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Kinda stirs me up a bit my government backing these guys seeing they were doing all they could to kill me when I was born.
And many of my family died fighting the bastards.
And here they are again: and my tax dollar goes, without my permission, to fund them. Makes me a little sick and angry.
But for those of you who enjoy it: here's a chance to singalong with them, doubtless you'll love it.
I have a substack account. They have frozen the account, will not let me make posts. Something about my 'email list' which must be emails people have sent me for it certainly isn't any emails I've sent from there nor any 'list' I have made.
So there: Substack is not without censorship. I dislike all of the major publishing outlets: FB, Twitter (X that is now I suppose) and even YT and so on. I think we all need to create our own. Like blogs like this at least.
So anyway, here is the post I couldn't make:
I think there’s something the masses of the UK and Aus in particular do not understand.
That is, this is, that they are at war with Russia.
Their pathetic lunatic ‘leaders’ have their nations at war with Russia. They have declared war on Russia. They have set the Russian nation as enemies of the British, of the Australians, etc.
They don’t think so. I am sure the people do not think so.
And I am sure their lunatic politicians would deny it. Quibbling over technicalities.
Wars between nations are never simple, it seems. There’s always some mystery attached to them: who is fighting, who is cooperating, who is really profiting, what is it really all about.
And of course typically a nation buys things from elsewhere whether at war or not and those trading partners are usually not considered to be ‘making war’ alongside the nation they are trading with in wartime.
They’re merely trading and quite often they trade with both sides. We all know this. All the meg rich simply increase their wealth throughout periods of war just through that mechanism.
UK and Aus. lunatic politicians would probably claim some such exoneration.
But that’s sheer casuistry, rubbish. This is not trade equitably shared across both sides: it is trade only with one side.
And it is not legitimate trade, either, for the goods are not bought, they are given.
And it is not confined to goods it includes advice and direction on strategy, tactics and individual operations.
It includes personnel.
It includes intelligence information that directs strikes that lead to deaths.
Make no mistake about it: The United Kingdom has been steered by its lunatic politicians to where it is at war with Russia. All the people of the UK are now legitimate targets for death dealing strikes from Russia.
How many of the people there want to be at war with anyone at all, much less Russia? How many of them realise they are now combatants in a life or death struggle?
And precisely the same in Australia where the people sleep in an even deeper coma perhaps aided by the geographic distance which perhaps helps the mind think there’s also an effective logical distance.
But there is not. Australia is at much at war with Russian as if it were sharing a border with Russia.
How many of the ordinary population going about their business know anything of this?
How many of their ‘intellectuals’ or social leaders are aware and how many of them are speaking out, giving warning? I think none.
Here is an interesting fact from Open AI GPT. I asked about this category of people that stand at least in their own minds above the common ruck yet below the ‘manipulators’ ( ie. the politicians ) and there seem to be a great many. So isn’t it the more astounding that we hear nothing from them?
There seems no generic name or phrase for them. I will call them ‘Social Protectors’ until something better comes up.
Here is gpt’s list of ‘Social Protectors’ :
Pundits: Pundits are individuals who are considered experts or authorities in a particular field, such as politics, economics, or social issues. They often provide commentary and analysis on current events and offer their opinions based on their knowledge and experience.
Commentators: Commentators are individuals who provide commentary and analysis on various subjects, including politics and current affairs. They may have a background in journalism, academia, or a specific field related to the topic they are discussing.
Analysts: Analysts are professionals who examine data and information to provide insights and assessments on specific issues. They can be political analysts, financial analysts, or experts in other areas.
Talking Heads: This is a colloquial term used to describe individuals who appear on television or in the media to offer their opinions and insights on current events. They may or may not have specific expertise in the topics they discuss.
Experts: Experts are individuals who have in-depth knowledge and qualifications in a particular field. They are often called upon to provide expert opinions and assessments on relevant issues.
Public Intellectuals: Public intellectuals are scholars, writers, or thinkers who engage with the public on important social and political issues. They often offer thought-provoking analysis and commentary.
Thought Leaders: Thought leaders are individuals who are recognized for their innovative and influential ideas in a particular field. They often share their perspectives on current affairs and aim to shape public opinion.
Political Commentators: These individuals specifically focus on providing commentary and analysis related to political matters and government policies.
Social Critics: Social critics are individuals who critique various aspects of society, including politics, culture, and economics. They often offer alternative viewpoints and assessments.
Quite a list isn’t it?
So many ‘Social Protectors’. We should be very safe, shouldn’t we?
Everyone on that list considers themselves to be alert, well informed and intelligent beyond the common – ‘above’ you and I and yet with our welfare and the welfare of the nation uppermost in their minds.
They clearly feel – we can see it, hear it, when we listen to them or watch them – that we’d all be much better off if only we would take their advice, listen to them.
And yet on this simple lethal fact: we are at war with Russia – they are silent.
Totally hushed.
The lowest prostitutes amongst them: the govt. media – simply regurgitate the US propaganda. And the rest are wholly silent.
They initiate nothing. They contribute nothing. They do not help. They do not protect.
Just as they were silent all throughout the Covid debacle. And did not help. And did not protect.
Just as they were silent in the aftermath of Covid as transgressions against logic, sense, reason, human rights, social freedoms got cemented into place where they are now.
So? So I see two terrible things surrounding us right now.
Quite a word: ‘terrible’.
Okay. I don’t want to be lurid or histrionic. If you have a better word tell me. But for the while I think these two things are truly terrible:
We are at war with Russia and do not even know it, we are totally unprotected.
We have no ‘Social Protectors’, no guidance, no help. We are totally unprotected.
Looks like every man for himself doesn’t it?
This little desultory blog gets spammed by hundreds – hundreds – of rubbish ‘comments’ which I have to delete from time to time.
A lot are pure rubbish but many are attempts to ADVERTISE something or some site.
This blog, of course, wasn’t meant to advertise other people’s sites and interests, businesses but it is true I have found a tiny handful of such ‘comments’ that I do think worth passing on.
So ALL ‘off topic’ comments will continue to be deleted EXCEPT here.
‘Off topic’ Comments to this topic that I find interesting – such ‘interesting’ advertising and such – I will leave intact. I will approve them.
Hope that helps. 🙂
General Smedley Butler wrote this classic, of course. back in 1935. 1935.. Beyond living memory for most Westerners now, I think.
But read it if you haven’t and given our parlous school system, from preschool to University, I’ll bet you haven’t.
Read it and tell me how much of it you think fits today.
Just have a read. It’s not a great big long thing. And here it is, for free:
They ALL use the wrong language or more precisely some specific words, completely wrongly when reporting and publishing their YT vids and so on.
Sometimes I get stirred up enough to post a comment about it. Here’s my most recent. I’ll smarten up and just copy and past this in future. I invite anyone and everyone to do the same thing.
In the interests of doing some tiny thing towards ending this thing sooner.
So here it is, apropo of any YT vid or site text:
He misleads you when he says ‘Russian forces’ and when he says ‘Ukrainians’.
Quite deliberately. He knows full well the ‘Russian Forces’ are actually the forces of the Donbas Ukrainians as well and even primarily because it is their country that is invaded and occupied by Kiev and which the conflict is trying to clear. AND they have been fighting for eight years and fight now to defend them.
And he knows full well that ‘Ukraine’ should apply to Kiev AND to the armed forces of the 10 million Donbas residents hated, denigrated and persecuted by Kiev.
So if anything it really is ‘Kiev Ukraine‘ and ‘Allied Forces‘ are the words that should be used.
I used to think it was just laziness or ignorance, inattention. But they ALL do it.
ALL the ‘objective’ or ‘unbiased’ and even ‘Russophile’ commentators. They ALL do it.
And the problem is, of course, that it helps the doubtful believe that the whole conflict really IS what the USA and KIev would have you believe it is: an unprovoked invasion by Russian into Ukraine.
And so they’ll happily let their governments send more money and guns and ammo and whatever ‘to help the Ukrainians’ – never dreaming for a minute that the Ukrainians they are helping are the American stooge Ukrainians and they’re being helped to destroy their brothers: the Donbas Ukrainians.
So why? Well I think it’s the platform: YT, and the current way things are in the media since Covid.
They don’t want to get deplatformed.
So they publish these videos ostensibly telling truths while subliminally heavily promoting the prevailing wicked USA narrative.
He is, they are, stooges for the American disinformation campaign.
That’s why they let Doug Macgregor keep on singing his song. Which is simple enough. ‘Ukraine cannot win.’
Seems at first sight to promote the Donbas cause, doesn’t it? Russophiles eagerly view all Doug Macgregor vids because that song pleases them.
But what does it do by way of subliminal propaganda? It makes your run of the mill American and the warlords etc. think that what is necessary is to double down on the aid. Send more and more and more…
Doug Macgregor, wittingly or unwittingly is overall simply a tool of the American disinformation plan.
The same with Scott Ritter, another one song, one hit wonder. He sings unceasingly a very similar song to Doug’s. You won’t beat the Russian military.
So what’s the message to the average Yank from that? You’ve got to try harder, vote more money… He is the same, wittingly or unwittingly a tool for the propagandists.
You can well imagine the ‘advisors’ to Biden and such laying these things before them: Ritter says they can’t be beat at present, we don’t have this, that… Macgregor says the Ukrainians are being beaten to a pulp…. Brian Berletic says the aid we give is paltry…. and so on… their loud opinions are all quotable as reasons for going harder, giving more aid etc…
Yes, I know, Ritter will tell history about the justice of the Russian side’s cause. So will Macgregor.. So will Berletic. And so on. Here and there. Few minutes in this vid or that.
But overall their messages are simply what I’ve said AND they’re all couched in that erroneous simplistic language where ‘supporting Ukraine and Ukrainians‘ really means supporting Kiev and Kiev Ukrainians and totally ignoring the other half.
Where the enemy is always ‘Russia‘ even though thousands of Donbas Ukrainians have suffered in the trenches for the last eight years.
What can you do about that?
Tell the truth when you can.
Don’t use that language. Be specific.
Say ‘I support Donbas Ukraine‘ and give them time to figure it out.. Say ‘the Allies broke through here or there…’ and let them figure that out..
Say ‘the invaders are being pushed back out of Donbas back towards Kiev..’
Put concepts in their minds that almost no one is putting there. Because that’s the best way to shorten this war.
200,000 dead and counting.
And the raving lunacy of the USA and its arselicking sycophants completely unabated..
And the mass media more stupidly biased than ever.. And even such as the ‘best’ channels faulty, deeply faulty, in the way I describe… It depends upon us… us little individuals… one by one… do your bit,…. quietly spread the word…
Looks to me like this is a major sign that we’re going too fast, plunging headlong to destruction. Too fast to notice the passing danger signs, the things that are happening that are stoving in the bottom of the boat, that will sink us.
Like this:
As you know our Media and our Government are doing everything they can to bring us full and comprehensive Truth about all things that concern us.
This is no easy task in a busy and violent world full of rogues and scoundrels, liars, thieves, cheats. Uncovering the lies, exposing the villainy, checking sources, carefully analysis, etc… it all takes time and personnel.
So it is not surprising that sometimes things ‘slip through’ or go unobserved. Understandable. They can’t do everything. So we should do all we can to help.
Here is an example. The Saintly Kiev regime is apparently harbouring some traitorous elements who’re betraying the fundamental saintliness of our Banderite Trawniki heroes and deliberately dropping banned chemical poison gas warfare munitions.
The article is in Russian which of course your Google translate or perhaps even your smarphone or browser would translate for you quickly enough.
But here’s a bit of a translation anyway so you can see. Followed by a link to the article, from ‘Kosomolskaya Pravda’ :
A month ago, a Ukrainian video was posted on the social network with strange, home-made ammunition for dropping from quadrocopters. The author, as it were, was hinting: “hold on, Muscovites, you are all Khan.” The video did not have the desired effect, therefore, they decided to repeat the stuffing last Sunday – February 5. The well-known Ukrainian right-winger * Yuriy Madyar posted these shootings. This time he showed dozens of homemade containers in the freezer under the Ukrainian flag. Experts immediately assumed that their filling was cyanogen chloride. At a temperature of minus 7 degrees, it passes from a gaseous state to a solid state, so it is safer to store such handicraft ammunition. According to the Nazi, these containers are intended to be dropped onto the positions of Russian soldiers completing the encirclement of Bakhmut (Artemovsk). The position of Ukrainian troops in this city is critical. Perhaps that is why the Nazis decided to show this “weapon of last chance for the villains.”
Кадр из скандального ролика, на котором бойцы ВСУ начиняют дроны некими боеприпасами.
A frame from the scandalous video, in which the APU fighters fill drones with some kind of ammunition.
TRAVELING ON THE EARTH
Without delving into chemistry, cyanogen chloride is one of the close “relatives” of hydrocyanic acid, only heavier than air, spreads along the ground, crawls into shelters. It is used in the production of herbicides in huge volumes (it is transported by railway tanks!) And it is not difficult to get it in the Ukrainian chaos, which we have clearly demonstrated.
At the same time, since January, our soldiers at the front began to notice strange consequences of ordinary drops of ammunition from quadrocopters on our positions – burning in the nasopharynx, headaches, nausea. All this indirectly confirmed the use of cyanogen chloride. Moreover, it even hit downed enemy quadrocopters, and when they were picked up for study, the poisonous effect was felt.
После появления ролика специалисты сразу предположили, что начинка контейнеров – это хлорциан.
After the appearance of the video, experts immediately assumed that the filling of the containers was cyanogen chloride.
Here are the symptoms of cyanogen chloride poisoning, similar to exposure to hydrocyanic acid:
“The afflicted cries out, loses consciousness and falls. After short-term clonic-tonic convulsions, the muscles relax, tendon reflexes disappear. Exophthalmos develops, pupils dilate, do not react to light. The skin is pink or pale. After a few breaths, breathing stops. Blood pressure drops sharply. The pulse is slow, thready.”
Gas masks help, but not all and not always. Antidotes, most likely, will not be in the first-aid kit. The enemy chose the poison with taste, thoughtfully.
EVEN HITLER DIDN’T DECIDE FOR THIS
Of course, such use of poisonous substances will not bring any victory to Ukraine. “Superweapon” does not bring victories at all, motivated infantry under competent leadership wins. It is strange to realize, but Hitler, who had no morals at all, did not dare to use poisonous substances in the Great Patriotic War. Perhaps because he himself fell into gas attacks during the First World War. And ours, especially, did not use this vile weapon. Although, everyone was preparing, they considered such a possibility: the wearing of gas masks, antiperitone capes and special antidotes was mandatory on both sides of the front.
The Germans at the front had a whole line of chemical munitions. For example, mortar mines marked HB or the so-called “blendkorpergranaten”, but they were equipped with smoke compositions or an unpleasant, but harmless (in comparison) “teardrop” – chloracetophenone. It is clear that at any time, the filling of ammunition could be replaced. Ours, on the other hand, were engaged in the development of fire mixtures – for their use there were so-called “ampoules” and “balloons” at the front that produce glass ammunition.
But then no one dared to use military poison gases.
Юрий Мадьяр держит в руках один из дронов с химической начинкой.
Yuri Magyar is holding one of the drones with a chemical filling.
But the Ukrainians did it!
In this story, the deliberate demonstration of a new “superweapon” attracts attention, which, by the way, is prohibited by all possible conventions.
And the second point is the silence of the West.
There are two assumptions here.
Either the Ukrainians were convinced that they would not get anything even for such a crime. It would be Russia that would be nailed down, declared a fiend, adding new sanctions to it, and Kyiv some other heavy weapon. And Ukraine – everything is possible: burn, do not be shy.
Or the second option – this provocation is coordinated and thought out. She is not a personal initiative of the degenerate Magyar and his brothers. They are trying to bring Russia to the reciprocal use of non-conventional means of warfare. For what? To turn the flywheel of conflict one more turn.
*Right Sector is an extremist organization of Ukrainian nationalists banned in Russia
LITERALLY
“There are FACTS OF APPLICATION”
“According to the statements of our units, this is not only in the Artemovsk direction, but also in the Ugledarskoye direction, there are cases of the use of chemical compounds that make our servicemen unwell. Complaints from the fighters have been coming in for at least three weeks. They are being dropped from drones at the locations of our units.”
Acting head of the DPR Denis Pushilin – on the air of the Rossiya 24 TV channel.
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