Were the birthers right? “Forensics investigation proves Barack Obama’s birth certificate is ‘fake’ (VIDEO)”http://theduran.com/forensics-investigation-proves-barack-obamas-birth-certificate-fake/

Posted by: harrylaw | Dec 17 2016 12:07 utc | 3

“Information war” is getting fun.

Spurred by the mounting concern over Russian meddling in the US presidential election, western spooks are rushing to try and get a fuller picture of the Kremlin’s strategy for manipulating information to influence opinion.

The CIA lost control of the Syrian and Ukrainian “civil war” narrative?
Oil and gas executives lost patience with politicians and decided to run the show themselves?
Putin: US and Japanese oil companies keenly interested in Russian energy sector ?
Ah, these deals aren’t for us little people.

“Then there is another area of activity – economic interaction between Russia and the United States. Right now, for example, it has already been made public that we signed a large deal to privatize one of our biggest oil and gas companies, Rosneft, which sold 19.5 percent of its shares to a consortium of Qatar’s sovereign fund and Glencore, one of the world’s largest traders,” Putin told the Nippon TV channel and and the Yomiuri newspaper in an interview posted on the Kremlin website.

Glencore is the one that is buying oil from Kurdistan without consulting the Iraqi government.

Posted by: somebody | Dec 17 2016 12:21 utc | 5

Two great reads from Nassim Nicolas Taleb, author of The Black Swan.
The first is a short two minute read, and cant convert the (I’d guess at upwards of) 95% of MofA commenters who already see through the MSM shitstorms… yet it still has a fantastic ‘share value.’
The Syrian War Condensed: A more Rigorous Way to Look at the Conflict
In the end I never imagined seeing the “left” siding with the AlQaeda of Sept 11, mourning the fighters of Aleppo and, aside from such independent journalists as Robert Fisk, spreading all manner of concoctions.
Inside that is a link to a entertaining, Frakonomics-style 25min read for anyone looking to kill a few minutes here and there.
The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority
How Europe will eat Halal — Why you don’t have to smoke in the smoking section — Your food choices on the fall of the Saudi king –How to prevent a friend from working too hard –Omar Sharif ‘s conversion — How to make a market collapse

Posted by: MadMax2 | Dec 17 2016 12:28 utc | 7

@somebody | 5
That Rosneft story is a bit weird. Glendora and Qatar sovereign fund? See also this take by John Helmer (or mirror at NakedCapitalism).
Meanwhile presidentV. Putin came to Japan on an official visit (first to a G7 country since the Maidan affaire), some economic deals where signed (won’t amount to much in reality – mostly joint development of Kurils + some oil and gas deals). But PM Abe Shinzo did not make any progress on his cherished project of recovering the Northern Territories, or Southern Kuriles. At least they’ll keep talking.

Posted by: Philippe | Dec 17 2016 12:39 utc | 9

somebody @8 Not sure if it is racist since there are five other presidential “birther” controversies from American history including John McCain, George Romney and Barry Goldwater.What is important is whether the truth was told, regardless of a persons colour or ethnic origins. http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2016/01/five-other-presidential-birther-controversies-from-american-history/

Posted by: harrylaw | Dec 17 2016 13:27 utc | 11

DAMASCUS – According to two reports coming out of Aleppo today, at least 14 US Coalition military officers were captured this morning in an East Aleppo bunker by Syrian Special Forces.
This story was quietly leaked by Voltaire.net, who announced, “The Security Council is sitting in private on Friday, December 16, 2016, at 17:00 GMT, while NATO officers were arrested this morning by the Syrian Special Forces in a bunker in East Aleppo.”
Fares Shehabi MP, a prominent Syrian Parliamentarian and head of Aleppo’s Chamber of Commerce published the names of the Coalition officers on his Facebook page on the 15th December: http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/12/16/reports-at-least-10-nato-military-officers-captured-by-syrian-special-forces-this-morning-in-east-aleppo-bunker/

Posted by: harrylaw | Dec 17 2016 14:07 utc | 13

lysias@14 I thought that also, but the KGB was replaced by the Federal Security Service. “Putin began his career in the KGB as an intelligence officer. Stationed mainly in East Germany, he held that position until 1990, retiring with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
in 1998, Putin was appointed deputy head of management under Boris Yeltsin’s presidential administration. In that position, he was in charge of the Kremlin’s relations with the regional governments.
Shortly afterward, Putin was appointed head of the Federal Security Service, an arm of the former KGB, as well as head of Yeltsin’s Security Council”.
http://www.biography.com/people/vladimir-putin-9448807#synopsis

Posted by: harrylaw | Dec 17 2016 14:33 utc | 15

@16 It’s pretty clear …14 coalition officers were captured…..NATO officers were arrested (2 of them). Of course the story may not be true…..we have to wait to read it on the BBC.

Posted by: dh | Dec 17 2016 14:55 utc | 17

@18 Sure they could all be special forces, mercenaries, dual nationality manpad technicians. Hopefully there will be a news conference. I don’t see much point in nit-picking until then.

Posted by: dh | Dec 17 2016 15:12 utc | 19

@Peter AU
Penelope posted “SAA has captured 10 NATO officers in their E Aleppo headqtrs. I love it.” ” and Ziad Fadel “….11 Americans and 2 retired British SAS operatives who could not escape East Aleppo. The publicity from such a capture of foreign agents would be priceless and prove that Obama and the limeys were 100% complicit in the murder of Syrian citizens.”
http://syrianperspective.com/2016/12/obaba-kills-child-with-bomb-in-damascus-in-terrorist-act-by-his-rodents-syrian-youth-speak-out-against-terrorism-aleppo-evacuation-on-hold-after-terrorists-violate-agreement-caught-trying-to-smug.html
Still unconfirmed if true. Russia should parade the spies or terrorists in the streets of Damascus to show UN – Obomo and Samantha Power, Kerry are damn liars and should expose publicly complicity to millions of refugees and death of innocents civilian in Syria and elsewhere. Let us wait and see video or pics…….

Posted by: Jack Smith | Dec 17 2016 15:26 utc | 21

Courageous academic speaking against propaganda
https://m.heute.de/detail/46114990

Posted by: Mina | Dec 17 2016 15:30 utc | 23

@ harrylaw 22.
A lot of the GOP don’t think much about the goals of Team Bush and their accomplishments based on their own statements. I’m reading The Dirty War On Syria now and early on it talked of Condoleeza Rice’s discussion of spreading creative chaos throughout the region back in 2005.
Egypt independently and Syria (with her allies) have done well to resist the manipulators. I wish Yemen and Libya could join in but they have been (successfully) weakened. It looks like their only outside support is from Russia. So far, the Saudi/Qatari Wahab-Salafist alliance with US/NATO is still strong but at least it is suffering setbacks. I only wish more Americans were informed of the obvious overall agenda.

Posted by: Curtis | Dec 17 2016 15:55 utc | 25

I guess the MSM has forgotten what was done to Fallujah…

Posted by: shadyl | Dec 17 2016 16:00 utc | 27

n addition to Voltaire.net, the other original report was provided by Damascus-based Syrian journalist Said Hilal Alcharifi. According to Alcharifi, captured “NATO” officers were from a number of member states including the US, France, Germany and Turkey, as well as Israel. Here is his statement (translated from French):
“Thanks to information received, Syrian authorities discovered the headquarters of high ranking western/NATO officers in the basement of an area in East Aleppo and have captured them alive. Some names have already been given to Syrian journalists, myself included. The nationalities are US, French, British, German, Israeli, Turkish, Saudi, Moroccan, Qatari etc. In light of their nationalities and their rank, I assure you that the Syrian government have a very important catch, which should enable them to direct negotiations with the countries that have tried to destroy them.”
December 15, 2016 Hilal Alchar Facebook statement (translated from the French)
Very urgent
The Syrian authorities were able to arrive at the headquarters of the senior Western and regional officers in the basement of an Aleppo neighborhood and to capture them alive.
Some names have already been ex-filtered to Syrian journalists, including myself.
Given the nationalities (US, French, British, German, Israeli, Turkish, Saudis, Moroccans, Qatari, etc.) of these bastards and their military ranks,
Syria now holds a tremendous amount of treasure to carry out negotiations with the countries that have destroyed it.

Posted by: ALberto | Dec 17 2016 16:11 utc | 29

December 15, 2016 Hilal Alchar link to Facebook posting
https://www.facebook.com/said.h.alcharifi/posts/1401107103274526
link to 21st Century wire piece
http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/12/16/reports-at-least-10-nato-military-officers-captured-by-syrian-special-forces-this-morning-in-east-aleppo-bunker/

Posted by: ALberto | Dec 17 2016 16:14 utc | 31

Lawless Harry (a.k.a. harry law) and Mina: please enclose your links in “< a href="LINK">description<\a>” (space added between < and "a" to prevent the effect of displaying just this: description).
Lawless Harry: the ability of the Sheriff Office of Maricopa County to assemble experts to produce B.S. is awesome. The whole premise is dubious, because this year Ted Cruz was a candidate in primaries, and he is born in Canada with parents that were citizens of Canada (father) and USA (mother), so identical situation that Obama would have, were he born abroad. I suspect that the “expertise” is equally dubious. In Poland, the country of my citizenship, a few commissions with “international panels of experts” were assembled to prove that the catastrophe at Smolensk airport was result of some incredibly cunning plot, and about one third of the populations believes that, while close to half thinks that this is B.S. If nothing else, it shows that expert panels organized with clear prior intention by ad hoc bodies (Maricopa County? Really? Why not Baca county?) have zero ability to convince those who were not convinced before.

Posted by: Piotr Berman | Dec 17 2016 16:21 utc | 33

@26 By ‘western’ you presumably mean white Anglo-Saxon? Seems Westerners come in all ethnic varieties these days. But these ‘officers’, if they exist, would have been selected to blend in.

Posted by: dh | Dec 17 2016 16:23 utc | 35

One can speculate most likely SAA captured the mercenaries, since Kerry and Samantha Power was so aggressive attacking Russia during the last few UN Security Council meets…. wait patient

Posted by: Jack Smith | Dec 17 2016 16:26 utc | 37

add – Moscow to Host Crucial Meeting With China, Pakistan to Discuss Afghanistan
and
Russia supports China Pakistan Economic Corridor Projekt

Replying to a question, the Russian ambassador said his country wanted Pakistan and India to resolve all issues including Jammu and Kashmir through peaceful means.
He said Pakistan and Russia were also closely cooperating in efforts for restoration of peace in Afghanistan.

Posted by: somebody | Dec 17 2016 16:28 utc | 39

Taiwan…
China Responds: Will Return Stolen Drone, “Regrets US Hype”
China Seized An Unmanned U.S. Navy Sub – That Was Possibly Legal
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-17/china-responds-will-return-stolen-drone-regrets-us-hype

Posted by: Jack Smith | Dec 17 2016 16:48 utc | 41

Piotr Berman @33 Why Lawless Harry? If it is not true after “the overwhelming forensic evidence shows the posted document [Barack Obama’s birth certificate, posted on the official White House website] is nothing more than a “created” document – pieced together using another source document.” Then the ‘experts’, not me, will have to account for themselves. If it is true, then your ‘suspicions’ will have proven to be as correct as the 17 intelligence agencies who ‘suspect’ Putin was the source of the Hacked e-mails. We shall wait and see.

Posted by: harrylaw | Dec 17 2016 17:08 utc | 43

@41 Jack Smith – reading the ZH story, I love this quote from the retired Chinese admiral regarding the noise from the US: “The louder they shout, the more their protests ring hollow.”
This then, is how China parses the US today. The US could learn from both China and Russia about how the truly strong act in life.

Posted by: Grieved | Dec 17 2016 17:36 utc | 45

Well, hell.
As usual a SAKER repost never saw the light of day. However, this repost may make it past the censor!
http://fredoneverything.org/
The article explains a lot about how we’ve gotten to where we are.

Posted by: rg the lg | Dec 17 2016 17:51 utc | 47

And then, there is this:
https://www.sott.net/article/336987-Report-Fourteen-US-Coalition-military-officers-captured-by-Syrian-Special-Forces-in-Aleppo
Hmmm. Go check out the article: Making Sense of Trump by Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich. You’ll have to use a search engine because this site is saker-phobic.

Posted by: rg the lg | Dec 17 2016 17:57 utc | 49

Alexander Mercouris at the Duran has an interesting piece today describing how Turkey, Russia and Iran are currently conferring at their top levels of diplomacy, military and intelligence:
Following Syrian victory in Aleppo Foreign and Defence Ministers of Russia, Turkey and Iran confer
Obviously, Idlib and how to achieve success there are of prime concern. Mercouris suggests this may be the beginning, or the furtherance, of a true political settlement to all the tensions in Syria.
Two things to note here. One is that the US is not part of the discussion group. Trump I would guess will simply walk away from Syria, even the eastern part. Regardless, the real players have to guarantee and enact the peace, and the US in my opinion is no longer one of the real players – simply a spoiler whom everyone tolerates for the moment because the cost of confrontation outweighs the minor aggravation of simply outlasting the current natural attrition of the US.
And then there’s Turkey. We see that deals with Erdogan have a “2 steps forward, 1 step back” character, but still we get that 1 step net gain. Turkey can make Idlib easier or harder. Undoubtedly Erdogan will see this as holding some good cards in this game – but on the other hand, this is both Russia and Iran he’s playing against. I look forward to seeing how this all shakes out.
I’m rooting for Turkey’s rehabilitation as a useful member of the world community and of Eurasia. I hope for cooperation and the minimum of betrayal from Turkey – but others here will have a much better grasp than I do of the layers of complexity wrapping Turkey’s position.

Posted by: Grieved | Dec 17 2016 18:05 utc | 51

PavewayIV @44 Thanks for that informative link, I will read it later as I am sure the people who want the House of Saud to fall will, with all the vulnerable ports and difficult to defend pipe line networks.
In order for me not to be called “Lawless Harry” and to comply with the terms of the ‘Encouragement to Terrorism act 2006’, my hopes for the destruction of the Saudi economy by any means are only ‘understandable’ and hope that no one takes it to mean [unlike the US government] that I encourage terrorism.

Posted by: harrylaw | Dec 17 2016 18:14 utc | 53

What a deluge of oily and repulsive articles we’ll see after the inauguration as MSM tries to paint itself supportive of the new administration.
Posted by: Grieved | Dec 17, 2016 12:44:25 PM | 46
As one who has given up on watching MSM, I am thinking a primary positive effect (dreamer that I am) for the new administration would be for Trump to follow Castro’s example and speak directly to the people in some newly formulated fashion. I won’t be watching any ‘press conferences’ because those have become horrible charades, nor do I wish to hear from a White House representative fielding questions with responses that go nowhere. Just the facts, ma’am (or thankfully in this case, sir.)
I have totally had it with MSM. They’ve got a lot of reorganizing to do. And that goes for the BBC, Guardian, NYT – the whole kit and kaboodle. Just the facts. Cut to the chase. Emulate (if you can) Putin’s no-nonsense style. We are all so tired of bamboozling and flamfloozling. Seems like that is all anyone wants to do when they get in front of those tv cameras or sit down to compose a print article.
Enough already!
Just a quiet fireside chat now and then. That’s all I ask. Let us know what’s going on.

Posted by: juliania | Dec 17 2016 18:39 utc | 55

#36 wartime experience is that it took hundreds of tons of bombs to close down much small oil processing plant tsunami than the Saudi ones. You should not over estimate the vulnerability of industrial infrastructure.

Posted by: Paul Cockshott | Dec 17 2016 19:32 utc | 57

I do hope that the list of western/Saudi officers supposedly captured in East Aleppo proves to be correct. They should be put on show. That would be a big help to ending the war.
But even if true, I suppose that some deal has been done, and they will be evacuated quietly. A pity.

Posted by: Laguerre | Dec 17 2016 19:50 utc | 59

Mavbe Netanyahu and the Saudis.

Posted by: Laguerre | Dec 17 2016 20:24 utc | 61

Lysias @ 14, Harrylaw @ 15:
At the level O’Bomber and his advisors operate, truth isn’t important. For all we know, they may or may not know how much Putin was able (or wasn’t able) to achieve in his career with the KGB.
What they do know however is that if you repeat a lie often enough, it gains a life of its own and becomes more “truth” than actual truth itself to an audience that has never been allowed to know the truth. And those who repeat the lie may even over time come to believe in it themselves.

Posted by: Jen | Dec 17 2016 20:50 utc | 63

@PavewayIV, Grieved
You ppl has not been paying attention, Its not about unmanned underwater vehicle, Taiwan or even Nanjing massacre! Go and read history. China was humiliated hundreds of years from foreign’ interventions – Dutch, Portugal, Brit. German, Japan, Yanks, French etc… China since Nixon, especially after Deng Xiaoping has change. Never mind the commie stuff. China business model follows exactly Amerika, no free elections. Except, no interest in regime change, land grabs what not hers. Like Russia Federation she wants respect – protects interest of their citizens. Again Like Russia Federation have one or two bases outside their territories.
Unless fucking regimes changers understand Russia Federation and China needs and respects. There will be wars. BTW if China wanna colonize she could have done it when Admiral Zheng He, during the Ming dynasty explored Africa, Asia and probably America.

Posted by: Jack Smith | Dec 17 2016 21:15 utc | 65

@66 Being curious about the actual objectives of these protestors I did a little research. Peter Tatchell’s name came up a lot. He comes across as very vocal but not very realistic. He wants “aid drops, human rights monitors, peacekeepers & war crimes charges” but he’s somewhat vague about how this can be achieved. The basic idea seems to be to to pressure the British government into doing something. Here is his manifesto…
http://www.petertatchellfoundation.org/heres-how-the-uk-can-help-save-syrian-civilians/

Posted by: dh | Dec 17 2016 21:47 utc | 67

Ehsani is right on spot, as usual
https://twitter.com/ehsani22

Posted by: Mina | Dec 17 2016 22:31 utc | 69

dh@71 Tatchell comes across rather like Samantha Power [Mother Teresa]
invoking Right to protect [R2P] and of course he wants peace keepers sent in. In order for R2P to be applicable all 5 veto wielding members of the UNSC have to agree, otherwise it would be a coalition of the willing [as against Iraq]and illegal. Tatchell appears to have more animus against Syria and Russia than good sense.He seems to favour some form of intervention against Russia/Syria. As you say he either has an agenda or he hasn’t thought it through. In his case if he had entered East Aleppo last week he would have been thrown off a very tall building and then been decapitated.

Posted by: harrylaw | Dec 17 2016 22:36 utc | 71

bhadrakumers take on the latest obama bad mouthing russia /putin, over interference in the exceptional nations election process..
he seems unable or unwilling to acknowledge these dynamics are something many countries play, especially the usa – in spite of all the pretensions otherwise on his part.. lets all sing together now, lol.. “bad, bad, russia /putin”… lets join hands in starting another war over it..

Posted by: james | Dec 17 2016 22:48 utc | 73

@13,14,15 lysis and hairylaw
obama knows the difference between the fsb and the kgb … but we Americans in the street don’t. we just remember the kgb paired off with the cia, and james bond movies, so obama’s gotta scare us where we live. i’m sure brennan told him that, just as he’s told him everything else he ‘knows’. obama’s the cia’s man.
@36 hl, ‘If you can blow up the Pentagon in broad daylight, then it cannot be impossible to fly a plane into Ras Tanura …’
but you need permission to blow up the wtc and pentagon in broad daylight, and you’ll need permission – from the very same folks – to blow up Ras Tanura …
but if tee-rump has been talked into taking the wars to china … they’d be the ones hurt most, according to paveway. well japan and taiwan and south korea, too, but they can all take another one for ‘our’ side … that permission may well be forthcoming
that would put out the fires in syria, set the world on fire instead
when they’re done, israel and the cia and dnc could (try to) blame it all on the russians and their stooge, tee-rump.
isn’t it amazing that the cia/dnc/msm think they can convince us all that russia has secretly taken over the us government when in fact israel took it over years ago – in broad daylight, as they say. i guess they think that since they haven’t mentioned it … we haven’t noticed? or that if they scream loudly enough about russia or china … that we’ll forget?
@51 g, ‘Trump I would guess will simply walk away from Syria, even the eastern part …’
wow. that’s a sweet, sweet dream.
‘… the US in my opinion is no longer one of the real players – simply a spoiler …’
in my opinion it was never anything but a spoiler, and remains so. it’s ‘plans’ and actions are one and the same: death, devastation, and destruction. that’s the ‘game’. the US invented it and is the motivating player. if they simply walked away it would be over.
‘We see that deals with Erdogan have a “2 steps forward, 1 step back” character, but still we get that 1 step net gain.’
i think you have it backwards still … ‘with Erdogan have a “1 step forward, 2 steps back” character, so still we get that 1 step net loss.’
‘I’m rooting for Turkey’s rehabilitation as a useful member of the world community and of Eurasia. I hope for cooperation and the minimum of betrayal from Turkey – but others here will have a much better grasp than I do of the layers of complexity wrapping Turkey’s position.’
i agree with you there – no mention of Erdogan, that’s the key, i suppose. unfortunately Erdogan is on top of the hill, right now.
as long as we’re rooting, i’m rooting for the US’ rehabilitation … but i’m afraid that will only come about after its collapse.
no one’s working very hard to make it happen. the rehabilitation, i mean. doubtless many more are working on the collapse part, daily.
i share your aspirations g, i just don’t see any progress in that direction until Erdogan’s gone. i’m certainly not advocating a ‘coup’ or any of the cia’s other filthy ‘short-cuts’. but we all leave eventually, and Erdogan will, too.

Posted by: jfl | Dec 17 2016 22:50 utc | 75

69
What really matters is how Israel managed to colonize 800 overseas bases for their credit-debt empire, without ever leaving their own shores, or spending a single new silver shekel.
But what really and truly matters is why does really have two ‘l’s, and truly only has one, and had to sacrifice an ‘e’ also, which proves unequivocally (there’s the two ‘l’s again) that trueth is nowhere near as important as reallity, lol.
Here’s some reality for you. Just went for a hike to see if the ice is thick enough for fishing, and found a pioneer graveyard of the Scandanavians and English who settled our once-quiet little village. A century later, judging from the tombstones, we’re no longer farmers and fishermen, we’re now a strip mall in the international airport flightpath, super-heavies grinding up into the sky every few minutes. The population is, 100 years later, (really just an eye-blink since the 1999 Soft Coup and 2001 Hard Coup precipitated the change), mostly Black, Hispanic, Somali, Vietnamese, Russian …and the few English who haven’t dragged up.
So it realy doesn’t matter what the Chinese truely want, times have chainged, otherwise we’d be pronouncing ‘changed’ like the Han Dynasty, or that famous kung fu jester Chang, and we’d be eating shredded papaya salad with braised pig knuckles and mango salsa, laughing at those stupid Israeli’s and their 800 silver shekel FOBs.
You will be hungry again for more words of wisdom in one hour.

Posted by: chipnik | Dec 17 2016 23:08 utc | 77

Regarding Putin’s role on world affairs as a ex-KGB officer, I’d like to to get your opinions on this interview with a retired KGB general I managed to find (now scrubbed from the net). In essence, the interview postulates that as early as the Bolshevik Revolution days a small core of officers around Dzerzhinsky tried to uphold traditional russian & christian values and bidding their time managed to influence late Soviet years and contributed in having Putin in power, himself apparently a member of that “Old Guard”. As always, your milage may vary..
“The accepted history as taught in the West is that the KGB was a much-feared instrument of totalitarian oppression, inherently evil in nature, and that the bold vision of Western leaders such as Ronald Reagan succeeded in winning the Cold War. The hidden or “lost” history reveals an astonishingly different reality. From its very beginnings, the KGB contained within itself – at the very top levels – a secret society of Christians who were dedicated to the eventual toppling of the Bolsheviks and the restoration of the culture and values of Christian Tsarist Russia. It was this society which moved behind the scenes at crucial moments to eliminate Stalin, to unseat Khrushchev, to allow glasnost and perestroika to flourish, to keep the Soviet troops in their barracks as the Iron Curtain dissolved, and to replace the corrupt Boris Yelstin with the KGB’s own Vladimir Putin, who proceeded to clean out the Illuminati-backed mafia corruption which Yeltsin had allowed to flourish. It was they who led the transformation of the KGB into the modern FSB, separated from foreign intelligence functions, concentrating on domestic national security.
Excerpts from this interview now follow. The national security officer (now a veteran) is identified merely by the agency initials “FSB”, with questions posed by this writer labeled as “HJD”:
HJD: Thank you, sir, for taking the time to share with us this crucial story. You were a decorated agent of the FSB, and trained under longtime KGB figures – “legends” as you put it. Could you elaborate for us on that background?
FSB: Gladly. The most powerful and effective national security agency in history is the Committee of State Security, “Komitet Gossudarstvenny Bezopasnosti” (KGB) of Russia. Its successor agency of the KGB for domestic security (after foreign intelligence was made separate) is the Federal Security Service, “Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti” (FSB).
I was privileged and honored to have worked with the “Old Guard” of the KGB, under government contracting private agencies of the FSB. The leaders of these organizations were all Generals, many in their 80’s, most 70’s, and some in their 60’s. When they offered to bring me into the national security agency, they referred to it as “an institution of higher learning”. They say that at first very solemnly so you’d think it’s actually a university, then later say it with a big laugh and a knowing smile. But it’s true, and in the best possible way. I was extensively trained in both professional skills as well as life knowledge. I was mentored by some of the greatest talents and geniuses of the world in modern history, who had all been through more than our generation can imagine. In a 2004 Commendation Letter from the FSB, the agency wrote to me: “We are pleased, that you attribute the success and high quality of your professional activities to the results of experience, obtained in the process of several years of joint work with experts of the… FSB.”
HJD: Sir, you have said that the history of the Soviet Union as taught in the West is distorted and incomplete. In what way?
FSB: Despite propaganda that the Western alliance supposedly “won” the Cold War, facts of little known true history reveal that the KGB itself was actually controlled by a small, shadow “secret society” faction that opposed the Communist regime, and itself facilitated the take-down of the Soviet Union.
The secret “Old Guard” of the KGB believed that Bolshevism and Communism was actually a “corrupt foreign influence”. There was nothing “Russian” about it. The Old Guard attributed it to the Bavarian Illuminati of secular political Zionists from Europe with some bases in America. Accordingly, they took the first possible safe opportunity to begin restoring the original cultural and national sovereignty of pre-Soviet, Tsarist Russia, by implementing the democratic government of the Russian Federation.
HJD: How was it possible for a secret society to survive within the KGB despite the bloody Russian Civil War and the brutal purges of the Stalinist era?
FSB: The “secret society” aspect of the Old Guard faction in today’s FSB comes from the little known (actually suppressed) history of its original founder and historical figurehead, Felix Dzerzhinsky. Dzerzhinsky is affectionately called “Iron Felix” by agency insiders, and is revered by all KGB and later FSB agents and officers. Dzerzhinsky was born into a family of Polish nobility (Eastern European royal bloodlines), which was Christian, exactly like the Russian Tsarist royal family of Tsar Nicolai II. His father Edmund, although Polish, studied at St. Petersburg University in 1863, the home city of the headquarters royal palace of the Tsar, called the “Peterhoff”. Being of a related Eastern European nobility family, his father would have been invited by or otherwise interacting with the Russian royal family. Dzerzhinsky was more Catholic (whereas the Tsar was Orthodox), and he dreamed of becoming a Jesuit priest with the Vatican. In school his best grades were in “divine law” and Latin language, both Vatican-related studies. Dzerzhinsky was known to apply Jesuit principles to the methods that he invented and developed for the future KGB. The relevant part of Jesuit philosophy is essentially that “moral law permits to achieve holy ends through unholy means”, and for that reason the Jesuit Order of the “Society of Jesus” is considered the army of elite Knights of the Roman Catholic Church, referred to in Vatican circles as “God’s Marines”.
HJD: Yes, this touches on other information shared by the Templar Order regarding the true nature of the Jesuit Order. Are you saying that Dzerzhinsky himself was a closet Christian?
FSB: Absolutely. This personal history of the KGB founder means that Iron Felix could never have agreed with the strongly anti-Christian politics (against all religions) of the Russian Bolshevik revolutionaries. His background also indicates that he had fundamental differences in his strong political beliefs that could never be reconciled with the Bolshevik elements of Communism. However, Dzerzhinsky was a Polish revolutionary who genuinely believed in “power of the people” and “rights of workers” against oppressive regimes. It was his “labor rights” politics – and his extraordinary talents – that allowed him to be compatible enough to rise to power as the founding father of the future KGB of the Soviet Union. Dzerzhinsky carefully established the dual nature and underlying character of the KGB as having a built-in “secret society”, in the form of an Old Guard faction. The Old Guard was dedicated to preserving a strong internal culture and identity of secretly Christian Tsarist national security leaders, with oaths and ethics of medieval royal Knights of a holy mission. So they were genuinely dedicated to the objective interests of the people of Russia and the country itself. Under the ruthless leadership of the Bolsheviks, KGB officers often had to follow orders of the Communist leaders against human rights of the people. Many KGB officers themselves were victims. Of course they had to follow most orders, only enough to not be exposed as a Tsarist Christian secret society, so they could stay in power. As a result, the KGB survived to later stand up for the true national interests even against corrupt leaders, at the first possible opportunity, when the people really needed it the most.
HJD: Given what we know of the sweeping bloody purges in which Josef Stalin would eliminate whole cadres of perceived hidden foes, it is hard to imagine how this Tsarist Christian secret society could possibly have survived.
FSB: It is true that the historical record shows that Stalin, who instigated waves of executions of Russian citizens, was “paranoid” of the KGB leaders, fearing for his life for many years. But the funny thing is: The secret history proves that Stalin was right. In 1953, Stalin died suddenly, with no credible official cause of death, and some Old Guard Generals from that time, when they were over 80 years old (ca.2000), privately admitted to me (with pride): “We killed him – it all had to stop.”
HJD: You mentioned earlier that this secret society of “Old Guard” Russian Christians chose certain crucial moments to make their influence felt. Could you elaborate?
FSB: Certainly. In 1964, the KGB facilitated a coup d’etat against Khrushchev, installing Brezhnev.
In August 1991, the KGB orchestrated the attempted coup against Gorbachev, declaring that their purpose was “to preserve the integrity of the Soviet Union and the constitutional order”. Behind his claims about glasnost and perestroika, Gorbachev himself was really a Bolshevik with “foreign backing” (the same “foreign influences” which created the bloody Bolshevik revolution to begin with. He was nothing but “controlled opposition” by the Illuminati, so that the unsustainable “evil empire” could simply take on a new face controlled by exactly the same elite. The KGB Old Guard could see that Gorbachev was only going to maintain a globalist agenda under an appealing “liberalized” cloak. (That seems to be the very same thing that is happening in the USA under President Obama.) While the coup against Gorbachev was called “unsuccessful” by historians, only because the mainstream media said so, the fact is they did succeed, only a short 4 months later. This Christian secret faction of the KGB eventually succeeded in dissolving the Soviet Union, and installing Boris Yeltsin as the first President of the new democratic Russian Federation, 4 months later in December 1991. As with all so-called “acceptable” candidates for the new democracy, Yeltsin also had links to Illuminati or Bolshevik “foreign influences”. But he had less than others, and because of his drinking problems and many other liabilities, the KGB thought they could keep him under control. Years later, when the Yeltsin government was widely known to be unacceptably corrupted by foreign influences through remaining Bolsheviks and related mafia organizations, in 1999 the Old Guard (then from within the FSB) stepped in again. They forced the surprise resignation of Yeltsin on midnight of New Year’s eve, under a political “deal” to place the current FSB Director, then Vladimir Putin, as “acting President” pending democratic elections. The FSB then proceeded to actively assist to “clean up the country” and solve the nation’s problems. This ensured Putin’s legitimate and authentic democratic election, based upon true merit and real accomplishments actually serving the people. This was overwhelmingly successful, resulting in winning multiple elections for President, all based upon a repeated pattern of real-world accomplishments in the true interests of the people of the nation. This history demonstrates the power of a “secret society” dedicated to the “greater good”. The Old Guard survived the most dramatic and shocking events of modern history, survived many dictators corrupted by foreign influence, and successfully and effectively restored the original Christian Tsarist culture of the nation, in an improved form of true modern democracy. In the process, it showed a proven track record of repeatedly upholding the needs of the people even against corrupt leaders and corrupt agencies or administrations, at times when it mattered the most.
HJD: You have said that you were personally trained by several of these “Old Guard” figures in your early years with the FSB. Would you be willing to share some details? What were these men like?
FSB: For a few years I worked with a KGB legend, the last Director of the Soviet KGB, Lieutenant-General Leonid Vladimirovich Shebarshin (1935-2012), the founder of the federal contracting private agency of the FSB, the Russian National Service for Economic Security (RNSES). I have a commendation letter from that agency in 2001, signed by Shebarshin’s KGB Old Guard partner Major-General V.M. Prilukov. Their letter expressed to me their “sincere thankfulness for productive… cooperation in the spheres of legal and social problems, that addresses the interests of Russian-American relations.”
I was sad to learn that General Shebarshin committed suicide at home, by his ceremonial service pistol (leaving a note) in March 2012, within a week after his 77th birthday which was March 24. Staff at his apartment block described him as always “friendly and good-natured”, but noted that “you could see his health was failing”, and that he had lived alone since the death of his beloved wife a few years before. It is clear to me, that Shebarshin took his exit only three weeks after Vladimir Putin won re-election as President on March 4. (Putin was re-elected after an apparent “break” from his first term by serving as “Vice President”, called Prime Minister, under his protégé Dmitri Medvedev.) Putin’s re-election marked the reliable effectiveness, and proved the full reestablishment, of the Tsarist values of meritocracy and placing the greater good of the nation over the interests of some “elite”.
I know for certain that General Shebarshin was never even close to being “retired”. All of those Old Guard Generals had a running joke, and old Russian expression: “There’s no such thing as a ‘veteran’!” Shebarshin had worked hard on the large-scale cleanup of corruption and restoration of Russia as the world’s leading superpower, to the very last of his strength and endurance, until he was sure that victory had been secured.
I believe that with Putin’s re-election proving the irreversible success of the anti-agenda meritocracy, he felt a deep satisfaction. He certainly must have felt a profound sense that his life work was now “mission accomplished”. With most of his closest friends and Old Guard colleagues gone, there was now no further reason to continue without his loving wife. There would be no further mission in his lifetime that could be more important than what his Old Guard had just accomplished, so he chose to finally end his lifetime of sacrifices, and rest in peace. Shebarshin was gracious, kind, tolerant, supportive, motivational, encouraging, and otherwise a perfect mentor. … He was profoundly wise, and went out of his way to signal to me hidden aspects of myself, and many secrets of the world, giving me all the clues that I would need for the future. That soft but effective approach empowered me to quickly recognize and utilize those keys of truth, that I would only discover in my later years. Throughout 2012 into 2013, I have seen many others of the Old Guard disappear, and even their most successful government contracting agencies disappear with them. I am comforted by their noble legacy of many protégés of this small but effective group of genius mentors who changed the world. The next generation of their “initiates” fully understand and continue the tradition of the Old Guard. They remain dedicated to defending old-world values and the greater good of humanity, and serving as the “last line of defense” against tyranny or oppression. They do this, even though sometimes they are forced to patiently wait – with much preparation – over decades for the right strategic moment to ensure that good will conquer evil.

Posted by: Lozion | Dec 17 2016 23:39 utc | 79

Saudi Arabia Suspends Investments in US Due to Trump – WSJ

Saudi Arabia is going to rethink its “financial strategy” toward the US due to several factors, one of which is the election of billionaire Donald Trump as the country’s president, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing informed sources.
Riyadh will suspend its investment in the economy also due to changes in the US law, in particular, due to adoption of a bill by the Senate and the US Congress, which authorizes to prosecute states, which support terrorist activities on the territory of the US. According to the US government, Saudi Arabia is among such countries.

wouldn’t russia be a good place for the saudis to invest? think of how many rubles they’d get for their dollars.
dollar’s up now, too. (i read an article by a chinese general some while back which detailed his view of the ebb and flow of us capital … looks like an ebb tide is setting in)
and if (hah!) the us didn’t like the diversification of the saudi portfolio … russia has the arms to protect the saudis from the adventures outlined by paveway and hairylaw above.
yes, makes good sense for the saudis.
@84 lochearn
gosh, sorry you find me so offensive, i always liked your comments. i guess you pressed the post button before noticing lozion’s quotes right above? no end of people for you to hate on this blog and in this world. so long.

Posted by: jfl | Dec 17 2016 23:57 utc | 81

Jack Smith@69 – ?? I didn’t make any statements here opposing what you said in @69, in fact I agree with it. Did you actually mean me? The statement I made to HarryLaw about East Asia being most harmed by the Saudi port closure (from an attack or whatever) is simple fact based on world oil trade statistics. I’m not advocating such an attack, I’m merely stating how exports would be affected today because HarryLaws citation from the Guardian was based on older 2003-2004 export data when the west was the major destination for their exports.

Posted by: PavewayIV | Dec 18 2016 0:40 utc | 83

@84 Lochearn – where might one find your comments, if you should stay away from this place?
I avoid ad hominem but I have to say that personally I appreciate jfl’s comments, and I’ve benefited from many of them.
In general, comment threads come and go, don’t they, in quality? Sometimes a really good one happens. I don’t quite know what makes the difference. And look at Fort Russ, with some of the finest product in the Russian analysis space, and their regular few commenters jump in with rabid nonsense early enough in practically every thread to turn deep comment away – and the authors of that site know it, but don’t know how to regain the intelligent discussion they used to have. At least here the format remains one of each comment’s standing or falling on its substance.
You yourself seem to indicate that all you really want is useful discussion. The personal attack just kind of slipped out, maybe?
I remember a truth I was taught some decades ago that I had to spend about two years making sense of, but which to me is as undeniable as any law of physics: “The only way to have a thing, is to be that thing, and to give it away.”

Posted by: Grieved | Dec 18 2016 1:16 utc | 85

In case anybody is wondering where head chopper photographer Mahmoud Raslan is:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/16/middleeast/aleppo-evacuations-suspended-syria/index.html

Activist Mahmoud Raslan, who is inside Aleppo, told CNN that he was close to the entrance gate from rebel-held to regime-held areas when violence flared.
“The evacuation was suspended by the regime and the Syrian regime now is shooting at the entrance point using heavy machine guns,” he said.
“A warplane is in the sky now and the Syrian regime is trying to advance in al-Sendyanah bridge. People are gathered in huge numbers and very scared.”

Posted by: Tobin Paz | Dec 18 2016 1:40 utc | 87

@chipnik (81)
English orthography is really and truly fucked.

Posted by: RudyM | Dec 18 2016 2:06 utc | 89

@PavewayIV and Grieved
My humble apologies. I was expressing China’s feeling – hundred’s years of humiliations and intervention, blah, blah… and got screwed up posters in “ China Seized An Unmanned U.S. Navy Sub – That Was Possibly Legal and Anglo-Saxon blood thirsty mercenaries in Aleppo. No harm intended. bows.
I’m glad you replied, found out me mistake and helpless since b don’t delete stupid mistake. 🙂

Posted by: jack Smith | Dec 18 2016 2:54 utc | 91

Our former reality TV star present Chief Executive is being backfilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Boy George. What cold possibly go wrong?

Posted by: ALberto | Dec 18 2016 3:57 utc | 93

jfl is fine, like many who post here. Information dissemination being key. Food fights suck.

Posted by: ben | Dec 18 2016 4:19 utc | 95

Thanks to Lozion | Dec 17, 2016 6:39:34 PM | 83
for the interview with the ex-KGB officer.
Do you have the name of said officer or any other information about the interview? I would like to pass this on to a friend who is a Russian scholar.

Posted by: Perimeter | Dec 18 2016 4:53 utc | 97

Forget…
http://english.cntv.cn/2016/12/17/VIDEXrRJddzLrRKa4ihcEtUh161217.shtml

Posted by: Jack Smith | Dec 18 2016 4:55 utc | 99