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Ukraine War: List Of Useful Sites

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There is a huge dearth of decent commentary on the war, or, when there is good commentary, it is scattered between blog posts and video, making it hard for busy people to get the gist of what is happening without an enormous expenditure of time.

For the self absorbed among us, for whom a war is just another excuse to update Facebook this hardly matters, but the rest of us need to know what we are supporting before we open our mouths…or the blood is on our hands too.

Sanctioning Russia implies the collective guilt of its citizens for not overturning Putin.

Well, what about the collective guilt of Americans in allowing into the White House a man in serious mental decline, incapable of handling international crises?

Shouldn’t ordinary Americans be punished for that too?

Or for Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, and endless other interventions which had less justification than Putin’s?

But who will sanction the sanctioners?

With that, here is a list of sites that could help  understanding the war in Ukraine.

NOTE: I DO NOT ENDORSE ANY OF THEM.

I have serious problems with about 3/4 of what is on them, and likely most, if not all, have some intelligence ties, or toe the intelligence line, or they would not flourish. You can take that as you wish. I know nothing about the owners, funders etc., although in some cases I can take a good guess.

But from bitter experience I will keep those guesses mostly to myself.

I am not part of any organized resistance, communist, anti-communist, Russian, Prussian,  or anything else. The only resistance I am whole-heartedly part of is resistance to my own unwanted habits, weaknesses and failings. The only line I toe is, whether something is true and helpful or not. There are true things that are not useful.. such as the personal crimes or sins of some of our oligarch enemies and friends. Interesting, but not necessarily relevant.

However, where relevant and useful,  there is also another consideration. If I put this information up, will the blowback be worth it, for someone who has only her wits and a couple of hours of free time, to aid her?

Will I go under too, like a thousand other small blogs and sites in the great purge that began in 2015-2016 and has accelerated ever since?

So I hold my tongue, which is now black and blue from the effort.

WEBSITES/BLOGS

Michel Chossudovsky’s website, Center for Research on Globalization [Long-standing researchers on geopolitics from a parapolitics angle. Criticizes as pushing Chinese and Russian propaganda.]

GreatGameIndia: Shelly Kasli’s wonderful investigative site that hasn’t been given sufficient credit for the ground breaking work it did on Covid, and before that, on demonetization and the cash ban. Possibly vetted by Indian intelligence, but not certain.

Zero Hedge: Lots of good stories mixed in with some disinfo, as I am almost certain this site is a group effort.

Strategic-Culture Foundation [reportedly part of the pro-Russian ecosystem, allegedly linked to the Russian state, just as all other media is linked to the ecosystem of the US, UK, EU, and their allies]

Oriental Review  Ditto

Covert Shores: Good analysis of Moskva sinking, open source intel from a naval guy. Western viewpoint.

War Zone The Drive 

Very good analysis of  war and armaments. Western

Intel Slava Z on Telegram

Unz.com [Counterpunch writers and some others who’ve migrated to a site run by Ron Unz, a tech entrepreneur and smart Jewish dissident; likely to be some disinformation, intended to co-opt so-called anti-Semitic criticism]

Voltairenet [Theirry Meyssan is excellent]

Dissident Voice [left centered dissident opinion on a variety of topics]

Counter-currents [ed. Binu Matthews] Socialist, people oriented, pro-global warming.

Indian Punch-line [M. Bhadrakumar, a retired Indian diplomat]

Life-site News [pro-life Catholic site]

The Saker.is – Orthodox Russian resident in the US, economically left, culturally right. Very pro Russian.

A Son of the American Revolution [American military analyst]

Andrei Martyanov’s blog [Russian military analyst. Very pro Russian]

The Gateway Pundit [pro-Trump right, conspiratorial]

National File [investigative, non mainstream right]

The Last Refuge [pro Trump Christian right]

Moon of Alabama

Lew Rockwell [Libertarian pro-market, antiwar site] Paleolibertarian and Christian libertarian

Revisionist Review, from Michael Hoffman, a so-called holocaust denial site, but I can vouch that it is entirely free of Nazi sympathy of any kind. Deep analysis of staged events, masonic conspiracy, and Talmudic influence.

Sputnik News  

and TASS

[Russian state outlets]

Srb.info [Serbia news] Pro Russian Serbian news site.

Gonzalo Lira [Chilean businessman on site in Kharkiv, has now gone missing]:  First-hand account of events in Kharkhiv, ear-to-the-ground reports of other areas.

Patrick Lancaster: Ex-US Navy, on the ground at battle fronts, with Russian army.

The Duran

[Have not watched this much, will add, when I find time to.]

That’s all for now. I don’t necessarily agree with the positions of these sites on other issues, or even with everything they say about the war, but they carry useful information to counter the incessant propaganda about Ukraine and Russia.

The best weapon against the media war is

Accurate information about the background and progress of the war

Clear understanding of the motivations and justifications of the different actors

Healthy skepticism toward the moral grandstanding of third parties with no skin in the game.

 

 

Ukraine: The Kleptocrats’ War With Putin

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It’s been a year since I blogged here, but the war in Ukraine has drawn me out finally.

Here is a link to my comments at Disqus, made most recently at American Conservative, at Rod Dreher’s blog.

As he’s Orthodox, his posts usually carry themes and information I find useful, but, while he is against the US being drawn into the war, he still makes a moral equivalence between both sides. That equivalence is ultimately soft support of the NATO position.

A limited war to address a serious security threat on a country’s borders and enforce treaty obligations might very well not even be a violation of international law.

I would have to look it up.

But intervening to end the bloody oppression of civilians and get rid of a government that is essentially a kleptocrat front likely meets the definition of a just war. Certainly, Russia has more justification in the Ukraine than America ever did in Iraq, and if I recall right, scholars like Jean Bethke Elshtain managed to defend that war on just war grounds [erroneously].

As for Zelensky, what can be said of a president who, instead of making absolutely reasonable concessions and thus limiting the damage to the population, opens the prison doors and lets out hardened criminals and puts automatic weapons into the hands of women and children?  Who teaches ordinary people to make Molotov cocktails to attack the best trained special operations forces in the world.

Zelensky is trying to increase Ukrainian civilian casualties. No question.

Consider his invitation to mercenaries and volunteers across the globe to show up in Ukraine to fight for his corrupt regime with free equipment given by NATO? How is this not anything but reckless, selfish, and completely contrary to the behavior of a truly courageous and responsible leader who would try to limit, not exacerbate, the bloodshed?

But then. it may not after all be Putin who harbors  dreams of blood and soil. There was, indeed, little evidence of that in the pragmatic speeches the Russian President gave on the eve of war.

But the billionaire backers of Zelensky [a Ukrainian Jew himself],  Igor Kolomoisky and Hennady Bogolyubov, who ran one of the largest frauds in banking history via PrivatGroup and PrivatBank, while also sitting as board members of various Jewish ethnic organizations, have already given their money to Jewish non profits in the US, some, like Chabad, fostering Jewish ethnic identity.

One needs to ask if the rebirth of a Ukrainian or Crimean homeland might actually be the goal of the Ukrainian Jews’ own territorial ambition?

 

We Won The Victory We Needed

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At Affirmative Right, I find confirmation for my own view that the past few months have NOT been a defeat, but the only possible victory the right could have had in the circumstances: the awakening of the mass of right-leaning and many centrist voters to the truth about politics in the USA:

It is unfixable by more politics.

“So let’s move onto a brighter side of the blackpill: its tendency to turn, once properly digested, into a whitepill. Or, at least, into something more colourful than a blackpill. 

The whitepill is that the Alt-Right has won a victory against the regime. It has done so at a heavy cost – some of its number are imprisoned, some persecuted, some bankrupted, some humbled, some discredited – and at the price of its own dissolution as a coherent movement. But all the same, it has won its victory – not the victory that it wanted, but the victory that it needed.
To understand this, you must be blackpilled enough to know that those in power have won nothing that they did not already possess. No, they did not just stage a revolution and overthrow the American Constitution. I know the brains of democrats pass through the waters of Lethe every election cycle, but surely we can cast our minds back a mere four years. Surely we can recall how Trump was elected to the executive in a landslide, how his party initially controlled the legislature too, how he eventually managed to appoint one-third of the top-level judiciary – and how he still got nothing done.
The permanent government that gelded Trump, and now represses his supporters, has never once left power since it was established in the early 20th century. To all intents and purposes, it is a totalitarian state overlaid by a ceremonial elected government. It permits no legal path to its own overthrow (like, duh), and has defeated or co-opted every popular challenge to its power, from McCarthyism to Reaganism to Trumpism. It has also reproduced its basic form throughout all its foreign satrapies – so everyone in the West lives under the same system, or else is having it forced upon them right now.
So what is the Alt-Right’s victory? To have exposed this permanent government to public view. It did so unknowingly, in a fit of inchoate defiance, like Truman veering off-script on the set of his show – not so much exposing the power structure, as prompting it to react to unpredictable moves and expose itself in the process. 
But now that it has done so, millions of people can now see – or at least suspect – that the media is lying, elections are rigged, conservatism is a toy-opposition party, progressivism is a pro-government astroturf movement, and that freedom, progress, tolerance, etc. are Orwellian paradoxes. That is why the regime must seek its security in the tools of hard power. Contrary to appearances, its position behind its stormtroopers is much weaker than it was when it could hide in plain sight – and leave its subjects to consume the fake news, blow off steam at the ballot box, and rationalise every facet of its misrule through democratic religious casuistry.
But to repeat: this is the victory that the Alt-Right needed, not the victory that it wanted. And as a movement half in hock to democratic lies, it is at once the victor and the victim. All its own fantasies of victory – capturing the conservative party, winning a landslide election, smashing the Left off the streets, exposing a cabal of shadowy evildoers, storming the temple of government – have been played out as farce, and revealed to be tragically futile.”

Charles Burris Calls It Quits At LRC

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Update: [March 16, 2022]

Thankfully, Mr. Burris has been resurrected at LRC, where he can continue his zealous education of those with eyes wide shut.

ORIGINAL POST

The conclusion of yet another internecine spat [see here and here and here] at Lew Rockwell results in the departure of Charles Burris, whose writings were more historically informed and  parapolitics-wise than that of many of his colleagues.

I didn’t agree with some of Mr. Burris’ posts, especially ones in which he touted the “Camp of the Saints” while on every other day professing that collectivism of any kind was anathema to libertarianism. I marveled at the cognitive dissonance.

On the other hand, he was fascinated by the Kennedy assassination, power-elite analysis and conspiracy, and wasn’t  a purist too good for the real world, as many of his confreres are.

His support for Governor Noem was the hill on which his blogging life ended. I daresay the angels didn’t like his support for Marjorie Taylor Greene either.

But I did.

I went through something similar while commenting at Robert Wenzel’s site where I often had a pack of libertarians nipping at my ankles and howling at alleged “authoritarianism” or “statism” …terms they  hardly seemed to understand…but used more or less as imprecations whenever someone adopted a position not considered kosher by the libertarian, er, collective..Rothbard cultists…Mises mob…. whatever you choose to call it.

Ah well. I too have ended up tending my garden.

A literal one.

While the curs still waste their efforts circling and nipping at some other poor sod’s socks, my angel mist bamboo has gone from 15 feet to over 40.

Two wind-burned royal poinciana saplings that I wrestled onto the back of a pickup have spread their parasols over the roof of the house and their writhing shade over the blazing sidewalk.

My oyster shell mulch has bleached and crumbled almost to beach sand in the yard.

I quadrupled more than quintupled my investment in money terms and I gained something priceless while doing it, something which still seems to elude so many people on the web:

Perspective.

A sense of proportion.

Thank you for your well-researched writing at LRC, Mr Burris.

 

 

Rehabbed Animals Slaughtered For Permit Violation

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Proving that environmentalism is the religion that puts animals ahead of human beings but isn’t much about animals either, a government agency slaughtered all the animals living at a unique Michigan family farm that had saved countless animals lives for decades.

The agency said it was because the owner did not have the necessary permit.

“Folks in her community say that [owner] Hall has saved countless animals over the years and has provided a much needed service in the absence of a Michigan Licensed Rehabilitation facility. However, a warrant was issued for her arrest last week because the government forces people like Hall to pay them first before rescuing animals.

Hall explained she has done this for years and she was known for providing her service. However, she says when an employee was caught stealing from her farm, that person became upset and lodged a false complaint with the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in Petoskey.

After the complaint was lodged, Kei Ju Farm was raided by DNR agents who served her with an arrest warrant. The charge was for holding wild animals in captivity without permit.

“That Thursday, the DNR rolled in with four trucks. They knew exactly where all the animals were,” Hall said.

Unfortunately, the arrest warrant wasn’t the only thing these DNR agents brought. They also brought their guns and began killing all the animals Hall had been rehabilitating.”

Replacement Theology: Rabbinic Sacrifice Cancels Christ

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Israeli rabbis claim that the reinstatement of the paschal sacrifice will end the modern “plague” [my quotation marks] of Covid 19, just as it once stopped the plague sent by the Pharaoh against the Israelites in the Old Testament.

“As it is written in the Book of Samuel as well as the Book of Chronicles, we see that two times  the God of Israel canceled a plague inflicted on the Nation of Israel. Once, this divine act of mercy was brought about after Israel offered the Passover lamb in Egypt and the second time was when King David acquired the site of the location for the Temple and built the altar on this exact site in the yard of the Temple Mount 

Twenty one days from now, the 14th of the month of Nissan, will be the time for sacrificing the yearly Passover lamb. Like the original Passover sacrifice ended a plague and opened the door for Israel to go out into freedom, the same sacrifice brought this year will be intended to free all of  humanity from the yoke of evil and sins, preparing them to receive the Divine support, and healing them from this harsh pandemic.”

Of course, today’s plague is a manufactured scam, involving a bioweapon acting as a nocebo and economic warfare masquerading as health policy. And today’s sacrifice is also an imposture: it is a Rabbinic version of replacement theology and cancel culture, intended to erase the divine sacrifice of Christ on the cross and replace it with the temple sacrifice of animal flesh that Christ’s death destroyed.

Consider that at His death, the temple veil was rent and the earth split open; consider that the priestly sacrifice was never successful thereafter until the Romans destroyed the temple itself forty years later; that every attempt to rebuild the temple was mysteriously botched or aborted, to the point that even non-Christians realized the blasphemous nature of the effort; and it becomes clear that any sanction for the rabbinical project must come only from the infernal region.

Chinese Backdoor Surveillance Gets New Meaning

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The US has lodged a complaint with China that some of its diplomats were forced to undergo “undignified” anal swabbing as a test for Covid19.

China denies the charge but it is causing much merriment on Chinese social media, which claims that American “potty mouth” syndrome makes it only too easy to confuse those two ends of the anatomy.

Is this accusation a genuine one or intelligence disinformation, perhaps some nation state form of ..er… shitposting?

Is so, by whom?

I don’t see what the US has to gain from making up a charge that humiliates its own personnel, but China might well make up the charge as a form of psychological warfare.

My own guess is it’s something floated by the globalist cabal to serve two objectives at once: humiliate the US publicly and cater to the Chinese, while enraging public opinion against China here and elsewhere.

Let’s you and him fight has always been the watchword of our overlords.

And if the accusation turns out to be true, even more reason to suspect an invisible hand at work.

 

Greatest Radio Voice In American History Goes Silent

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Rush Hudson Limbaugh, Republican king-maker; talk-radio host without parallel; canny, original, and razor-sharp thinker; middle-America’s heart and voice; and the daily companion of hundreds of millions of people scorned and ignored by the chatterati, died of lung cancer on Wednesday morning at the age of 70.

I was an early adopter of Rush, recommending him to people in the beginning of the Clinton years, long before he became the mainstream phenomenon he is today.  In many ways those early years were his best days.  There was his musical mockery of the Paula Jones scandal [“Me and Mrs. Jones…we’ve gotta thing going on…”];  the chipmunk routine [“algore! algore! algore!”], scores of skits and parodies that indelibly changed our view of people and politics.

Dozens of words and phrases he coined entered the lexicon, from feminazis to drive-by media and camp-eye [supposedly the plural of campus, a jab at ivory- towered intellectuals].

Those whom he scorned he destroyed with well turned monikers….Chuck-u Schumer comes to mind. He, on the other hand, was the Maha-rushi…

But the humor never became bitter or poisonous …or vulgar… which was one of the secrets of his broad appeal. There was always that strong undercurrent of decency and humanity and a genuine love of people that enabled him to answer even the most inane caller with a patience that could not be faked.

One of the greatest failures of mainstream political analysts has been their complete misunderstanding of the phenomenon of talk radio itself, of which Rush was the greatest avatar. Though “the people” are the pretext for the leftist’s schemes and theories, the actual living people before him he dismisses with contempt and derision.

So it was with Rush and his ditto-head supporters.

The intellectual class wrote him off as a crude semi-literate  demagogue with an audience of hicks and rubes. In fact, he was one of the sharpest minds in politics, with a wonkish interest in the details of policy-making, argumentative skills that would have made his lawyer father proud, and an ability to articulate the deepest sentiments and unspoken thoughts of his contemporaries with a penetration that ripped off the mask of political correctness forever.

I listened to Rush nearly every day except when I went abroad. His show was the background for lunch, work, and hanging out. I never met the guy, or called in, though I liked to tell myself that a few things from this humble blog had somehow drifted up to his ken. I devoutly hope so.

I listened even when I was furious at him for many things that he did not get right….that he got spectacularly wrong.

After he shot up in the ranks of right-wing stars, his views began to converge with those of the neoconservatives whose toxic influence derailed the right from its roots in non- interventionism.  This was the Rush who excused Abu Ghraib as college-hazing. He was wrong then and he was wrong on many other issues where he ended up a gate-keeper for the neoconservatives and globalists. That was unfortunate, because it delayed the awakening of middle America by more than a decade.   A decade in which much was lost.

But even when I loathed what he said, I was never really turned off by the guy himself. He was too big, too likeable, too real. I knew instinctively that he was much more than a radio host.  He was a buddy, the leader of the band, the big brother always ready to drop by and punch the bully media in the kisser.

I knew instinctively also that if I ended up hating him, I would be hating America itself.. and I would be hating the part of myself that was American, because there was no one who embodied heartland America with all its flaws and virtues better than this big cigar-smoking emperor of the airwaves, who bragged endearingly of being a “talent on loan from God.”

Well, God took back his loan on Wednesday.

Mega Dittos, Rush. Rest In Peace.

 

 

 

 

A Leftist Defends Trump As America’s Champion

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Emmanuel Pastreich a leftist with intellectual integrity has written a defense of Donald Trump’s real achievements that  puts the backstabbing buffoons of the Republican party to greater shame than that which they heaped on themselves during their sniveling wimp-out on January 6.

Pastreich credits Trump with

opposing foreign wars;

opposing trade agreements that destroy the working class;

opposing immigration used as a tool against the country;

bringing the Federal Reserve more under the control of the Treasury;

opening up public discussion of the vast conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy and declassifying documents that relate to it and other crimes;

questioning the official story about 9/11 and many other conspiracies;

undermining the major media and promoting alternative media;

doing his best to defend us against the pandemic police state;

promoting the use of HCQ despite universal mockery;

supporting the hunt for pedophile blackmail rings;

and unveiling and publicizing the criminal corruption of the swamp.

It was for this last, says Pastereich, that he paid the price. He suddenly came down with Covid and shortly after was targeted by a vast election cyberhack involving multiple nations, all profiteering from the vaccine regime of the pandemic police state.

The finale of this world historical sabotage is the minor fracas now entered into official history as the Capitol Insurrection of January 6, for which Trump, painted as Miami’s answer to Osama Bin Laden, is being held solely responsible. This, argues Pastreich, is a prelude to making any dissent from the vaccine regime or the official election narrative a form of domestic terrorism subject to the full weight of the totalitarian state apparatus,

The only failing in this otherwise admirable essay is the needless pearl-clutching about Trump’s garish tastes in decor, multiple marriages, and ties to casinos and mobsters. Pastreich says he has “grudging respect” for Trump’s fundamental decency as a human being, considers him a much better president than Obama, Bush, or Clinton, but wouldn’t buy a used car from him.

Ah well. Thus ever the chattering classes. Even the very best among them would be useless on a battlefield.

We don’t have “grudging respect” for Trump. We  unequivocally like the guy. If the best you can bring to the endless inquisition about not so much Trump’s character as his style is status-signaling about your superior taste in clothes and houses, then you have established yourself only as a snob without a sense of proportion.

If his multiple wives…all of whom seen to stay friends with him… are the worst of his sins, then in the vicious dens of DC he is an innocent indeed.