Hunter's Laptop Limited Hangout

What then, is the point of the NY Times conceding on March 16th that the laptop left by Hunter Biden in a computer repair shop actually exists and has damning information on it?

This is the most limited of limited hangouts. A google search of "Hunter's laptop" gets you computer sales and then a smattering of articles reporting on the NY Times report. A search on NPR only gets you a "debunking" story from 2020. CNN is all about those Evil Russians and also The Oscar Slap. A search for "Hunter's laptop" gets you "Did not match any documents".

So unlike the usual Mighty Wurlitzer propaganda push, (like 2020's "Putin put bounty on US soldiers"), the rest of the usual suspect media has not amplified the NY Times' story. Interesting.

If the story was put out in order to get rid of Joe Biden and put in Kamala Harris, it would be all over the media, 24/7, like the Oscar slap and the Scary New Variant. But it's not, so there must be another reason.

The war fever among the usual suspect media is overwhelming, 24/7 and over-the-top. Google "Is Putin Crazy?". I got 1,750,000.000 hits. (Full disclosure: I didn't check them out). And that is just one small tidbit of disinfo they are pushing.

Clearly there is a strong constituency in the US ruling class that is pushing for war with Russia. Odd as it seems, apparently it is Joe Biden who is reluctant to escalate the war, perferring to issue threats and insults, stop natural gas to Europe and provide more weapons to Ukraine, so that they may kill each other off, taking Russians with them.

So is the NY Times acknowledgement that Hunter Biden is a degenerate crook who siphoned money to the rest of his family, including his father, a way of putting pressure on the president? A warning shot across the bow?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Kafka Nailed It

Lavrov on the US-invented ”rules-based order”, which they tell us the ”international community” supports.

“What is happening now in the world is not so much about Ukraine, but about attempts to form a new order. About ten years ago, our Western colleagues, instead of the term “international law” (which was called for all the years of the UN’s existence), began to demand that everyone respect the ‘rules-based world order’ and observe them. No one presents these ‘rules’ to anyone, because they do not exist. For each specific case, they are created anew. They are written in a narrow circle of Western countries, then pass it off as the ultimate truth. We are witnessing the apotheosis of the Ukrainian crisis. There is no doubt that one of the ‘rules’ that the West wants to implement is to deter any competitor. Now it is Russia, but China is declared next (or all this will happen in parallel). The goal of this ‘rules-based world order’ is the complete revival of the unipolar world.”

This reminds me of social media ”community standards” which are arbitrary, unannounced and unable to be challenged. People are censored, people are banned, people are silenced and no appeal can be made to the nameless, faceless Algorithms who enforce it. It is official cancel culture used to stomp out free speech and dissenting views. Only the Official Narrative must be parroted.

It is pure lawlessness of the most Kafkaesque sort.

The "International Community"...

CRT Judo

Since the Trump presidency the US ruling class has tried a tactic of giving one story to the US public, a story of a country steeped in racism, "structural white supremacy" and founded in genocide, while still trying to tell the rest of the world that the US is a shining city on a hill whose "values" are supreme and must be adopted by all other peoples of the world.

Do they really think that the rest of the world doesn't notice the internal US propaganda and the hypocrisy involved? They do.

The Chinese, especially, are masters of turning internal US propaganda against the demands the US makes upon them.

"How dare you negotiators speak of human rights abuses, coming from a systemically racist, genetically evil country as you do!"

They have turned the rhetoric against the perpetrators and are beating them at their own propaganda game. Is that cultural appropriation or intellectual property theft? That is not allowed in the rules-based game that the US invented!

And there are those in the US who have also noticed the Double Think and are laughing at the hypocrisy.

Whattabout Those War Crimes

In the USA any questioning of the Official Story, no matter how absurd, convuluted or contradictory it may, is simply not allowed. The phrase used to shut down those pointing out logical discrepancies or physical impossibilities is "Shut up, you conspiracy theorist".

Since Trump's election and the invention of "Russiagate" a new phrase has come into use and has eagerly been adopted by those unable to argue with logic or reason "whatabouttism". This used when an accusation is made of some offense and incredulous listeners who know history point out that even if the accusation is true, it pales to similar offenses by the US. "Shut up, that is whatabouttism. We are only discussing our accusation and no relevant history or pointing out of hypocrisy will be allowed."

On March 24,1999, the US and NATO started bombing Yugoslavia. The attacks lasted for 78 days and the civilian economy was the target: hospitals, including a children's hospital, airports, government buildings, manufacturing, infrastructure, not to mention 17th century churches and the country’s historical and cultural heritage. The US/NATO destroyed historical sites that even Nazi Germany had not destroyed in WW2. Depleted uraninum was used, leading to increased birth defects and cancer rates in Serbia to this day.

In October 2001 the US/NATO invaded Afghanistan, leading to a 20 year occupation notable for war crimes and atrocities.

On March 19, 2003, the US began an attack on, and invasion of, Iraq. A 2006 War Crimes report lays out some of the atrocities. From the introduction: "In addition to the fact that this was an illegal war to begin with, the war has been conducted in myriad ways that violate international humanitarian law, including the use of uranium munitions, chemical weapons (white phosphorus), cluster bombs, torture, the indiscriminate killing of civilians and laying waste to cities and the land." On March 19, 2011, the US and NATO attacked Libya, setting up what they called a "no-fly zone" which actually meant that US and NATO planes bombed Libya unmercifully killing and destroying infrastructure. The out-gunned Libyan military fought back for 10 months, until they were defeated, and the country that had had the highest standard of living in Africa was turned into the terrorist-infested hellhole it is now. In 2013 the US was stopped from bombing Syria by President Putin, who offered a compromise to the US that made their excuse (chemical weapons attack they accused Assad of commmitting) impossible to use.

So in 2014 a new terrorist group rolled into town, complete with a video recording team and a PR group to die for. ISIS gave the US the excuse they wanted to bomb and invade Syria. The US still occupies 30% of Syria, the part with the oil and the wheatfields. They burn the wheatfields and steal the oil. They even had the audacity to build a refinery there, on Syrian soil, in order to refine the oil they steal.

On March 23, 2022 the US State Department, under Tony Blinken, announced that they are planning to accuse Russia of war crimes in Ukraine.

I call that the most incredible example of hypocritical pyschopathic chutzpah I have seen yet. Supporters of Biden/Blinken would say that is "whataboutism" to mention that.

Americans Cheer On War

Americans and Europeans seem to be competing for the most insane expressions of Hate possible. They are at the gold medal level, performing double twists of the mind and back handsprings of logic with side leaps of irrationality freely expressed.

Watching the Congress critters compete with the talking heads on TV for the privilege of reaching new heights of war fever reminds me of Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" when he goes to the draft board to be evaluated.....

" And I waked in and sat down and they gave me a piece of paper, said, "Kid, see the psychiatrist, room 604. And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, kill, kill, kill." And I started jumpin' up and down yelling, "Kill! Kill!" and he started jumpin' up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down yelling, "Kill! Kill!" And the Sargent came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."

And as the population reaches new heights of fervor and 30% of Americans polled say they support a nuclear war to "support Ukraine", Biden and Austin are asked about sending US troops over to Ukraine to set up a no-fly zone, and they firmly make it clear that the official policy of the United States of America is to fight Russia to the Last Ukrainian, not getting involved in any other way than further enriching the war profiteers in the US by sending more weapons, as well as thoughts and prayers.

I wonder what actual Ukrainians think about that.

Obey Your Rulers and Stop Thinking and Speaking

The ruling class is ramping up their attacks on free speech and freedom of the press. The ability of humans to communicate with each other across the country and across the world via the internet and social media is making it harder for them to control the narrative. They don't like that.

So they censor and they ban and they tell us that making connections and noticing discrepancies are a Very Bad Thing To Do.

Ignore the fact that noticing patterns and "connecting the dots" is an inherent feature of intelligence, and act like it's something only engaged in by depraved and "treasonous" minds. Connecting the dots is being a "conspiracy theorist" and noticing discrepancies is "whataboutism".

If an Official Enemy's motives don't make sense, it's only because you can't understand that they are pure evil, so can't be expected to act out of self interest. Cui bono cannot be used to understand the stories about Official Enemies.

Forget that looking for motives and who actually benefitted from a crime are features of any basic crime investigation; forget that means and opportunity are also important crime solvers, forget that people are prosecuted for criminal conspiracies ever day, and pretend that people in power would never do it, just low-level drug-dealers and thieves.

If there was anything to it, your TV would've mentioned it.

Ties Between Ukraine and Russia

A Russian woman’s statement has been shared on social media…

A message from Natascha Janssen in the Netherlands:

“As many of you may know, my mother was born in the former Soviet Union, in Ukraine, where my extensive family is a mix of Russians and Ukrainians. Because of this, I feel called to share my vision on the developments in Ukraine.

With my Russian/Ukrainian roots, I love both nations very much, centuries-old brotherly nations merging with each other. When you asked my Ukrainian-born mother if she felt more Russian than Ukrainian, she replied, ‘That’s a weird question I have no answer to. There is a difference in our language, our music and dance but our hearts are one.’

This is how I was raised and spent 40 years — the most beautiful holidays of my life — in love and togetherness, experienced in Russia and Ukraine, in the former Soviet Union.

It’s good that everyone in the Netherlands is now speaking out against waging a war. No one supports war.

But why was everyone silent when that war started 8 years ago?

Why didn’t everyone swear at the slaughter of thousands of citizens in Eastern Ukraine?

Why didn’t everyone swear at Ukraine for not following the Minsk agreements?

Where was everyone who looked away when 52 people were burnt alive in Odessa?

Where was everyone who thought it was fine that a 2014 elected government was overthrown and a major European country was taken over by bunch of neo-nazis?

Where was everyone when the Ukrainian regime took away from Russian Ukrainians their basic human rights? Speaking Russian was banned, the right to pensions disappeared for Russians, and children who spoke Russian and had Russian names were no longer welcome at school.

Where was everyone when torch rallies were organized by neo nazis spouting slogans like “Russians on the gas”?

And finally, where was everyone who was silent when large parts of this beautiful country, once Europe’s grain barn, were sold to banks and investors for an apple and an egg, e.g. exploitation for genetic manipulations of Monsanto and Europe’s latest mega bio industry?

My niece in Ukraine saw such a factory farm built in front of her house. The incessant screaming of those animals packed so close together, and then those big deafening silences…

Take note: In Ukraine there was only one small-scale breed of beef before the country came into the possession of western block.

Ukraine has been transformed into a vassal of the West for 8 years. A colony. And all this at the expense of man, animal, nature and environment.

So why only now is the compassion of the people channeled into rage against the war? The Ukrainian population has been living in war for 8 years. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have already fled to Russia, including my relatives, like my niece and her family.

Of course I know that most people have no idea about this side of the story because our news service gives a very one-sided picture of the situation. I’m now providing that information from the other side. Do what you will, but silence is no longer an option for me.

I can only hope that peace will come soon for ALL Ukrainians, Russian and Ukrainian speakers.”

The Power Of Propaganda

A Russian friend of mine wrote about an incident that happened a few years ago which shows the power of the propaganda to reach everyone in America.

"I got to NYC with my son, and we are wandering the streets of lower Manhattan. So we see a beggar sitting at the corner, and I decided to give him a buck. He sees a Russian winter hat with some military insignia that my son used to wear, and tells us: I know that type of a hat, it is Russian, isn't it. --Yes, I say, it is Russian. --Are you Russians, he asks. --Yes, I say. --It must be very bad there, I hear, it is very tough.

That was all long before the current Russophobic hysteria, and all more telling for this.

So there is this beggar has to sit at the corner begging for a dollar, obviously down on his luck, and yet he is convinced he is doing much better than poor Russians, who happened to give him this dollar. Irony was obviously not his strongest suit.

If this is not a skillful propaganda, then I don't know what is. The country that has its beggars indoctrinated to such a degree that they believe that they are truly exceptional, is doing something right. It is not difficult to fool the NYT crowd. These guys, in pursuit of their success, usually miss any human experiences, and are trained to obey the external stimuli. But the corner street beggar, a person who experiences the other side of American dream every day, still feels superiority over other countries?

It might be just an anecdote, but it does tell you something about the power of propaganda, and the mindset of its victims.

For all Dante's genius, there was one group of sinners that he didn't consider. He should have put some clowns in some darkest, ugliest pit of hell, who would claim, that "we are doing so well, it is so nice and pleasant here. Souls in other circles are suffering, but we are enjoying the balmy weather."

Distorted Perception

My community radio station had a Mardi Gras party on Friday which included a second line parade, which is people dancing in a line around the perimeter of the venue.

The next day one of the DJs, who apparently had never seen a Dixieland parade, said on the radio that he saw people getting into a line and holding onto each other and dancing. In other words, he described a conga line. He didn't see a conga line, he saw a parade. But he apparently had no previous knowledge slot to fit that into, so he formed a memory which was inaccurate and reported it as fact.

Americans are used to Shock and Awe as their preferred way of waging war on other people. Americans like to spare the lives of their soldiers, so they wage war by flattening cities and killing everyone in them, ensuring that no one is capable of fighting back. Americans also target water treatment plants, electricity generator stations, bridges, food siloes, schools and hospitals, etc. as a way to force compliance of the surviving population.

So the "news" reports we are getting from Ukraine is that Russia is flattening cities, targeting infrastructure, bombing apartments and hospitals, etc.

There was a traffic cam in downtown Kiev that was on a website showing traffic cams around the world. Many people were going to the website and watching downtown Kiev not being bombed, with electricity and internet access still working. That Kiev camera has now been removed. We can't have people seeing something different from what is being described to them by the professional propagandists. The Official Narrative is that Russia is using Shock and Awe on Ukraine. Since most Americans are already programmed to think that that is how war is done, it is an easy sell, but to make sure, all dissenting narratives as well as inconvenient facts and evidence, are removed. From banning RT and RU to removing videos from YouTube that do not follow the official line to shutting down traffic cams, the information war is repressive to dissent as well as overwhelming in presentation of the perferred narrative.

That is how they roll. Usually it takes years or decades for the truth to come out, but with the internet and social media, the lies can be quickly exposed. From the "Russian tank running over the car" which turned out to be a Ukrainian tank, to the "Russia bombed an apartment building in Kiev" which turned out to be damage from a Ukrainian air defense missile to the pregnant woman shown walking down stairs, and also being carried out on a stretcher and also standing with a blanket in front of the "maternity hospital" that turned out to have been emptied the week before (which the Russian ambassador to the UN had told the UN 4 days before), the standard heartstring-tugging propaganda ploys were quickly revealed to be false. Sure, most people are only exposed to the Official Narrative, which is saturating all legacy media and most of social, but our ruling overlords still find it necessary to restrict information to those few who might be open to actual facts.

And then they tell us we live in a free and open democracy. That is the biggest lie of all.

James Spione Does Dr. Seuss

DOWN THE SLIPPERY SLOPE! By Dr. Moose

Congratulations ! Today is your day!

You get to decide What others can say!

It’s true, you maintain, Free speech is a thing, But if you just shut down bad guys What harm could it bring?

It makes the world safer To stop dangerous chatter, So some feathers get ruffled What does that matter?

But some of us said, No, no, don’t you see? If you stop some from talking Then no one is free.

If you start down that slope You’ll go faster and faster, You’ll twist up your values And end in disaster!

But you don’t want to listen, No you will not relent, So at the top of the slope You begin your descent.

Now the slope I admit Sure seems fun at the top, The power you feel Making trigger words stop.

You’re fighting the Russians! Their memes and their lies! You’re protecting elections From bad foreign spies!

This is neat! Kind of cool! A real rush! you exclaim, To beat Donald Trump At his Twittering game.

He’s a racist! A N*zi! He really must go! We can’t have Orange Hitler Tweeting evil, you know.

Faster you speed Down the hill nice and steady, When a pandemic happens, You’re primed, now! You’re ready!

Your sources approved! Those others are fools! Our safety’s at stake When they question the rules.

You don’t need to listen to naysaying clowns, Follow science and doctors, And shut the rest down!

Well, doctors, we remind you, Do not all agree, And science is not a Religion, you see?

There’s much disagreement, The studies aren’t clear, And crushing dissent Isn’t science, it’s fear.

But you’re going too fast now, You can’t hear us at all, With the wind in your ears And your slope in free fall.

Silence the jerks, you rage! Stop Rogan! Stop Kory! Shut McCullough up, now! He’s ruining The Story!

When you’re going so fast It’s quite an endeavor, But those terrible words Seem more dangerous than ever!

Like a rocket you speed Down the slippery slide, When a war breaks out, quick! You must now choose a side!

That’s easy, you’re sure of Just what you will do. If Russians are Team One, Then you’ll root for Team Two!

Yes, for all of these years From the top of the slope, You’ve stopped the bad words! You’ve sided with Hope!

So what if the side You’re supporting of late Is a scary battalion Spewing sick Naz1 hate?

You don’t think it strange, (‘Cause you know all the facts), You’re stopping those Russkies Right there in their tracks.

And you have a thought then You never thought you could, That all Naz1s are bad— Except when they’re good!

You must try to stop those Old photos from sharing! The ones with the soldiers And the flag they are bearing!

If there aren’t any photos At the end of the day, Did it actually happen? Was it real? Who can say?

Principles don’t matter It really does seem, When the important thing is Being on the right team!

The team that’s in power, The team holding sway, The team that always tells you What to do, think or say.

Yet as you careen towards The end of this slope, Oh dear! You may feel Quite a bit like a dope.

You thought there was water Waiting there at the base, But when you see it’s just rocks?

Oh! The look on your face! But you’re going too fast now It’s sad but it’s true, You never thought this ride Could ever hurt you.

And as you make one last Spin through the air Will you remember, we warned you What would soon happen there?

I’m sorry to say that I told you so friend, Destroying your values is how this would all end.

Population Mind Control

The same people who supported the impeachment of Trump in 2019 for supposedly holding up US weapons to kill the people of eastern Ukraine are today wailing about Russians supposedly killing Ukrainians with Russian weapons. (Although they also support handing out weapons to the civilians of Kiev who are using them to settle old scores. That, you see, is "inspiring"..... because they are told it is inspiring.)

These people will also tell you that the reason for the sudden concern (after 8 years) for the lives of Ukrainians by Americans is that Americans are "racist". (Although these same Americans supported the attacks on the bodies, property, bank accounts, children and dogs of the Canadian truckers because the truckers were also "racist".)

When the US was trying to get military bases in Africa, though, Americans were quite concerned about the lives of Tutsis, then Darfur, then the past victims of Kony, then the girls of Nigeria, then the victims of Ebola. Quite concerned, until the bases were obtained, or Sudan was split into two countries, then the concern dropped.

Americans are also very, very concerned about Uigurs in China.

Oh, and Venezuelans who don't have the same impeccable free and fair elections that Americans do. Poor Venezuelans! We must starve them until they get better elections.

It's almost as if Americans think what they are told to think and worry about who they are told to worry about and bomb who they are told to bomb, and nothing else is relevant but that.

Victims of US bombs sent to Ukraine, but it was 2014 so nobody cared.....