I like Neil Oliver a lot. I like his perspective, his deliberate nature, his refusal to accept the bullshit, and this monologue is one of the reasons why. I have said it before that in the era of great pretending, the influential people will be those who do not play the game of pretense. Neil Oliver is one of those people who refuses to play.
In this monologue Oliver uses two of my favorite metaphors to describe modern western civilization. First, the Potemkin Villages constructed by political elite in their effort to make it seem like the world is something it is not. Second, the great pretending that is needed in order to sell it.
Though the monologue is specific to the current status of our cousin across the pond, the eloquence of the issues could just as easily apply here; indeed, they are almost identical. WATCH:
[Transcript] – While reading around the subject of Russia and Ukraine this week, I came across the story of the Potemkin villages.
A legend, dismissed as mostly fiction by modern historians, has 18th century Russian statesman Grigory Potemkin building phoney villages along the banks of the Dnipro River just for effect, to create a useful illusion.
His lover, Catherine the Great and her foreign guests, were due to sail down the river on a tour and Potemkin, the story goes, wanted to give them an impressive show of a populous and thriving nation.
As I say, the idea is largely dismissed now – but the term Potemkin village has stuck and is still used today to describe the lengths to which the leaders of a failing, broken country might go in order to create the illusion of success and prosperity when the truth is altogether different.
I read about the idea, and it occurs to me that here in Britain now we are actually living in a Potemkin village – invited by our leaders to populate a phoney façade and pretend … or, God help us, actually believe, as if everything is fine.
But nothing is fine. The fact is, the story they’re telling us about this country of ours is almost entirely a con trick – persuasive only if you don’t look too closely at the flimsy, plasterboard truth of their creation.
When it came to Potemkin villages – real or a myth – it was only outsiders who were to be fooled. They were just passing through, after all.
The crucial difference for us Brits is that the fakery all around us is not supposed to trick the tourists. It’s most important function is to try and convince us, the tax-paying citizens, that all is well, when it most emphatically is not.
Look at this poor old place and wonder at how much fakery has been erected.
And remember, all the time, that we are also taxed right up the wazoo for our continued occupation of the shoddy reality some of us see around us.
There’s so much wrong it’s hard to know where to begin.
Year after year we hemorrhage more and more cash into a National Health Service that isn’t – which is to say it isn’t a national health service.
Free at the point of delivery is all very well, but it means nothing if you can’t get yourself to that point of delivery while you’ve still got a pulse.
Quite simply, the sacred-cow-cum-white-elephant that is, or has been, the NHS, is demonstrably incapable of doing the job intended for it.
Infuriatingly, politicians of every stripe, insist on calling it “our” NHS, as though it were a beloved family member. But it’s not. That use of “our” is simply to deter us from ever criticizing it
Waiting lists grow ever longer. Sick and injured people wait in agony and desperation for ambulances that don’t come – or not for many hours. We are actually told not to bother the NHS, to do all we can to avoid needing the service we pay for.
And so trusting people obey, suffering in silence in their homes, not reporting their health concerns to their GPs – the lumps, the stubborn coughs, the blood. Putting off the call for help that might save their lives – until it’s too late.
But the NHS is only one part – admittedly a hugely expensive part – of this land of make believe.
We are no longer policed by consent. Rather the police force and it is a force now, in lieu of a service, has been bent around political or ideological will. Some protest groups are deemed good – Just Stop Oil, Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain, Black Lives Matter and fed tea and biscuits while they block the roads and smash windows, protected from any and all opposing views.
Others espousing opinions that fly in the face of the latest ideological kink or political dikta protests about so-called vaccines, or about lockdown or illegal immigration, often prompt the unleashing of the men on horseback, the riot shields.
Mountains of data reveal that the products marketed as vaccines are no such thing. They don’t stop infection. They don’t stop transmission. They don’t stop an infected person getting sick. They don’t keep an infected person out of hospital. And they don’t stop an infected person dying.
By any measure those products, released under emergency use authorization and demonstrably the cause of countless deaths and injuries, are, at best, a façade, a front, an optical illusion intended to make the masses move in the direction desired by the leaders.
Whatever way you cut it, those products don’t work as advertised and yet still the advertising-slash-propaganda campaigns are up and running – right now, this very minute – pushing needles into as many arms as possible, including those of healthy 6-month-old babies.
Talking heads still trumpet the nonsense that the vaccine roll-out was an unqualified success. Stuffed shirts that stood at the forefront of the pandemic, pushing the medical products, pushing the lockdowns, pushing the face masks, were honoured for their efforts then and remain honoured now, even as the data makes it increasingly plain – to me at least – that what was inflicted upon our population was an unforgivable wrong. Fake knights of the realm for our Potemkin village.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, elected by none of us and therefore a fake PM, has promised to halt the flow of illegal migrants onto British shores. But I say he will do no such thing. In fact, I say he doesn’t even have any intention of stopping that flow. Any and every British government promises to protect our borders. This is now a fake promise with nothing behind it.
Our landscapes are littered with wind turbines and yet millions can barely afford to heat their homes because one way or another, we aren’t allowed access to the most obvious and reliable sources of energy. Drax power station used to burn coal.
Now it burns wood pellets obtained by cutting down ancient forests in Canada that campaigners there say are vital for fighting climate change. By banning coal and burning ancient forests, Drax is considered Green and so, in recent years, has received 6 billion pounds in government subsidies. Drax now emits more greenhouse gases than when it burned coal.
Drax might be held up as the epitome of the fakery of the mis-named Green agenda.
The Green agenda is not about Green, rather it is about Greed. There’s even fake meat, and fake milk, and fake cheese and scores of other fake food products besides. What else would you serve in a Potemkin village, after all, but fake food?
As we speak, they are ramping up the same old fear about Covid – that illness with the threat risk now, to most, of the common cold – the same determination to ignore everything we’ve learned over the last three years.
Actors on stage wear masks wear, and so must we.
While more and more of the population wakes up to the lies, obfuscation, fear-porn and propaganda around the so-called vaccines, around the Green agenda, around gender politics and race politics. The majority of the news media obediently pumps out the same old tosh about “safe and effective” and “climate crisis” and “preferred pronouns” and race baiting.
But the fakery has been swiftly and shoddily constructed, without the foundation of truth. For that reason, this Potemkin village thrown up around us is flimsy and should be easily demolished, if we wish it so. Underneath it all, too quiet for too long, we know the truth of Britain. More of us comprehend every day. That beyond a shadow of a doubt our leaders have tried to hoodwink us into believing things that are simply not true. The ultimate Potemkin village is all lies, no truth.
The eye-wateringly expensive NHS, costs rising years on year, is no longer a health service for all in any way that matters. I say the Green agenda is a fraud, as is the climate crisis that underpins it.
The assertions that little boys can grow up to be women and that little girls can grow up to be men, are lies. That our government means to protect our borders is a fiction.
A parliament in which over-mighty, colluding, indistinguishable political parties, dictate the law to the people whether those people like or not, is a shameful setting aside of the sovereignty of we, the people of this country.
Parliament is not and was never meant to be sovereign. We, the people, are sovereign. This is the foundation stone of Magna Carta, sealed in 1215 and as unshakeably solid now as it was then. Any attempt to reduce the rights, freedoms and liberties enshrined in that Treaty are, by definition, beyond the power of any parliament.
Here’s the thing: our sovereignty as people was sealed by that Treaty of 1215. Parliaments have come and tried to ride roughshod over the people, again and again, and those parliaments have gone.
One of many attempts to repeal Magna Carta was even made in 1969 while the general public were conveniently distracted by the moon landings.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: we see them. We see the fakery they have raised around us. But our rights are real.
Our belief in Britain is real.
Isn’t it time to see past the shaky stage set thrown up around us as a distraction and take shelter instead in true Britain – real Britain? {Transcript]
” They Live ” — if you have not seen this movie , look it up
There is a Treeper with this moniker, I assume for this exact reason.
But no noticing who the Aliens represent…
Found it on the Internet Archive.
Youtube wouldn’t let me see it.
The purpose of the Magna Carta was to rein in abusive powers in 1215 which had caused the people to revolt.
No wonder they wanted to revoke it in 1969.
Few know , but it is there if you look , THE SECRET TREATY OF VERONA 1822 – read into the US Senate Congressional Record in 1916 by Senator Owen.
The high contracting parties ( the black nobility of europe ) pledge to never recognize the sovereignty of the new ” United States Of America ” and would work to bring the breakaway colony back under control.
Interesting timing.
The memories of the War of 1812 was still fairly fresh and the War between the States were still a generation away.
Also, the second bank of the United States was ended by Andrew Jackson and his allies about 1835.
A curious thing, history is.
Just because this treaty is 200 years does not mean it is void. History since proves this.
Indulge me …..
‘ A hundred tanks along the square
One man stands an stops them there
Someday soon the tide will turn and I’ll be FREE !
I’ll Be Free , I’ll Be FREE , I’ll come home to my country
Someday soon the tide will turn and I’ll be FREE
The Hooters – 500 Miles (Video Version) – YouTube
Not sure why that thought would have occurred to you.
I merely had some musings on my part for some relations to historical events that are possibly connected to your post.
Banks are a sure way to enslave a nation by virtue of owning their debt. Some of the Founders warned of it. Some of our past leaders even fought against them.
And yet, others were even pivotal to the current Federal Reserve being instituted about 1913.
just wanted to make the point to all readers , it is still valid and never revoked 🙂
Noted.
A welcome dialogue for sure. And, one that reminds me of much of the subtler side of history.
“1913”, talk about pivotal period in History!
1910 to 1920 saw the Russian Revolution and the instalation of the first Conmunist Government there.
The 17th amendment, the establishment of the IRS, of the FDA, and the Fed.
Oh, and the first “Progressive” POTUS, who was a mental vegetable, a tradition they have brought back recently.
The “League of Nations”, an early attempt at, andvpre-cursor to the U.N.
Oh, and a WORLD FRUCKING WAR, lets not leave THAT out.
Woodrow ran as a “no war” candidate but with the sinking of the Lusitania, well…the rest is “created” glo-bull-ist history.
Up vote for your link between Woody and Joey.
The 17th Amendment, relating to the election of Senators, was never legally ratified.
https://newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd522.htm
Also the 16th Amendment, authorizing the federal income tax, was never legally ratified.
https://thelawthatneverwas.com/
And we are condemned to repeat it if we don’t understand history. 1619? Never existed until some bitter communist decided the promise of freedom was betrayed by the 620,000 lives sacrificed on the altar of Liberty.
Thank you, I didn’t know about this secret treaty. will check it out. I do know Britian was still trying to get the USA back in 1843 by maneuvering the Republic of Texas.
Always wondered about that DC corporation bit and the bar for lawyers…
Look up – ” KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN CIRCLE ” , Civil War period.
Confederacy , foreign actors and secret societies wanted a new empire with Cuba as its center. The Circle would be lower US / Florida , Cuba , Eastern Mexico and North half of South America. John Wilkes Booth was rumored to be one of ” them “.
Also mentioned in the now out of print book ” Spawn Of Evil “
It figures. The first legal slave owner in the us was a black man named robert johnson.
This is real history but it isn’t mentioned in feb of course.
He went on to found BET
Neil feels as strongly about the people’s rights from the Magna Carta as we do here about the Constitution.
But the folks on both sides of the pond have had those ‘rights’ shredded.
Are we assuming that the majority of either country’s people still prefer liberty to socialist enslavement?
Cell phones or liberty?
Not a difficult choice for most people.
Read this and know a cellphone is a 24/7 spy device.
https://gadgetstouse.com/blog/2021/07/21/what-is-pegasus-how-to-detect-it/
Many methods, legal and illegal, can compel a fingerprint lock to unlock a phone. A pin, if strong enough (length and randomness)and backed by an automatic reset of the phone if entered x amount of times wrongly, is safer and requires the conscious participation of the owner.
Yes, things seem very familiar and similar on both sides of the pond. It’s almost as if it is by plan. /s/.
Common denominator seems to be WEF.
Has anyone on here heard of an organisation known as Free Masons?
Freemasons, the WEF, “globalists”, “Bilderbergers”, “banking cartel”….all euphemisms for who “now owns everything”, runs everything.
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Respectfully, your comment reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept behind the Constitution and Magna Carta, IMHO.
OUR RIGHTS are granted to us by GOD; they CAN NOT be “shredded” by man, as they are INHERENT.
What man (or Government) doesn’t grant, man (or Government) can NOT take away.
THAT is the UNDERLIEING Spirit and logic of BOTH Documents.
WE are ‘Soveriegn’, NOT the Government.
I do know our rights are granted by God, but the j6 prisoners that are being held are not having their rights recognized by powers that be.
I am at a loss on what else to call this lack of acknowledgment of our rights. I am not a word Smith, and perhaps I lacked the precise acceptable terms.
You are a realist. The powers that be are secular. The powers that be do not believe in God.
Simply put without God no rights.
Definition of abusive power.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-chairmans-afghan-problem/
When US military slaughters a civilian family and there is NO accountability, it’s only a matter of time those weapons will be unleashed on US.
I always enjoy Neils monologues, such depth and insight. This is no exception.
And he probably thinks we talk funny.
Everyone in Boston talks funny. 😉
Hey hey now, just because I paak the caa in Havaad yaad doesn’t mean I talk funny!!!
Chuckling
Great monologue! The era of ‘Great Pretending’ is a very good summary of today’s times.
Talk about pretending when the fake US news media asks questions of the senile fake president as if they were going to get a straight answer.
gaslighting of the highest order … from the senile, equally lying president ..
“Think about why the recession got so bad two years ago…” Biden
the media and his cohorts.
McConnell promoting Biden’s agenda as a success because some pork is making its way back to Kentucky.
Working together?? You saddled the American people and the House with your disastrous omnibus bill!! After helping to whip the votes for that spending package?
Exactly how giving the president everything he wants constitutes operating as a “check and balance” to the “reckless” Biden administration?
Such performative DC nonsense! McConnell wants to play as if he’s a conservative warrior, looking to hamstring an out-of-control administration? Yeah, that doesn’t begin to play with those who have been paying attention. By shoving through the aforementioned omnibus package, McConnell actually neutered the very GOP majority in the House he’s now lauding.
How can they “fight the far left’s radical policies” if they no longer have the power of the purse for the next fiscal year? McConnell should just shut up.
Ahgggg GO STUFF IT YOU CCP CLOWN !
That’s an insult to circus clowns—the real ones!!!!
McConnell has been at the very CENTER of the Swamp, for many years.
HE is “the Man behind the curtain” and Obama is the big scary face, projected on the screen, to scare us and disract our attention away from the little old man, behind the curtain.
HE authorised and directed “the Insurance Policy” that FAILED, by the way.
HE ran the Insurrection, the constant ongoing soft-coup attempts, but he operates by proxie, hence Pelosi became the Wicked Witch of the West.
McConnel IS the enemy we can SEE, although he hides behind proxies, as much as he can; hence “the turtle”.
McConnell is an abscess on the gum of the US, a nagging, annoying, pain!
I’d locate that abscess further down on the anatomy…
Potemkin village press.😂
Yes.
The very definition of farce, but sadly, nobody is laughing.
The man has a way with words.
The Uniparty controlled by the Globalists and Money Lenders.
Take the likes of Soros, IMHO a min0r player, and the heads at the WEF…. and do to them the old fashioned treatment the English reserved for traitors… then post their tar’d heads on long poles in front of our Western Parliaments.
Globalists and Money Lenders, and the Military-Industrial Complex.
Get rid of the money lenders first, and everything else will probably come tumbling down. What did Our Lord and Savior say about them? Also, I think He said the meek will inherit the earth! Tough slog getting there though!
Satanist/Globalists all.
The thought is good. There are, however, no ‘soldiers’-for-Freedom, willing or able to storm the Castle, as there were at the time of the American Revolution. Too soft, too absorbed/controlled by their ‘toys’, too comfortable in their intentional ignorance.
It took some time for things to get bad enough for the people to rebel and the American Revolution to commence.
Tyrants must dance delicately as they enslave a people.
Too much, too fast and they may find themselves in very deep kimchee indeed.
And that gives me some hope.
Neil, doing what he does best.
we are not the only location in the world with a parasite problem
its past time for fumigation..
P l E
4s E . . H e 1 p . . m E !America is evolving into Nazi Germany.
We are worse than they were IMO
Not yet.
I started listening to Neil Olivers “History, Love Letters to the World” podcast today. I have had it bookmarked for a few years. First season is “Love Letter to the British Isles”
I love history and have enjoyed the few TV history documentaries that he has done.
Each podcast is about 30 minutes and very well done. You want be disappointed.
The potemkin village also rewrites history.
“won’t” ?
We are just a few years behind them, but it’s coming.
Neil, as usual, is right on all he spoke of.
But he missed one institution…the Church of England. If one can any longer call it a Church.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby has ordained a “transexual”. He is also pushing “transgenderism” in Church of England schools, against the wishes of parents of students in those schools. All must be valued, so he said, completely denying that Almighty God made two sexes only…man and woman. Eternal shame on the Archbishop.
This will turn out to be the fatal blow to Britain, I firmly believe…
Either that or the ushering in of people from alien cultures…”culture enrichers” as Baron Bodissey on Gates of Vienna calls them.
In the village of Creaton in Northamptonshire, an historic, beautiful hotel has been turned into a “refugee centre”. I’ve seen pictures of this stunning building, steeped in history. After the 400 welcomed men of military age have lived there, it will be stunning no more. The population of this village is 500.
Every single resident will not be sleeping easily in their beds, I guarantee.
The metamorphosis of a once Christian nation into an Islamic one is proceeding apace. With all deliberate speed. And I mean deliberate. No stories are appearing anymore in the tabloids or the broadsheets.
In sorrow, we in this half British house can barely stand to think of it. Just when we think the state of a once proud country in every respect can’t get any worse, we wake up to find out how wrong we are.
Just as in this Potemkin country. May all there and here… and in Davos from where this is all being directed…be called to account sooner than later.
Thank you for the information Betsy.
Cheers!
Wish it weren’t so, my friend.
I am strangely calm and not sure why.
Maybe it is simply God consciousness.
There appears be a reckoning of some kind building.
President Trump and stalwarts like Sundance and the crew continue to enlighten folks like me.
It’s a great time to be alive..
Cheers!
As an Anglophile and former resident of several years, it is indeed heartbreaking to see what has happened/is happening to the beloved UK.
A country cannot import a foreign culture that in no way resembles it. We all know the hordes are a calculated invasion.
Overseen by the WEF place man Sunak. This is happening all throughout Britain, in towns and villages in numbers equal to the populations of those towns. Blatantly. And as Neil said, I’m sure the police enforcement units are just itching to arrest anyone who dares to speak against it.
I notice that the Methodist Church in this country is becoming more and more liberal and outspoken about such matters in this country. It must be said that we have several “churches” who follow suit with such as well.
I have as well. Split now. Something is rumbling. One can almost feel the ground shaking.
The biggest Potemkin village is Joe Biden.
Bingo.
His mind is a potemkin village facade.
In bidens fertile potemkin village mind he forments thoughts.
He opens his mouth and paints a facade picture for us and thinks its real.
😂😳
Treepers,
This column is so dead on the bullseye.
When one learns to critically discern the real from illusion, one realizes just how the institutions have distorted images that have no relationship with the reality of what is sustaining, good, and eternal. As SD says, once you have seen the strings manipulated on the marionette, you can’t unsee those things.
It’s just sad so few of us see the facts.
The real pandemic is stupidity.
Yet , we must try to reach them anyway.
It’s not so much stupidity as apathy. Though there is plenty of both.
…and unforgivable insouciance.
Big word: heedless indifference or unconcern; carelessness of feeling or manner.
Yes that too.
The deciding factor in your comment, is that it is better to give up on the people that will not change after repeated efforts to ask them to view Reality as it is. Yes, I know that seems indifferent or harsh, but if people will not change when looking at Reality, when shown Truth, then ultimately they are responsible for their actions and thoughts. Some of my family refuses to do this, and I have let them be as they want to be.
Unfortunately, many of the vote.
True point, Soozword.
Grog: One main problem with that is, their irresponsibility is what harms all.
Yes but there are some its not worth wasting your time.
There a lost cause.
Reach people who are not infected with the potempkin village virus.
Your the cure and not the potempkin jab.
👍👌
As a whole yes absolutely. Sprinkle that with evilness as many are smart enough to even add 1+1.
Misery is beginning to teach people the truth.
Evil tends to move precipitously, and push just a little too far.
Then the people react.
Keep talking to people. Cast doubts on the Powers that Be without being confrontational.
Plant seeds of freedom whenever you can.
Most of all, trust the Lord.
He’s got this.
How many do live in reality.
I come into contact with more than do than don’t.
I do think the potemkin village media paints a facade of more people believing their propaganda than do.
At least in SC where I live.
Of course here there are people who accept the potempkin village press stories.
Let dead bury the dead.
Jesus said unto him in Matthew 8:22: “Follow me: and let the dead bury their dead.” The Spiritually dead will always bury their dead loved ones in a manner, that exhibit pride of life, which is not of god, but of the world.
He is describing America and Canada in this monologue, also, because people that live with the perspective of emotional reaction instead of critical observation will always be easy to influence.
Yep.
Those people don’t try to think about reality.
They don’t know how.
Victims of potempkin itis.
No cure.
Potempkin itis
Heh
Might want to trademark that word. 🙂
I agree with you, Sundance. Though Mr. Oliver’s commentary resounds of England, we here in the United States should take warning.
Our ability to hold onto Our Constitution is slipping.
If you haven’t already, perhaps you and Neil could meet someday.
Neil Sage of Scots, while speaking of Britain, is describing the whole of the Anglosphere and to a great degree the entirety of Western Civilization.
It appears we have a common enemy.
Exactly how I see it, Maquis. Two countries separated by a common language, as has been said; but nothing dividing us now. Both in the grips of unremitting evil.
“Isn’t it time to see past the shaky stage set thrown up around us as a distraction and take shelter instead in true Britain – real Britain?”
What if there is nothing behind the shaky stage anymore?
offcoursenation: The real Britain sent the prime of its male youth to die on the battlefields of WWI. Britain never recovered.
Sadly and tragically true…
Most evenings my wife and I watch Newshour, a Potemkin charade of useless questions and memorized answers rich in “threats to our democracy” hand wringing. I calm myself by offering up my suffering as a kind of purgatory, well aware that, when the decaying structure collapses, it will be sudden and “unexpected.”
A comforting thought: When the foundation collapses, everybody in dc will go down with us.
Hillary’s it takes a village have a whole new meaning now?
Which fits best?
1) Potemkin Village?
2) Dorian Gray?
“We see the fakery they have raised around us.”
Sounds exactly like the “govment” in US.
Fake everything.
Fake congress, fake jabs, fake food and fake global warming etc.
“The Potemkin Villages constructed by political elite in their effort to make it seem like the world is something it is not.
Second, the great pretending that is needed in order to sell it.”
The district of columbia is a Potemkin Village.
A facade of buildings with agents of deception working 24/7 in congress and “govment” to maintain the fake village.
Hillary said it takes a village, remember?
Neil Oliver not only described briton but the us.
DC is a potemkin village of squatters that need to be removed now?😡👀
Sundance said that the issues that Neil Oliver raises could also apply here.
Like “Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, elected by none of us and therefore a fake PM…”
And Biden was not elected. He stole the election, just like he said he would, and therefore is a usurper.
Biden brags that they have created the most extensive voter fraud organization in history, and says that they did it for Obama too.
Biden plagiarizing and overstating his achievements, again, like so many other instances in his illustrious career.
Not ‘he’, but ‘they’.
Pronouns ARE important. 😉
Joe Biden stole nothing. They rode him like a rented mule. He only could do what ‘they’ told him.
Joe Biden is/was a Potemkin Village
They rode him like “2000 Mules”
https://2000mules.com/
Neil Oliver–my weekly 10 minutes of sanity.
Thank you Neil and Sundance.
Speaking of pretense, Hakeem “The Dream” Jefferies speech last night fits the bill. McCarthy should answer Jefferies falsities and fantasies point by point. How can we make any progress without brutal truth and reality being spoken ?
Depends on who defines “progress.”
Mr. McCarthy and Mr. Jefferies share the same definition and the same goal, I believe.
All the pretending by the ‘elites’, all of it, is only because of fiat currency.
Goes from
Lying
to pretending to we meant well when caught and all you see is their backs when running away.
You skipped a step (“the it’s not big deal, everyone does it” stage), just before “we meant well”.
The Soviets used “Potemkin Village” strategy quite often.
To project prosperity, modern cities were built for visitors. The real citizens lived in squalor a short distance away, using holes in the ground as toilets. I had the privilege of a first hand witness to relay this information. He was my professor of Soviet Foreign Policy back in the early 80’s. He was Ukrainian by birth and traveled to Ukraine often to visit family….and he hated Communists. The “Potemkin Village” story is not a myth…it was real.
I absolutely LOVE Neil Oliver!!!!
Nazi Germany also had their own Potemkin Village. When the Red Cross heard rumors of the atrocities inflicted on the Jewish people in 1943 they insisted on seeing for themselves. In the concentration camp of Theresienstadt where mostly danish jews were housed the Germans were able to stall the visit to June of 1944. The Nazis spent months planting gardens, have the Jews assemble an orchestra, rebuild the barracks into descent looking housing facilities, putting on plays and lots of singing and laughter. The promise was that these Jewish people would be allowed to live and be freed.
The RC delegation arrived and after a couple
of days left, convinced that Jewish people were being treated fairly. The Nazis filmed the “Potemkin village “ farce.
And within a week nearly all of the Jewish actors, musicians, including children and women were sent to Auswitz and killed.
Pray and help others.
The bone-chilling truth is that the evil of our own Potemkin Village is a prelude to the worst horrors of every totalitarian regime of whatever vaunted theory; namely bloody, unspeakable forms of coercion done to the people who have been rendered helpless and with no claim to human rights. Insouciance (stupidity/ignorance) at this point is unconscionably irresponsible.
We Should ALL Present; INSTEAD, a Potemkin MUTINY, N0W ! https://www.historytoday.com/archive/months-past/mutiny-potemkin
THIS ^ needs to be said daily, hourly, in as many places by as many people as possible, because it is crucial!
The few thousand would have no influence on us but for the millions of petty enforcers. People we each know, who gleefully enforce the edicts of evil. The world needs to realize that these enforcers are not our friends.
The British people are some of the vilest people in the world. Everything started in London when the Venetian oligarchs “migrated” there. Nothing has changed. This dude has no idea about his country’s history and how evil it is. It is all about fascism, and how they want to control the world.
None of them are British.
Britain has had foreign globalist elite since the Tudor era.
It was just used as a tool, same as they are using the US now.
I’m sorry to say this but it’s yet another insufferable and useless monologue with a fancy accent that could have just as easily been applied to any other week over the past 23 years. I don’t dislike him for what he says or thinks or for his thoughts. I think he’s just another talking head with nothing unique to say. He’s half as thought provoking as Tucker btw. So there’s that too. Time to vacate the Neil train in my opinion. All due respect included here if it wasn’t already known. He teaches how to get more Neil Oliver. Nothing else.
Sundance, thank you for teaching me. I also applaud you for having the quick sense to leave Word Press and make The Conservative Treehouse into a site that allows you to publish freely, yet with caution. You must know that there are those who would love to see The Last Refuge gone.
I never learned or studied about the Potemkin village even though I studied in college for over 8 years and earned three degrees.
I have a friend who traveled on a tour of China. She described it as a weird place and what they were shown was mostly absent of people. The tour guides were not allowed to engage in conversation with the tourists either. Lack of freedom is hard to hide.
Ghost cities.
For the love of God can we not all kick in $10.00 apiece so Neil can get a shave and a hair cut?
Speak of the devil. Brand destroys Mika et.al. The dude is a master.
https://ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-90-miles-mystery-video-nyctophilia_01015418471.html#more
Very entertaining
Now Neil you know who loves you most, your government. We’ll pat you on the head and say good boy…now get in line for your next booster or you’ll be racist. Talking about that silly Magna-Carta thingy again, you know it’s racist, as well?
This stupid sh_it ends when free people around the world Just Say No!
Those still glued to the BBC or any enemy MSM are lost. Save the savable.
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities”
Voltaire
Thinking of people I know.. doctors.. nurses.. school administrators.. not only hawking the poison death shots but INSISTING we take them all.. DENYING those who would object! Heaping scorn and punishment on dissenters!
There has to be a special place in hell reserved for these people, especially those who commit atrocities against the children.
What a fine patriot is Mr. Oliver. God bless him.
There’s virtually no one on TV that I have any desire to meet and talk to, but Neil Oliver is an exception.
Neil Oliver’s ‘red pilling’ journey, since the early days of covid, have been a wonder to watch and follow. He has become a leading voice in observing the lies that are being fed to us each day. He has a YT channel, and if you haven’t watched it or subscribed, I suggest that you do. While it was apparently never his intention to become a leading voice in rallying against the powers that be, he has become one. Kudos to him.
Been thinking about this, and increasingly believe that it’s all about propaganda, thought control, mind control, and political power. The literary references are legion, so whether Potemkin villages are “real” or not, the dynamic is quite real, valid, present, and destructive. While there are many different literary references, perhaps the best is Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt because she says both communism and fascism rely of propaganda–i.e., lies. In the 21st century, technology has greatly increased the power of these lies, but technology has always played a part in propaganda, whether it be radio, film, or computers.
Note that the opposite of propaganda is reality and truth, so don’t think that will save you in a conflict with power-hungry totalitarians because reality and truth are the enemies against which the totalitarians — that is, 0’Bama’s D33p Stat3 Democrats and their complicit establishment Republicans and Enemedia supporters — fight.
Initially thought that propaganda was a detail of a larger problem, but increasingly think that propaganda is the problem, which explains why leftists fight so insanely hard if you disagree with them: your believing and obeying is the battle.
HOWEVER, the WEF members are focused DAILY on their goals.
The rest of the world’s daily focus is on food, heating, families, etc
with huge amounts of people focused on ther iphones and see nothing else.
I learned what “Fine” stands for, as in “everything’s fine,” as a counselor in a 30-day treatment center for alcoholics and addicts.
F**ked up
Insecure
Neurotic
Emotional
Also describes countries as in the excellent book,”The Emotional History of Nations.”