Spinning a Big Lie from small details is an art form mastered by the msm
The spinning of truth into lies is an art form as old as humanity and use of the “far-right” bogey-man has been around in Europe for as long as I can remember.
I just happened to stumble onto the Bing home page with its various headlines about Germans massively protesting about the AfD discussing the “deportation” of “unassimilated immigrants” with the “Neo-Nazi movement.”
The spinning of truth into lies is an art form as old as humanity and this particular aspect, ie, using the “far-right” bogey-man has been used in Europe for as long as I can remember.
It depends on the smoke-and-mirror trick of redefining terms and omitting details (often because there are none).
In the case of the “Neo-Nazi movement,” none of the articles linked to in the many headlines or even in any of the other articles I found in independent searches provides any details on what this “Neo-Nazi” movement is, although some of the articles claim there were “leaders” of this movement that met with the AfD, yet did not name these phantom leaders. Even the French Le Monde got in on the scam, and like the others, could not name these elusive “Neo-Nazi leaders.”
The redefined or undefined terms included this “far right,” “massive demonstrations,””deportation,” and others.
Now, since the start of the Ukraine war, the most far-right and Neo-Nazi groups I can think of are, by far, the Azov Battalion, the Kraken, the Pravy Sektor, and in fact, the entire Kiev regime, which notoriously officially commemorates the birthday of Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian “folk hero” who collaborated with Hitler and killed over 100,000 Jews and Poles during the German invasion of Ukraine.
However, these days no msm journalist would dare to suggest that the Kiev regime is in any way associated with Neo-Nazism even though it demonstrably is. And yet, the Western msm think nothing of accusing Western groups that are not acceptable to the political elites of being far-right or even suggesting they are a reincarnation of Hitler.
So what is the attitude of Western politicians and journos toward the demonstrably and obviously Nazi or fascist Kiev regime?
Well, we are to send these “good Nazis” as much of our hard-earned tax money as we can scrape together, and never mind that Americans can no longer afford health care or that Brits cannot afford to eat three meals a day, or that a significant portion of the weapons we send are stolen by the nice Nazis and end up in the hands of terrorists or that much of the money sent to Ukraine winds up buying yachts or mansions for Zelensky and his cronies, because our collective security depends on destroying Russia and the rest is irrelevant. And never mind that the bones of all of Russia’s invaders from Napoleon’s glorious soldiers to Hitler’s courageous men are lying where they fell on the steppes.
Ours is but to do and die.
How do I know?
The Neocons in Washington told me so.
Now another weasel word describing the reported demonstrations is “massive.”
So let’s examine the context.
Here’s what search engine group Bing.com says:
More than 15,000 people demonstrated against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the city of Essen in the west of the country and in Leipzig and Rostock in the east on Monday evening.
Ok, 15,000 would be a fair-sized crowd for Essen, right? But that’s not what it says if you squint hard and read it again. That’s 15,000 divided among all three of the listed cities. And if you read further down, sure enough, this is divided into 6,700 for Essen, 6,000 for Leipzig and 2,500 for Rostock. And recall that the ruling government of Olaf Scholtz supported the anti-AfD movement, so even with this heavyweight support behind them, these protests were pretty lame, and “massive” hardly describes them.
Now we have seen massive marches in the US, for example, protesting the Palestine genocide. The biggest one, in Washington, DC, reportedly had 300,000 in attendance.
Most would agree that was massive. And as for Germany, Sarah Wagenknecht organized a protest in Berlin against sending arms to Ukraine and according to organizers, 50,000 showed up. Police, who have a vested interest in keeping the number low, reported only 13,000, but even this number is almost twice as high as reported for Essen’s anti-AfD protests hysterically calling the new party Neo-Nazi, the highest crowd number of those 3 cities listed above.
The Wagenknecht protest was roughly the antithesis of the anti-AfD protest, although Wagenknecht is a Linke (Left Party) dropout and not sympathetic to AfD. The bottom line is that Scholtz and his ilk support the shipment of arms and money to the Ukrainian Nazis, while Wagenknecht protests the support for the Ukro-Nazis.
And look who got over twice the crowd size!
And yet, Bing and many other msm influencers chose to put a smiley face on the Ukronazis. And why not? The unseen heavy hand of Washington was upon Herr Scholtz and the few screwballs who support his twisted viewpoint that brings us ever closer to nuclear war.
But remember that the msm are the big spin artists and they have mastered their art.
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Saudi ambassador warns wider escalation could take the region back to the "stone age"
From CNN's Robert North
Saudi Arabia's top diplomat to the US, has repeated her call for a ceasefire in Gaza and warned that wider escalation could take the region back to "the stone age."
Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud said there is "trauma and pain on both sides, can't take that back, but what we can do is ceasefire now. How many more children need to die? How many more limbs need to be lost? How many more parents need to lose their livelihoods? It can't happen anymore."
More here
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Translation from a Middle Eastern site with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
Iran is growing its navy and we need to be mindful of its growing power.
Americans are all supposed to be good little boys and girls and fear and hate Iran to please the rogue state of Israel, which, via its enormous lobby AIPAC, controls our government by either the carrot or the stick – gifting millions to US candidates for federal office who swear allegiance to the genocidal state – as Trump and Biden have done – or, conversely, spreading evil propaganda about candidates that refuse to kowtow.
Always keep in mind that our government is manipulated in this way by a foreign government, which now, by its brutality toward Palestine, is besmirching what little is left of the world’s goodwill and trust toward the US.
Those elected officials who gained public office by bowing and scraping before AIPAC are not YOUR elected officials. Therefore, the hard-to-swallow fact is that there is no government of the people, by the people or for the people in the US.
NONE of these officials will save the US. They don’t work for the US, they work for a foreign government.
Friday 19 January 2024 04:08
These are the most prominent specifications of the combat patrol ship “Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis”
Excerpt:
Accordingly, Iran's naval capabilities are increasing day after day, confirming that it will be one of the major maritime powers in the world, which will allow at least the protection of its ships and commercial fleets, and the challenge of American hegemony and arrogance over global bodies of water.
A few days ago, the Islamic Republic of Iran revealed the combat patrol ship “Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis”, which is the second ship in the class of locally made “Martyr Qasem Soleimani” ships, while the first was included in September 2022. [Soleimani is the wildly popular Iranian folk hero, beloved throughout the ME, who had fought ISIS, while Abu Mahdi Abu al-Muhandis is the former deputy commander of the Popular Mobilization Forces of Iraq, who was murdered alongside the former by order of the addled Trump in an effort to kiss Netanyahu’s butt. Their killing marked an inflection point in ME attitudes and ME-US relations] It is scheduled in the next stage, to join 3 ships also of this category to the naval force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which revealed after the unveiling of this battleship in a ceremony in the port of Bandar Abbas on the northern bank of Gulf waters, attended by the Commander-in-Chief of the Revolutionary Guards, Major General Hossein Salami and the Commander of the Force, Brigadier General Ali Reza Tangsiri, that it has become Capable of manufacturing 3 models within one year.
Accordingly, Iran's naval capabilities are increasing day after day, confirming that it will be one of the major maritime powers in the world, which will allow at least the protection of its ships and commercial fleets, and the challenge of American hegemony and arrogance over global bodies of water.
What are the most prominent and important features of this marine asset?
_It is distinguished by its great ability to hide from radar, due to the sharp angles used in the design of its external structure, and it has the ability to maneuver and hide from radar, which makes its detection by enemy radars a very difficult task.
_ It can sail for 14 days and two thousand nautical miles continuously, with the help of its four engines that raise its speed to 37 nautical knots (equivalent to approximately 70 km/h), to provide a protective umbrella for the ships that accompany it on the high seas.
_ This ship weighs 600 tons, and is distinguished by its double hull design, which gives it more stability in the face of strong waves and increases its speed. Therefore, it is able to withstand waves at the sixth level, as well as withstand the naval battlefield at the fifth level. It consists of three floors and rises 12 meters above sea level.
_ This battleship was equipped with launching platforms for sea-to-sea cruise missiles with a variety of ranges ranging from 35 to 750 kilometers, and carrying 16 short-range missiles and 4 other long-range missiles, to destroy hostile strategic targets. It was also equipped with 20 and 30 mm missile and machine gun systems for air defense and dealing with hostile targets. Three decks were designed on board for different functions, one of which was designated for launching missiles vertically (VLS), that is, it can launch missiles and direct them towards hostile targets without the need to turn the battleship, and one of these decks provides the ability to carry, land and take off drones. VTOL helicopter and launching combat drones day and night.
_ It includes a section dedicated to medical operations, and it is also provided with complete rescue and supply equipment.
_It was manufactured by Danish Banyan Company within 19 months. This company is one of 3 companies based on maritime knowledge that are active in the production complex of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and build ships.
Writer: Editorial room
Link to image of the combat patrol ship Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis
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Here’s your daily air strike update for Jan 19, 2024
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://ekuzbass.ru/news/20240119/585624/?ysclid=lrldbiqwdb223972892
19.01.2024
January 19 - EKUZBASS. Russian missile attack on Ukraine: use of a powerful P-35 missile
The Russian army struck Ukraine using the legendary P-35 anti-ship cruise missile. Developed in the 1960s by Vladimir Chelomey, this missile is still in service with the Russian military. It is designed to destroy ships beyond the radar horizon and has significant striking power.
{None of the articles I have seen on this attack mention the location of it]
The P-35 projectile weighs 4 tons and is equipped with a 560-kilogram high-explosive warhead, and can also be equipped with a nuclear warhead. The missile reaches speeds of up to Mach 1.8 and is capable of hitting targets at a distance of up to 300 kilometers. Thanks to the use of a combined guidance system, including radio command control and radar, the P-35 is capable of changing its flight path depending on the situation.
The missile is launched from mobile Redut complexes, stationary Utes complexes, as well as from ships and submarines. Experts do not rule out that during special military operations the P-35 can be used as a decoy to deceive enemy air defenses.
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Before posting JS’ thoughtful piece, which appears below, I want to remind the reader that meaning is all in definitions, and definitions are not hard and fast. If I were to call the Church as it has been for the last 2000 years “Christian,” I would be an atheist.
But I don’t call it that. I call the religion taught in mainstream churches Satanism. I had exposed "Christian" Zionism as a Satanic cult that has propped up the criminal entity of “Israel” since 1948 and tacitly acted as the propaganda arm of the Pentagon to sanitize the genocide and slaughter of millions of innocents throughout the world, using deceptive language, declaring we must “stop the spread of godless communism.”
But it was the Pentagon that was godless, along with the so-called church.
But the real Jesus – in contradistinction to the caricature of Him that we are taught -- taught religious tolerance, the true message of the Good Samaritan parable – the Samaritans were hated by the Pharisaic Jews in the generation of the year 0 and Jesus used this parable to show that He loved the pariah Samaritans.
The trouble is, as JS explains, the religious community was never Christian.
This causes some, like JS, to reject Jesus, but they were taught a false caricature of Jesus. I don’t like that Christ caricature either.
The Jesus I worship is the One who rejected religion.
I recommend the book The Socialist Phenomenon by Igor Shafarevich of the Soviet Academy of Science, which catalogs the inhumanity of “Christians” toward each other.
Our thanks to JS for this:
As astonishing as it may seem, another phenomenon has contributed to the decay of the West today, namely the destruction of religion. Thus, for decades, the United States and the entire Anglo-Saxon world were built on the foundations of Protestantism while Europe relied on Catholicism. By undermining these foundations, by having undermined Christian morality, we arrive at a zero state of religion.
-- Valérie Béranger
Ms. Valérie Béranger is mostly right about what’s wrong but is dead wrong about what’s right. The destruction of religion has done nothing but liberate the populations of the USA and Europe from centuries of ignorance, superstition, and most notably brutally violent inhumanity.
From the very beginning the reconstruction of the words and example of Jesus into the prison of religion, beginning as early as the 2nd century AD, dogma was concocted and used to justify persecution of Christians of many persuasions as “heretics” despite the gospel of love that so influenced so many converts to His ideas. Bishop Irenaeus (c. 130 – c. 202 AD) of Lyon was a pioneer in this movement to suppress freedom of religion for those who did not share his theological ideas. As early AD 180, was denouncing other Christians as “heretics”.
Once the so-called “orthodox” Christians of Irenaeus’ persuasion became -- as a result the Edict of Milan (313 AD) and their sweetheart deal with Emperor Constantine (who in 326 AD murdered his wife and son) -- the official religion of the Empire , the behavior of these suddenly triumphant Christians towards heretics, pagans and Jews in Rome turned from contempt to brutal violence as observed this later Roman Emperor:
“No wild beasts are as vicious to men as most Christians are to each other.”
-- Roman Emperor Flavius Claudius Iulianus (aka Julian the Apostate) (331–June 26, 363)
SOURCE:
GADDIS, MICHAEL. There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ: Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire. 1st ed. University of California Press, 2005.
And he wasn’t just making things up:
[B]y the end of the fourth century, which had begun with the so-called “Great Persecution” of Diocletian, Christian mobs were attacking synagogues with impunity. As the empire became increasingly Christianized in the fifth century, all non-Christians began to see their freedoms impinged as, to quote Hans Küng’s biting critique, “the Church no longer remembered that it had once been persecuted.”
-- Paul Middleton, Violence in Early Christianity, 18 June 2020
From that time onwards, it was all but impossible for any poor soul who lived within the reach of Rome to continue observing his/her ancient religious practices.
By the end of the fourth century, roaming mobs and vigilante monks with support at the highest levels of government had destroyed pagan shrines and temples, imprisoned the practitioners of astrology and divination, and persecuted their pagan enemies to the point of death.
Rulers and Christian leaders also enforced their version of the faith against the enemy within – heretical Arians and Donatists. Augustine argued that conversion can never be coerced -- only divine grace can affect it -- yet against heretics he held out the possibility of using force as a means of staunching wounds in the Christian body or preventing people from doing ill.
Finally Christians threatened and attacked Jews.
In the 4th century and beyond, avers A.H. Armstrong, it is difficult to think of any “Christian body that has ever abandoned the power to persecute and repress while it actually had it.”
-- Kling, David W., Conversion by Coercion: Jews and Pagans (400–1500)', A History of Christian Conversion, Chapter 7
ABSTRACT:
As Christian European society expanded geographically and as the Latin Church insisted on its universal rule, the perceived contamination of Christians by “religious aliens” accelerated intolerance by church and state authorities, mobs, and vigilante groups. This chapter examines the forced conversions of Jews and pagans. In four incidents of Jewish conversion, the threat of violence or of some kind of negative consequence (e.g., economic pressure) constituted if not forced conversions then certainly pressure to convert. Jews, however, were only one group, and a relatively small one, targeted for forcible Christian conversion. Throughout the medieval period, thousands of pagans were brought into the Christian fold by forcible means—from Charlemagne’s eighth-century campaign against the Saxons to the Sword Brothers’ thirteenth-century campaigns against the Lithuanians and Estonians.
Here is one American fellow who understood well the horrors of religion:
“Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.”
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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“ If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant. I make my choice now. I despise that doctrine. It has covered the cheeks of this world with tears. It has polluted the hearts of children and poisoned the imaginations of men. It has been a constant pain, a perpetual terror to every good man and woman and child. It has filled the good with horror and with fear; but it has had no effect upon the infamous and base. It has wrung the hearts of the tender; it has furrowed the cheeks of the good. This doctrine never should be preached again.
“The history of man is simply the history of slavery, of injustice and brutality, together with the means by which he has, through the dead and desolate years, slowly and painfully advanced. He has been the sport and prey of priest and king, the food of superstition and cruel might. Crowned force has governed ignorance through fear.
“Hypocrisy and tyranny—two vultures—have fed upon the liberties of man. From all these there has been, and is, but one means of escape—intellectual development. Upon the back of industry has been the whip. Upon the brain have been the fetters of superstition.
“Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished. Reading, writing, thinking and investigating have all been crimes. Every science has been an outcast.
“All the altars and all the thrones united to arrest the forward march of the human race. The king said that mankind must not work for themselves. The priest said that mankind must not think for themselves. One forged chains for the hands, the other for the soul. Under this infamous regime the eagle of the human intellect was for ages a slimy serpent of hypocrisy.
“The human race was imprisoned. Through some of the prison bars came a few struggling rays of light. Against these bars Science pressed its pale and thoughtful face, wooed by the holy dawn of human advancement. Bar after bar was broken away. A few grand men escaped and devoted their lives to the liberation of their fellows.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty Of Man, Woman And Child
There is nothing to be gained by returning to what one Ms. Valérie Béranger calls the foundations of Protestantism and Catholicism unless one supports the re-enslavement of the human race.
On Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 05:17:50 PM EST, DON HANK <zoilandon@msn.com> wrote: