the strategy of destruction of the Christianity based civilization in practically every aspect of our collective and individual life.
We can also say that the BEAST from Brussel is a part of a much greater BEAST which comprises communists, their allies Islamists and many smaller groups that are derivatives from Marxism like ecofascists, genderofasists, feminofasicts, whatever those PARASITES call themselves plus various factions of Islam.
As for the reason for which Donald Tusk and his cohort has managed to “win” election and take over, I explained that, in general terms in my first post above. There was also another important mistake that Law and Justice Party has made before the election and I forgot to mention; Dominated by the Polish conservatives Parliament (Sejm) passed the unnecessarily draconian legislation concerning abortion which from the purely moral view was, perhaps, right but it earned a great ire of the majority of the younger Poles who seem to be more “liberal” and, unfortunately, brainwashed than the older generation.
Apart from that, there must have been a really BIG MONEY used behind the scenes to convince smaller political factions whose leaders and members are corrupt anyway to join the so called “Civic Coalition”.
You can help a conservative course in Poland by joining the Law and Order Party (they are imperfect but still representing the lesser evil) and help to repair its morale.
Also, if you a rabid individualist, like I am, you can produce, from time to time, your own leaflets with political messages (as I do) and spread them among your neighbors.
The impact of such activity will not be significant but, at least, you will have the satisfaction that you are not a passive watcher of events around you.
Regards – Bogdan
I think i got an error tried to post the last comment so i will write all on this one.
About the Brazil’s part:
Victor talked about the former minister Weintraub. This minister said on a leaked video that if it was for him all ministers of the Supreme Court would be in jail, and what this guy in the video speaks is true, the bureaucracy in Brasilia started to ask for his head. Abraham Weintraub hoped it was another moment of those he would say a thing and not be held accountable for doing that thing he said he would, he is a showman, he did that all the time when he was on Government, dropping microphones for the cameras (literally) with meme glasses on videos, appearing dancing with ridiculous umbrellas, he is not the kind of guy that SOLVE problems. I am not against jailing criminal judges of today’s Supreme Court, what i want to make clear is that If Bolsonaro said that and didn’t do nothing he would be a coward, but Weintraub did the same, and fled because he couldn’t solve the conflict, then he was seen as a “badass” and conservative. That is the advantage to brag about something you can’t do, the failure is not a risk.
After that, Bolsonaro provided a safe passage for him and his brother Arthur Weintraub to the US where they stood on a comfortable position for some time on a Bank apointed by the Brazilian Federal Govenrment, and they kept that way, until they started to curse Bolsonaro himself, speaking against him and his administration, but pretending to still be supporters, so they tried to build their particular power outside Bolsonaro’s influence at the same time they were sitting on a comfortable position arranged by Bolsonaro himself, thinking on the upcoming 2022 elections. At some point, the President confronted those two and said he would fire them if they continued to make hostile statements. If they wanted to dispute, it was their right to do so, but then they should leave their positions and start their own path. They considered that statement a “threat”, because for them Bolsonaro should have allowed a hostile agents to grow on his political field and in the future move against him.
Weintraub also donated to a Workers Party candidate in 2016 that goes by the name of Paulo Fiorillo.
He also said about the election of 2022 in Brazil that “If Lula does not wins, then things will only get whorse”. In other words, convincing people they shouldn’t vote or care about the elections, because it was useless, so he joined those who said both Lula and Bolsonaro were bad, but only speaking against Bolsonaro. That “equally bad” is a ridiculous slogan used by morons or smart politicians trying to remove Jair Bolsonaro from the election as an option and put themselves on his place for the right.
Those guys had nothing to do with important plans and decisions, political governement plans are just papers presented to the electoral justice in order to get your candidacy approved. The important elements in Bolsonaro’s administration were some military like General Heleno, Braga Netto, Villas Boas and some old friends Bolsonaro had on center parties, relations he made throughout his career. Finally, in 2022, Weintraub brothers then started to seek their goals when the election came and openly became saying what they would only dare on a concealed or indirect way before. The number of votes they got was ridiculous, most part of the patriots saw them as traitors and oportunists, which is a pretty accurate assertion. When they came to dispute elections, suddenly the guy who said that”for him, he would put all ministers of the Supreme Court in jail”, started to focus only against Bolsonaro and spoke nothing against the politics of the Supreme Court (strange…).
The image of a Bolsonaro that uses the right on his own interests can be better applied to what the weintraubs were trying to do, also the criticizing of Jair is similar to that directed to Trump, when a lot of channels were being shut down after his election and he couldn’t do nothing about it and made concessions to his enemies. Also the image of a Donald Trump that just cares about himself is a common accusation. But generally speaking, the person that says that kind of stuff has also a side and supports others political agents. Does that accusation applies also to those he supports or they are just naive and noble souls with no self interests?
About the “finishing of Lavajato”
The former brazilian President is a guy that doesn’t know how to use irony. He spoke about “finishing Lavajato” to say that, in his government, operations like that would not be needed since corruption was not a problem. Leftists journalist and his enemies took that phrase and fabricated a version that made him look as the responsible for ending the operation, literally.
The person invited said that exact accusation, that Bolsonaro was responsible for finishing Lavajato operation, and that is a lie. Lavajato ended on the Supreme Court with the judges apointed by 30 years of leftists in power.
Most people forget that, allied to the Supreme Court and the oligarchy, there are those in judicial lobby that publish books and articles for the purpose of protecting the system, by making the political activity of the Supreme Court and its minions look as something regular, legitimate and constitutional. For example, those that write books about Criminal laws and processes censored Sergio Moro about what they considered constitutional violations in Lavajato case, but that is a fabricated claim, because when the Supreme Court did political activity on 2022 elections and started to jail people based on convenience, those same law writers silenced and said nothing. Law writers are cowards or just as corrupts as the judges they protect, because they want to be friends with them or be on their position in the future.
I repeat, the guest said that Bolsonaro finshed the Lavajato and that is a lie. This is out of context, the President was trying to make a joke, which he is not good on doing, and people interested in distorting it and make it sound as a proof that the Lavajato sabotage has Jair Bolsonaro prints did the rest to fabricate that version and spread it.
What finished the lavajato was the oligarchy formed in bureaucracy, appointed by leftist presidents and governors on all those years (since 1988), and last, but not least, the ideological basis universities and teachers give to judicial actors to go on pretending to do judicial acts, when what they do it is just politics (Dworkin is one of the references for the brazilian Supreme Court to throw laws on garbage and make up decisions as if they were based on principles and not an usurpative activity, those decisions are always mixed with the supreme “judge’s” own opinion)
Sergio Moro was the judge of Lavajato, he supported Bolsonaro even in 2022.
Also a congressman that was a prosecutor on Lavajato (Deltan Dallagnol) was elected and supported Jair Bolsonaro on the same elections. The Supreme Electoral Justice decided Dallagnol had to leave the Congress because he allegedely violated an interpretation fabricated by the corrupt judge in order to satisfy Lula’s request of removing him of the Congress.
I am cautious where I get my information these days. I have several Ukrainian sources I follow and these two gentlemen (Operator Starsky and Ukraine Matters) have their own respective channels in which they report the opposite of the Russian propaganda being spewed via a Tucker Carlson, Douglas Macgregor, Patrick Lancaster, Scott Ritter, and Clayton Morris (Redacted).
https://www.youtube.com/live/VA67qY82r-U?si=PD8kt_o3Vc0V-yth
Oh, and I forgot Whitney Webb and Ryan Christian (The Last American Vagabond)
Operator Starsky!
Another channel I follow that gives another perspective illustrating the power of Russian propaganda….
https://youtu.be/31KmkO5paGA?si=T6iZ_YPKVEVQk2kc
This is worrying. Maybe it would be better to have separate bills rather than tie border security and Ukraine aid together, and have a minority faction be the deciding voice.
Speaker Johnson losing GOP support for spending moves, including from his leadership team
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jan/19/speaker-mike-johnsons-ability-to-rally-gop-support/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=subscriber&utm_campaign=evening&utm_term=evening&utm_content=evening&bt_ee=uukLXK8BBhjt0GM4vualVhU%2FTzk%2BXM4kk5diSROLx6FBkQrkCBkel8pg2DMU%2FrUs&bt_ts=1705703459233
House Speaker Mike Johnson relied on Democrats again to pass another short-term funding measure to keep the government open, but this time even fewer Republicans voted in favor of the legislation.
…Complicating matters for Mr. Johnson is the GOP’s razor-thin majority and how archconservatives have used that tenuous grip on power to steer the speaker toward shutting down the government and rejecting a spending deal with Democrats.
…Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Georgia Republican, said her red line on filing a motion to vacate — the same move used to boot former Speaker Kevin McCarthy — is whether Mr. Johnson puts the Ukraine funding in the president’s spending package ahead of border security.
…Mr. Johnson rejected pleas from Mr. Biden to take some concessions on border policy in exchange for Ukraine aid, signaling that he is heeding the threats from archconservatives floating his ouster.
How did Ukraine become hostage to the U.S. border situation? One sees the assertion that we cannot close the border if we support Ukraine. Something is off about MTG.
Interesting take from Jake Broe (starts at minute 10). If Johnson really wanted to fix border security he and the GOP could shut down the government and force the Dems to agree to their demands. Ukraine aid doesn’t need to be part of it at all, but instead Johnson helped pass $1 trillion compromise deals with the Dems without addressing either border security or the aid. Is Johnson trying to keep the border issue festering until the November elections? But if Rep. Greene keeps her word, he might not be Speaker for much longer. Johnson also disingenuously compared the Ukraine war to the Afghanistan war of 2001-2021, probably to ingratiate himself with Greene & co.
Also large protests have broken out in the Russian Republic of Bashkortostan. A local activist who likened the war mobilizations to a genocide against the Bashkir people was convicted of racism and sentenced to 4 years in prison. How Orwellian. Maybe this is why Russia is looking to recruit Third World people as cannon fodder, because the non-Russian minorities are getting fed up.
Everyone was so over-the-moon with Mike Johnson as House Speaker. I watched his acceptance speech carefully. It was difficult to evaluate. I saw nothing overtly false. But then, he is in a madhouse. The whole process of deficit spending, of budgetary dealings, is quite crazy on its face. Perhaps Mike Johnson partakes of the general Washington, D.C. dementia, having to make nice every day with leftist lunatics plus Greene & Co. How could anyone stay sane amid so many who are crazy.
In case you needed any more proof that ZeroHedge is a Russian front, they publish a link to this article by what is probably another front of theirs, “the cradle” using the term “Resistance Axis” to refer to the Hamas-Iran-Hezbollah alliance.
This is a term used in their telegram channels as well. It frames their aggression against the United States using their faux-Islamic front orgs as “resistance” to alleged U.S. aggression. This technique of framing aggression as defensive is classically Soviet – one is reminded of Stalin claiming he was defending as he invaded Finland. One is also reminded of when the Left, almost in unison, began using the term “Resistance” to self-identify during Trump’s term. I think that most people cannot see Russia’s hand in all of these fake organizations, but the terminology always gives it away. Their publications are always quite professional and the propaganda quite well researched too. One gets the impression there are teams of intelligence officers working on them. I recall Trevor Loudon saying once he believed there were thousands, if not tens of thousands, of FSB (KGB) operatives working on disseminating disinformation in offices in Russia to the Western world through the Internet. I believe this to be true too and this is not talked about enough.
I forgot to link the article, it’s right here:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/reviving-isis-us-weapon-against-resistance-axis