Mueller’s Sideshow Closes – But it has Served its Purpose
Kit Knightly
To state my position clearly – I never believed, for a second, that the Mueller investigation would find any evidence of “Russian collusion”. And not simply because there isn’t any. I mean, let’s be honest, the powers that be “find evidence” of things that never happened all the time.
They “found” photos of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a rifle, and they “found” Satam al-Suqami’s passport in the rubble of the World Trade Center. They produced “evidence” the Russians shot down MH17 and poisoned the Skripals. There is “evidence” Assad gassed his own people. There was “evidence” Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction that could be here in 45 minutes. (Mueller himself testified to that).
The Deep State have made it more than clear that objective fact does not matter to them. When the CIA, the FBI or the Pentagon want the evidence, they invent find it.
No, I was sure they wouldn’t find Russian collusion, because they didn’t really want to.
Firstly, it’s dangerous. However mad many of the leaders of the US deep state are, there are some who recognise that going to war with Russia is a bad idea. Publicly stating that Russia performed a coup in your country could lead to an international incident, a civil war, or even a nuclear holocaust. That’s not good for business.
Secondly, it’s an admission of weakness. The bedrock of Imperial power has always been an unwillingness to admit its own limitations. Finding that Russia had installed Trump would be admitting to a major defeat. They can’t afford to lose that much face.
Thirdly, and most importantly, they can’t take down one of their own. Trump might be crude, unpredictable, politically incorrect and lacking class…but at the end of the day he’s a billionaire son of a millionaire. He has been mixing with the elites all his life. He’s one of them, and sending down a member of the in crowd for corruption (or anything else) sets too dangerous a precedent. Trump has to be exonerated, it’s simply a matter of the system’s immune response protecting itself. (Not to mention he’s been President of the United States for over two years now, you take him to trial and who knows what he might start saying).
No, Trump was never going to be charged, let alone convicted. Mueller’s investigation has ended the way it was always intended to end – with a whimper, not a bang.
Do NOT make the mistake of thinking this makes it a failure.
Think about how our reality has been shaped by this investigation.
One, it has established as a “certain fact” in the mainstream media, that “Russian interference” is a thing that happened, even though to this date there is NOT A SINGLE PIECE of publicly available evidence to support this. The often cited “Russian troll factory”, the Internet Research Agency, is a small viral marketing firm that published anti-Trump ads. The “experts” tracking Russian “influence operations” are small-time paranoiacs with nothing but homemade infographics to back up their theories. The “research fellows” of the Atlantic Council are reduced to pointing to real people – be they retirees from England or internationally renowned concert pianists – and claiming they are “Russian bots”, because they cannot find any real ones.
The idea that Russia “hacked” the election, or launched a “campaign in support of Trump” is not even close to being proven, but if we embrace the Mueller report, then we are tricked into accepting that version of reality.
Two, there is the very idea of “collusion”. “Collusion” has no meaning under US law. It simply is not a thing, and yet we’ve all been talking about it for years. Letting “collusion” stand as a concept is a big victory for the establishment. It has no meaning, which means it can have any meaning they want it to have. Tulsi Gabbard can have “colluded” with Assad or Modi by defending them on US TV. Jill Stein can commit “collusion” with Russia by attending a meeting. They have invented an imaginary crime, that can be used to tar anti-establishment figures whenever they want.
If we embrace the Mueller report, we hand the corporate media more power to smear any political candidate, independent journalist or an ordinary citizen.
Three, if we accept Mueller, then we accept the concomitant affirmation of the idea that US institutions are trustworthy, that the FBI is inherently honest, that “Gary Cooper types” like Robert Mueller are the beating heart of US democracy. The narrative is running now that an accusation was made, a special counsel investigated and got to the bottom of it.
If we embrace the Mueller report, we lend credibility to a US system that deserves none. We put our trust in a body that has betrayed the public trust a thousand different times, and we accept the lie that the system is working as intended.
Four, Mueller has been a tremendous distraction. Don’t underestimate the value of that. Most of you will be familiar with the Karl Rove quote: “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.”, but just as important is the less well-known end to that thought: “And while you’re studying that reality —judiciously, as you will— we’ll act again, creating other new realities.”.
“Russiagate” has consumed hundreds of hours of television, thousands of column inches. It has cost millions and returned nothing but sound and fury. It’s a chew toy, a scratching post. Something to get our claws and teeth into while our owners are busy.
And how busy they have been.
Think about all the issues knocked off the front-pages by “Russiagate” rumours and totally fictitious “smoking guns”. Venezuela inches closer to destruction every day. France is a couple of street clashes away from a second 1789. Trump has slashed infrastructure and welfare budgets, and increased military spending. Again. While every anchor in the country was talking about “the walls closing in”, the US has pulled out of an arms treaty and announced they have already built the weapons that the treaty banned. While the media hammer out the propaganda message that Trump is in Putin’s pocket, the US deep state has been winding the Doomsday clock up to 1 minute before midnight.
Finally, much like the “antisemitism crisis” in the Labour party, “Russian collusion” now exists as a concept that keeps everyone in check. Trump now can’t afford to meet with Putin, not without a chorus of “AHA!” from the punditry. Other political figures, those on the actual fringe (not the fake Trump fringe), have even more to lose. There’s no doubt that “Russian collusion”, or the like, will be used to file down a crowded Democrat primary field. Gabbard, Sanders, maybe even Warren, will doubtless face charges of being “soft on Putin” in one form or other. These McCarthyite smears force the Overton window closed. They control what people feel comfortable saying, even thinking.
All in all, Mueller has been very, very useful to the status quo. He’s a controlled reaction, like in a nuclear power plant, keeping public anger available as an energy to harness, whilst making sure it never boils over into a chaotic meltdown.
There is an understandable feeling of glee throughout the alternative media, emotions are high and “We told you so” always feels good to say. Those of us who have been dismissed as bots, Putin-apologists, useful idiots and “Trumptards” have been officially vindicated.
…but do we want vindication from a corrupt establishment? Should we take any value at all in an admission of “truth” from institutions who been shown to hold the very concept of truth in contempt?
The Mueller distraction has run its course, to the only the end it was ever going to reach. The Liberal cheerleaders who thought that OrangeManBad would be dragged out of the White House in chains might be tearful and angry, and in some ways that feels like a victory, but it’s only on the surface. Maddow and Harding et al might be temporarily humiliated, but their bosses are perfectly fine.
Every step of the way Mueller has been an exercise in narrative control, and every step of the way it has worked. And it is still working now.
They have reinforced convenient myths, stoked controversies from non-stories. Put “evidence” out into the public domain that was nothing more than smoke and mirrors.
They have shown that they have total control over the vast majority of public discourse. They can set the agenda. They can dictate terms. They can invent concepts, scenarios, even entire events, and we’ll happily argue over the details of something that never even happened.
“We’re an Empire now, and we act we create reality”. When we accept the Mueller report we are letting them create reality, we shouldn’t be tempted down that path because it feels like we scored some points for the little guy. If we buy into the hype around the announcement, if we let the myth survive that the US government has any interest in objective truth, then we’re playing their game.
I called the Mueller report a sideshow, and that’s just what it is. A fixed ring-toss game, with prizes that seem attainable but are always kept just out of reach. Hustlers always let you win the first one, to make the game look fair. Don’t fall for it. Pick up your money and walk away from the table.
It might FEEL like the good guys won, but that’s only because they let us. Next time they might not. The only real way to win is not to play.
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The great Mark Steyn summed up witch hunts of the Mueller kind beautifully: It’s the process that does the damage, the outcome seldom if ever matters.
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/ross-barkan Somewhat amazingly, the Guardian actually briefly opened comments on the above nonsense & pie throwing for distraction, trying to make Madcow & MSNBC look like culprits. Check the comments: a truly stunning lack of awareness, where not even one person is aware, or dares to mention, that Mueller was made boss of the FBI on the 7th Sept. 2001 >>> logically, need I say more than “Bill Binney” & WTC 7 ! ? Yep Baron, yer’ right, the process has done the damage and the people’s SAS (short attention span) has been fully exploited and it has worked, seemingly @theFraudian. Mueller’s placement immediately prior to 9/11 and his obvious complete incompetence & inability to investigate controlled explosions in the centre of New York, confirms his corrupted Deep State nature, more than adequately and >>> The above opinion piece confirms the Guardian’s Rocker-Feller role today, of destroying any further logically… Read more »
“Check the comments”? You mean check the permitted comments.
What has to happen now is a systematic exposure of all the ways that AIPAC controls candidates and election financing. Israel is the ultimate election thief but Americans are too big a bunch of wussies to deal with their Zionist masters. 1. Why is it allowable for dual-citizen US-Israeli Zionists to become elected officers when they clearly have allegiances to Israel far too strong to make them loyal US citizens? They must make a single citizenship choice or not run for office, since 300 million plus US citizens are not Jews and have no interest being tethered to Eretz Yisrael. 2. Why is Israel alowed to manipulate US elections? Why does Rupert Murdoch promote such scandalous hypocrisy across his propaganda empire? 3. Why must US Foreign policy be dominated by such a racist nation? Netanyahu behaving the way he does in Israel would see him imprisoned in the US for… Read more »
Well said Rhys, but the Mueller report was designed primarily to distract from Al-Jazeera’s “The Lobby”, coz’ the Russians Dunnit’, sits better in a Congress of trainers Seals, than the Israelis Dunnit’, see? So, i seriously doubt we’ll be seeing much change anywhere momentarily, now that Trump has simultaneously announced with the release of Mueller’s report, the UNILATERAL recognition of Israel’s divine rights to the Golan Heights . . . It is now up to the international community to expose the absurdity of this announcement and Rupert Murdoch’s interest in Genie Energy Oil & Gas on the Golan Heights, Along with Cheney’s, Rothschild’s & ex-CIA boss James Woolsey’s interests, in Genie Energy on the Golan >>> all well documented, so much so, for so many years, i’m fed up with repeating myself about the matter and the cowardice of the U.N. SG Guterres to address the most simple of matters,… Read more »
hi mark, I think by “Deranged Left” you really mean “Deranged Liberals.” The actual Left–lol to the extent that there is one–never bought into Russiagate for some of the very reasons you cite. I realize that we’re all bombarded by propaganda that tells you that mainstream DC Democrat liberals are the “left,” and so it follows that you, as a supporter of Trump, end up believing that the “Left” is the enemy. You may or may not agree with the kind of social democratic economic positions and non-interventionist foreign policy that constitutes a truly Left politics; but hey, we can argue about those things. All I want to point out is just as some of my conservative friends–crunchy con, Wendell Berry types–hate when the media refers to the crazy neoliberal ideas of the Republican establishment as “conservative,” when in fact they are anything but, so members of the Left deservedly… Read more »
Dear WJ, I think these labels are becoming increasingly meaningless, but I take your point. Deranged Left/ Liberals to me are the demented social justice warriors going down the Identity Politics rabbit hole. There isn’t any real Left any more. They abandoned the working class years ago, whom they despise, just like the Blairite Labour Party in the UK. There aren’t any real conservatives either any more, except maybe Ron Paul Libertarians. I’m not a supporter of Trump. I think his record at home and abroad has been absolutely appalling. Bloated military spending, ballooning debt and deficits, aggressive confrontation with Russia/ China/ Iran/ Venezuela/ Cuba, Jerusalem and now Golan Heights, austerity and welfare cuts, crumbling infrastructure and non existent healthcare, generally crudely offensive and thuggish behaviour, there isn’t a lot to admire. It wouldn’t particularly bother me if he was the victim of this regime change conspiracy – it’s only… Read more »
Mark: fully agree with you that there isn’t any Real (anti capitalist) Left anymore in the West. They’ve been completely neutered by Identity Politics, and also agree with your assessment of the UK Labour Party, which occurred to every Labour type Party thruout the West – think Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the Socialist Parties in both France & Spain, and of course Syriza in Greece. All became adherents of Neoliberalist policies. And some on the ‘Left’ still thought Syriza were the bees knees – even After their epic betrayal of the Greek people.
You speak of “relatively easy to unseat” but it is the contention of many in the election reform knowledgeable community that US “elections” have become occulted by those who run them through software-based counting, all private corporations that now count ALL the vote, and are thoroughly unverifiable and, basically, worthless. Nota Bene: I mean that word: “worthless”. (Well, unless you are one of those profiting from them, then I guess worth becomes a relative concept, and on a sliding scale dependent on ownership of machines, or their customers.) The world at large has not really been watching as the Military-Media-Plutocracy-Walmart-Koch Complex has completely subverted the voting process and only left up the minimal stage props, such as the thrilling “I Voted” oval stickers they give you to affix to your forehead when you have done something as essentially silly as vote in an American Election (the electoral equivalent of watching… Read more »
Mark,
Thanks for this. We are in basic agreement on all substantive issues. When I say “Left” I mean precisely the working class politics you rightly note have been expunged from both Labour and the Democrats. Really, we are all up against the oligarchy, and the sooner the working people, whether they consider themselves on the “left” or the “right” by social-cultural predilection, recognize that the *real enemy* is the oligarchy as a class, the more dangerous the people become. I suspect that this is what is happening in the yellow vest movement, which is why it’s so hard to categorize along standard ideological lines. It’s actually the first nationwide *class* movement to have emerged since the early 20th century. My desire is to see the material conditions for all working people, whatever else their disagreements, improve.
Nothing has changed.
The MSM, the Deep State and the Deranged Left will continue with this nonsensical canard of Russian meddling, if only as a pretext for censorship of alternate media and on line opposition generally.
Most people were totally uninterested in this hoax from the outset and have largely ignored it.
Some, like Madcow, believe or pretend to believe, that Trump is a Kremlin Agent as an article of faith. If he obliterated Russia in a nuclear holocaust, their beliefs would remain unshaken.
Others are equally unshakeable in their support for Trump. If he stood up and said he WAS a Kremlin Agent, they simply wouldn’t care.
First, it should be stated that the ‘Russiagate Hoax’ was not a McCarthyite-like campaign. Pretty well all that McCarthy claimed was true, except for minor differences, e.g. a figure of 192 may have been actually 190, things like that. This was proven by the release of the Venona transcripts. The only individual unjustly destroyed in the whole mess was McCarthy. The guilty offenders were just reshuffled to another department to cover up the complicity of their superiors. The Russiagate Hoax, the spying on the Trump campaign, the effort to destroy his presidency and destroy the hope of cordial and productive relations with Russia, perhaps even impeach Trump because certain people didn’t like the result of the election, the libel, the demonisation of Putin, all based on deliberate lies disseminated by a compliant media, was a plan by the so-called Deep State and/or Friends of Hillary is what is exposed by… Read more »
The Venona transcripts are – to say the least – a matter of dispute. Try this article here: https://tfn.org/rehabilitating-joseph-mccarthy/ It refers to one “Harvey Klehr, a professor of politics and history at Emory University. Prof. Klehr traveled in 1992 to the former Soviet Union, where he got access to Soviet spy archives.” Klehr says: “[V]irtually none of the people that McCarthy claimed or alleged were Soviet agents turn up in Venona. He did identify a few small fry who we now know were spies but only a few. And there is little evidence that those he fingered were among the unidentified spies of Venona. Many of his claims were wildly inaccurate; his charges filled with errors of fact, misjudgments of organizations and innuendoes disguised as evidence. He failed to recognize or understand the differences among genuine liberals, fellow-traveling liberals, Communist dupes, Communists and spies — distinctions that were important to… Read more »
McCarthy is the poster boy for the investigations and the demonization by the press which has been condensed to the epithet ‘McCarthyism’ today, but his was just the last of the investigations. The Dies Committee, which was formed in 1938 and ran for about 6 years actually brought awareness to the severity of the situation. The Venona transcripts were decrypted messages gathered by the US Signal Intelligence Agency at source. From the other side, the Mitrokhen archive is especially useful, and comprehensive. There is not ‘little information’ but a wealth of undisputed information. Virtually all, not none, of the spies and their activities are identified. The US government had been totally infiltrated from the White House and the State Department all the way down, not just in terms of information gathering but in actual policy formation. No wonder when Truman hinted to Stalin at Potsdam that the US had a… Read more »
“There is not ‘little information’ but a wealth of undisputed information.”
I presume by “little information” you are referring to this:
“…. there is little evidence that those he fingered were among the unidentified spies of Venona.”
In which case, this is a complete misnomer. There may be “a wealth of” information but there is little evidence. Which completely contradicts that “undisputed”.
I agree completely; my error was to conflate the descriptive narrative and the evidence to the single term ‘information’. Corrected accordingly: ‘There is not little evidence, but a wealth of undisputed evidence’.
Wrong again. The evidence – such that it is – is most certainly not undisputed. For one thing professor Harvey Klehr disputes it.
In any case when you say “Virtually all, not none, of the spies and their activities are identified” you are issuing a (deliberately?) misleading statement. The lack of a subject is a giveaway. (Identified by whom?) What Klehr actually said was “[V]irtually none of the people that McCarthy claimed or alleged were Soviet agents turn up in Venona.” – a completely different matter. To be sure Klehr is not disputing Venona but is claiming that, far from Venona vindicating McCarthy, it shows him up to be a bullshitter.
Trump is either the Obama of the right (and so a fraud from the get go) or is so blackmailed by the Israelis that you can give up on your fantasy of a noninterventionist Trump. I agree it’s an attractive fantasy btw.
With all due respect, this sounds troll-esque, if only in the sense there are many distinguished individuals, including my granny’s nephew, Roman Bohnen, who were essentially assassinated by McCarthy, without any basis. True, Bohnen founded the Actor’s Laboratory in Hollywood, which included many fine actors from the “Left” and so on. But, in a country where the business of America is business, Bohnen died, “methodically” (like Francis Gary Powers, Oswald, and so many others) just before he, like FGP, was to testify to HUAC of an apparent heart attack. At 44 (wiki is off several years about that age date, their interesting placement of his death at an age closer to 50). Wiki fails to mention that Actors Lab, which members like Lee J. Cobb and Marilyn Monroe had voted to rename “Roman Bohnen Actors Lab”, burned to the ground and was missing its safe shortly thereafter, thus forcing the… Read more »
From the United States department of Justice:-
“Attorney General Barr,
As FBI Boss, from 7th Sept. 2001 onwards, let me assure you that WTC 7 did NOT implode in FreeFall, in its’ own footprint, in 10 seconds flat, as a result of controlled explosions, despite video evidence announced by the Psychic BBC, well in advance of collapse & in denial of all Laws of Physics,
A Fire dunnit’ , OK ?
Are we all clear now ?
Yours sincerely & faithfully believing in divine intervention,
or, We’re all fuck’d . . . seriously!
Best wishes,
Bob”
Oh, & P.s. Attorney General Barr,
There was no collusion at all, whatsoever.
Democrazy,
Bob’ d’Mule
SQUiRREL MUELLER see ? >>>he went that way>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<meanwhile, Trump declares ISRAELI Golan Heights<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. . . nothing to see ? ? ?
despite, USS LIBERTY !
Bob d’Mule’s been real busy
so, Trump declares unilaterally,
Golan Heights 2be Israeli,
all’s good for Genie O&G,
hip hop OffG, nothing to see ?
& just forget that USS Liberty ?
& any international judiciary ?
Thanks, to Kit Knightly,
a better focus, rightly,
never fund the sh[r]-ill BBC,
out of pure common decency 🙂
support just objective commentary.
Good analysis Kit Knightly. The Washington Regime has achieved many ends with the Mueller Gang witch hunt. They have corralled and tamed Trump and they have re-invented the Russian threat.
I suspect that Russia, like US, will once again have to reinvent itself, and there will be endless iterations. I have heard credible theories that USSR never actually “collapsed” but simply, like certain kinds of bankruptcy (lite), re-organized and rebranded. In any case, Putin like Chavez talks about programs for the majority of his people, and then implements many of them, so unlike US. I mean, socialized university education, or medicare for all, THAT’S SOCIALISM. But not police departments, or fire departments, or military etc. Those are all Reich-loved institutions, so suddenly any general institutionalism for them is okay, that’s socialism on the right. That’s OK. And then they all get freeways named after them here, if they are killed on one of their media feeding-frenzy cop car chases. Not that they don’t often deserve some honor. But no street name changes, or freeway name changes, as in Bolivarian countries,… Read more »
So much of what drives conspiracy theorizing is the questioning of dual loyalty (or concealed loyalty) – and I don’t think this is unwarranted or irrational necessarily. It is a matter of evidence. One thing that Kit has not mentioned in this article is that the establishment focus on allegations that Trump is loyal to Russia have acted as a huge distraction from the fact that the US political class as a whole are loyal to Israel as much as, or more than, they are loyal to the people of the US. Russiagate ends at the same time that the West reaches a fork in the road with regard to Israel. Pompeo makes clear that the administration will ‘relentlessly fight anti-zionism’. The Trump administration could not be closer to Tel Aviv. Anti-zionist voices and opinions are being silenced everywhere. Israel becomes more religiously zealous, more brazenly racist and brutal, yet… Read more »
The Talmudic Racist Supremacists are trained to hate the rest of humanity from birth. To them, gentiles are just insects, or at best donkeys. They are motivated by pure hatred for all humanity. There will be no peace or justice in the world so long as we are ruled over by them and their 30 shekel goy whores – the Orange Baboon himself, Pence, Pompeo, Bolton, Haley, Clinton, Cameron, May, Macron, Merkel, who spend their whole lives grovelling on their bellies before the Chosen People. They foment endless wars and leech off the rest of humanity like poisonous maggots.
Mark
Charming, thus speaks the new Mandela. So, gas them? Is that your final solution?
Oh, no wait: you can’t. It was a ‘so called’ 1940s “holocaust”. One that was “pretty trivial by comparison” with real holocausts. In the artificial league table of holocaust relativism.
Now I fully comprehend what “pretty trivial by comparison” really means.
No, the solution is to stop constantly giving them hundreds of billions in tribute to sponsor racism, genocide and terror. To stop giving them unlimited quantities of free weapons, including a huge illegal nuclear arsenal and sniper rifles and dum dum bullets to gun down kids in Gaza, and spread mayhem throughout the region, for which we pick up the bill. To stop fighting endless multitrillion illegal wars for them, destroying entire countries and slaughtering and starving untold millions. To stop permitting endless Zionist terrorist atrocities throughout the planet and hold the perpetrators liable for their crimes, from the USS Liberty to 9/11. To stop shielding the bloodthirsty genocidal Zionist Regime from accountability for its actions. To clamp down on Zionist bribery, blackmail, subversion and smear campaigns undermining our democracy, and to free our institutions of poisonous Zionist influence. To stop requiring our citizens to take loyalty oaths to this… Read more »
OK
So you de-Zionise and de-Judaise the American culture politically and non-violently. So you get back to an ideologically pure Americanist imperialism: which by your own admission perpetrated THE holocaust …or multiple holocausts against indigenous folk everywhere …not just the Americas. It seems to me that the cult of scientifically individuated Americanism is in itself constitutionally racist and we are no further forward. Or anywhere near getting to the roots of the problem. Why do people become exceptionalist: because we know have at least two cultures that thrive on ethnocentric exceptionalism. So it is not specific to reading the Talmud. How about the Bible? Are they “Chosen” people and “poisonous maggots” too? There are plenty of Unpeople worldwide who would no doubt answer ‘yes’. Who is going to change their attitude. if not us?
THE holocaust was perpetrated by Spain, Portugal, France, Britain and America. Not just America. And parts of the Bible are as vile as the Talmud. They are fruit of the same poisoned tree. I wouldn’t particularly want to gas anyone. Though you could make an exception for Pompeo. And the Orange Baboon, apart from the animal cruelty element.
Exceptionalism isn’t specifically Judaised then? Nor is Jewishness exceptionally ethnocentric. Christian Zionism is extremised: but it is not exceptionally exceptionalist. Other races, empires, and nation states have become ethnocentric exceptionalists at other times too. History is a never ending chronicle of wars where at least one side is exceptionalist and imperialist. So we are looking for a common cause outside of the Talmud and Bible: something a bit more fundamental to the human condition that can arise at any time, in any place. If we can address that, we might put an end to ALL needless oppressions. Once and for all.
The problem is the anti human ideology, spiritual beliefs themselves, however bizarre, can often be no more than a relatively harmless personal eccentricity.
Cannibalism and incest were once normalised and universal, but those things have been left behind us. Similar phenomena like Talmudic Racist Supremacism might reasonably be expected to have gone the same way and have become no more than barbaric relics of historical interest. But the reverse is the case. And it is steadily extending its stranglehold over the entire planet, squeezing the life out of humanity like some monstrous giant python.
The entire ethos of capitalist modernity is an anti-human ideology: and the consensus reality that it elicits and makes complicit. It makes automatic subjects of us all: based on the Cartesian Error. But with better self-education: we can come to terms with and heal that rift on a person by person basis. As soon as we stop offloading personal responsibility. We can learn to regain our power as co-creative and co-evolutionary agents.
Or I can just go sit in the corner and bang my head against the wall until people start to collectively realise that we have the power to evolve. I fear I shall be dead by then.
Sorry Mark, at least I know I am raving. You honestly believe that what you said makes sense. It doesn’t.
To them, gentiles are just insects, or at best donkeys.
then,
They…leech off the rest of humanity like poisonous maggots.
Mark, do you not see a problem with these two comments appearing in the same paragraph?
To my reading, it’s just racist hypocrisy.
https://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-power-of-nyet.html?m=1#more
The power of the Russian no.!
Go figure
But, but, but….Luke Harding said…
where is the old bullshitter-in-Chief when you need him?
Surely the Graun will roll him out for a retrospective, now? Like one of those awful social networking montages of the past year…
Yarkob: Luke Harding…. NOOOOOOOO!!! If that creature had one slightest whiff of a conscience, he would apologise. But he dosn’t, so he won’t. None of them will. Can you imagine someone like Madcow or Colbert in front of a camera, looking all humble and contrite going…. ‘I’m so sorry that I mislead you all and because of my repeated hysterics of Russian evil doing, bought the World dangerously close to the brink of catastrophe’. They’re probably cooking up the next fake bombshell right now…
They will just move on to the next hoax, whatever it is. Maybe another Skripal or another Syrian Gas Attack hoax, or another Corbyn anti semitism hoax, or a false flag with Iran. Nothing ever changes. They have been doing this for decades. Maybe it will be something really big like another holocaust hoax. There is zero accountability for all these people. Iraq makes that point adequately. The Hardings and the Freedlands and the Millers and the Madcows will just parrot whatever lies they are given to disseminate.
Gezzah Potts – such a coincidence that you mentioned Rachel Maddow. I have some breaking news to share Gezzah, regarding this beloved celebrity journalist.
It appears that Ms. Maddow has recently been removed from the set of her show by the proverbial “men in white jackets.” Yes, sadly it appears that Ms. Maddow has fallen victim to a particularly pernicious and virulent form of rapid onset – Tourette’s Syndrome! Witnesses say Ms. Maddow quite suddenly appeared be incapable of normal speech, and apparently can now only loudly and emphatically repeat the following very limited words and phrases: “f#@king Muller, f@#k that f@#king Muller, f@#k, f@#k, f@#fing Muller, Muller that f@#king Muller, f . . . . . . . . . . . . . ”
The poor thing!
Intergenerationaltrauma: ha ha ha ha…. good one. Seriously tho, these cretins have pushed tensions with Russia dangerously high, with zero thought for potential consequences. Yes, I know they’re all just fully fledged presstitutes….
https://www.globalresearch.ca/brexit-deal-doomsday-plan-soldiers-nuclear-bunker/5672581
Is it all just a joke.?
Or the only way they can take up positions in the bunkers without telling everyone that the West is about to go stupid and try and nuke Russia into submission. Brexit…
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/03/26/the-boy-toys-who-dream-leading-west.html
May and her war crimes husband couldnt give a fig for you lot. Not one fig
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-25/letter-britain-establishment-blinded-russophobia
Pity the UK.
A plain a glass it shall be.
Queue like sheep.
Bah baaah idiot led dolts.
The memory of them flash burned on a piss ant pile of rock smoking for a thousand years.
You lot are a joke.
““Russiagate” has consumed hundreds of hours of television, thousands of column inches. It has cost millions and returned nothing but sound and fury. It’s a chew toy, a scratching post. Something to get our claws and teeth into while our owners are busy.”
This is what always astonishes me. A tenth of what is being spent could be directed to improving everyone’s life and ultimately making everything better – even for the rulers. But the rulers are prepared to throw seemingly endless sums at gaining a slight advantage while plunging everyone else into misery in an interminable game where ultimately everyone loses.
Excellent piece of writing.
Brilliant, I was just musing, when I scrolled to your own kudo. Granted, I was first drawn in by his voicing of my same “contrarian” position that Mueller would have nothing more than a whole mouthful of the stuff from Day 1 (I have never found anyone locally who gets that far) but Mr. Knightly goes on to hit all the right notes in the right way at the right time and nails his arguments by the most admirable means and method. Such as, but not limited to, the history of “collusion” in its American concept. You ever hear that word in reference to Big Business of USA INC. and you know you’re going to be waterboarded for months or decades by some made for TV spectacle like Russiagate (or that reality TV original, Watergate). Better than Will Rivers Pitt, who writes with verve (or as JFK was wont to… Read more »
& “… who knows what he might start saying.” For example, “There is no way I’m leaving the White House unless Hillary is prosecuted, before me: time for the true Patriot to BEAR ARMS FINALLY , with me ! ” It should never be forgotten, that Robert Mercer, before backing Trump, commissioned a private Poll. The result of which, confirmed to him that the U$A was teetering on Civil War. Mercer was so shocked at the result of this Poll, that he sent the guy back, after paying him, and instructed him to REPEAT the Poll of privately held beliefs and paid him AGAIN, to do a Fresh Poll, urgently. The results came back IDENTICAL, after which, both Mercer & Rupert Murdoch began to back Trump and Megyn Kelly was told to shut d’ f**k up and on the first Sunday after the Brexit vote, Trump met Murdoch on his… Read more »
Q: for the Secretary General Guterres of the U.N.
Did WTC 7, collapse as a result of a fire or controlled explosions ?
And if he cannot answer the question, scientifically & objectively, perhaps someone at the UN might like to ask ANY demolition expert for his/her professional opinion and then refer the question to >>>
Irina Bokova, who not only managed to cut the budget of UNESCO, but also she managed to change fundamental LAW @ the U.N. , whereby now,
the Destruction of Any Culture is considered a Terrorist Act !
WTF is GUTERRES ! !
Where, who & what d’f**k is Guterres >>> just another Pedophile Puppet of PERPS ?
Where are Mulder & Scully when you need them?
I feel you.
When my hero, the X Phile main man, Chris Carter (“I made this!”) announced the return of his indelible creation, he said, “Think of the last 13 years as an extended commercial break. The good news is that things have got that much stranger since then.”
And then, this!
And “straight outta Quantico” no less.
Repeat after me, the Russians did it, the Russians did it, the Russians did it… I will then count backwards from 3 and when you awake everything will seem perfectly normal again, Luke. Putin will still be your Nemesis and the Steel Dossier will be a regular Wikipeadia entry..and the Guardian will be finally free of comments from that bad, bad world.
My conclusions: the NYT and WAPO are bought and sold, so are CNN, Fox etc.
The FBI is doing no better today than during J. Edgar Hoover.
The CIA is as bad as ever, possibly worse.
The NSA has proven to be a useless recording studio, not serving any American voter. Their material didn’t show up pro or contra.
Congress and the House of Reps. have been shown as toothless lions, not even respected by FBI etc.
The WSJ changed hands well over the odds to have a propaganda outlet owned by a reliable agent of empire. (Like the Times and Sunday Times in the UK)
Skripal was recruited in 1995 I read. But at the time the West ruled through Yeltsin by the IMF – why did the British taxpayer spend money on Skripal (plus 300 guys he took down with them?). Albion cannot help himself.
Yuuuussss Agent Ant. Just as long as nobody is discussing Trump’s ‘hushed’ announcement on the laughable notion of an >>> “Israeli Golan” & Genie Energy Oil & Gas & Water or the USS Liberty . . . or Murdoch & Co. First class effort at stating the absobleedin’lutely obvious, from the mighty ant.ithesis of anal-ysis, bravo, More projection & Transference & distraction, 4shekels well earned. Tell yer’ boss yer learning, slowly. Now whadya’ reckon about the Golan ? & UNSG Guterres ? Don’t you think that an extra dose of explosive terror is well over due, from 5 Eyes, given their highly apparent & well evidenced sponsorship of the phoney ‘War on Terror’, that they financed & supplied, via Transit hubs like Azerbaijan ? with CNN Corresponding & Dilyana Gaytandzhieva. After witnessing personally NATO’s appalling endeavours, and their associated societal & cultural consequences, before, during & after taking control of… Read more »
You know… something’s been bugging me and it’s very simple.
I can’t find the origin of the term ‘kompromat’.
It LOOKS like it’s russian.. but it’s not actually a russian word so where did it come from?
Ta. Thought as much. It’s an english boomerang.
Where does “English” come into it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompromat
Etymology
The term kompromat is a borrowing of the Russian KGB slang term компромат from the Stalin era, which is short for “compromising material” (Russian: компрометирующий материал, translit. komprometiruyushchy material). It refers to disparaging information that can be collected, stored, traded, or used strategically across all domains: political, electoral, legal, professional, judicial, media, and business. The origins of the term trace back to 1930s secret police jargon.[6]
That in itself is a loan from. English, like many other Russian words. For instance the Russian term for train station is Vokzal. Doesn’t sound English in origin, does it? It’s a straightforward Russification of the very English “Vauxhall”.
So, you are telling us that there is no native Russian words for “compromising” or “material” that do not sound like Russified Anglo words?
Russian is extremely slangy. Any term that’s catchy is preferred to standard wording.
The faction of the Deep State – the strongest one – wants Trump in office as he is their absolute best bet regarding a President willing to be a diabolical autocrat, ruthless, one who embraces torture…..and to bring that against his “enemies” inside the borders of the US. Yes it has been a long road to this point, and Trump reflects the end game of oligarchy born of neoliberal economics and politics embraced by super wealthy individuals, large corporations, and Corporate Democrats and Republicans who service them. This Administration is the culmination of all of that stench, and as such absolutely is the most dangerous Administration in US history. He stokes hate for power, cites the press as “enemy of the people” (but of course not Fox News, or Sinclair Broadcasting………also, Trump is NOT arguing from a valid critical standpoint of MSM like some on the left have asserted), is… Read more »
Lest we forget that late shadow that Mueller casts, it was on his watch at FBI 15 years or so ago that Sibel Edmonds was fired for -ahem- trumped up reasons, later disproved by an external investigation, which exonerated her.
I have serious doubts about Sibel, for a wide variety of reasons, however, more pertinent about Mueller, is that he became the boss of the FBI on the 7th Sept 2001 . . .
lest we forget his denial of all logic & insult to the science of Physics @WTC 7 !
Thanks Kit for your ongoing speaking truth to power. Yes, we were right. The whole Russiagate fraud was a pile of rubbish. But how many Joe and Jane Smith’s out there now view Putin as the devil incarnate, who is a grave threat to Western ‘democracy and freedom’? How many out there now view Russia as our arch enemy? And now Trump is free to pursue much more important things like, hours ago, signing a proclamation declaring the occupied Golan Heights as Israeli territory, pictured alongside the odious Netanyahu who looked most pleased with himself. Trump even gave Nuttyahoo the fecken pen and stated “give this to the Israeli people”!! This total, absolute disregard for international law and UN resolutions is breathtaking. The complete arrogance….. And li’l Jared Kushner was in the background looking most happy. Up is down and white is black. Wow…. Can these criminals actions get any… Read more »
We better hope they don’t. “Get more transparent”. That would be lights out?
This was how they used Oswald’s legend and all the Cold War Reinhard Gehlen claptrap. Just trot out the same overused Roy Cohn dog and pony. (Recall, Trump called Cohn his “mentor”. Meh/Ugghh/Yecch.)
And this is why Gore Vidal called US: the United States of Amnesia. It must be systemic.
Fearsome Ignorance of our dark history.
And that is “Why”.
Jerusalem, Occupied Syria, next the West Bank.
Then the whole of the region from the Nile to the Euphrates, with all the 30 shekel whores in Israel’s Amen Corner applauding like trained seals.
ahhhh yes , the trained seals, me half expecting Milosevic’s epic highlights ‘upube’ video of crazy seals in congress, bobbin’ up&down, like Stormy, when Bibi NetanYahoo calls to visit & promote vomit, ‘peace’, his pre-election self & … clap & roar for the harmony of Pace in Apartheid , with overture no. 61 🙂 coming up, in memory of Gen. Moshe Dyan, Yahoodi’s Menu for ‘Ancient Israeli Olive Groves on the Golan’, (Genie’s Geneticology) ‘Simply d’Best’ muse & cultural misappropriation of Hollow-woody musical movements (patent & copyright pending) BS societal science from Bush & Obama’s bunch of crims. in… , chains pulled by Cheney, Murdoch & Kissinger & Co. for fRoth&Rockers interests, but hey, there again Richard Branson could organise a festival, on the Border with Galilee and in Jordan, to offer aid to all refugees from Syria, on & from the Golan :-), Party on ! coz’ i tell… Read more »
The fact that Americans still have faith in their ‘favourite MSM Network’ allows the Deep State to feed them whatever the latest “Crisis” is. One Australian politician some years ago called his daily talks to the Media as “Feeding the Chooks”.
The Networks in the USA not only “Parrot” the latest News, but they have been shown to use exactly the same script when doing so. And Americans still believe the ‘Tripe’ the Networks feed them.
The Russian Collusion has been very successful in diverting their attention away from the total dominance that the “AIPAC Gang” hold over the American political system, but if you mention that in the USA you are immediately howled down by the “Anti-Semitic” charge…..They’ve got all angles covered.
Stay tuned for the next Mueller Bombshell, presumably to be announced just prior to the 2020 election. Or for that matter, you can Google his last bombshell report, released in June of 2018. It’s all the Democrats have left to sell.
TOO TRUE. But Americans will keep on with their habitual dangerous game of “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” à la The Wizard of Oz, because it is so much comfier than doing their homework. The power of the CIA MOCKINGBIRD of a project “press” that we suffer by hour after excruciating hour here, nowhere presents so monolithically as in the Orwellian attitude of almost everyone I know, and even most online “progressive” sites, that SURELY there must be truth in this Russian canard. I hear it from lawyers at my Y, Doctors at my exams, university professors (of “leftist” political sheepskin, mind you) Putin told Oliver Stone some months ago quite bluntly, “That’s an internal affair of yours.” And folks here think that Dumber and Dumberer is a movie. No, welcome to Life Here, American Style. 42 years ago, Francis Gary Powers, the snakebit U2 pilot… Read more »
To John Ervin. Many thanks for highlighting the Francis Gary Powers story. I read the excruciatingly awful book “Mayday” by Michael Beschloss (see my 1-star review on Amazon) and by its many omissions, half-truths and deliberate dissembling, one can easily read between the lines and glimpse the truth. I suspect that LHO had a long career as a CIA Patsy, and was set-up as explanation if anyone chose to ask Allen Dulles how the Soviets had managed to down the U2. Likewise, FGP was also a Patsy, in that his U2 had to come down in order to destroy the Paris Peace Talks. FGP spoke of an explosion, but by remarkable flying managed to retain a measure of control and then eject. Whenever Tom Hanks is in a film, I immediately suspect CIA disinformation, and sure enough, “Bridge of Spies” spreads yet more lies. Compare the harsh treatment FGP suffered… Read more »
To Hugh O’Neill Likewise thanks for highlighting the Beschloss prefabrications of convenient truths. Like Gerald Posner, he ought to sport endorsement sticker ovals on his apparel, like Nascar drivers. I read a chapter of his on Hitler history and it failed the sniff test. Another streetwalker ploy of oligarch media (isn’t nearly all of it?). Thanks for all the other info, especially the all important perspective that all roads lead to Rome but go through Dallas. I believe, strongly, that it was the connectivity of cabals within Freemasonry that were at the root of roots in the JFK murder. And his brother. The Freemasons are sworn to do all in their considerable power and connections to destroy Rome in its Vatican See, because of Her huge wealth: like Judaism, nothing at all to do with theological considerations. JFK was in deep dealing with St. (Pope) John XXIII to broker a… Read more »
Just a quick interjection here to affirm that the only right thing to do with JWales’s lying and distortion machine, Wikideceivia, is TOTAL, PERMANENT BOYCOTT. That’s what I do. There are plenty of other – actually somewhat reliable – sources of honest reality-reporting, without volunteering to immerse yourself in the JWales cesspit. And yes, yes, obviously there are plenty of true statements to be fished out of that cesspit, sure. But why burden yourself with the extra time-consuming and very nasty task of sorting the truth from the ubiquitous shite in Wikideceivia; shite which any unexamined schmuck can insert any time at all, so long as JWales and cronies like them? People (or troll-farms) like the obsessively reality-challenged ‘Philip Cross’, for example; the Eliot Smeggins of Wikideceivia. https://www.rt.com/uk/427359-phillip-cross-wikipedia-anti-left/ And anyway, even realworld truths fished from that source are always going to come up contaminated with its all-encomassing mind-sewage. Boycott Wikideceivia,… Read more »
Well, you certainly have a point about JWales beast, the dangers and vagaries of cross-contamination, and all the rest, but I read it for its unwitting “geiger counter” rock solid gauge in directing me to hidden truths and glaring gaps I would often never guess. It is a one stop shop of revelatory omissions.
But you may be right, the downside may well outweigh the up.
I’ve not used it in years. If the Phillip Cross affair didn’t put people off it, then they deserve to get Wikipedia good and hard (apologies to HL Mencken)
I don’t agree. May I suggest you take another look. Select three or four contentious issues and see if it seems fair. They can’t possibly get it all right, they cover an extraordinary amount of material. I would look up Snowden, Assange, UNvetoes, and Clintons.
There is a cute logic behind Kit Knightly anti-social comment, ” the only way to win ” is not to play in someones else game, but, however the failure not to respond in the others game, is also an invitation to choose a nullification?
Hardly progressive in my humble view?
He makes it abundantly clear, through link by logical link, that the preferred response to all this nonsense is to absent oneself from THEIR game, not Life.
Otherwise, you enable them to run the game ad infinitum, like the sorry dog and pony show of the last 70+ years.
Endless (slight) variations on a theme by Paganini (an inside joke: a RUSSIAN work).
Or like the same game that sad little homeboy Mueller has run his whole career. It’s treads show in the creases of his circus face. Just look for once, at it. Where did they put the white powder and red paint! Hurry, get some.
Pennywise, without the clown paint. (See: header photo.)
Am I on to something, people?
Yikes.
Kit, would you consider editing the new Wiki entry on Russian interference in the last election? It does go on and on but sounds very dubious. The first paragraph states flatly that the Russians interfered without any reservation or caveat. There is lots in the rest that is blood-boiling, caveats are scarce and it generally fails to distinguish among fact, supposition, parroted innuendo and wishful thinking. Many of the references are to secondary or even tertiary sources. It could have been written by the NSA/FBI/…..
Safest just to lump Wikipedia in with the MSM bs factories where it belongs, and boycott them – there are plenty of reliable sources. But how to get the masses off the teat of all this cheap and dirty free media/’encyclopedia’ is another question entirely.
It is variable but highly dependent on the contributors. In case of drugs, it is hard to avoid the influence of Big Pharma or their paid consultants. For other things the entries are thoughtful and fair. It is dependent on you and me.
The problem though is if Kit did edit the Wiki article in the way it should be edited or as you suggest, the Wikipedia head honcho Jimmy Wales will return the article (or find someone else to do it) back to how it was before Kit’s changes.
But that would be great fodder for an article here, fully documented. In fact such an in depth analysis is almost impossible to find for an issue like this, anywhere. I am more optimistic Jen. I find Wiki is fairly good and often comes up with inconvenient truths for the bad guys. But worth a test on this topical and polarizing issue, now subjected to in depth analysis with all the forces at play. What a great mineshaft canary for the American system, if there were any such canaries left. You and I know they are not needed. The general public does need the double exposure of Wiki, and a critical look at the Mueller report. It will never come from within the US. I know Wiki is an iterative process but Kit seems to know a lot about this one. I am unsettled by hearing TV pundits talk about… Read more »
George, the only useful thing about wikipedia, is that it serves as an official record of the BS touted by 5 Eyes & Mossad’s Weltanschauungskrieg >>>
constantly & consistently … a reminder of their generated & engineered positions.
As a joke a few days ago on Gab.ai I linked some wiki ‘crapola’ and the guy to whom I was responding, for a moment thought that i believed the ‘crapola’ and was on the verge of muting me permanently, until i explained that i have more faith in the Vatican Bank and their Chief Treasurer Cardinal Sinner George D’Pedo PELL,
than Wikipedia 🙂
Needless to say he was much relieved almost instantaneously 😉
I take your point but compared to what? I am not a gullible naïf. Read their entry on Operation Northwoods.
Yeah, they give just incredibly bad copy for the most nefarious CIA black ops. Just incredibly disinformative. Might as well be generated by in-house based AI at Langley. It’s automatic writing from the ghost of Allen Dulles. Hideous. That’s why I read it. With popcorn.
Could you be more specific? As in, what is wrong with the Northwoods entry?
Damn’ right, Robyn!
See my reply to Yarkob and report back if you have time.
You mean, it ISN’T?!
I’m shocked. SHOCKED. I visit Wiki mostly for CLUES about CIA & its allies, as (Lt. Col.) Fletcher Prouty called that “clustered flock” of bad actors.
I mean, that is a great service it performs…
You’re suggesting their adversaries can input?
Now, that’s shocking.
More shocking to my one good nerve than “The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!”
One if by land, two if by sea, three if by nuke.