Aleksandr Dugin is the most famous political philosopher in Russia. His ideas are considered so dangerous the Ukrainian government murdered his daughter, and Amazon won’t sell his books. Tucker Carlson talked to him in Moscow.
Watching this interview while sitting in a kitchen in Russia is a little odd, however, what Dugin explains does seem to lineup with my perspective as an American in Russia. The explanation for why leftists (progressives) in the USA seemingly reversed their entire worldview about Russia in a decade does seem to make sense.
I have shared that modern Russian social society is much more traditional than the expressed Western value system you find embodied in progressives. Russia is far more nationalistic and less globalist; meanwhile, the USA has moved far closer to globalism and is less nationalistic. Within this shift, the change in democracy also reconciles.
As Dugin notes, Western democracy is no longer about the majority of the citizens; the national identity has been erased in favor of governing rules by a minority. The commonality of sex (two genders) has been erased in favor of multiple-gender identity, expanded individualism, which is simply a reflection of the fractured bond of commonality. It is an interesting conversation. WATCH:
It should be noted before people in the USA and English speaking “West” start running around with romantic images of Russia, that the Russian people do not think about such issues… AT ALL. The average Russian thinks about social politics about as much as the average American, which is to say – not much at all.
However, all of that said, someone asked me about COVID-19 in Russia and what was the general sensibility of the issue. I have had some rather fascinating discussions thanks to that question.
I never thought I would find a population more cynical about COVID-19, the “pandemic of ’20/’21” and the vaccine protocol than Americans on average. I was wrong. In my conversations with Russians about it, the average person in Russia was far more cynical than the average American.
I’m not sure why, but a larger than 50% group of the Russian people did not buy into the fear and hype. From the conversations I have encountered, more than half the population didn’t trust the claims by the Western medical establishment.
Additionally, fewer than half the population of Russia appear to have accepted the vaccine. We are told the vaccine compliance rate for the first injection in the USA was around 65 to 70%. It does not seem like 70% of Russians took the vaccine; it seems that Russia had a much lower compliance rate based on responses to the question.
I’m not exactly sure why the biggest segment of the Russian population didn’t fall for the COVID-19 pandemic hype; perhaps their cynicism against “institutions” of a totalitarian state helped them on this subject, I don’t know. However, the most frequent response is the average Russian just didn’t believe COVID-19 was as dangerous as the various health agencies were saying it was.
The government of Russia pushed the vaccine, perhaps not as aggressively as the USA and other Western countries, but they did push it hard. However, it appears much less than half the population followed the govt advice.
I’ll have more later on some granular Russian dynamics as they appear to present.
It really is bizarre being here in Russia. There are zero Western tourists or travelers in this country. The only tourists and/or foreigners Russia has seen for over two years are all from Asia (mostly China). When the average Russian hears my American voice speaking English, the immediate reaction is shock, followed by extreme curiosity – it’s wild.
There’s nothing to be fearful about or worried about. Everywhere seems to be safe, orderly and exceptionally well cultured; maybe even a little annoyingly so. The polite and unwritten social rules are followed by everyone with a general compliance unlike anything I can remember seeing in the USA. Everything from how you cross the street to obeying social standards on subway travel is extraordinarily polite and mannerly; factually it’s a little weird.
Do not romanticize Russia in your mind’s-eye; there are major issues here, and the quality of life in the average USA neighborhood is much higher. However, on the cultural part of polite social norms, most Russian social life is like a step back into the 1950’s USA with perhaps a bigger dose of visible counter-culture evident.
The USA boomer generation would recognize the shallow coldness behind the eyes of Russians who avoid eye contact and appear to be task oriented in life. Oddly, if you grew up as a USA Gen-Xer, socially current Russia is probably more like the place of your fond memories, and going to a large shopping mall is like stepping back in time 30 years. If, however, you have a gen-Z or ‘zoomer’ in the familial crew, they would think modern social Russia is backwards and too regimented.
From what I can tell, those Western (generational) viewpoints are entirely due to the speed of transition that Dugin notes from the rising of Vladimir Putin to the leadership of Russia.
There ain’t no welcoming room for Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Cass Sunstein, Samantha Power and/or any of the progressive crew here. Russian patriotism is probably at the highest generational point in a long time, and I doubt President Putin is going to miss the opportunity to perma-ban all the Western corporations that exited Russia after the sanctions came along.
The reality of the Western sanction regime is really going to take an entire series of articles to explain. T-mobile cell phone service works here (go figure, no blocks at all), as long as you don’t interface your device with Russian internet wifi, which is really funny.
Yes, you can connect to all the banned Western stuff through the cell phone network (value of a yellow phone in Russia), and simultaneously you can connect and access all of the banned stuff the USA government controls and stops Americans from seeing/using if you have a grey zone originating phone and cell phone number. lolol
It really is bizarre how an individual person can operate, in this fragmented communication world, once they teach themselves the tools and techniques. Perhaps the most stunningly obvious difference between Yellow and Grey – anyone with a passport can open a bank account in Russia. The RU banks even have their computers set up to plug in to your device and upload apps, because the Apple/Google app stores don’t permit it (sanctions).
There is a lengthy learning curve, but it is well worth the time figuring out how to navigate the financial matrix the West has constructed. The sanctions against Russia are stunningly irrelevant, and were not designed to keep Russia out of the western financial system. The Sanctions were created to keep Americans, Canadians, AU/NZ, Japan and EU locked into the West.
The Globalists and Progressive Left want to smother any points of contrast to their perverted world views. Hence, they hate Russia (
and want to ransack its resources to bolster their own wealth).Yes. The Tyrannists of the USSR put up the Berlin wall, and various barriers to the masses of the captured population being able to experience ‘western’ life, out of a fear of “compare and contrast” and now the West, run by Globullust dictators with ‘virtual’ barriers is reflecting the same underlieing fear.
It just occurred to me, there are serious limitations to the value in studying how the Soviet Union collapsed/was overthrown, in this sense;
it wasn’t a virtual wall oppressing the peoples of the USSR, the internet was still in its infancy.
While our evolution with an R in front of it will share SOME similarities with all ptevious movements, we are definitely going to have to consider the changed dynamics of the,….space due to cyber.
Does a “general strike” include everyone turning off their phones, for example?
Berlin wall was to ensure Germany did not become a Communist/Bolshevik nation. Unfortunately the wall was taken down and things like Communist Bolshevik trained east german soldiers were made Germany’s leaders like Angela Merkle.
Always remember two germans wrote the Communist Manifesto in german nevertheless and published in 1848 in London England. Germany also paid for Lenin and the Bolsheviks to destroy Russia and the Russian and English Royals.
Germany gave birth to socialism and communism alike NAZIs and Marxists all out of Germany
“Zurich, April 9, 1917: 32 Russian emigrants are at the train station, waiting to depart. But they’re not the only ones there. Shouts of “traitors, scoundrels, pigs” ring out at the travelers. Supporters of the group are also there, singing “The Internationale.” The tracks are blocked for a short while, then train moves off.
The German chartered train was provided by Kaiser Wilhelm II with the aim of furthering the Russian Revolution. In one of the wagons sat none other than Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin. With German help, Lenin left his exile in Switzerland and, a week later, reached his destination: Petrograd, which would later be renamed to Leningrad then changed back to today’s Saint Petersburg.”
https://www.dw.com/en/how-germany-got-the-russian-revolution-off-the-ground/a-41195312
Without Germany’s funding Lenin and Bolsheviks would have never been able to destroy Russia and the Russian and English Royals like Democrats can do nothing without the funding from Republicans.
The European royals are the ones calling the shots above the Democrats. If you look hard enough they are connected to Hillary, Obama, Biden, etc.
What nation in Europe are your referring to as Bavaria had its own king ?
and no Republicans what so ever, eh?
Bavaria was a kingdom until 1870, then willingly joined the German Empire
French Royals? not English Royals? and do recall the Franco Prussian wars are not called France verses Germany either …
What nation’s Royals on the continent of Europe as we do not refer to Egyptians as Africans just because Egypt in on the continent of Africa.
Get it ? Cos words have boots
Borders Langauge and Culture make a nation
No, no, no.
The Wall was constructed to keep part of Berlin (West Berlin), the historic capital of Germany in its many political iterations from completely failing into Bolshevik / Communist control.
Wall Street, the City of London, and Geneva financed Lenin and that is well documented in a multitude of sources.
Germany had to sign the Armistice in WWI, not because they were losing, but because of a home grown communist revolution in their own country, and had to withdraw to quash it.
English royals were not destroyed. They were, and are however, controlled by the same actors of the City. 👀 And they still exist unlike the Russian royals were brutally exterminated.
AND, those two “germans” you refer to were not ethnically German, and relocated to England to write, publish and distribute for mass circulation Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto under financing by City affiliated personalities under control by or directly by the Rothschilds, and that is well documented also. 👀
The description of history you proffered is perhaps the worst constructed piece of “revisionist” history I have ever read. 👀
👁
“AND, those two “germans” you refer to were not ethnically German”
WOW
“Friedrich Engels was born on 28 November 1820 in Barmen, Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Prussia (now Wuppertal, Germany), as the eldest son of Friedrich Engels Sr. (1796–1860) and of Elisabeth “Elise” Franziska Mauritia von Haar (1797–1873).[5] The wealthy Engels family owned large cotton-textile mills in Barmen and Salford, England, both expanding industrial cities. Friedrich’s parents were devout Pietist Protestants[6] and they raised their children accordingly.
At the age of 13, Engels attended secondary school (Gymnasium) in the adjacent city of Elberfeld but had to leave at 17 due to pressure from his father, who wanted him to become a businessman and work as a mercantile apprentice in the family firm.[7] After a year in Barmen, the young Engels was, in 1838, sent by his father to undertake an apprenticeship at a trading house in Bremen.[8][9] His parents expected that he would follow his father into a career in the family business. Their son’s revolutionary activities disappointed them. It would be some years before he joined the family firm.”
Karl Marx was also raised born and educated in Germany from birth to university but if you want to claim his family’s “Jewishness” is not German then you have a problem a severe problem.
Marx wasn’t ethnically German, he was born to Jewish parents in Prussia, his ancestry is Ashenazi which denotes northern Turkish origins
“AND, those two “germans” you refer to were not ethnically German”
WOW
Engels and Karl Marx were both raised born and educated in Germany from birth to university but if you want to claim one’s family’s “Jewishness” is not German then you have a problem a severe problem.
Never mind
“Engels grew up in the environment of a family marked by moderately liberal political views, a steadfast loyalty to Prussia, and a pronounced Protestant faith.”
After watching “The Kings Speech” again recently, it occurred to me that THEY have been attempting to make our U.S. President a “figurehead” with no real authority, LIKE they did with the Royals of England.
just a thought…
Do not doubt that Chucky was personally and fully read in and briefed on the MI6 spying on the Trump campaign. And the Stelle dossier.
The British royals have their hands in a lot of pies.
Not to mention, over at least two generations, on a lot of children.
And Chucky is 1 degree of familial separation from the Nazis, but also willing to let a Rothschild poke him in the chest.
Apex. Does he answer to the City? Of course. But he’s no figurehead, he’s an active player.
Precisely.
Ancestors that ascended the throne, usurping the Stuarts, were financed and assisted by Banksters.
Same ancestors willingly turned over control of banking and money creation to Bankster Rothschild for concessions.
Been in inner circle ever since.
That was the aim of Pelosi: make the President a head of state, with a parliamentary government.
Now that is a very real possibility. The Establishment (of government institutions) does not want a President it cannot control, so when the People elect an president who THEY prefer over one who the Establishment wants, it poses a threat to the Established “order.” Solution – limit the presidents authority over institutions that were not named in Article II.
I don’t think they can totally neuter the presidential powers without changing Article II in the Constitution. But a severely corrupted SCOTUS might allow an extremely twisted interpretation (read – violation) of the Constitution to effectively suppress the POTUS authority.
Correct.
But ‘they’ never had a problem before Trump because they controlled all the others except Kennedy and Reagan. Basically, all others were figureheads anyhow.
Kennedy? You know the answer.
Reagan? Attempt, and after failing, shadow government under Poppy.
Yes. Kennedy paid the ultimate price for his determination to eliminate the major sources of corruption and criminality inside government. He knew, and perhaps that was partially due to his brother’s intense focus on crime…..
Reagan spoke eloquently (some might say he saw the nation through rose colored glasses), but I honestly don’t know how much evil he perceived to actually exist inside the government at that time. Maybe I missed some nuances in his public speeches, but I do not remember him addressing corruption / evil inside government before he was shot. It probably was my own naiveté in the 1980s, since the nation was distracted by trying to recover from the inflation and malaise of the latter ’70s..
Not so much in speeches, but Reagan would make anecdotal comments about the corruption and corrupting power of DC.
He saw a lot of it in 1976 at the Republican convention.
Good point. Something we’re not really thinking about is the temper tantrums that will be turned loose on the nation if by some miracle PDT is able to overcome the ballot fraud, machine tampering, vote switching, etc etc and he retakes the WH. The leftist globalist trash WILL NOT relinquish power peacefully. Nation states like China and Iran don’t want to see PDT back in power either. Just look at the extremes those evil entities went through to steal the 2020 election. They released a bio weapon and killed millions just to force vote by mail fraud to get him out of the WH. The evil trash hasn’t let up one bit. While we’re all focused on the current totally BS lawfare scams against him, I hardly think they don’t have a plan B, C, D & F to keep him from again implementing his America First Agenda. Really? What extremes won’t they go to? Getting PDT rightfully back in the WH is just the opening round of what will be an epic evil vs good all out battle.
I don’t believe there is a plan C,D,F.
Plan B if lawfare fails will be an all encompassing solution.
& it will set fires of its own.
And now the petty liberals are claiming The Presidency should not confer immunity…
Bankers and financiers like Bernard Baruch Jakob Schiff in the US and the Rothschilds etc in Europe funded the bolshevik revolution
Germans are extremely dangerous to freedom.
“Franklin’s grasp of the problems created for the English by a large, unassimilated, German-speaking population in Pennsylvania impressed Collinson, who not only showed the letter to English friends, but wrote Cadwallader Colden about it. Colden asked at once for a copy, but Franklin declined to send one, saying it contained nothing new to an American. 1 Meanwhile in London, urged on by friends of Pennsylvania, notably by young William Smith, who was there for ordination, a group of English philanthropists formed the Society for the Relief and Instruction of Poor Germans to establish English schools and win the Pennsylvania Germans to the British interest. 2…
I pray God long to preserve to Great Britain the English Laws, Manners, Liberties and Religion notwithstanding the complaints so frequent in Your public papers, of the prevailing corruption and degeneracy of your People; I know you have a great deal of Virtue still subsisting among you, and I hope the Constitution is not so near a dissolution, as some seem to apprehend; I do not think you are generally become such Slaves to your Vices, as to draw down that Justice Milton speaks of when he says that
——sometimes Nations will descend so low
From reason, which is virtue, that no Wrong,
But Justice, and some fatal curse annex’d
Deprives them of their outward liberty,
Their inward lost. Parad: lost.5…”
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-04-02-0173
Does a “general strike” include everyone turning off their phones, for example?
If so there’ll be no general strike here.
Keep an open mind.
The tyranny we fight against IS different than that the solidarity movement fought, and is primarily in the realm of cyber, and THATS where WE must fight.
Sundance is highlighting that with his trip to, and postings from Russia.
Physically, any of us CAN travel to Russia, but virtually we encounter walls, put up to prevent us.
And I’m not suggesting throwing them away; a traditional “General Strike” doesn’t mean everyone permanently quitting there job, just blue flu type not showing up.
Even if it was coordinated with the MAGA movement, you would not turn off your phone and put it in an empty potato chip bag (cheap effective farraday bag) for a day, or a week?
Have you considered you may have an addiction,…?
“Does a “general strike” include everyone turning off their phones, for example?”
I for one love the idea.
Sir merely reporting what I see.
I use a flipfone and often need wife to “dial” it so to a phone addicted I am not.
Granddaughter is one of a handful in Jr High who have no cellfone whatsoever.
Interweb news yes….
You’ve got that right!
The communication tools that drove USSR collapse were fax machines and PCs. I’m told Russians enthusiastically traded game floppies with “subversive” content; and faxes couldn’t be intercepted as easily as telephone conversations.
80 years of Communism drove the collapse. You run out of other people’s money.
[[fear of “compare and contrast”]]
Begs the question, how will we know our global government is Tony Tiger (or MAGA) GR-R-REAT if there are no other global governments to compare it to? Of course the answer jumps out like a frightened kangaroo. That’s their “Perfect World.”
By the way, I recently learned that Superman has a new motto: “Truth, Justice and
the American waya Better Tomorrow.”Dutch,
People have no idea how much their “smart” phones, apps, and Google track them. People may think it is cute to get the picture montage of their cat or dog from their photos. People may think “Oh wow!” I went that many places last month in their Google Timeline. People may think, yeah I will do a review for the place they were just at.
The government couldn’t have gotten the people to carry a tracking device if they wanted them to. But the cell phone companies and Google got you to pay them for the priviledge!
Everything you do is tracked!
They don’t even need smart phones to track us anymore. They now have Luciferase blood markers, smart buildings and devices that scan everyone and everything in their proximity.
First off, there is facial recognition. Whatever you carry with a microchip is also a tracker: ID cards, credit cards, license tags and the like.
But wait til everyone gets the mark of the beast to buy and sell. I do believe that’s where the rubber meets the road.
Geez, I hope so. The idea that everyone walks around with these 24/7 geolocator/camera/recorders never made sense to me — and they’re making it tough on those of us who refuse — can’t even get credit or loans approved in some cases with no “smart” phone.
That’s exactly right. The natural resources of the largest country in the world is what they want.
They can’t tell Russia to turn off all their energy programs, and play along with their phony global warming scams.
“They” want us and Russia to turn off our energy programs. Just who does that benefit? Yep, China. Russia and the US are empty and not polluted, what a great place for the Chinese to start over again. The Democrat elite will get dachas and then the crocodile will eat them last.
World War Xi.
WEF is a suicide pact for the West on behalf of China.
A successful war on Russia would most profit the Chinese who covet their vast resources and are poised to seize them.
Yesterday 4-29-24 the SecGen of NATO confirmed that Ukraine will be admitted to NATO.
On 4-4-24 Blinken said the same thing.
Is this, effectively, the beginning of WWIII — direct war between Russia and NATO/USA? Or maybe it is intended to exclusively extricate Russua from Ukraine? How concerned should we be?
During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, all Americans recognized how dangerous that was but we do not seem to view this in a similar way.
Bread and circuses suffice for too many Americans…and “convenience” — can’t do without that!
Dugin’s perspective on the “natural” development of liberalism left me thinking that we’ve all been on the same train, the only difference is that each of us had a different depot we wanted the train to stop at, permanently (and those who simply want the train to run until it’s off the tracks). Very thought-provoking!
Why the strike thru? It’s also true, tho Ruskies seem to still have the moxie to make sure that doesn’t happen.
Speaking of ransacking, Donbass has $Trillions in Shale Energy Deposits.
Just a coincidence, Mr. Bond.
Talk? No, Mr Bond, I want you to DEI!
The Progressives I follow on line don’t hate Russia at all. They are globalist, but of “international socialism” definitively not WEF/EU-style globalism. They see the war in Ukraine as a consequence of the “Professional-managerial class” attempt to control Russia via the Maiden process and post-2014 actions, mainly by US/UK. And the progressives are firm believers in the uniparty. A common refrain is that if the Democrats were progressive, we would have medicare for all and US law legalizing abortion overriding state law.
If you want a shorthand version of the difference between the US and Ru.. it’s as simple as Google vs Yandex search results…. it’s stark and very indicative
I can’t wait to hear your next report from abroad. Great work SD and Ty!
Yes, I’ve started using YANDEX to search online, especially alternative health topics. I learned about it here.
Yandex and Gagg. The difference is night and day. With the sun shining brightly on Yandex.
Many of us here, I assume, have the benefit of remembering what and how the internet was when it began. It was literally the Wild West and I miss it… some of it, but it should all be available. Google is not our friend because the gov is not our friend.
Apperently the much maligned “Dark Web” is actually just a matured version of that early “wild west” internet, from what I have read.
If you don’t mind the lack of restrictions “anything goes and so anything is sold” might research it?
For the record, I know nothing about the deep/dark web.
I remember, back in the early days, when most of my time was spent on NNTP (news network transfer protocol), aka the newsgroups, a video game developer threw up a forum for we vintage car nuts on his server at his business since he had a T1 line for gaming.
All we had was the physical address of the server; its internet protocol numbers. He coded the forum himself and operated the server himself. When the forum grew and finally outgrew his server and internet connection, he moved it to an offsite host and later sold it to an auto forum consolidator.
I came to the commercial internet later than some here, though I saw a bit of the educational internet in the late 70’s at college. Looking back, it appears I didn’t have contact with Intuit to order tax software on floppy discs until 1994. We were horse and buggy where I lived, a rural telco that still had human long distance operators in the late 80’s and our numbers were four digits since the prefix was the same for all.
In any event, my understanding of the dark web aligns with other explanations here; clandestine servers operating outside of domain name servicing.
Relevant to Russia, I first learned of the ex-pat network there through the newsgroups and joined an e-mail server at St. Johns University called the Russian Women’s List and a whole new world opened up. It was those contacts who helped me set up my trips there and gave support in-country.
The internet was the wild west back then but it was also less divergent; the population trended toward academia and the sciences and for lack of a better word, nerds. Then the rest came and history ensued.
That was the beauty of it,.. some geek figuring out how to improve our lives, not control our lives. For the love of knowledge, sharing and networking.. in the literal sense.
Now they all want to stick their things where they don’t belong, there’s a term for that…
You still had to get a valid IP (now IPv4) from USG-controlled ICANN or a derivative, and be able to be routed via BGP.
ditto
The “Dark Web” just uses IP addresses, not DNS… and modern encryption and proxies.
So, it’s hard to control, meaning the Deep State doesn’t like it, hence the propaganda.
Here is an article about how one can access the dark web and what the author found when he did..
https://medium.com/illumination/i-went-on-the-dark-web-and-instantly-regretted-ba768514fbad
Some excerpts:
“I accessed the Dark Web. Many of you might be familiar with the term but still for you folks who are hearing this term for the first time: the Dark Web is one of the parts of the Deep Web. To know about Dark Web you require some basic understanding of the Deep Web. Regardless, the Dark Web is a secretive, hard-to-trace, encrypted digital ecosystem on the internet that is filled with criminals, and infested with drug cartels, UN-sanctioned terrorist organizations, political dissenters, anonymous journalists, and Government spies.”
Dark Web vs. Deep Web
Deep Web is 95% of the content on the internet which is nonindexable by search engines or has a strange re-routing of connections and multi-layered entry tunnels before reaching the server. These are often indicative of private networks that operate to and fro via unique bridge networks. These servers are privately operated often having low-memory UI and also have certain entry codes before providing access to their servers. The dark Web comprises 5% of the Deep Web and it is the underbelly of it, it is a place of secretive criminal activities or services that do not exist at surface levels but rather on the bottom base. The Dark Web websites are made with cryptographic keys hence making them hard to be traced by any entity or organization.
To be precise it is a place for people who have criminalistic instincts or enable the perpetration of crime, or a space for accessing all morally deprecative activities like:
Ordering a hitman to kill someone.Accessing abuse porn including minor age pornography.Selling of personal data, PayPal account, fake USD notes.Accessing chat rooms that have explicit live gore being performed, also known as Red Rooms.All kinds of drugs, also known as Tor Cart.Hire professional hackers to hack social media accounts.Hire DDOS attackers, malware attackers that steal data from computers.Buy spyware or bloatware software that is sophisticated in terms of performing nefarious actions.Every privileged access to this sh*t hole is through payment which is often done via Crypto and no other medium of transactions.”
Found in the bin…. 🙁
I was wondering what happened…..thank you for the salvage op. (😉)
Yes, the beginning of the “Internet” back in ’91 or so was a great place to be… I miss it. Remember when AOL’rs WERE GIVEN ACCESS TO USENET?
Yikes…
I remember when you had to give a charge card number and you were charged for the time. I did it in an office, not at home.
Remember when AOL sent out those promotional dvd discs, for downloading the program to use AOL, or whatever?
A friend of mine collected them, and used the discs, overlapping to make this image of a fish, to hang over his sofa, lol.
Those discs were everywhere, and made great frisbees! lol
My wife was actually a pioneer as a US Navy officer. She was in the command supporting a massive computer system in the bowels of the Pentagon in the 70s known as “world-wide military command and control system”. There were 8 of these systems and someone said, “What if we tied all of these together in a packet-switched network?” She got ordered to NATO HQ in Mons, Belgium in 78, as they decided to create a new job “network security officer”.
Don’t know about any “wild west”? Seems to have been largely controlled by university researchers connected by the NSF backbone overseen by BBN and the like such as SRI. What was key was the model of IETF standards process (compared to competitors like ISO) that led to TCP/IP becoming ubiquitous and allowed for rapid building of things like Berners-Lee’s http on top of it.
It’s not our friend, and it’s not a verb. Spread the word.
Yeah, me, too. And you don’t have to wade through a page of listings repeating things like “site repeats conspiracy theories and lies spread by Donald Trump about stolen election…”
Ditto. Am enjoying these operational reports immensely.
Thanks; had not heard of Yandex and have added to my growing list of search engines other than go ogle or the duck one.
Proton and Yandex also provide alternative e-mail services. One can also message through contacts on NNTP and via private e-mail servers.
I remember, long ago, using a meta-search engine called Dogpile to get comparative results. TBH I don’t search much any more except when looking for articles to reference in posts here, and use Brave or DDG for that, mostly.
email – Indeed, just don’t make the mistake of assuming they are secure against state-actors, they are not.
I miss plain ol’ indexers.. come to think of it, I miss real phonebooks too
Me, too. If you’re looking for, say, a list of medical specialists in a nearby city….nothing like the old “yellow pages” exists….makes it very difficult.
I’ve been using Startpage and Presearch with acceptable results, and did a quick run of different topics on this Yandex one and like it very much.
I dig for things so it’s important to have places to search that aren’t beholden to the swamp minders.
Now’s the “gettin’ time” It’ll all be mostly unavailable soonish.
Nice… line separation resulted in …”go ogle”…. pretty much a truism.
Since Google introduced AI, their searches have certainly been artificial intelligence or more like no intelligence just propaganda. Years ago googled CO2 and Google spit out the higher the concentration the more plant growth there is. That bit of truth has been scrubbed by the new AI Google.
Definitely, it has scaled beyond purple-haired freaks with their control fetishes and death wishes.
Key with google search is to go past the first page of results, then you might get something worth-while.
My eyes glaze over when the search results begin, “Here’s what you should know about x,y,z.” Or “Here’s what you need to know..” Too many search results start off with that annoying preface.
In my experience, this preface really means “The following result is pure propaganda brought to you by AI..”
Haha…reminds me of when I first heard about “Axios” with its “why it’s important.” Duh.
It’s not a verb…Yeah. Spread the word.
“Oddly, if you grew up as a USA Gen-Xer, socially current Russia is probably more like the place of your fond memories and going to a large shopping mall is like stepping back in time 30 years. If, however, you have a gen-Z or ‘zoomer’ in the familial crew, they would think modern social Russia is backwards and too regimented….
Russian patriotism is probably at the highest generational point in a long time…”
It is typical that patriotism increases during a declared war. Look at the USA after 9/11
You mean when the Saudis flew airplanes into the Twin Towers and financed 911 and POTUS Bush attacked Iraq and not Saudi Arabia ?
And when Bush called islam a “religion of peace”?
You mean when the Saudis
hired by the FBIflew airplanes into the Twin Towers and financed 911 and POTUS Bush attacked Iraq and not Saudi Arabia ?911 was a multi-Country, multi-agency operation, as was JFK’s untimely demise.
And turned Iran into the Axis of Evil.
1953 or 1979? or another year?
So, did they, in their love for their grandchild, turn over the title to their home thinking it would be something to a) avoid probate and b) give the young man a nice place to live when they finally go to their maker? If not, then hopefully they have filed a police report and get that young man arrested and charged with theft and crimes against the elderly.
The 80 something year old grandparents needed a loan the video claims and some how were convinced to sign over the deed to the grandchild who sold their home and then disappeared.
Most likely a dope-head grandchild, so so sad either way.
Would make good read for sure because I wondered where the grandparent’s children may be.
Heartbreaks when seeing things like this happen. Hopefully the grandchild’s parents are still alive and the older couple moves in with them! That would be a just turn of the tables.
I really hope he finds Jesus and makes it right for his victims. I’ve seen similar outcomes and talk about a powerful testimony.
We had something like this in Honolulu a couple years ago, perps were a deputy County Prosecutor and her HPD Chief of Police husband. The tried to frame Grandma’s nephew but now they are in prison.
This is actually where a reverse mortgage might have made sense, if the couple needed money.
Notice he said we are ruled by a “minority”, that is 100% correct. That acknowledgement is the reason they want Russia destroyed. Those who rule us hate us.
They hate Russia, because they can’t control Russia. They can’t afford any country to provide a contrast to the intentional destruction of the west.
Which leads one to wonder about the fascination with China and the willingness to overlook all of their evil.
Because the Global Western Cabal has been making money off China.
Who financed Mao Tse Tung,….same ones that financed the Bolshevics, the Royals of Europe, etc.
Posobiec’s series on China lays this out quite plainly.
Centered in Shanghai by some old families.
Now you’ve gone and done it…. lol jk
Interesting starting point, but go deeper for sure:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassoon_family
Thanks Sundance, as soon as govt tells me its dangerous we go. Been to Cuba, Egypt and Mexico, Mexico multiple, in the last 3 years. Russia is on the list at this point, I want to see St Petersburg. I think the covid/lockdown will be an epic read. Be safe and well, godspeed, you are a good envoy for American people.
Buckwheat
I spent 4 months in Russia years ago.
Was in St. Petersburg twice and it is absolutely fantastic.
The architecture is beautiful.
I spent most of the time in Moscow and loved every minute I was there.
The people were friendly and very polite.
I was invited to many people’s homes for meals.
The subways were a bit daunting at first but I found that riders would help you navigate.
I had one gentleman actually get off the subway and walk me to the correct location and then get back on his way.
I believe that you will really enjoy your time there.
IDK if they still do it but during my time in the FSU at the holidays in certain parts of the countries they followed both the Gregorian and Julian calendars so the Christmas/New Year’s period was quite long. I remember celebrating Christmas and New Years at different times in different places.
However, most of my time was away from the big cities. Odesa, where my girlfriend lived, was the largest city I spent much time in. The rest was out in the rural areas and small towns. I usually flew in from Frankfurt or Warsaw on LOT or Aeroflot and took the trains.
With the mess going on in Ukraine, I often wonder if the catacombs my driver took me through outside Odesa are again in use now in wartime. They were a museum back then. Amazing what a person could see wandering just a small section of the huge network, all for about fifty cents. Good times; generous people. I tried to return the favor when some got the chance to visit me in the U.S.
What were the rural areas like? Any recommendations?
Dunno. Russia is a big place. Going to Saint Petersburg sounds like going to NYC or Boston and claiming to understand America.
Coop didn’t claim to understand Russia, why are you dismissing his reminiscing of his own visit?
Christian.
Russia has been, and is again, a very Christian nation.
And Western Globalists hate Christianity most of all.
It’s what stands between humanity and their evil.
They do hate it, Oldersoul. As we are in the thick of a raging Spiritual war, I think it is fair to say that the unstated yet obvious first principle of the antichrists which own these globalist organizations is to eliminate God and all those who believe. They are evil’s willing acolytes who say there is no God…
But then why have they dedicated themselves to obliterating Who they deny is?
Christianity has flourished in Russia. No wonder it is attacked relentlessly.
Archbishop Viganò delivered a powerful message to the Founding Congress of the International Movement of Russophiles on March 14, 2023. I hope friends here will read it.
Do I think that the blessings of Almighty God are resting with Russia at this moment? As this country drifts further away from Him and His teachings and Commandments and bows to the gods of men… and as I have come to believe that He speaks through this man, His good servant, my answer is yes.
I do.
https://www.aldomariavalli.it/2023/03/16/archbishop-vigano-message-to-the-founding-congress-of-the-international-movement-of-russophiles/#google_vignette
I do, and I don’t understand anyone reading his many messages, and concluding otherwise.
Is Satans role simply to play his part in the seperating the wheat from the chaff, I wonder.
No. That’s the Lord’s job.
Lucifer was around and defying God long before we were created.
Vigano is a saintly voice these days.
Honestly, I doubt Religion has anything to do with the Root Cause of the attacks from the Western Globalist Cabal on Russia.
I think Religion appears as a derived issue in that it is a unifying force in Russia, given how it is a common nationalist trait to most Russians -West of the Urals. So, anything that helps the Russian fight the Western Globalist must be destroyed.
Same in the West, btw.. anything that hold a nation-state together must be destroyed by the Globalists.
IMHO, the Root Cause is money and power. I doubt the Western Globalists, and their tools, care about religion. They may give it lip service but that’s a flat lie ( Like Joe Biden being a Roman Catholic! ).
Don’t fool yourself on the religious and spiritual aspects, though you are correct about money and power.
And money and power is directly addressed in scripture with regards to the lust or desire for both.
^^^^^^^^^^
“Root of all evil” and coveting on power. 👀
If that is not spiritual derived from religious scripture, then what is?
tony, I have been following the WEF since 2020 when in the nascent stages of the most horrid, grotesque crime against humanity, they emerged from their subterranean dwelling and pronounced their intent. These subhumans who have spoken often about how they intend to merge humans with technology.
In other words alter mankind so that it is no longer as Almighty God made it. To irrevocably separate man from his Maker. Transhumanism. That is the subtext of their hideous outward attempts at global control.
Just listen to the comments of the worst, Yuval Noah Harari.
As they declare themselves gods now, I’d say they care very much about “religion”….a satanic, unholy one.
Look deeper.
Look deeper, as Betsy says.
Yes, this is, at its heart, Satanic. Not just in spirit. In deed, and in worship.
If you are willing to look at everything from Katy Perry’s Bon Appetit music video to Ba’alanciaga’s “art” to what “art” books Hillary Clinton keeps on her desk to Jean Bertrand Aristide’s Voodoo infant sacrifices, the you will be enlightened.
There are Baphomets everywhere you look, these days. That’s a manifestation, not an accident.
Lara Logan has done the reporting in significant ways.
Open your eyes.
Yes, Alex. These signs are most often missed. But you are right…they are there.
And if I can employ a phrase we know well. Once you see them they cannot be unseen.
Have never, in 7 decades plus, lived through a time when so many recognized that this is a battle between good and evil…with the added idea that it arises as soon as all who remember “the last time” are gone…
The early Christians were persecuted by Rome because they refused to worship Cesar as a god. The modern globalist opposes Christ for the same reasons.
Just something to consider.
Christianity is one of the strong belief systems that keeps them from gaining the money and power they seek.
Have followed the Archbishops writing/speaking for some time — a truth teller like few others.
And still in hiding.
He has been forthright about the evil in this world and those through whom it is being worked….including the Deep Church as he names it, the Deep State, and the triple threats, try UN, WEF, and the WHO.
But even as he speaks of this evil, his face is beatific. His writings and messages are warnings, and I am grateful for every word.
Thank you Betsy! Beautifully said. Thank you too for the link for Archbishop Vigano’s message. I too believe God speaks through him and every one of his messages is filled with the gifts of wisdom and knowledge of the Holy Spirit. From the sufferings of the Church, the COVID farce, the real intentions of the inoculations, the WEF and the constant support for President Trump, Archbishop Vigano’s writings brings the truth in a way few can express and at the same time hope for a worldwide conversion to Our Lord.
I believe his mentioning of the Messages Our Lady gave to the three young children at Fatima in 1917 is so important during these times. Constant prayers for the Conversion of Russia, which Our Lady asked for at that time, may be bearing fruit, especially with regard to increased faith and strong support of traditional families in Russia. Our Lady told Sr. Lucia that, “In the end, My Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, which will be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world.” Mary, the mother of God, works tirelessly to bring souls to her Son, who alone is our Light and Salvation. My hope is that this Spiritual war we are engaged in will result in this period of peace.
Russian Orthodox State Church persecutes Bible believers.
Do NOT mistake State Churches for Christ-alone following churches.
These are patently false statements.
The ROC is not a “state” church and does not persecute Bible believers.
They encourage Bible reading and all things anciently Christian.
👁
Not the first comment from hrh which I find suspect, BK.
Even my cat is wearing his suspicious face.
I think Orthodoxy has always been state-centered, but on this I think of:
“Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us”
So where does Bernie Sanders stand on all of this anti-Russia stuff now? Has Hillary taken back her RESET button that she so blatantly gave the Russian government as SOS?
Bernie was not enamored with the “Russia”, he was in love with the Soviet USSR. Listen closely to the question Tucker asked regarding why folks who loved the USSR…now hate Russia..and the Dugin’s answer.
Here’s Bernie standing up to the Commies on his Soviet Honeymoon:
Democrats stole the nomination from him–TWICE!
Clearly, Bernie is
being blackmailed over his wife’s College Bankruptcya pretty good sport.“I’m not sure why, but a larger than 50% group of the Russian people did not buy-in to the fear and hype. ”
And so the head of NATO announces that Ukraine will become a NATO member, almost guaranteeing World War 3.
The Russians won’t bend to the Western propaganda, so they must be destroyed.
I guess Western leaders would rather rule over the ruins than accept compromise.
Evil never compromises.
It’s my understanding that the Russians are a spiritual people. This may be the main reason they did not fall for the covid scam. I have been questioned and chastised for not taking the shot. When I explain that I have faith in God and in the immune system He has given me, they are shocked (and no doubt think I am stupid). I am so glad I did not get the shot.
I would also posit there is an inherent streak of suspicion of government left over from the many decades of Communist rule; something that touched nearly every family in some way and many in ways which are hard to forget.
I believe I get my lifelong distrust of government and humans in authority from those in my family who escaped Communism. Otherwise, I’m a peaceful, let’s all get along kind of person, for more than six decades. Government though, middle finger.
I loved this interview because it really got me thinking. I am a liberty loving Christian / American. But the idea that America’s roots in individualism, has naturally given rise to the new progressive movements rings true. It reminds me of liberation theology which is NEVER satisfied (there is always more and more to be liberated from).
A collective ideology gives rise to totalitarianism very quickly, but individualism also denigrates too. I think this ideology is likely responsible for the breakdown of the family, widespread drug acceptance, gender confusion etc.
Only reliance on Christ and his kingdom can provide true lasting freedom.
The notion of the “rugged individual” and Individualism of from the Judeo-Christian based moral system and that that is espoused by the “New Liberalism” are not the same.
The old tradition version is grounded in and tempered by a moral belief system.
New Liberalism version has no moral foundation.
I agree with what you are saying. Freedom is largely for moral people. Without morality, individual freedom will not succeed.
Individual liberty is not the evil Mr Dugin is wrongly assuming it to be. The US constitution not only recognizes individual liberty it requires one to reciprocate, respect the rights of others. Mr Dugin needs to reject the collectivist mindset. He has it confused with the deviance of the bolshevik communists who cooked up every perversion known to mankind. Magnus Hirschfeld was a “sexologist”, a communist in Berlin who came up with transgenderism among other things. Google the Frankfurt School as well
WOW. Thank you, Sundance. Going where most will never go. Thank you for another “glimpse” into reality. Putting puzzle pieces together.
I pray for your safety and well being. And Tucker’s too. Blessings. Must think about all this.
Sundance thank you for the “boots on the ground “ reporting
TODAY …. TODAY …. TODAY
LIVE: PRESIDENT TRUMP GIVES REMARKS IN WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN – 5/1/24
President Donald J. Trump will travel to Waukesha, Wisconsin, on May 1st to contrast the peace, prosperity, and security of his first term with Joe Biden’s failed presidency.
Watch LIVE on RSBN on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, starting at 1:30 p.m. ET. President Trump will give remarks at 3 p.m. ET.
_________________________________________
LIVE: PRESIDENT TRUMP HOLDS A RALLY IN FREELAND, MICHIGAN – 5/1/24
President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will deliver remarks at a Rally in Freeland, Michigan on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. ET.
Watch LIVE on RSBN starting at approximately 3:30 p.m. ET.
________________________________________
The President Trump Train is rolling down the track to the huge win in November, 2024.
Calendar of all the remaining, republican primaries up to the convention in July.
Tuesday, May 7: Indiana primary
Tuesday, May 14: Maryland, Nebraska, West Virginia primaries
Tuesday, May 21: Kentucky, Oregon primaries
Tuesday, May 21 California’s 20th Congressional District
Tuesday, June 4: Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota primaries
Tuesday, June 11: Ohio’s 6th Congressional District
Monday, July 15: Republican National Convention begins in Milwaukee
I asked this question just the other day…
Is this the answer?
Its complicated, MP.
Long before the vid jab was a gleam in Fauxis evil eye, I and many others, labeled ‘health food nuts’ and ‘cranks’ had been trying to educate people on the evils of Big Harma, Big Agra, etc.
I blame a lot of it on TV; Just as people trusted FBI agents, thinking they were all Efrem, people “trusted their Dr.”, believing them to be (depending on generation) Dr. Casey, Dr Marcus Welby, etc.
I call it “White Labcoat Syndrome”; anyone with a white labcoat and stethascope tells them anything, and they accept it “as gospel” because they are terrified of the RESPONSIBILITY that comes from questioning, and ultimately taking on the responsibility for making their OWN Medical care decisions.
Dr. Simon says “Touch your nose”,…Dr. Simon says strip, bend over and spread your cheeks,…Dr. Simon says “I am going to knock you out and cut you open” and they comply, almost hypnotically without questioning or doing there own research.
How many question a Dr. giving them a Rx? How many go online to research a med, when a dr Rx’s it?
Far too few…
Who trusts F Be Lie agents as J Edgar Hoover was not a nice man.
Answer: Other F Be Lie agents
If they can fake a pandemic, why not a war?
@mass psychosis
Your premise could not be more true. Debunking the fake pandemic from the start was what should have been focused on, instead of origins, and then we got to a vaccine so quick, the conversation just went straight whether or not the “vax” was safe and effective.
Regardless if the vax was safe and effective or not, it was never needed to deal with a cold virus for which we had multiple safe, effective, cheap, over the counter readily available treatments for, and thats only relevant if you happened to need any treatment at all. (My treatment when I got the virus in July 2020 was literally sipping Coronas with limes on the beach and going to bed early. I had a mild fever for a few days, was lethargic and was 100% over it in a few days.)
But catching the virus and having no problems with it was not what alerted me to the “hoax”, for lack of a better term.
Months prior, after following the situation on the Diamond Princess, I watched the media feign ignorance over where the first “cases” (positive PCR tests) came from after those passengers had just disembarked at the port near where the cases where reported.
Then I learned about Dr. Kary Mullis who invented the PCR test and watched videos of him from years ago. (He died in fall of 2019.)
“The PCR test is wholly insufficent for the purposes of detecting live, active virus in an individual.” -Dr. Mullis
“It cant tell you if you are sick.” – Mullis
He had made these statements in regards to how it was used during HIV/AIDS and had been screaming about its misuse and how Dr. Fauci and Big pharma were misusing it way back then.
At some point I see Nancy Pelosi take a walk thru Chinatown saying everything is fine, go enjoy life, no need to avoid crowds then just days later she holds a press conference and goes on and on about “Testing, testing, testing”. Thats when the MASSIVE testing push started.
Meanwhile, Im seeing the “case” numbers and “death” numbers on TV every single day, knowing people are dividing case numbers by death numbers and doing simple math and thinking “OMG if I get it, theres a 10% chance I will die!” Not knowing that none of those numbers where anywhere near accurate for a plethora of reasons.
It was all just crystal clear to me and I couldnt understand why nobody else could see it. Its been a frustrating few years for me to say the least.
I think by April or May the talk started of needing mail-in ballots because its not safe to vote in person.
And then the “Why” became crystal clear.
Another observation to add and to emphasize a less discussed subject;
‘Pandemic’ is one thing and whether or not there ever was even a ‘covid’ is another. Would anyone even care about ‘covid’ if there was no Pandemic? NO.
Scrutinize Con Inc personalities who continue to throw Wu Flu rabbit holes your way.
Trump knows it was a coup.
I watched the whole Diamond Princess covid nonsense in real time. I have also periodically checked the Wikipedia entry, to which I’m providing a link below, starting in late February ’20. The death statistics started out at 5 or 6 but Wikipedia keeps bumping them up. If a 90 year old Diamond Princess passenger died months later, it was attributed to covid. We all know how that works. The AVERAGE passenger age was 69.
This Diamond Princess story framed my opinion of what I came to believe the covid nonsense was really all about. I believe the 2020 covid was just that year’s typical flu that the MSM was prepared ahead of time to super hype into this century’s Spanish Flu.
When the covid virus was at it’s most virulent was exactly when this Diamond Princess story occurred. We have almost 4 thousand people packed into a giant petri dish and with no precautions being taken, no social distancing or masking, this powerhouse super virus only managed to infect less than 20% of everyone on board?
3,711 people on board and only 712 are infected?
Out of that “712”, only 313 showed symptoms???
None of the crew died but out of a passenger list with 69 being the average age, 6 died???
(I’m going with the number Wikipedia ran with for the first 6 months and not the latest “cooked” number which is 14.)
From what we have learned since, I wouldn’t be too sure ANY people died from covid on the Diamond Princess. I’d like to see a list of co-morbidities for starters.
This Diamond Princess story was being updated daily as fear porn for months in early ’20 and the media would breathlessly have hand picked experts declaring it might surpass the 1918 Spanish Flu. When I started following this scam, even the MSM’s over hyped stats had LESS than 1% of those infected on the Diamond Princess, dying. This is in line with every seasonal flu since the Flintstones and I remember thinking, incredulously, the government was going to close down the country … for the common everyday flu !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_on_Diamond_Princess
If you havent already, can you ask some average Russians what they think about the ‘invasion of Ukraine’ narrative. I wonder if maybe one of them might say its a hoax assuming they are allowed to.
Its kind of embarrassing that the chump pictured below with no army to speak of appears to be single handedly holding back the full might of the Russian Federation.
Russia opens exhibition of ‘captured’ NATO and Ukrainian military equipment.
See how easy that was?
I think the Russian people, during the Communist era, had been hyped and B.S’d to so often and so much that it’s now so much easier to see….Just as many on the left here in the U.S. are starting to come around after four years of Biden’s antics to see the B.S. for what it’s worth….Let’s hope the latter is the case.
Except Biden did not receive 81 million votes and in fact lost badly to POTUS Trump so the narrative “we need their votes” and have to “compromise” in order to garner their votes is another BIG LIE
When I was “On the Lam” from the Law, I worked as a “carney” with the carnivals, state fairs, etc. as a “Barker” running a ‘Joint’.
Traveling thruout the Southwest, some portion of those attending were Native Americans, and they invariably had their OWN game.
They would stand back from our booth, appearing interested in our “game of chance” in order to engage US, in trying to lure them in,..then laugh at us and move on.
I figured it was because after generations of being conned by “white man” they knew a Con when they saw one.
Perhaps the biggest factor in promoting liberty, is 70 years under Tyranny?
Native Americans learned
a lot since the Manifest Destiny.
When European settlers justified
Western expansion as Divine Providence.
Did not end well for our Native
Americans.
They remember.
A blight on our own American
history, many have either forgotten
or choose to acknowledge.
I believe the Russians remember
their history. 💁🤷♀️
“Where’s the evidence?The first known mention of the historic sale comes from a 1626 letter penned by a Dutch merchant named Pieter Schagen, who wrote that a man named Peter Minuit had purchased Manhattan for 60 guilders, the Dutch currency at the time. This information fits within a crucial period of New York’s history….
Historic accounts also suggest that the effects of land sales in New Amsterdam rarely resulted in the direct, short-term removal of Native Americans from the land, who, in many instances, occupied the land alongside the Dutch for a while. But these sales likely did create an ideological shift in colonists’ minds over who was really in control. That served the Dutch for 40 years until 1664, when they were finally edged out of New Amsterdam by the English, who moved in and named it New York. Battles over landownership grew more complex and intensified across the landscape, and over the following decades, many Native Americans were gradually displaced. ”
https://www.livescience.com/was-manhattan-sold-for-24-dollars.html
That period was largely a battle for economic supremacy between England, France, and United Netherlands. They used varying tactics in North America, to which the Natives adapted themselves based on their own economic self-interest. The Iroquois confederation in particular. Unfortunately for them, their self-interest IMO caused them to mis-read what the Europeans were about (and, later, as Americans became an independent force) and too often they were aligned with the “losing” side which as expected the victors tended not to appreciate later.
For example, the fur trade was extremely lucrative so natives aligned with the traders as contrasted with settlers, not appreciating that in the long run settlers had more “skin in the game”.
SWDC…..
In 4th grade American public school
we were taught about Manifest Destiny.
European settlers used the justification
(Propaganda line) that it was Manifest Destiny
and Divine Providence to take the
land and resources from the Native Americans
which prompted Western Expansion.
Our American history is filled with the
horrors and mistreatment of our Native
Americans as the settlers used Divine Providence
as an excuse. The Trail of Tears, broken treaties,
land grabs, massacres, aggression and instigation.
The horror list is endless.
That is why many of our Native Americans
have such a great mistrust of Government,
especially in our Southwest.
If you do just a basic internet search of Manifest
Destiny there is a well known painting —-
American Progress by John Gast that represents
the Manifest Destiny. A copy of it was hung on
the wall in my 4th grade Elementary school classroom.
Interesting.
My perspective on “the progressives changing course” in the West (yellow) with regards to Russia is that they didn’t.
I think that the current outlook and promotion was the ‘plan’ all along and was previously perceived wrongly, ie the previous position was all a smokescreen until their machinations in the West gained full control and then unveiled ‘their’ true intentions. A long range psyop. 👀
With regards to COVID, is it possible that due to their recent history politically that they are more skeptical and immune to propaganda; and view those in control in the West as the same or similar as those who imposed communism on them for almost a century?
😒 🤔 😒 🤔
BK,
You can only get so far, in a long March thru the Institutions, and “then what”?
How do you transition from a subtle, below the surface infiltration and so control of the levers of power, to an overt control?
The narrative of boiling frogs IS valid, but mischaracterised; ever try it?
NO, the frogs will NOT sit there in the pot, enjoying the warm water, until their brains are cooked.
No matter how slowly you raise the temp.,,..long before it gets close to being hot enough to cook them, the frogs will attempt to jump out, and you will need to use a LID, and force to keep them in.
I think this is the explaination for the (I agree with you) MISperception of a coarse change for the “progressives” (eyeroll at THAT term).
Dr Fauci and the DC Mayor tried to coerce poor blacks take the Covid 19 vaccines and boosters in Washington D.C. by personally surprise visiting poor black American at their homes. Dr Fauci famously scrubbed his hands in his limo after touching the poor blacks hand railing after being told to take a hike!
????????
Not following how that applies to my observations on the Russians.
“The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male was a study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on a group of nearly 400 African American men with syphilis.”
You try waay to hard, lol.
👻
Posts are not about me but thanks for trying to make stuff so personal inviting others to do the same same rather than sharing information and debating topics
Take heart! Many here can see you have upset the self deputized hall monitor posse. They have a relatively new tactic of placing an “all seeing eye” at the bottom of their posts so keep your shower curtain closed!
That is two replies that have absolutely no connection to my comment nor the subject of this topical post!!!!
👁
You do not know that black Americans remember the Tuskegee experiments making black Americans more than wary of trusting government scientists like the Russians question government dictates which made the majority forgo getting jabbed for Covid 19?
From teaching in the inner city, I’d say there’s just as much “blame” from not wanting to follow a white authority figure — and then extrapolate that to “any authority figure.”
A: He’s already had two Black Russians.
😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆
Nature vs nurture involved. Does someone, for instance, become a questioner/seeker/skeptic after being raised by one “absent” parent and one controlling one? Or…born that way? Or….both?
Maybe immunity to both. SARS2 and propaganda. ymmv
Propaganda…
“Political issues shaped the TB program… in the 1930s. Social and economic situations worsened, resulting in increased TB rates. This discredited the Bolsheviks’ internal policy, and in 1932 the TB program came under sharp criticism…”
“In 1960… Preventive activities included compulsory bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccination of children…
https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.1164/rccm.201305-0926OE
SARS2…
More ‘striking’ evidence BCG vaccine might protect against Covid-19
Study shows countries with vaccination programs have far fewer cases
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-more-striking-evidence-bcg-vaccine-might-protect-against-covid-19-1.4222110
I feel like the path we’re going down right now is not many want to admit, but know it all too well. And far too many that do think they’ll be able to skip out of it. I suspect this will lead to bad outlooks for many. Actions and reactions all leading to a single conclusion. I don’t think the people in power now are working for the American people, or even what can be considered the “American Oligarchy” can be called as such.
The more I see of Russian propaganda and Chinese propaganda all trying to act like sane, rational actors for a US audience while they try to turn Americans into mindless slaves, robbing us in the open, makes me think it’s all by design, both sides of the world. If we can’t trust Tucker Carlson, then by extension, his firing and recent interviews are merely a sideshow, distracting us from the bigger overall picture. The CBDC will not be split into two, but the perception of it being different will be false. It will all connect to a single outlet, a single person.
Thank you for posting this interview. I have chosen not to watch Carlson unless an interview is pre screened.
Alexsandr Dugin has an interesting perspective; but I am not sure that it is unique / distinct from that of western’s. It is noteworthy that he is able to so cogently express a perspective on the last 35 – 40+ years of US / Soviet relations; and the west’s self-destruction.
For (just one of many) an overview of who is Dugin: https://tec.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/aleksandr-dugins-foundations-geopolitics
I would appreciate learning more about him from others who might know of alternative and “objective” sources of his background and writings.
pre screened? WOW
As in others he trusts finds it of value.
Not such a WOW as faithful Treepers are typically good at sharing their worthy evaluations and as such have long contributed to the general elevation of understanding and insight that characterize the Treehouse.
“There are zero western tourists or travelers in this country. ”
Not quite correct. A fellow with the handle goldballoon just returned from six months there. To ski, to explore, to take photographs, to meet people.
https://goldtadise.com/?p=586651 intro page
His photo gallery is extensive. Decades of travel. He’s spent the last several years focused on Russia, so those galleries are at THE VERY END …. so many interesting ones along the way you might not get there.
So … to SD … reach out to me, if you want to reach him.
one recent gallery as an example
not sure it will show up …. link appears to be suppressed
if so, affix this to main URL link for his site given at page above
/Other/Baikal-Ice-Tour-2
That link quickly show what a kook the man is. Way out in left feild. RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
Folks with the wherewithal to explore, for decades, can often trend to the eccentric. Any of us who’ve been around the planet and have run into them likely have some good stories to tell. I ran into most of my bunch in Africa.
However, I get both the OP’s and Sundance’s point about lack of western travelers and the exceptions, at least by appearance. When I was there I never ran into any except at the feeder airports in Europe. I knew they were around but so few that they seemed invisible. The ex-pat community in-country ran equally silent.
It didn’t help that at the time ‘grey man’ was imperative for an English speaking westerner, or someone who spoke Ukrainian/Russian with a western accent. We blended so were invisible to each other on the street.
I can see that happening, even today.
Read the book about “couch surfing” in Russia. Eye-opener.
The car bomb that killed Dugin’s daughter was actually meant for him. He and his daughter switched cars that evening.
^^^^^^^^^^^
Perzactly
There are two world leaders who are fighting for their nation’s independent sovereignty against the Globalist (British) Fascist Oligarchy: Trump & Putin.
Trump & Putin are blocking the Globalist (British) Fascist Oligarchy from achieving their goal of a One-World Global (British) Empire!
The Tucker Carlson Encounter: Aleksandr Dugin
Aleksandr Dugin is a 62-year-old Russian academic philosopher. He’s spent his life in Moscow. He was an anti-Soviet dissident as a young man, and now he is famous the world over in the English language press anyway, as “Putin’s brain.” But he is not a political figure here in Russia…..
https://tuckercarlson.com/the-tucker-carlson-encounter-aleksandr-dugin/
The WEF Meets in Saudi Arabia: Last Stand for the Global Elites?
…..Far more significant was an entirely different second agenda which was grafted onto the conference, one which focused primarily on Israel’s war in Gaza and secondarily on the war in Ukraine. The two individuals who were assigned the task of presenting the imperial game-plan for these crises were U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and British Foreign Secretary and former Prime Minister David Cameron (or Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton, having been raised to the Peerage by King Charles in 2023). Both individuals were spotlighted at the Conference with prominent interviews by WEF President Børge Brende.
Clothed in the sheepskin of strategies for “peace,” what was actually presented was a plan for escalating confrontation with Russia and China and anyone allied with them. Both toadies began by defining a few “irredeemable” enemies—nations apparently outside the human family—including Russia, Iran, and the Houthis of Yemen, with China, Hamas and several other nations and groups in a “gray zone” of “will they or won’t they” play ball with the “global consensus.” Blinken’s talk was particularly unhinged from reality, while Cameron just acted the part of the aristocratic “British Public-School bully.”
https://www.prometheanaction.com/the-wef-me
Interesting. 🤔
Thanks for that info and perspective.
I think Victor Orban of Hungary should be added to that list of world leaders fighting for their nation’s independent sovereignty against the globalist cabal.
” what was actually presented was a plan for escalating confrontation with Russia and China and anyone allied with them. ”
Talk about a Suicidal idea… confront Russia and China together???? Blinken and etc. have their brains? up their posterior(s).
WEF is a suicide pact for the West on behalf of China.
Suicidal behavior on the part of our “leaders” is part of the plan.
That includes poking Bears and Dragons.
Menacing China empowers them to build up forces near contested areas in the name of defense.
If it didn’t benefit China then the Manchurian Puppet would not have been directed to do it.
It was my understanding that Russia manufactured its own (Sputnik) Covid vaccine made along traditional adenovirus vector–I don’t think any mRNA vaccines were used in Russia? (or China) –interesting to see if they are having any of the same horrible health situations like the West.
Da, they pursued non Mod-RNA vaccines.
I doubt they are having any significant crises at all, which seems reflected in Sundance’s observations that they still regard it as no big deal.
Interesting that the “average Russians” didn’t believe COVID was as dangerous as the health authorities were saying: that’s exactly how I felt. Some common cold viruses are corona viruses; and while old people sometimes die from colds and flu, healthy younger people very seldom do. I was infuriated when “they” told people to not seek treatment until they had breathing problems – pneumonia! – and refused to prescribe early treatments at all. Then incubated them and put them on ventilators to die. Despicable. I avoided the Vax purely by luck: at first, you couldn’t get it unless you were 65 YO; and about the same time they opened that up to younger people, they lifted the mask requirements for the vaxxed. So I tossed my masks in the trash and dropped the idea of getting the jab.
Never wore a mask, either… there were ways around that, in addition to being stubborn.
I think, as well, those of us who grew up with measle/mumps/scarlet fever….when they’d hear “No, this wasn’t like a cold– I was sick for two weeks” — remember so well, all those childhood diseases, and yes, flu, where you’d be ‘sick as a dog” for two weeks — and recover — and just took it in stride. Just sounded like the flu to a lot of us.
Re: cynicism against “institutions” of a totalitarian state
Substack author eugyppius explored the difference between West and East Germany and vaccine uptake, so-called cases and deaths. The line between the two within Germany’s borders today is stark in the when the numbers are on the maps. Difference between the East and West being experience with totalitarian state lies, deception and manipulation by institutions. I think this is a case closed, mic drop validation of the theory.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/sars-2-didnt-care-about-ddr-borders
I read that post. Well worth the time to read it.
That was great. No wonder the guy isn’t allowed to be heard in the West.
30 years back…. 30 years?
Now you really make me feel OLD..
Yes, no Internet, no cell phones (well, we had analog cell phones if you were willing to carry a brick ), 30 foot cords on house phones, old style phone answering machines, Sony XBR, Sony Super Beta, 55 mile speed limit, $200 hairdos on the wife (nice, btw), no rap, Michael Jackson was not a pedophile yet, Ronald Reagan, George Deukmejian, Pete Wilson, LA Times on Sunday was a good read, Men were men, boys were boys and women were… nice and soft and cuddly and, oh so, cute.
Used to go shopping to the Mall.
Those times…
…were much better. And the music….(I’d go back to the British invasion on that one.)
Ok thats it, Im moving to Russia.
Interesting and valid point, that there are no science fiction movies predicting an optimidtic future, with traditional family values.
Also, can’t go an hour without hearing people (talk radio, etc) say “move forward” or anything followed by “forward,” leading one to believe there is a subliminal message about “progress” (in any direction) being positive. (Almost as irritating as “google as a verb.”)
That was one of my principal attractions to Star Trek when I was younger; it was not dystopic, it was full of hope and optimism and an endless future of vast frontiers.
Tucker’s interview with Dugin is much more interesting and illuminating than Tucker’s interview with Putin, IMHO. Dugin pretty much distilled the trajectory and momentum of American Identity Politics into simple, powerful terms of understanding.
“The USA boomer generation would recognize the shallow coldness behind the eyes of Russians ….”
boy, do i ever recognize that look!
sometime in the early ’90’s, house being built on my street had, uncharacteristically, Russian framers,
though the construction superintendent was Polish, and a very friendly guy.
as was my custom with new builds, i waved and said hello as i walked by with my dogs.
(“friendly” helps mitigate damage spillover onto neighboring properties😉).
that’s when i got the stare.
never saw anything like it, cold as antarctica, and menacing enough to make you stop in your tracks.
i asked the superintendent if that was a Russian crew (even though i had recognized the chatter) and how they were working out, just to make conversation.
he said, good, but never, ever, trust a Russian – they’ll slit your throat and use you for stew meat.😳
now i relay this to concur with our host’s generational analysis,
and i don’t fault the Pole, given their history with the Russians.
but i have to tell you, i have not forgotten that look in 30 years.
might take a bit of time to reorient, but willing to try!😁
That reminds me of a look I consistently encountered in Germany, when passing a group of children.
That was a delightful interview, and it is now even more apparent that the powers that be in the U.S. and the west, will not go quietly.
The good news is Sundance and others have shone sunlight on this abomination.
My two cents worth is that millions of folks are “ getting back to basics”
Family and dear friends first etc.
Thank you President Trump, his election accelerated the “ progressives” to such an extent that their a**es have been hung out to dry.
Cheers!
I seriously questioned our American intelligensia after the fall of the wall with the deafening silence from the vacumn of non-analysis of the Soviet Archives. I knew they were not happy. The Russian people were courageous in their efforts to offer the archives for analysis to the West.
Thanks for these first hand observations. And a peek into the realities of normal daily life behind the ‘iron curtain ‘
Well, I suppose that all of these “oh, so smart people” who have tried to rule over us for so long … never listened to “Mama.” Who would have told them (on her knee …) that: “if you do things, there will be consequences.” And that, no matter how long nor hard you try, to cannot avoid those consequences.
“The World,” in round numbers, consists of “more than 5.7 billion people just like you,” who did not grow up where you did and who therefore owe no allegiance whatsoever to your so-called “new world order.” They’re gonna live their lives, and so you have a choice: either you’re “in,” or you’re “out.” 🤷♂️
This Treehouse hosts the best education I have received since high school. (Pre Fed Ed..)
You rock, Sundance.
IKR?!
Can’t thank you enough for your observations and updates.
With the observations of Philosopher Dugin, observing the cultural shifts within Russia do wonder if comparing the timing of how swiftly, and which specific western mores were easily adopted by Hungary, Poland, actually all the other “liberated from the Soviet system” nations compared to the western nation’s shift in how people interact with one another (hardly ever due to their hypnotism by the use of individual cell phones) – my question is
given the well regarded Russian ability to study the individual psyche and how they can be manipulated, would such a study by looking into the other nations previously held within the soviet sphere, will such inform the citizens of Russia how to avoid the same pitfalls?
I would love to read such a study – an anti-nudge approach that might help other nations not fall for the nudging that is being pushed by Mrs. Power’s husband and his ilk. Russian citizens, I think, are in the unique position for such an inquiry.
Stay safe. Prayers that you are continually guided by the Holy Spirit in all your encounters and endeavors.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn On The New Russia
Forbes, May 9, 1994
https://www.forbes.com/2008/08/05/solzhenitsyn-forbes-interview-oped-cx_pm_0804russia.html?sh=34d18f3a5f53
“AS: If one looks far into the future, one can foresee in the 21st century such a time when the U.S. together with Europe will be in dire need of Russia as an ally.
F: That is a puzzling assertion.
AS: It is puzzling only for those who don’t look into the future and do not see what kind of new powers are arising in the world.”
By “US together with Europe” Solzhenitsyn meant a western liberal democratic US together with Europe. To avoid becoming a totalitarian anti-democratic US and Europe like the USSR became. Which at the time of the interview was when the Bush/Clinton regime pushing a “New World Order” was the new power arising in the world.
He saw the same entities and knew what would happen in time.
He talks a lot about Ukraine, too, how Russia views Ukraine, how the west has viewed Ukraine, foretelling what would come unless the west understood the history and present of that part of the world. A worthwhile interview to gain more understanding of news of our day.
What POTUS needs to talk about tonight in MI is the law the MI Senate just passed making it impossible to challege election fraud in MI. Since the MI House is also in the hands of the Dems, it will, I guess, pass and be made into law.
The MI legislature is obviously afraid the usual cheating in the big cities of MI will be challenged and they aren’t going to allow it.
They’ve been at that for a number of years, at least since 2020, couching it in preserving election integrity and similar wordsmithing. With all the articles a quick search brings up, I wonder what more onerous legislation they’re ignoring.
Like most commentators Dugin does not or cannot describe all that is occurring before us as precisely as should be.
All of the perversions we are seeing are rebellious acts of arrogants against God Almighty the Creator, the Giver of Life.
Each act of theirs is meant to drive Him from the world (Ha!), punish those of us who cleave to Him along with our societies, our communities and our families, and to disrupt, foil, thwart, impede, and erase His Plan for human beings from His earth.
Yet as difficult as it may be for most to fathom, the instigators are quite literally the transmigrated souls of the Generation of the Flood, the generation of the Tower of Babel, and the residents of Sodom and Gomorrah. . . with the combined evil of all their sins and rebelliousness. They are here for their final hurrah before exiting for eternity. So states the ancient texts.
And this is why most people cannot get their minds around the events of our day except, thankfully, finally, for their seeing our situation in its essence as a war between Good versus Evil (which it certainly is).
The Democrat-Leftists’ entire agenda is a proof of this demonic, non-human evil. Sexual freedom and licentiousness. Adultery. Abortion. Homosexuality. Trangenderism. Incessant singlehood. No borders of any kind. Theft. Embezzlement. Bribery. Satanism. To whatever the Creator says “No!” they say “Yes!”
This World is not long for its end. Like a woman in labor, there are and will be birthpangs. May God Almighty have mercy on us.
Be strong and of good courage. Something indescribably good is about to happen!
Though I’m confident it’s retreated a bit in the interceding decades, when I was there (FSU) citizens were suspicious of anything ‘government’, from the local police on up, due to the harsh memories of the scourge of Communism that killed tens of millions and damaged scores more.
That kind of skepticism and suspicion dies hard IMO. Perhaps it retreated a bit as conditions improved and the old folks died off.
It appears, from reading the article, that the public social tone has come full circle back to what I experienced there….
Dress in black
Don’t talk loudly
Don’t smile
Don’t make eye contact, especially with the police or anyone with that smell
Don’t speak English
Blend in. Grey man.
The Slavic heart can be a deep ocean of secrets. It can be very cold and at the same time very passionate. It is resilient. Russia and the FSU citizens have faced many challenges over the centuries, some we’ve yet to face. Time will tell if we’re up to it as a culture, or not. I’m hopeful.
Thanks for your update.
After I listened to the interview yesterday
I was thinking…. I would love to read his
books!
“We are told the vaccine compliance rate for the first injection in the USA was around 65 to 70%.”
Really? Last figure I read for US compliance with the first “vaccine” was 82%, a figure I am very skeptical of. Granted, just my guess, but I’d guess more about 70% compliance, though that may just be my own bias. I don’t mean to knock anyone who chose to get it–that’s your right and I defend it, and really shouldn’t be anyone else’s business whether one got it or not. Just that attempts to marginalize by inflated percentages those who chose not to get it is the issue.
Not so fast.. MRNA injections are most certainly *everybody’s* business. FOIA’d Pfizer documents (that they tried to keep hidden for 70 years) confirm that the injection ingredients are *shed* onto innocent bystanders. That means you receive an injection of God-knows-what and I can also receive it just by being in close proximity to you.
Did you know that?
If that isn’t reason enough to make your “vax” my business, how about the fact that the human genome has now been polluted with a toxic brew of compromised DNA strands, pathogens that lead to sterility and immune deficiencies, and who knows what else?
The ingredients have not all been listed as they are deemed to be “proprietary.” In other words, they don’t want us to see all the ingredients, graphene oxide circuit boards being one.
“Your” injection is a threat to the entire human race. While you may not mind sterilizing your children and/or dying suddenly, or perhaps even becoming a transhuman robot, the rest of us may *not* be so inclined.
Are there US restrictions to setting up a bank account in RU?
yes, they are called “sanctions.”
most countries in europe don’t accept US citizen account holders because of the extreme scrutiny by US Treasury etc.
my wife, a UK national, moved back to the UK and Barclays Bank wanted solid assurances that she was no longer living in the US and held no accounts there.
I used to have a caribbean offshore business account before 9/11. afterwards, it became almost impossible for ‘the little guy’ to do offshore activity.
the federal mafia hates competition.
Philosophers have been debating the essence of what it means to be human for centuries. And along come these globalist types that are pushing for a transhuman / post-human future.
What possible direction can that go but straight to a dystopian hell, especially when the intention is to strip the relationship with a transcendent God from everything?
hey sundance
for your next amazing trick, you should visit Brasil sometime this year.
you would find it equally eye-opening, especially outside the big cities of Rio and Sao Paulo – though Rio is a must-see.
I was there in 2022 and it was safer than most major USA cities, but my GF there says that since Lula got back into power, street crime is escalating.
you definitely need to travel with someone who speaks portugese, and you will find yourself to be one of the few North Americans in most venues
also be prepared for some outright hostility from certain citizens – the BS the USA has been pulling doesn’t go over well in some segments (right-leaning) of brasilian society.
the visit to the biggest shopping mall in Rio was like going back to the 1980s – a real joy and eye-opening experience.
food for thought.
“Either you accept progressive liberalism or you are done.” If you rearrange the letters in that statement and shake your head, you will see: “You are a Slave.” The Democrats/Socialists/Communists want a one party country. All we are fed now is propaganda. Everything they say is a lie. You either believe it or you are done.
People who have lived under socialism are generally much more cynical about politics.
Socialism is absolutely corrupt.
These people have a great advantage over us Westeners.
They knew that their media was lying all the time.
Everybody knew that it was all propaganda and lies because the difference between the picture the media was painting and reality was glaringly obvious.
That’s why these people distrust the media.
Having lived under tyranny they were more allergic to the covid tyranny.
BTW, the same difference between east and west can be observed in Germany.
Vaccine compliance was substantially lower in the east.
Setting up your second home / escape room?
Would that he were so wealthy.
He is a serious researcher in a serious time.
We are so blessed here at the Treehouse.