it's not just "zero burglaries were solved in the previous year".
it's ..."The crown courts of England and Wales, which deal with the most serious offenses, are buckling under a record backlog of almost 67,000 cases"
it's....."NHS wait lists for doctor running 6mos +"
it's....""The U.K.’s storied universities have a problem. They lose money on almost every British student they teach"
Of course you wouldn't notice this reading the upper class "Financial Times" or watching the ruling elite, and the war stance they take. Gawdawful delusion. Why we hate the brits.
And the European oligarchy especially the alpha ones do indeed believe that they are descended from Satan through Mary Magdalene - coincidence that they are the biggest and most strident purveyors of lies in the world?
I used to think about escaping to Russia if things became too suffocating here in the West. Land there is cheap after all. But after learning of Russia's embrace of new surveillance technology including digital IDs, face recognition technology and a digital rubble, my interest has waned somewhat.
I'm now taking an interest now in sub-Saharan Africa. I suspect most countries down there simply don't have the technology and wherewithal to truly spy on and oppress its citizenry.
As a long distance sailor on one of my journeys I spent a winter in The Gambia some years ago. If you needed something, and had the money to pay for it, rules and regulations weren't even considered. Closest thing to anarcho-capitalism I've ever experienced. Loved it. Folks there were good fun too. So there's that.
Russia is under siege and is clearly bracing for continued conflicts with the west. This will inevitably worsen things at home: they have a few Ukrainians now living in Russia, indistinguishable from Russians. Any one of them could be a potential terrorist, agent saboteur or assassins. There will be clamping and tightening of surveillance. What you say about Gambia is extremely interesting and reminiscent of the Communist Yugoslavia of my youth. The reason we felt free there was the same: rules and regulations were ignored and the state was very lukewarm about enforcement.
The digital ruble is not exactly how the West intends digital currency to be. There are detailed explanations available, simplicius for one has done so.
Of all the available places to hide on the planet, if things ever got truly bad, I was struck by the potential of the (semi) self governing (ie predominantly indigenous) states of Mexico, such as Oaxaca or Chiapas. The Federal Government only gets to enter by invitation and the local government is focused on things like schools and water, not geopolitics. You could hide there for years and never attract attention from outside. Great sailing too.
Dec 21, 2023·edited Dec 21, 2023Liked by Alex Krainer
Thanks Alex. I would say this is a fixed pattern of British statecraft, meaning that if someones pockets are deep and he has no problem being bribed and taking part of one of those London controlled masonic mafias he/she will get away with virtually everything, as an active tool of underground imperial puppetering. However, if someone fights the empire and pursuits the good of his own country and people, if he pursuits peace and international harmony, if he tries to extirpate the mafia networks milking the people, then, he will be presented like Jesuschrist's killer by means of the propaganda machine controlled by the financial imperial mafias, which goal is to undermine the ability of a sovereign country to defend itself using legal violence as one of the attributes of its statehood. This is the primary purpose of political NGOs like Amnesty International which any sovereign country should extirpate from its soil. Deny countries statehood making them failed states. Artists and popstars like Bono contribute to win the populace's hearts as well.
Unfortunately, most of the little countries that have been successful in countering this insidious underground takeover of power by the empire dont have the means to counter this narrative and at best, will face long periods of international ostracism and sanctions, and that if their lucky, notwithstanding their inability to respond to the empire power centres at all. Think about Nicaragua, Cuba or Erythrea for example. Little we know about them. There is no other way out than blocking the blocker, bullying the bully, and striking the striker.
If they are not lucky and finally sucomb to the imperial undercover assaults, then its Lybia, Syria, Irak, Haiti or Yugoslavia.
We have suffered two decades of systematic impunity of imperial agression, gruesome massacres of whole countries that rest unpunished. It was like nothing could stop the hords of bloodthirsty looting imperial cannibals.
What I miss the most in this buddying sovereign states is their capacity to unite the legal use of violence against this insidious undercover masonic attacks to other assymetric methods like media, pop stars, cinema and so on, as well as the ability to strike to the power centres of their irreconcilable enemies. Naive people like the Yugoslavs or the Ukranians were totally deprived of the cognitive tools to even grasp how the empire undercover mafia really works and defend themselves against virtual extermination. And this is an unforgivable historical guilt of people like Tito or Khadafi.
Have a great great year. I am intrigued to read your book and learn more about the British masonic mafia penetrarion methods and blackmail and slander over the ones who fight them, who become their number one enemy, aka, VVP. Cheers.
And Khaddaffi was once hand in glove with the globalist masonic mafia inlcuding that notorious Sabbattean Sarkozy - I believe most of these folks have not studied white occultism - Kabbala and its contents with the works of latter day saints like Adam Pike, Manly Hall, Alice Baily and Blavatsky. It is essential to understand white occultism from its supposed cradle in Egypt to the modern day by reading not only Masonic history but also the philosophy and thought process - it should be part of philosophy/ theology/ politics/economic courses in the global south and east otherwise the peril you detailed will simply aggravate.
Dec 21, 2023·edited Dec 21, 2023Liked by Alex Krainer
There is no real freedom,..never was! this because Real freedom is balanced by real responsibility & few want the problems inherent in keeping freedom alive!
Listen to some of the quotes from the few people who understood this!
The late political leader,Tip Oneill, said that "all politics is local''
This means that the average citizen is concerned with his/her personal prosperity in the narrow world He/ She lives! The average citizen Is completely involved with their own well being,their own prosperity!
Prosperity,in turn,has little in a positive way to do with what government does or does not do,rather the opposite.The Prosperity is due to advances in productivity since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. This is to say that most citizens are not interested in being Free & Responsible,they just want to be prosperous.If they are prosperous & financially secure they don't give a damn about being Free,they don't care about what the politicians do,what they steal, as long as they are secure in the local world they inhabit!
P.S. The Citizens in Nazi Germany in 1938 were quite Contented living in a dictatorship run by psychopaths because their Standard of living was high.They were not free & didn't care!
We all understand that Yeltsin was controlled by the West but the intriguing question is under what circumstances did the reigns get passed to Putin? We all recall that Yeltsin's resignation (and naming of the unknown Putin) came as a surprise. Was this Yeltsin's act of defiance against his controllers? Was the transmission planned by the West but then Putin turned against them? Was it all a FSB/KGB operation? I would be inclined to the view that it was an act of defiance by Yeltsin but the part that does not fit was that Putin's position was immediately strengthened by the Ryazan bombings and the Chechen war, which looked very much to be a false flag operation, but whose?
I tried to work out how on earth Putin got to where he is. It is very difficult, something mysterious happened and he was maneuvered into power. By whom? It would appear by some structure/club within the KGB. The only visible personage in those circles was Evgeniy Primakov. But they had to really fool the oligarchs and their western handlers. Kissinger himself OK-ed Putin's appointment. Extremely strange.
Yes, the Russians seem to have outsmarted them. But how they recruited Putin, how he ended up in Sobchak's service, how they got him close to Yeltsin and "the family" is a mystery. Either great foresight, luck or divine intervention.
An equally intriguing question is why Medvedev never moved against Putin, when he had all the powers of the presidency in his hands? Instead, he simply handed those powers back to Putin. What was going on there?
Going by recollection (so check yourself) I recall Yeltsin, having been quite corrupt, needed a successor who would not prosecute his crimes after he retired and lessor known Putin obliged. I also recall that Putin was an approved pick by the US.
Putin was actually handpicked by the chief administrator of planet earth and the representative of the prince of the world - Henry Kissinger - His deviation from the agreed oligarchic extortion of Russia using homegrown collection agents and the nationalisation of key enterprises is what soured the wests bet on Putin.
Yes - knew the wrath of the US (Wall Street) was brought on by Putin kicking out the vultures but I wasn’t aware Kissinger was behind his selection. Thank you.
Interesting writing Alex. I know that growing up as a teenager in the 80’s it seems like we had ALOT more freedom then. It was the USSR that was so oppressive back then, at least that’s what we always believed. We also had a President that appeared to embrace the ideals of freedom(Reagan). Now, after witnessing the COVID insanity and now the current administration and the deep state racing us into a “banana republic” status, it’s just disheartening to think this is the same U.S.A. that I grew up in. As a professional pilot, this is probably the most lucrative time to be in this profession and the U.S. is the best place to be in this industry. This is still a country where anyone with a few bucks to spare, can get a pilot’s license and theoretically, buy an airplane without an electrical system and fly it from sea to shining sea without a radio and not have to talk to anyone or file a flight plan. I don’t know of ANY other country in the world where that can be done. You can even, theoretically, buy a powered parachute or ultralight aircraft and do the same thing without a license at all. This guy makes a living from it. (https://youtu.be/nzUiFdnd7ZM?si=9aBJ2TtkCr-nrNC1) That being said, I find it completely depressing to see censorship of anything not following the government narrative, personal liberties and constitutional rights vaporized in the name of the illusion of health and safety. It’s really hard to address the two extremes. It’s also really hard to imagine Russia having more freedoms, they did sign on to the same climate accords as the rest of the insane developed world. There are oligarchs everywhere, Russia included. Maybe this is a fight against oligarchs everywhere.
Thank you FlyingDad. You see, my reference point is growing up in communist Yugoslavia. I can't quite explain it but growing up there was wonderful. I remember my friends and I hanging out and talking about how lucky we were to be living then and there. In 1985 my brother's high school friends from San Gabriel, California came to visit and spend a few weeks with us. To this day (we're friends on FB now) they say that it was the best summer they ever had. We had next to nothing and a little bit of spending money. But we were very free - not just free from oppressive government, but free also by having no restrictions, no crime, no drugs. This wasn't thanks to the benevolent Communist regime, but perhaps because the regime was inert and left many areas of life unattended. Like in the Soviet Union, the initial revolutionary zeal of the Communists waned and the people slowly drifted back to living in the many wide open free spaces left unattended. We did not have billions of laws and stupid rules that say you can't do this, can't do that. And we had no fear of police. This is something I noticed immediately in the US: that most people fear the police. Anyway, when I came to the US in 1987, aged 17 it was very obvious to me - I felt much less free. In the US you have certain freedoms which are very important. What you describe, and also the 2nd amendment. But you also have insanely many rules to comply with, to conform... When I was in Russia a few years ago it felt very much like life I remember in former Yugoslavia. And don't get me wrong, we're on the same slippery slide today, losing freedoms by the bucketloads..
Exactly! I know that in the 80’s a student pilot could get away with a lot of things that in today’s world would possibly get you hauled off for questioning without a lawyer. After 911, everything changed. Listening to Alex Jones from 7/25/01, it would appear that our own government allowed 911 to happen. With our recent COVID psyop, the Deep State has shown itself clearly. Here in Florida, we’ve avoided a lot of that nonsense and the one hope for those of us that can’t entertain other countries as a new residence, it gives me hope that many states will be different from others.
Being a German journalist who speaks Russian and been there lot´s of times I´d venture the following:
Russians are born free and stay that way. They are instinctive anarchists. That is why that country easily vears into chaos and that is why tyrannical rule has been the norm. Or put another way: Russians don´t follow rules and laws. They subvert them, ignore them whatever. The government reacts by making ever more complicated laws trying to regulate the smallest things. Finally it really becomes impossible to follow the law and the average Russian is vindicated in his disdain for government. If things must move forward in Russia the government has to use force. A stick for every head as the Russian saying goes. Now that the war has begone the government is using the stick. It used not to be that way. Only 4 years ago you could buy papers at every street corner in Moscow detailing the most incredible corruption and saying the most terrible things about the goverment. Not anymore. Say something negatively in private!!!! about the SMO first time you get a fine and next time it is prison. A month ago some old guy was sentenced to 6 years for holding up a plackard denouncing the SMO.
What about us? The Western man doesn´t need a stick. He has one in the head that tells him to behave and follow the rules. That is why the rule of law and democracy is possible in the first place. That is also why Western journals were always much less daring and outrageous as Russian publications. There is though a moment, when the stick in the head doesn´t work anymore. That time has come and now the Goverment has to turn to Russian methods. Not quite as bad and certainly not as crude as in Russia but they are getting there. They are remote controlling a new configuration of the internal stick.
And of course the hypocrisy of the West knows no bounds regarding Russia. It is ultimately the West who forced the rulers in Russia to resort to the stick. And yes, Russia is still a great place and I love being there. Our woke leaders applying cancel culture to Russia is nothing but a sick joke.
If you consult the rights to free speech laid out in the universal declaration of rights following the French Revolution and its counterpart in the EU it is evident that the right is actually a permission conditional on considerations of public order. Whether or not the permission is to be curtailed is to be decided by the government. So criticizing the government is possible if the government graciously permits it.
The British as usual are an anomaly. With no formal rights the subjects of the crown in practice enjoyed a certain liberty of expression in what was for a long time a polite and peaceful society. Now it is a revolutionary state and persecution has naturally followed.
Which leaves the First amendment. A unique achievement in the annals of liberty. Here’s hoping it survives.
Yes it appears there is more tolerance in Russia than the mindless madness gripping the West. As an American pal says they talk about freedom as they don’t see any.
Freedom is a delusional concept if it doesn’t include its responsibilities giving it respect.
Freedom is impossible if the citizens are blocked from real information.
How can a citizen voice an accurate opinion on matters of state if all that is available are false narratives & doctored history? Doctored history & completely disappeared history!
Mark Twain,in his homey way said
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble.
Went to the redpillpress site and well, no surprise I guess that it said "video is not available in your country" yup home of the land and free my A$$! hahaha
I used to work with a Russian hedge fund. Super smart guys, without all the duplicity of their Wall Street equivalents. Anyway, their principle shareholder was one of the aerospace oligarchs. I never met him but my counterparts would often see him and chat casually with him. Their favorite story was when Putin held a meeting of the major oligarchs, shortly after securing the presidency, telling them all how things were going to be, going forward. Apparently most present were nodding their heads but one (sufficiently audibly) said something like 'We shall see about that'. Apparently a chill hush went around the room and everyone shuffled away from that individual. He was Khodorkovsky, then the richest of them all. The rest is history.
In some ways they aren't as free. They're pushing mask mandates in areas even though everyone already knows that they don't help and in fact can cause issues.
Why would Russia follow the fake Western science?
Mind you that London, new York and other big cities aren't doing mandates. Are Russians still worried about a flu?
"And speaking of bikes or other stuff stolen from Britons (not by parrots), British law enforcement has pretty much abandoned them to criminals"
And that's with surveillance cameras everywhere...
LOL, great point, thank you!
it's not just "zero burglaries were solved in the previous year".
it's ..."The crown courts of England and Wales, which deal with the most serious offenses, are buckling under a record backlog of almost 67,000 cases"
it's....."NHS wait lists for doctor running 6mos +"
it's....""The U.K.’s storied universities have a problem. They lose money on almost every British student they teach"
Of course you wouldn't notice this reading the upper class "Financial Times" or watching the ruling elite, and the war stance they take. Gawdawful delusion. Why we hate the brits.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but someone a lot smarter than me once said "Satan is the father of lies".
Just sayin.
And the European oligarchy especially the alpha ones do indeed believe that they are descended from Satan through Mary Magdalene - coincidence that they are the biggest and most strident purveyors of lies in the world?
Samuel, will you please elaborate on the above, "Satan through Mary Magdalene?"
Jesus himself said something along those lines, John 8:44.
It's a fine point indeed! 😊
The state cannot stop me from wishing a Merry Christmas to you and your family. Merry Christmas!
Thank you Jeff! Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones as well!
Cheers,
A.
I used to think about escaping to Russia if things became too suffocating here in the West. Land there is cheap after all. But after learning of Russia's embrace of new surveillance technology including digital IDs, face recognition technology and a digital rubble, my interest has waned somewhat.
I'm now taking an interest now in sub-Saharan Africa. I suspect most countries down there simply don't have the technology and wherewithal to truly spy on and oppress its citizenry.
As a long distance sailor on one of my journeys I spent a winter in The Gambia some years ago. If you needed something, and had the money to pay for it, rules and regulations weren't even considered. Closest thing to anarcho-capitalism I've ever experienced. Loved it. Folks there were good fun too. So there's that.
Russia is under siege and is clearly bracing for continued conflicts with the west. This will inevitably worsen things at home: they have a few Ukrainians now living in Russia, indistinguishable from Russians. Any one of them could be a potential terrorist, agent saboteur or assassins. There will be clamping and tightening of surveillance. What you say about Gambia is extremely interesting and reminiscent of the Communist Yugoslavia of my youth. The reason we felt free there was the same: rules and regulations were ignored and the state was very lukewarm about enforcement.
The digital ruble is not exactly how the West intends digital currency to be. There are detailed explanations available, simplicius for one has done so.
Of all the available places to hide on the planet, if things ever got truly bad, I was struck by the potential of the (semi) self governing (ie predominantly indigenous) states of Mexico, such as Oaxaca or Chiapas. The Federal Government only gets to enter by invitation and the local government is focused on things like schools and water, not geopolitics. You could hide there for years and never attract attention from outside. Great sailing too.
Thanks Alex. I would say this is a fixed pattern of British statecraft, meaning that if someones pockets are deep and he has no problem being bribed and taking part of one of those London controlled masonic mafias he/she will get away with virtually everything, as an active tool of underground imperial puppetering. However, if someone fights the empire and pursuits the good of his own country and people, if he pursuits peace and international harmony, if he tries to extirpate the mafia networks milking the people, then, he will be presented like Jesuschrist's killer by means of the propaganda machine controlled by the financial imperial mafias, which goal is to undermine the ability of a sovereign country to defend itself using legal violence as one of the attributes of its statehood. This is the primary purpose of political NGOs like Amnesty International which any sovereign country should extirpate from its soil. Deny countries statehood making them failed states. Artists and popstars like Bono contribute to win the populace's hearts as well.
Unfortunately, most of the little countries that have been successful in countering this insidious underground takeover of power by the empire dont have the means to counter this narrative and at best, will face long periods of international ostracism and sanctions, and that if their lucky, notwithstanding their inability to respond to the empire power centres at all. Think about Nicaragua, Cuba or Erythrea for example. Little we know about them. There is no other way out than blocking the blocker, bullying the bully, and striking the striker.
If they are not lucky and finally sucomb to the imperial undercover assaults, then its Lybia, Syria, Irak, Haiti or Yugoslavia.
We have suffered two decades of systematic impunity of imperial agression, gruesome massacres of whole countries that rest unpunished. It was like nothing could stop the hords of bloodthirsty looting imperial cannibals.
What I miss the most in this buddying sovereign states is their capacity to unite the legal use of violence against this insidious undercover masonic attacks to other assymetric methods like media, pop stars, cinema and so on, as well as the ability to strike to the power centres of their irreconcilable enemies. Naive people like the Yugoslavs or the Ukranians were totally deprived of the cognitive tools to even grasp how the empire undercover mafia really works and defend themselves against virtual extermination. And this is an unforgivable historical guilt of people like Tito or Khadafi.
Have a great great year. I am intrigued to read your book and learn more about the British masonic mafia penetrarion methods and blackmail and slander over the ones who fight them, who become their number one enemy, aka, VVP. Cheers.
Thank you Yoni. All the best to you as well. If you email me I can send you the PDF copy of my book.
And Khaddaffi was once hand in glove with the globalist masonic mafia inlcuding that notorious Sabbattean Sarkozy - I believe most of these folks have not studied white occultism - Kabbala and its contents with the works of latter day saints like Adam Pike, Manly Hall, Alice Baily and Blavatsky. It is essential to understand white occultism from its supposed cradle in Egypt to the modern day by reading not only Masonic history but also the philosophy and thought process - it should be part of philosophy/ theology/ politics/economic courses in the global south and east otherwise the peril you detailed will simply aggravate.
There is no real freedom,..never was! this because Real freedom is balanced by real responsibility & few want the problems inherent in keeping freedom alive!
Listen to some of the quotes from the few people who understood this!
The late political leader,Tip Oneill, said that "all politics is local''
This means that the average citizen is concerned with his/her personal prosperity in the narrow world He/ She lives! The average citizen Is completely involved with their own well being,their own prosperity!
Prosperity,in turn,has little in a positive way to do with what government does or does not do,rather the opposite.The Prosperity is due to advances in productivity since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. This is to say that most citizens are not interested in being Free & Responsible,they just want to be prosperous.If they are prosperous & financially secure they don't give a damn about being Free,they don't care about what the politicians do,what they steal, as long as they are secure in the local world they inhabit!
P.S. The Citizens in Nazi Germany in 1938 were quite Contented living in a dictatorship run by psychopaths because their Standard of living was high.They were not free & didn't care!
,unless they were Jewish,
Great stuff Sidney, thank you.
We all understand that Yeltsin was controlled by the West but the intriguing question is under what circumstances did the reigns get passed to Putin? We all recall that Yeltsin's resignation (and naming of the unknown Putin) came as a surprise. Was this Yeltsin's act of defiance against his controllers? Was the transmission planned by the West but then Putin turned against them? Was it all a FSB/KGB operation? I would be inclined to the view that it was an act of defiance by Yeltsin but the part that does not fit was that Putin's position was immediately strengthened by the Ryazan bombings and the Chechen war, which looked very much to be a false flag operation, but whose?
I tried to work out how on earth Putin got to where he is. It is very difficult, something mysterious happened and he was maneuvered into power. By whom? It would appear by some structure/club within the KGB. The only visible personage in those circles was Evgeniy Primakov. But they had to really fool the oligarchs and their western handlers. Kissinger himself OK-ed Putin's appointment. Extremely strange.
That must rank as the worst ever intelligence failure by MI6/CIA (from their perspective).
Yes, the Russians seem to have outsmarted them. But how they recruited Putin, how he ended up in Sobchak's service, how they got him close to Yeltsin and "the family" is a mystery. Either great foresight, luck or divine intervention.
An equally intriguing question is why Medvedev never moved against Putin, when he had all the powers of the presidency in his hands? Instead, he simply handed those powers back to Putin. What was going on there?
Going by recollection (so check yourself) I recall Yeltsin, having been quite corrupt, needed a successor who would not prosecute his crimes after he retired and lessor known Putin obliged. I also recall that Putin was an approved pick by the US.
Maybe other readers can confirm or correct.
Putin was actually handpicked by the chief administrator of planet earth and the representative of the prince of the world - Henry Kissinger - His deviation from the agreed oligarchic extortion of Russia using homegrown collection agents and the nationalisation of key enterprises is what soured the wests bet on Putin.
Yes - knew the wrath of the US (Wall Street) was brought on by Putin kicking out the vultures but I wasn’t aware Kissinger was behind his selection. Thank you.
Interesting writing Alex. I know that growing up as a teenager in the 80’s it seems like we had ALOT more freedom then. It was the USSR that was so oppressive back then, at least that’s what we always believed. We also had a President that appeared to embrace the ideals of freedom(Reagan). Now, after witnessing the COVID insanity and now the current administration and the deep state racing us into a “banana republic” status, it’s just disheartening to think this is the same U.S.A. that I grew up in. As a professional pilot, this is probably the most lucrative time to be in this profession and the U.S. is the best place to be in this industry. This is still a country where anyone with a few bucks to spare, can get a pilot’s license and theoretically, buy an airplane without an electrical system and fly it from sea to shining sea without a radio and not have to talk to anyone or file a flight plan. I don’t know of ANY other country in the world where that can be done. You can even, theoretically, buy a powered parachute or ultralight aircraft and do the same thing without a license at all. This guy makes a living from it. (https://youtu.be/nzUiFdnd7ZM?si=9aBJ2TtkCr-nrNC1) That being said, I find it completely depressing to see censorship of anything not following the government narrative, personal liberties and constitutional rights vaporized in the name of the illusion of health and safety. It’s really hard to address the two extremes. It’s also really hard to imagine Russia having more freedoms, they did sign on to the same climate accords as the rest of the insane developed world. There are oligarchs everywhere, Russia included. Maybe this is a fight against oligarchs everywhere.
Thank you FlyingDad. You see, my reference point is growing up in communist Yugoslavia. I can't quite explain it but growing up there was wonderful. I remember my friends and I hanging out and talking about how lucky we were to be living then and there. In 1985 my brother's high school friends from San Gabriel, California came to visit and spend a few weeks with us. To this day (we're friends on FB now) they say that it was the best summer they ever had. We had next to nothing and a little bit of spending money. But we were very free - not just free from oppressive government, but free also by having no restrictions, no crime, no drugs. This wasn't thanks to the benevolent Communist regime, but perhaps because the regime was inert and left many areas of life unattended. Like in the Soviet Union, the initial revolutionary zeal of the Communists waned and the people slowly drifted back to living in the many wide open free spaces left unattended. We did not have billions of laws and stupid rules that say you can't do this, can't do that. And we had no fear of police. This is something I noticed immediately in the US: that most people fear the police. Anyway, when I came to the US in 1987, aged 17 it was very obvious to me - I felt much less free. In the US you have certain freedoms which are very important. What you describe, and also the 2nd amendment. But you also have insanely many rules to comply with, to conform... When I was in Russia a few years ago it felt very much like life I remember in former Yugoslavia. And don't get me wrong, we're on the same slippery slide today, losing freedoms by the bucketloads..
I know a woman who was born in east Germany, and she speaks of it in much the same way.
Exactly! I know that in the 80’s a student pilot could get away with a lot of things that in today’s world would possibly get you hauled off for questioning without a lawyer. After 911, everything changed. Listening to Alex Jones from 7/25/01, it would appear that our own government allowed 911 to happen. With our recent COVID psyop, the Deep State has shown itself clearly. Here in Florida, we’ve avoided a lot of that nonsense and the one hope for those of us that can’t entertain other countries as a new residence, it gives me hope that many states will be different from others.
Being a German journalist who speaks Russian and been there lot´s of times I´d venture the following:
Russians are born free and stay that way. They are instinctive anarchists. That is why that country easily vears into chaos and that is why tyrannical rule has been the norm. Or put another way: Russians don´t follow rules and laws. They subvert them, ignore them whatever. The government reacts by making ever more complicated laws trying to regulate the smallest things. Finally it really becomes impossible to follow the law and the average Russian is vindicated in his disdain for government. If things must move forward in Russia the government has to use force. A stick for every head as the Russian saying goes. Now that the war has begone the government is using the stick. It used not to be that way. Only 4 years ago you could buy papers at every street corner in Moscow detailing the most incredible corruption and saying the most terrible things about the goverment. Not anymore. Say something negatively in private!!!! about the SMO first time you get a fine and next time it is prison. A month ago some old guy was sentenced to 6 years for holding up a plackard denouncing the SMO.
What about us? The Western man doesn´t need a stick. He has one in the head that tells him to behave and follow the rules. That is why the rule of law and democracy is possible in the first place. That is also why Western journals were always much less daring and outrageous as Russian publications. There is though a moment, when the stick in the head doesn´t work anymore. That time has come and now the Goverment has to turn to Russian methods. Not quite as bad and certainly not as crude as in Russia but they are getting there. They are remote controlling a new configuration of the internal stick.
And of course the hypocrisy of the West knows no bounds regarding Russia. It is ultimately the West who forced the rulers in Russia to resort to the stick. And yes, Russia is still a great place and I love being there. Our woke leaders applying cancel culture to Russia is nothing but a sick joke.
Thank you, great feedback.
If you consult the rights to free speech laid out in the universal declaration of rights following the French Revolution and its counterpart in the EU it is evident that the right is actually a permission conditional on considerations of public order. Whether or not the permission is to be curtailed is to be decided by the government. So criticizing the government is possible if the government graciously permits it.
The British as usual are an anomaly. With no formal rights the subjects of the crown in practice enjoyed a certain liberty of expression in what was for a long time a polite and peaceful society. Now it is a revolutionary state and persecution has naturally followed.
Which leaves the First amendment. A unique achievement in the annals of liberty. Here’s hoping it survives.
Yes it appears there is more tolerance in Russia than the mindless madness gripping the West. As an American pal says they talk about freedom as they don’t see any.
Freedom is a delusional concept if it doesn’t include its responsibilities giving it respect.
Freedom is impossible if the citizens are blocked from real information.
How can a citizen voice an accurate opinion on matters of state if all that is available are false narratives & doctored history? Doctored history & completely disappeared history!
Mark Twain,in his homey way said
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so''
You're right Alex, we need to look in the mirror, and not through coloured glasses!
Thank you Bertil!
Went to the redpillpress site and well, no surprise I guess that it said "video is not available in your country" yup home of the land and free my A$$! hahaha
'math is racist'... 🤣😂
Bonne fete Alex, to you and yours.
Thank you, and the same to you - cheers!
I used to work with a Russian hedge fund. Super smart guys, without all the duplicity of their Wall Street equivalents. Anyway, their principle shareholder was one of the aerospace oligarchs. I never met him but my counterparts would often see him and chat casually with him. Their favorite story was when Putin held a meeting of the major oligarchs, shortly after securing the presidency, telling them all how things were going to be, going forward. Apparently most present were nodding their heads but one (sufficiently audibly) said something like 'We shall see about that'. Apparently a chill hush went around the room and everyone shuffled away from that individual. He was Khodorkovsky, then the richest of them all. The rest is history.
VVP is the boss!
Here is scolding factory owners for stalling and then gives special treatment to a recalcitrant Deripaska.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjrlTMvirVo
And here being terse with his spy chief.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9A-u8EoWcI
He does not suffer fools.
all a show
In some ways they aren't as free. They're pushing mask mandates in areas even though everyone already knows that they don't help and in fact can cause issues.
Why would Russia follow the fake Western science?
Mind you that London, new York and other big cities aren't doing mandates. Are Russians still worried about a flu?
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/seasons-greetings-from-st-petersburg