Crimes of the century – truth, perception and punishment
Kevin Smith
“You didn’t think that one through, did you, @eliothiggins sweetie? You’re not in the ladies’ lingerie trade now. This discussion is about truth, which endures, is not held together by elastic, and is not for sale.”
Peter Hitchens responding to Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat over the OPCW scandal on Twitter – 2 January 2020.
Like many, I’ve been following the Douma scandal for some time and particularly since the OPCW whistleblowers and leaked emails blew the lid off the official narrative that Assad used chemical weapons there.
This issue is being discussed on one of my ‘go to’ accounts on Twitter – Peter Hitchens who has brought this to the attention of the mainstream.
For the past few weeks he’s been debating the topic with Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat, Scott Lucas and various Middle East based journalists who created and then pushed the false narrative.
In fact, it’s not really a debate. Peter Hitchens is quite literally slaughtering these narrative managers – his logic and clear thinking – and wit exposing the numerous gaps in their story and their desperate deflections.
Hitchens position is not exactly the same as many of us here hold – that Douma was a clear false flag. What he is saying is the evidence points to there being no chemical attack by the Syrian government, the pretext used for the attack on Syria. He doesn’t wish to speculate on matters which aren’t conclusively proven, for example precisely on what did actually happen.
I respect that position in many ways and his refusal to comment on the dead civilians in the Douma images makes sense from a journalist in the mainstream. I think by having a position which is clear and unassailable enables him to easily brush off his online detractors and not allow them to deflect to other issues.
While I don’t agree with everything he says, Hitchens has a calm and rational argument for all the issues he covers. This puts clear ground between him and his online opponents who often resort to childish abuse.
My 80-year old mum admires him too. She describes him as ‘frightfully posh’. Perhaps someone who might have belonged in a previous age – but I’m glad we have him in this one.
Anyway, I think we can be sure that Hitchens will continue his important work within the remit he’s chosen and others will investigate the unanswered questions which arise from the Douma incident.
Ultimately the question about the dead civilians in the images is simply too dreadful to ignore.
This is because if a chemical attack did not take place and Assad was not responsible it seems highly likely that the civilians including children were murdered to facilitate a fabrication.
And were our own intelligence agencies involved in a staged event, considering the refusal to even establish the basic facts in the days following?
And then, of course, the resulting air strikes nearly caused us to go to war with Russia, with all that would entail.
While these investigations continue, I think it’s timely to see where these events fit into the way the general public think and perceive wrongdoing and to try to radically to change this.
I believe more people nowadays recognise that the devastating wars in Iraq and Libya and events in Syria were pushed by our governments and media. They can even accept, when you explain, that we’ve been assisting terrorists to unseat governments for years. But they seem hesitant of taking the next step and we need to encourage them on this path.
This path leads to recognising the sheer evil in our midst and getting out of this mindset that criminal behavior and lying in governments and in our media is normal or should in any way be tolerated. Perhaps some people appreciate this already but don’t want to address it out of concern to what they might find. Maybe some people dread the thought of a global conflict so ignore it. But we need to hammer home the consequences of simply doing nothing.
I’ve been trying to think of an analogy to try to get this point across. I sometimes say to people, we wouldn’t have released a serial killer like Harold Shipman from prison and appointed him Foreign Secretary. Therefore, why do we tolerate a long line of Foreign Secretaries complicit in laying waste to the world? Sadly, with this analogy most people usually look back at me blankly so I have been searching for one more complete and rooted in history which people can relate better to events today.
So, here follows an analogy of a character who lived in the 17th century. His traits, his crimes, the political climate and peoples misguided perceptions in response can be compared to recent events and one particular individual causing havoc in the world today.
Of course I refer to Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat.
Eliot (‘suck my balls’) Higgins and Titus Oates
1. Eliot Higgins and Bellingcat
Higgins probably doesn’t need much of an introduction here. It seems he has no specific qualifications relevant to his role and a bit of a drop-out in terms of education.
Higgins has been quoted as saying:
Before the Arab spring I knew no more about weapons than the average Xbox owner. I had no knowledge beyond what I’d learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rambo.”
But this didn’t prevent him blogging about world events and then setting himself up and his site as investigator for several incidents most notably the shooting down of the MH17 passenger plane over Ukraine and allegations of chemical weapons use in Syria. It’s now known that Bellingcat is funded by pro-war groups including the Atlantic Council
Higgins has been accused by chemical weapons experts, academics and independent journalists on the ground of fabricating evidence to reach a predetermined outcome decided on by his funders.
His rise to prominence was fast and apparently some media editors now refer their journalists to Bellingcat fabrications rather than allowing them to do any journalism themselves.
Higgins is currently frantically trying to prop up the Douma narrative against a mountain of evidence disproving his conclusions.
For those who’ve followed his story, it’s clear that Higgins is an intelligence asset, set up to take the fall when the currently collapsing narratives take hold in the mainstream.
2. Titus Oates and the Popish Plot
Oates was a foul-mouthed charlatan, serial liar and master of deception who lived in the 17th century. His earlier life included being expelled from school and he was labelled a ‘dunce’ by people who knew him. He became a clergyman and later joined the Navy. His career was plagued by various sex scandals and charges of perjury.
In the 1670s during the time of Charles II, religious tensions threatened to spill over into civil war but the pragmatic King, by and large, kept a lid on it.
However, along with Dr Israel Tonge an anti-Catholic rector, Oates started writing conspiracy theories and inventing plots and later began writing a manuscript alleging of a plan to assassinate King Charles II and replace him with his openly Catholic brother.
When the fabrication started to gather momentum, the King had an audience with Oates and was unconvinced and was said to have found discrepancies in his story.
However, the tense political and religious climate at that time was ideal for conspiracy theories and scaremongering. The King’s ministers took Oates at his word and over a dozen Catholics were executed for treason. This story created panic and paranoia lasting several years taking the nation to the brink of civil war.
Over time Oates lies were exposed and when the Catholic King James II came to the throne, he tried Oates with perjury and he was whipped and placed in the pillory.
After James II fled England during the so-called ‘Glorious Revolution’ King William and Queen Mary pardoned Oates and gave him a pension.
For me, this whole episode has many obvious parallels with Higgins, the long-running Russia and the anti-Semitism witch-hunts in the media and the false narratives over Iraq, Libya and Syria. Like those in power today, Oates had a knack for getting away with it. And I guess we can all relate this to Julian Assange – the victims or whistleblowers being punished and the perpetrators getting off.
I had wondered why James II, often ruthless and unforgiving had not executed Oates. But apparently the crime of perjury even then didn’t carry the death sentence. The judge who convicted Oates was said to have tried his best to finish him off through the whipping, though he survived.
But perhaps even the King and judiciary in failing in this or not using other means at their disposal, couldn’t comprehend the enormity of his crimes. Oates was after all a rather absurd character, open to ridicule.
Perhaps this is a bit similar to people today when discovering that Eliot Higgins is also a foul-mouthed fraud – but they can’t reconcile this comical ex-lingerie employee as a menace to humanity.
3. Modern day
In the past few weeks I’ve read various older articles on Iraq and Syria. US troops shooting people for fun from a helicopter. The perpetrators are still free – the whistle-blowers who exposed that, and other events in prison or exile.
Last year we learned about a shocking massacre of Syrian children, unreported in the mainstream media. Mainstream journalists through their one-sided distortions of the conflict and silence, perpetuating the myth that the terrorists who carried out this mass murder are freedom fighters.
And as I’ve mentioned, we’ve seen firmer evidence of what many of us knew along – that Douma was a staged fabrication as a pretext for air-strikes and dangerously escalating the Syrian war. The likes of Eliot Higgins and others in the media, colluding in the cover-up of mass murder which likely facilitated this event. And for those honest journalists and experts who bring the truth of these staged events to us, smears will no doubt continue.
Higgins and others in the media who lie, misinform or remain silent are no better than those shooting civilians from helicopters or starting these wars in the first place. In fact, they have killed more and keep killing.
This modern-day Titus Oates, and others share a big responsibility for death and destruction in the Middle East and a dangerous new Cold War.
As I say, I think people are waking up to the distorted narratives and misdirections which have inflicted war on others. Now they need to take the next step and grasp the sheer enormity of the crimes and the risks of global conflict if we don’t act.
So, how do we achieve this and get in a position of holding the criminals and war propagandists to account?
By confronting them directly and mercilessly. As Jeremy Corbyn should have done over the anti-Semitism hoax. Perhaps we should adopt some of the tactics they use against the truth-tellers and whistle-blowers. I don’t mean by lies or smears. Maybe even ridiculing these people and their nonsense might have the effect of trivialising the crimes they have committed.
No, I think it is time for plainer, no-holds-barred language describing these people for the true evil they are – until the truth and label sticks.
We need to recognise more the seriousness of the crimes. This commentary from the usually measured Piers Robinson about the staged event in Douma reflects the true gravity of the situation in terms of the OPCW complicity.
4. The hijacking of OPCW
The cover-up of evidence that the Douma incident was staged is not merely misconduct. As the staging of the Douma incident entailed mass murder of civilians, those in OPCW who have suppressed the evidence of staging are, unwittingly or otherwise, colluding with mass murder.”
We need to now apply this strong language to all crimes committed, be it from the soldiers on the ground, the governments starting these wars or supplying terrorists or the media which promote mass murder through their lies, distortions and silence when presented with the true facts.
We need to go on the offensive and call out the criminals and spell out in no uncertain terms what we are dealing with. With the evidence and fact-based analogies or arguments we publish we should be using more commentary such as ‘mass murderer’, ‘traitor’ or ‘terrorist propagandist’.
This is particularly important in light of events in recent days. The assassination of General Qasem Soleimani has been normalised in both mainstream and on social media. The people legitimising state-sponsored murder in offices thousands of miles away from Iran, woefully ignorant of the potential of this causing a chain of events which could visit our door soon.
Above all, we should specifically name and shame the individuals promoting war. This needs to be relentless. The official war narratives which have crumbled so far are ample evidence of wrongdoing on a vast scale. So, we can be confident in doing this with the truth firmly on our side.
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No, I think it is time for plainer, no-holds-barred language describing these people for the true evil they are – until the truth and label sticks.
Yes indeed.
I was, however, reminded today of the huge mountain we yet have to climb before it can be normal again NOT to be corrupt and wicked. The scenario was a session of acrimony in a US Senate chamber, and according to the NYTimes, “Tensions grew so raw after midnight that Chief Justice Roberts cut in just before 1 a.m. to admonish the managers and the president’s lawyers to “remember where they are” and return to “civil discourse.” ”
“Remembering where you are”, when dealing with Titus Oates and other vulgar frauds is perhaps not entirely appropriate…?
Apologies, I forgot to set the first sentence in quotes…
Reading this now in Oct 2020, and realizing the FBI HAD HUNTER’s laptop that PROVED the allegations Trump made about corrupt JOE BIDEN, and the mountain of evidence now confirming meetings with Biden and O himself, only adds more credibility to this article and the massive THREAT on a National Security Level these False Flag peddling RICO Traitors remain to the USA! This is a collusion of massive scale COUP thugs that RICO was made for and they all need to be rounded up to GITMO!
Hitchens may be on the level on this particular issue but it is part of a wider deception where Hitchens poses as a friend to critical thinkers and then tells them they are helpless and/or can do nothing about it. If he really had journalistic integrity he wouldn’t be taking a salary from the Mail on Sunday, a newspaper that relentlessly lied for the Tories at the last election, with the help of the itelligence agencies.
As good as Hitchens has done here he’s still at heart a Trotskyist he lives a good split and a toothless display just like the Trotskyists he used to side with. His brother went from Trotskyist to soft neocon and peter went from Trotskyist to an ardent Christian Conservative in a veeeeeery short space of time. Plus there dad was deeeeep in with the establishment and his mum Jewish. So….
…what?
Bellingcrap is just another scam like Dupes (Snopes) and Politi”facts”. All of them are funded by the Atlantic Council and the CIA front National Endowment for “Democracy”. Their cover as an “independent objective fact checking service” is about as transparent as Saran Wrap.
I really liked this when I read it this morning, before the grandkids came round, but I thought some of the comments a bit severe.. I mean this photo is of some 40 year old kid, who lives in Leicester, and his Mum/wife/sister or whatever works in the local Post Office…. I personally had never heard of Brown Noses, and I have never personnally succeeded in getting anything I wrote, posted above our below the line, since The Manchester Guardian moved from Manchester to London, and whilst I do love reading some of the posters’ comments…well look face it. … Even though Rhys probabaly doesn’t like what this kid writes – Elliot is it? he is hardly going to come round with a chainsaw, to cut his head off is he? He probably never even thought of it. He did say he is small fry, and he probably is still… Read more »
For a self-styled working class Mancunian turned computer whizzkid, you do display all the emotional incompetence of your kind. 1. Where is the evidence I do not like girls? Not being married is not evidence, just as Jews dying in Auschwitz is not evidence they were mentally subnormal homosexuals. 2. Where is the evidence, outside the working class, that getting drunk and listening to 100db music is the only way to engage with women? It is the working class way, to be sure. But it is suited most to those lacking in conversational skills, lacking in cultural refinement. I do not stop you enjoying your way. You are too immature to understand that other ways exist….they include leading women down ski slopes with skill and consideration; eating out at a restaurant where you can hear yourself speak and where the food is rather better than I can cook at home… Read more »
The prime importance of these endless hoaxes, smears, lies, fabrications and official approved conspiracy theories, lies not so much in the events themselves as what it says about the nature of the people who rule over us and their courtiers and handmaidens in the MSM. It would take a whole forest of trees merely to catalogue all their lies over the years, whether it’s the Iraq Incubator Babies, the black Viagra fuelled rape gangs in Libya, the Syrian Gas Hoaxes, 9/11, Iraq’s WMD, Iran’s non existent nuclear weapons, Skripal, Russiagate, Ukrainegate, or the communist spy/ terrorist/ anti semitic smear campaign against Corbyn. And that is only the tip of a very large iceberg. You could go back further to Gladio, Operation Northwoods, Tonkin Gulf, the “Holocaust”, Zinoviev Letter, Bayonetted Belgian Babies, Raped Belgian Nuns, Human Bodies Made Into Soap. The list is endless. We have been lied to consistently for… Read more »
I do agree with you Paul and of course all you say is true. One of the main problems is that these people have the power to build artificial constructs sufficient for the masses to believe and perpetuated through their bought and paid for MSM whose journalists are mere foot soldiers and wish only to get their pay checks. They have no reason to question the lies and distortions pedaled to them by TPTB – they merely repeat the false narrative: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” – Upton Sinclair And we, the great 99%, have little power to change things except within our local network. We can shout all we like on social media but it changes nothing until the great crisis reoccurs and perhaps the masses will rise and demand a just and equitable system.… Read more »
The business of the MSM throughout the ages has been to traumatise or at least just generally worry the public with headlines focused on fear, envy, anger, revenge, and hate. Include all five in your story and you’re well on the way to a Pulitzer Prize, bestowed on the profession by one of the great muckrakers of all time. It’s not incidental that there have been a disturbing number of winners that have turned out to be dissembling frauds. Add to this the fact that ‘journalism’ training apparently does not teach entrants to distinguish the difference between opinion and news, and the die is cast: propaganda as news.
Here is what BellEndScat supporting Rusbridger is moaning about. “For some years now – largely unreported – two chancery court judges have been dealing with literally hundreds of cases of phone hacking against MGN Ltd and News Group, the owners, respectively, of the Daily Mirror and the Sun (as well as the defunct News of the World). The two publishers are, between them, forking out eye-watering sums to avoid any cases going to trial in open court. Because the newspaper industry lobbied so forcefully to scrap the second part of the Leveson inquiry, which had been due to shine a light on such matters, we can only surmise what is going on. But there are clues. Mirror Group (now Reach) had by July 2018 set aside more than £70m to settle phone-hacking claims without risking any of them getting to court. The BBC reported last year that the Murdoch titles… Read more »
Going to the heart of what Bellingcat, MI6 and CIA is Pompeo’s: “We lie, we cheat, we steal.” These evil filth are devoid of any moral code and have no respect whatsoever for the laws of God or Man. At which point, consider Moses’ (how apt) Ten Commandments. There among them is: “Thou shalt not bear false witness”. Think what you will of these Ten, but as a moral code, they were quite useful.
Would that all these scum could share the fate of their progenitor, Streicher-without the ‘ necktie party’. Life at hard labour would do the lot of them much good.
I looked at the Veterans Today link and it all sounds very plausible’ However in today’s world nothing makes sense especially when the questions arise. Is it possible to change the signal of an aircrafts transponder remotely. Can the target acquisition radar on the missile be spoofed remotely. Just why did the flight control officer sanction the take off of this plane in the middle of a war unless they were party to the whole thing.. Just what were the six Israeli F-35 jets doing flying close to the Iranian border? Okay there is a lot of smoke but just where is the fire. Just as interesting is that none of the twelve Iranian missiles was intercepted and there are rumours that the Iranians were able to take out of action American air defences. I am sure that like with Douma when the majority of NATO missiles were intercepted by… Read more »
Facts are inconvenient.
Many planes took off.
This one was delayed by the pilot ‘to remove overloading’.
Reports of Cruise missiles heading in.
For the best info on this, go to Brendon O’ Connell’s channel and watch 1 to 3 and number 22. You will get answers there.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYaLxbD7Rix3p1rdGY3IMjg?pbjreload=10
Also go to the Antedote and listen to Greg and Jeremy’s latest offering.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMf1qGR8km1c8vg_dtpzzVQ
It sounds a bit MAGA.
The thing about ‘chips’ is they could easily be identified by putting them in a black box and watching what they do using a chip which only does that!
The whole bs about it’s THEM not US crap falls away. Just need some open source simple ‘custodian’ chip manufacturer to make that available. If it can be made a ‘gate keeper’ than we are all safe.
“It sounds a bit MAGA. ”
After this, I will never, ever read any of your comments ever again. Get lost!
You talk so much crap. Please, keep it to yourself
I ain’t saying that is your opinion am I?
The bit I watched was him being gung-ho about getting back ‘control of microprocessors’ !!!
There is a big difference between designing chips and ‘manufacturing’ facilities’.
Have you never wondered why most actual building of small electrical component equipment takes place in Asia?
I don’t care wherher you read my comments- i am free to post what I want on whatevet article and whoevers comment. And stick to facts.
“The bit I watched “. Honestly, I am so tired of people who comment on things they know nothing about. Everything you say is wrong, because you are speaking from a position of total ignorance, because you haven’t watched the films. Watch 1 to 3. Watch 22 and 23 ALL THE WAY THROUGH, not skimming. Then comment. Every inaccurate comment you make is covered in detail. Honestly it’s no wonder we’re so fucked. From 2005 after one google search, time spent on this, 10 seconds: “While Yona was developed in partnership with one of Intel’s California centers, the 65nm microprocessor product is the first to be developed in its entirety, both the architecture and strategy, by Intel engineers at its Israel plants in Haifa and Yakum. ” https://www.israel21c.org/intels-new-chip-design-developed-in-israel/ You know zilch, you understand nothing, you make assumptions, you don’t watch or read the material, and then in your total ignorance,… Read more »
You define the phrase “ignorant Brit”
Mucho since you FAILED instantly in your promise to ignore me – i will respond to your toy throwing out of the parambulator. First just telling people to WATCH something without explaining what the salient point to be learnt – is not the way to influence or educate. I prefer reading an argument- I definitely do not spend hours watching TV or listening to propaganda by msm / indy or ‘shock jocks’ – that last was the personality I saw and didn’t feel the need to hear anymore as I don’t when Nigel Farage and his ilk do on the radio here. If you want to inform or prove something to me or anyone else kindly post a link to a written piece. Second, chips are designed eveywhere there is such competence. Chip manufacturing mainly improved theough research in top universities. The UK was a lead chip designer too. None… Read more »
No you do not want to ignore chips. A simple activation string defeat monitoring them in a black box.
There are open source chips in the works and RISC-V is opening up new options for chip design.
Number 23 is totally relevant too, going deep into chips, backdooring and kill switch usage
So the mocking of maga is what set you off? Fuck maga and it’s idiot supporters great nations don’t slaughter civilians for capital
Has this link been cited?
https://thewallwillfall.org/2020/01/19/important-douma-opcw-update-from-prof-piers-robinson/
chris morris is very funny has a fine body of twisted comedick works
for all his charm his role is too destroy society degrade
he is khazar after all
sacha baron co hen the names speaks for itself an empty cruel tool
never trust a coen cohen khan or cowen or co they cookoo
eliot mcfuck higgins is not oirish
he is not certainly related to snooker loopy or is it darts i cannot remember hero alex higgins.
eliot”s dad is rita katz from site intel group amaq news
his mom barbera lerner spector
or is it vice versa
versa vice
whatever
shirley you
get my the friends of the oirish israel drift
so to speaks
or sum such
Brilliant, insightful, logical hypothesis of the recent plane downing over Iran by Jeremy Rothe Kushel. Ignore the video, this is about the written article.
The Prime Suspect in Ukrainian PS752 Shootdown: Israel’s Unit 8200
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2020/01/10/ps752/
For further info about Israeli tech domination, what it is, where it comes from and the implications of this, go to Brendon O Connell’s YT channel. Number 22 in his list is very important.
Jeremy Rothe-Kushel is a very important member of the truth community, in no small part due to the fact that he is an Ashkenazi Jew. My personal belief is that in the end, the Jewish community will play a pivotal role in weeding out the evil that rules over us. I wish we didn’t have these labels, that we could have true freedom to play our chosen role in our God created realm, but at this stage in the game, we’re stuck with our divide and rule labels and systems of control. Jeremy’s style is to the point, he has great depth of knowledge, an encyclopedic knowledge of his field and is a highly astute commentator. He presents a lot of complex information in fairly easy to digest chunks with his co-host, Greg McCarron, on their show “The Antedote” on YT, as well as doing a lot of guerilla style… Read more »
i met elliot many years ago the chap on the 8 year old lap top above we called him fat face down the synagogue ohh how we laughed he laughed as well everytime someone said it such fun are rabbi one day organised a trip and lecture tour of chatham house the belly of the beast. we learnt all about how tough regime change was and how difficult it is to do on a bbc size budget. what we learnt was that having are people everywhere really helped scripted up to speed influencer roles in media in public on track on page working cog like. a kind of khazar collective non semites only for security reasons of course. we could work from a very low pound dollar and shekels base and still be very effective. never under estimate the benjamins or elliots it is folks like this that are the… Read more »
First off, if folks haven’t a clue who Harold Shipman is, you’re not going to get far with Titus Oats. At the most they might think it’s a character from Gormenghast. Second, I initially misread the article and thought that the figure from the 17th century actually WAS Higgins of Bellingcat. And if that seems an absurd assumption to make, even temporarily, it doesn’t seem much more absurd than some of the stuff he says e.g. I had no knowledge beyond what I’d learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rambo. The point has been raised that there are psyops perpetrated with a malicious sense of humour as if to say, “These suckers will swallow anything”. Higgins with his “education” from Arnold and Rambo may be an example of one of those jokes. Third, and to end on an optimistic note, I like the 17th century sentencing and recommend we bring it… Read more »
Admin – a suggestion on keeping recent articles available from the top of the page.
Problem: As you add new aricles at top left the ones on the very right drop away! Almost as if being binned into a memory hole.
Solution: allow a scroll at the right hand edge so that these older links are easily available to readers. Only a minor coding change without any change to your front page.
I concur! I’m sure many of us will appreciate a scroll on the right hand edge so we can access the older articles. Thanks in advance, OffG!
HM Armed Forces operations in Syria follow the doctrine of Major General Sir Frank Kitson who learnt his stuff in Kenya in the 1950s. Murder, torture, rape the staples of the British military’s modern terrorist ability. NATO doctrine too.
This is an important article: one of the few that dares to express that Douma et al are not mere false flags …they a darkly psychotic form of ‘snuff propaganda porn’ (including the recycling and rearanging of ‘props’ that were until recently animate human souls with a lifetime of possibility abnegated for ideology). The Working Group on Syria is part of a small counter-narrative subset – along with Sister Agnes Mariam, Vanessa Beeley, RT (on occasion), UK Column, The Indicter, Prof. Marcello Ferrada de Noli – who are willing to state plainly that this is child murder. Now I wholeheartedly commend Kevin that we should name and shame the culprits and their supporters. “No, I think it is time for plainer, no-holds-barred language describing these people for the true evil they are – until the truth and label sticks.” I had a similar epiphany in early 2016. The barbaric of… Read more »
My first attempt didn’t get through. Herewith second. It seems to me that the internal affairs of the Russian Federation, although they may have some impact on external geopolitical issues, are a matter for them. At the present time the relevant question regarding the RF is as follows: Question 1. Is Russia a revionist state intent on an expansionist foreign policy? Answer NO. But it is not going to tolerate NATO expansion into its own strategic zones, namely, Ukraine, Georgia and the North Caucusas. Question 2. Is the Anglo-Zionist empire in open of pursuit of a world empire intent on destroying any sovereign state – including first and foremost Russia – which stands in its way? Answer YES. This really is so blatant that anyone who is ethnically challenged should seek psychiatric help. In Polls conducted around the world the US is always cited as the most dangerous enemy of… Read more »
Francis: The Russian Federation is involved is strategic partnership with China in consolidating the Eurasian ‘supercontinent’ into the world island. One which is slowly being drawn together into a massive market covering 70% of the world’s population, 75% of energy resources, and 70% of GDP. I’d call that expansionist, wouldn’t you? Market mechanisms and methodology are exponentially expansionist, extractivist, and extrapolative. Market propaganda is free and equal exchange coupled with mutual development through comparative advantage. Everyone benefits, right? No: markets operate as vast surplus value extractors that only operate unequally to deliver maximum competitive advantage to the suprasovereign core. Surplus value valorises surplus capital which cannot be contained in a single domestic market: so it seeks to exploit underdeveloped foreign markets …setting up dependencies and peripheries in the satellite states. Which keeps them maldeveloped. In short: Russia and China’s wealth is not just their own. Russia and China are globalisation… Read more »
”The Russian Federation is involved is strategic partnership with China in consolidating the Eurasian ‘supercontinent’ into the world island. One which is slowly being drawn together into a massive market covering 70% of the world’s population, 75% of energy resources, and 70% of GDP. I’d call that expansionist, wouldn’t you?” No, I wouldn’t actually. Building roads, rail connections and other trade routes doesn’t strike me as imperial expansion. No-one is being forced to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) or into reconfiguring their internal political and economic structures, as the US does in Latin America or as the British did in India and Southern Africa. (East India Company and the British British South Africa Chartered Company). The SCO is a voluntary arrangement. Uzbekistan for example has decided not to join the central Asian Eurasian Economic Union – well that’s its prerogative. No-one is going to send any gun-boats to force… Read more »
Agree Francis.
There is a move to suggest that the Old Empire retains a ‘maritime’ world and the SCO confines itself to the Eurasian land mass.
Dream on.
The Empire is DEAD. Long live the new Empire!
Who is the greatest threat to world peace …and to the world itself? We are. The global carbon consumption/pollution bourgeoisie. It is the global expansionist mindset that is increasing its demands for growth – as the only solution to social problems, maldevelopment, and maldistribution caused by excessive growth. Supply has to be met by exponentially expanding markets. Whether this is voluntaristic or coerced makes very little difference to the market cancer subsuming the globe. Benign or aggressive forms of cancer are still cancer. And the net effect is the same. Russia and China – the ‘East’ – uphold exactly the same corporate model of global governance that the ‘West’ does. Which has been made clear in every joint communique – especially BRICS communiques. I have made the case – following Professor Patrick Bond – that BRICS in particular (a literal Goldman Sachs globalist marketing ploy) – are sub-imperial, not anti-imperial.… Read more »
Big B sit down ultra! China and Russia rent empires and have no desire to be! If you’re a left winger you’re another poor example of one and more than likely a Trotskyist
Love the nickname, Josef.
This is because if a chemical attack did not take place and Assad was not responsible it seems highly likely that the civilians including children were murdered to facilitate a fabrication.
And were our own intelligence agencies involved in a staged event, considering the refusal to even establish the basic facts in the days following?
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This is the sort of conclusion you must come to if you are into Islamophobic conspiracy theories. The notion that this kind of slaughter took place to “facilitate” a false flag is analogous to the 9/11 conspiracism that was on display here a while back and that manifested itself through the inclusion of NYU 9/11 Truther Mark Crispin Miller on Tim Hayward’s Assadist propaganda team.
Sad, really.
Go on Louis, remind us about the ‘terrorist passport’ miraculously found at the foot of the collapsed tower with a page coveniently left open displaying a ‘Tora Bora’ stamp – I kove that bit.
I mean who, apart from half the worlds scientific community is not totally convinced by such compelling evidence, especially when allied to the re-writing of the laws of physics in order to rationlise the ludicrous 2 planes 3 towers conspiracy theory?
Next you’ll be telling us it was necessary for the US to invade Afghanistan and Iraq for reasons few American’srecall beyond the neocon fantasy contructed on 11th Septemember, 2001.
It’s clear to a blind man on a galloping horse from this comment of yours Mr Proyect that concepts such as objective evidence, logical and rational deduction, the scientific method etc are beyond your ken. Faced with the facts of a collapsing narrative of obvious bullshit and lies you have bought into, which you are incapable of facing up to, it is unsurprising that you are reduced to such puerile school playground level deflections. So come on, try getting out of the gutter and upping your game. Because this fare is nothing short of sad and pathetic. We know from the evidence of those who actually know their arse from their elbow on these matters that the claims of an attack using chemical weapons on this site are unsustainable. Which leaves the issue of the bodies at the site. Given they did not lose their lives as a result of… Read more »
Umm – the assumption that Muslims DIDN’T do it is “Islamophobic”? Even on your own terms you’re not making much sense these days, Louis.
There was little doubt that British special forces were captured in Eastern Ghouta when the SAA prevented an all out attack on Damascus. European precursors and British munitions were uncovered along with factories within the tunnel complex, itself a product of western engineering and slave labour. This was no propaganda, evidence was collected, statements were taken and everything was documented. Douma was a direct follow-on from that failure and yet, you refuse the evidence piling up, but accept testimony of journalists based in Jordan and Turkey? The “conspiracy” is wholly yours Louis and you are guilty of malicious intent, false representation and pretending to be a “Marxist” when you are a Zionist neocon.
Hi I’m Louis an unrepentant Marxist and I willfully refuse to use block-quotes.
More proyectile vomitus in defence of child-murdering salafist vermin. How low can this creature descend?
Richard, such abusive language only indicates your inability to discuss the matter at hand. In general, a detached sarcasm works much better in polemics. You need to read Lenin to see how it is done. I should add that I am referring to V.I. Lenin, not John Lenin who wrote “Crippled Inside”.
You defended the salafist butchers with lies, proyectile-do you not even comprehend your own sewage? Or did someone else write it and you just appended your paw-print?
Apologies here. There is an open goal and the ball needs to be put in the back of the net:
Seems that Louis here is well ahead of the curve in terms of Fukuyama’s well known observation about the end of history.
For Louise history, in terms of the progress and development of human knowledge, stopped around a century ago with whatever Lenin wrote.
But that’s what happens to those who only read one book.
Sad really.
You come across more as Yaxley – Lenin mr Tommy Proyect – but he is a MI5 stooge unlike you …cough cough.
Lenin hates Trotsky! Trotsky was a power mad maniac who wanted a permanent war state to somehow spread his specific brand of “ahem” socialism, which won’t win you friends! “Hi yeah sorry we killed your family in a war we started to save you but yippee Trotsky is now in charge so stop complaining”! You’re just a bunch of liars the trots
Lol, you talk about abusive language? You are really shameless…
To anybody who might not know this guy, here is how he deals with people he disagrees with on his own blog (read the comment section if you are interested):
https://louisproyect.org/2019/11/22/douma-chlorine-gas-and-occams-razor/?unapproved=401764&moderation-hash=dcd484a51ba7cd94bb10a9ab17c509de#comment-401764
learn to use the internet which has the information you need to learn the truth:
Acting out a chemical attack?
Jimmy Dore hits the nail every time!!
Didn’t you just love George Carlin, identifies just what the problem is with dicks like Proyect.
Here’s another Jimmy Dore Vid from 2017…
Watch and learn…
Maggie don’t take jimmy bore as some truth teller he’s a bland progressive with revolutionary slogans like proyect! He also has a habit of equating Stalin with Hitler in that god awful nasal accent of his
Thems White Helmets is always so neat and tidy. Their mammies must have insisted that they always look their best.
The British taxpayer funded head choppers and throat slitters in Syria routinely committed massacres and filmed their victims. The resulting footage was passed off by tame media hacks as “evidence” of regime atrocities.
Death to the Trotskyists
Fuck proyect your name calling says it all!
Islamophobes indeed?! What an idiot
The alternative media, and a smattering of truth tellers are locked in an asymmetrical information-war with the establishment – with an all too obvious ‘David & Goliath’ sort of dynamic underlying it. The question asked at the heart of this article is how to break the vice like grip information managers hold over various geopolitical narratives, referencing events in Douma in particular. Alnost reflexively 9/11 comes to mind – a fairly unambiguous example of mass murder for which the official account does not withstand even the most cursory form of scrutiny. Professionals even went so far as to purger themselves while the investigating committee admitted they were ‘set up to fail’ (to quote its chairman). Yet the public, instead of shredding Bush, limb from limb (for the lies that were told) rolled onto their back while the neoncons tickled their collective belly as you might do with a particulalrly adorable… Read more »
Harry Stotle, ..”Perhaps one thing western leaders, and the US in particular can always rely on, is the ease with which the public can be persuaded to believe that certain bogeymen pose a grave threat to ‘our way of life’. That’s true Hermann Goring had it about right with this quote… “Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don’t want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or fascist dictatorship,… Read more »
His career was plagued by various sex scandals I would like to know what kind of ‘sex scandals’ these were. In the 17th century? Considering the fact that most in the west live in a moral 17th century today, what century must those in the 17th have been in – morally? Higgins and his ilk are not Homo Sapiens any longer, They have evoleved into ‘Homo Unethicosiens’ – ruthlessness in its perfection. Paid for, instigated and supported by your regime in question. Nowhere on this planet can be found more ruthless regimes than in the west. “East’ has nowadays even become a reason to threaten/approve of sanctions, violence and wars against Eastern Nations. In an awkward coincidence, the people who are instrumental in the emanation of blatant lies, deception and propaganda (which is somewhat redundant since propaganda is the combination of deceiving by lying and inverting the truth) are reminiscent… Read more »
Name and maim.
I would not limit this focus to Eliot Higgins: he is small-fry, a trumped up propagandist. How about focussing on the following wastrels? 1. Andrew Roberts -a white supremacist racist peddling wars in the Middle East after fleeing like a coward to the US with his six (!) children when I suggested to PM Cameron that the ueber fascist wastrel might like to experience war in the raw, namely having his leg blown off by a buried bomb in Afghanistan. 2, The foul mouthed narcissist James Delingpole, whose puerile strapline is ‘I am always right’. Whilst he is indeed always far to the right, and being slightly to the right of political centre myself, I grant the right to hold far right or far left economic views up to the point that you start starving people to death, killing people for their political views etc etc, I have no time… Read more »
Delingpole even looks like one of those hybrid monstrosities out of a Lovecraft story. Come to think of it, he looks a bit like Lovecraft. Only not as healthy. And that’s saying something!
cf. Lovecraft’s “The Festival”:
Nice quote from Hitchins on Higgins, but it pains me to say that it comes long after the fact, where everybody with half a brain could have made up himself that Douma, like Ghouta and Khan Shaykhun, was not what the mainstream made it look like it was intended to be. It also pains me to say that Hitchins does not give any alternative reason for why Higgins story is fabricated and what the implications could be. Not that I do not understand why Hitchins cannot go that far. But to praise him for not going that far and just telling us the obvious (in an eloquent way), but not all, is like praising a person who did a little bit of thinking for you (in an eloquent way), in order for you to stop thinking and move on. When I am reading the news, I am not looking for… Read more »
Excellent point. And a very familiar strategy – to confess that something isn’t quite right so that folks can shout “Boo!” and throw some tomatoes …before everything just proceeds as usual.
Before Bellingcat, he (Higgins) was “Brown Moses”. An Abrahamic legend from the Middle East? No. A pasty white guy in his bedroom writing a daily journal (btl in Guardian articles) about the Libyan regime change, which became the Syrian regime change. I thought, at the time, he was on the ground in Syria, he even had followers from the Sunni community, he was a strong supporter of regime change and supposed atrocities by forces loyal to Assad. I mention this because it’s important to inform people who the real Eliot Higgins is: An establishment stooge, an inveterate liar, a video gamer with Aspergers(?), a copy of Janes Weapons Systems and Small Arms, an imaginary bedroom warrior, some strange psychosexual fantasies and a bad temper.
Being an aspie does not make someone more likely to behave like Eliot Higgins.
No, I don’t know for certain if he is. It’s a feeling I got from his inflexible arguments BTL in the Guardian and his obsessive nature.
Just another ‘Phillip Cross’
A pimpernel of the shit hole of the deep-state.
So why isn’t he in Boris’s cabinet?
Someone found a turd, floating in a basket among the bull-rushes, and named it Elliott.
It is Eliot with only one l and one t.
Perhaps the unreleased Russia report is part of this narrative. Johnson quite happy to take some flack as it encourages the Russians bad story among those on the left who might be more inclined to look for truth putting this aside to attack Johnson instead.
Congrats to Bellingcat for winning the Machiavelli Prize 2019, (award ceremony Feb 2020), from the Dutch Machiavelli Foundation, I can’t think of a more deserving winner. The board awarding the prize consists mostly of important Dutch editors and leaders in the PR-industry, but also the Dutch military is on the board. Bellingcat actually has significant ties to the Netherlands (lots of funding + its own office in the Hague), and the Prize can only be interpreted as some sort of sick inside joke. This award is granted to “a person or organization who has excelled in public communication. The political philosopher Machiavelli makes one immediately think about his principle ‘the end justifies the means’. The Machiavelli award is granted to the person or organization who has been the most effective in putting this principle into practice.” (“Always in a positive way and for a positive cause” is the disclaimer, but… Read more »
The end justifies the means?? What end, by what means?
HM Armed Forces and HM Government have been and are complicit in murder. HM Armed Forces most certainly know the true nature of the 1993/2001 WTC events, as well as such events as the 2015 attack on Tianjin. The Crown, together with its financial arm, is very deeply into all this and has been for centuries. We must acknowledge that we are ruled by unelected, unaccountable murderers as a start.
I’d find it very hard to disagree with anything you’ve written here. Further to our government and secret intelligence services’ appalling behaviour abroad I’d add that these very same bodies have attacked and undermined what passes for democracy here in GB and they’ve been doing it for well over a century. Certainly, between the wars it was workers’ organisations, trade unions and Labour politicians that obsessed them; fascism both here and abroad troubled them not one jot. After all, didn’t they all go to the same schools? Leastways that’s the excuse MI5 give in their official history. MI5 and MI6 who are charged with ‘the defence of the realm’, obviously see that as including turning a blind eye to the illegal actions of the CIA and Mossad, who appear to operate here, without let or hindrance; such appears to be the corrosive impact of those two latter agencies, it could… Read more »
Well said.
Graham William Phillips has quite a lot to say about Bellingcat and Higgins, he has for some years now been debunking them online and in videos.