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The Moon of Alabama Week In Review – Open Thread 2019-03
Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama:
We had the suspicion that Bolton was freelancing with the conditions and time table he set for a U.S. move out of Syria. A later Wall Street Journal piece confirmed that. It included this great line:
“Nothing has changed,” one defense official said. “We don’t take orders from Bolton.”
The piece is an attempt to stay up-to-date on the various Trump-Russia narratives. It is a quite long read. For the gist read the intro, section 3 and the conclusions.
Use as open thread …
I know that many people here will likely be triggered by Andre Vltchek’s article below, but he raises some Politically Incorrect issues that citizens of the (snicker) “democratic” West would rather spindoctor away.
Namely, the citizens of the West–especially major imperial predator nations like America, Britain, Canada, and Western Europe–are not so much ignorant of their countries’ crimes against humanity but rather *choose* to be ignorant out of self-interest.
And they choose to be ignorant because their own way of life and economy are based upon maintaining Western imperial dominance of the planet–and the crimes required to maintain this dominance.
This contradicts the self-serving alibis that many American/Western apologists peddle that Western citizens are innocent and only the elites are guilty–or even more laughably, that Western citizens are “victims” themselves.
No, the morally bankrupt Euro/American elites are only a reflection of the morally bankrupt Euro/American people themselves.
They are ALL guilty.
This is the Gorilla-in-the-Living Room issue that most people–including supposed Alternative Media(TM)–seek to obfuscate.
Indeed, the more these Euro/Americans sanctimoniously run their collective mouths about their cherished civilizational lies like Freedom, Democracy, Human Rights, the Rule of Law, blah, blah, blah … the more the Euro/Americans rape, loot, and colonize the world.
That’s not a coincidence.
The ideologies of Freedom and Democracy in reality exist as propaganda deceptions to justify Euro-American plunder and pillage.
Freedom and Democracy are the 21st century ideological version of the White Man’s Burden–the newest mask of Euro-American (neo)colonial exploitation and genocide.
Western Crusaders of the past often invoked Christianity to justify their wars of aggression and colonial pillage.
Today, Western neo-Crusaders invoke Liberal Democracy and Human Rights.
from: Western Public “Does Not Know”, or “Does Not Want to Know”?
https://journal-neo.org/2018/11/27/western-public-does-not-know-or-does-not-want-to-know-2/
“Mostly, the fact is not always that the ‘population in the West is brainwashed’. That would really be quite a good scenario: and something relatively easy to correct.
The problem is much greater: The inhabitants of the West do not want to know, because deep inside, they do not want the system to change. They don’t want the world order to be modified.
They intuitively feel that if what is being proposed by Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran and other countries were implemented, their personal privileges would vanish. Their countries would become equal to all other countries on earth; they would have to obey international laws, and their people would be forced to work hard for their living. Plundering the planet would be banned. Privileges would stop.
Therefore, it is better ‘not to know’, not to understand. This way, the ‘pie’, or call it ‘carrot’, would not be lost.
The ‘ignorance’in the West, I believe, is subconsciously ‘self-inflicted’. With knowledge, comes responsibility. With responsibility, an obligation to act (because not to act would be clearly immoral). All this could only lead to the loss of privileges.
The propagandists of the West are very well aware of the situation. I was told by some leading psychologists, that both psychiatrists and psychologists are employed and used in the process of ‘shaping the public opinion’, therefore, working for propaganda-makers. They study and analyze the ‘mood of the public’. They know public’s desires and aspirations.
All this is not as easy as it appears, is it?
Sadly, there is a silent (unpronounced and unsigned) agreement between the Western public and its establishment, as well as the corporate world, that the status quo should be maintained at all cost (paid for by “the others”); the West should be controlling the planet, and at least some part of the booty has to be shared among the (Western) masses.
What they are fighting over on the streets of Paris and other European cities is ‘how big the part of the pie that goes to the pockets of the common European people’ should be. There is absolutely no struggle to end the plunder of the world by the West.
Unfortunately, the world cannot count at all on the European or North American public for support in the struggle to destroy and end imperialism, neo-colonialism and the continuous deadly plunder.
It is not because the public in the West ‘doesn’t know’, but because it does everything it can in order not to know. Or if it knows or suspects, it makes sure to act as if it is ignorant. For its own selfish interests. For its own privileges.”
Posted by: ak74 | Jan 14 2019 18:09 utc | 86
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