… now in league with the UN Security Council
Today let’s look at conundrums. There were the elections on Sunday with a huge win for Viktor Orban – and there’s that war going on in the Ukraine. How and why these are conundrum will be revealed below.
Firstly and briefly the ‘daily dose’ of propaganda, as purveyed by our MSM, documented in the compilation of the headlines of the print editions here. The stories are garnished with photos of Mr ‘e, looking ‘haunted’, according to the writers. Is it too much to hope that it’s dawning on Mr ‘e that he could’ve stopped this horror weeks ago, nay: that he could’ve prevented it by agreeing to the Russian proposals in regard to NATO in December?
Staying with the horrors of Bucha: the BBC’s fact checkers were hard at work to prepare a refutation of Russian arguments – right on time for the meeting of the UN Security council later today, under the chairmanship of the British UN Ambassador, Dame Woodward. She’s finally acceded to the demands of Russia who demanded since Sunday that the meeting take place, only to be brushed aside. A knave who thinks that the delay was due to ‘preparing’ the material in a suitable fashion to support the verdict which has already been decided: “Russia guilty”.
I went to that ‘fact checking’ BBC site so you don’t have to, and found something interesting. In their zeal to refute both Russia and all the internet bloggers who’ve looked at the photos and videos in detail, this is what the BBC did:
“The BBC has matched both bodies from the video (posted on 2 April) with high-resolution photos provided by Getty Images and AFP on 3 April.” (link)
Now why would Getty Images create such high-resolution photos on the same day the videos hit the internet? Photos which are of course not accessible to the ordinary blogger because a ‘royalty payment’ is needed? Is it unreasonable to wonder if such material is not only ‘enhanced’, right on time for that UNSC meeting, but is perhaps, perish the thought, manipulated?
There’s more food for thought. Have a look at the opinion piece by Scott Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector, published in RT here. Strange, isn’t it, that western papers, especially USA papers, didn’t publish his analysis! Might it be because the verdict is already cast in stone and will be sanctified by the UNSC later today?
And there’s one more point, diligently overlooked by the western propaganda outlets, even though it was reported by Reuters, surely not a Putinophile entity! Under the headline “Pentagon can’t independently confirm atrocities in Ukraine’s Bucha, official says” we can read a brilliant example of how to fence-sit using language. Savour this (my emphasis):
“WASHINGTON, April 4 (Reuters) – The U.S. military is not in a position to independently confirm Ukrainian accounts of atrocities by Russian forces against civilians in the town of Bucha, but has no reason to dispute the accounts either, a senior U.S. defense official said on Monday. “We’re seeing the same imagery that you are. We have no reason whatsoever to refute the Ukrainian claims about these atrocities — clearly, deeply, deeply troubling,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “The Pentagon can’t independently and single handedly confirm that, but we’re also not in any position to refute those claims.” (link)
I get the feeling that the Reuters hack was desperate to get a Pentagon declaration that ‘the Russians did it’ which the Pentagon ‘senior official’ was not prepared to give it. So fence-sitting it was. How come though that the Pentagon, with all their spy satellites and spy planes was unable to ‘confirm’ the Ukrainian claims while the wests’ MSM were clearly able to? Is the Pentagon now also waiting to be given guidance on how to follow and ‘enhance’ the narrative?
Now let’s look at the other conundrum – the election victory of Viktor Orbán on Sunday. Frank Furedi in SpikedOnline wrote an interesting essay yesterday evening (link). He points to the incessant meddling of the EU and NGOs which desperately want to get rid of Orbán because he’s ‘nearly Putin’, a ‘dictator’ and not in line with the EU’s woke agenda:
“Hungary has self-consciously upheld values that go against the technocracy and identity politics propagated by the Western political and cultural establishment. Indeed, since its election in 2010, Fidesz has actively sought to contain and undermine the domestic influence of the soft, woke power of the EU and US.” (link)
Furedi draws an interesting parallel with the Brexit vote. Those of us with a good memory recall the meddling of the EU and NGOs in that campaign. Here’s the paragraph which rang several bells::
“It is unlikely that Fidesz would have done so well if a significant section of the electorate had not felt so insulted by the domestic opposition and Western media. Much like the pro-EU side during and after the Brexit vote, Orbán’s opponents have denounced voters as ignorant and stupid.” (link)
So voters don’t like to be called ignorant thickos? How amazing! Even more noteworthy is this sentence at the end:
“The results of this election are likely to give confidence to political movements in Europe that are devoted to the principle of national sovereignty and self-determination. Had the Hungarian government been defeated, it would have represented a major triumph for the EU bureaucracy. The failure to dislodge Hungary’s government therefore represents a major setback to the EU’s federalist project. ”(link)
Let’s not forget that the first round of the presidential elections in France takes place on Sunday with Madame LePen, the closest rival to the wannabe Napoleon. Over the years Madame LePen has been depicted as a female version of a terrible nationalist, un-European dictator. It’s difficult to say if Orbán’s victory will help her.
Far more interesting though is the way the EU and the western press are twisting and turning, trying to come to grips with the Hungarian election. It must be very difficult to ‘celebrate’ the plain Nazi government of Mr ‘e, supporting him even unto the destruction of the western economy while condemning Mr Orbán for being ‘right wing’.
It becomes easier though once one realises that this is actually about “Teh EU and NATO – good”. Take the Polish government, also under EU sanctions for being right-wing and not adhering to EU directives. Now they are celebrated for their stand ‘against Putin’, for their zeal in becoming ever more ‘NATO’, up to saying they’d like NATO nuclear arms to be stationed in Poland.
This confusion, this blurring of political identities and labels, created by the west and pushed by western MSM, will be with us for a long time. The social-media trolls which have been accusing everybody not ‘woke’ enough as “Nazis” are now harassing anyone even faintly expressing a pro-Russia opinion. It’s a miracle: one can be as ‘Nazi’ as one likes as long as one supports Mr ‘e!
So here’s the conundrum – for the Left: how can one ‘fight fascism’ when one has to celebrate blatant fascists? Difficult, innit – or is it? The last weeks have shown that government and their propaganda media believe they can make us plebs accept their shift of propaganda for one thing (covid vaccines) to another (‘hate Putin’) at the drop of the proverbial hat.
They believe that we, the peasants, are stupid, easily ‘guided’, and will swallow whole whatever they try to force down our throats. Orbán’s victory ought to have been a lesson that this ain’t so, that the silent majority, silent because wilfully not being heard, is not stupid and will no longer be ‘guided’.
There’s life outside of the MSM and social media – something the Westminster swamp dwellers would do well not to ignore.
This is an interesting video that I don’t think will be up for long. Neil McCoy Ward joins the dots of what he thinks that the World Economic Forum, the United Nations and the Glasgow Financial Alliance of Net Zero have planned for us in what he calls the biggest scandal in the history of mankind. It’s not a pretty picture.
I’ve a lot of respect for Neil McCoy Ward, a brilliant analyst. I’d say that here he is about spot on and he usually is, take this video very seriously.
Viv, for two days now you have linked to a Scott Ritter piece. Almost the only person worth listening to.
For anyone not informed about the entirety of what’s going on in Ukraine, and beyond, and confirmation for those who are, this epic interview with Reiner Fuellmich, is essential. It is almost 2:30hrs of continuous exposition, ably supported by Alex Thompson. Watch in bite-sized pieces if necessary; but do watch.
US Marine Intelligence Officer Tells Fuellmich Russia’s Already Beaten NATO & The New World Order
https://www.bitchute.com/video/RnpZndYTvVJe/
Reading or watching any media now is sickening; I don’t know how you do it, although I am hugely grateful that you do.
I am beginning to feel like the character in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Everyone has been taken over; they all look the same but who is still human, who still has brain or am I alone, that is the terror.
I watched the whole two and a half hours odd a couple of days ago.
A must watch.
Scott reminds me of many top notch engineers I have worked with.
Here are the facts; you are going to do what you are going to do; this is the background; and these are the consequences.
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I must admit that I’m feeling pessimistic about this whole Ukrainian thing at the moment. There’s a lot going on behind the scenes, countries supplying weapons to Ukraine etc. It looks like Putin is preparing another thrust into Ukraine, in the meantime there are troop movements in Eastern European countries, the US seem to be preparing to send troops, everyone’s digging in for the long haul. Lets face it, Hilary Clinton, Joe Biden et al have been spoiling for a fight with Russia for years.
I suppose the best case scenario is that as this conflict expands, it’ll be contained in Eastern Europe. China may soon have a go at Taiwan and things will develop into WW3. I’m starting to think WW3 but I am hoping that there won’t be a nuclear confrontation.
Added to the above, as the world economy continues to deteriorate and supply chains break down further, Britain and many other parts of the world – this is already being talked about by banks and NGOs – will suffer catastrophic food shortages. Britain is a little island with 70 odd million people to feed and is dependent on imported food for much of its needs.
No, I’m not feeling overly optimistic at the moment but better to go into these things with your eyes open. All of the ingredients for a major war are here, bankrupt economies, famine, tyrannical regimes, plague and pestilence; the four horsemen are chomping at the bit. When you look at history things are starting to look very familiar.
Orban’s victory was a ray of sunshine in an otherwise gloomy April. The struggle in the EU over who determines a nation’s laws and culture – the commissars in Brussels or the people – continues with the EU set back (again). The voting map for Hungary – OK I haven’t entirely given up cruising the web as I said yesterday – shows that with one small exception the oppostion vote was confined to Budapest, The somewhere countryside, to use Goodhart’s description, voting very differently to the cosmopolitan, metropolitan establishment. This was the pattern that gave us Brexit – only university towns were majority remain – and the negelected rust belt of America elected Trump. The Gilet Jaunes in France began when a fuel tax hike, which barely effected the metropolitans, profoundly impacted the cost of living and way of life for rural France. The fascinating thing is that the ‘anywhere’ elites simply do not learn. They just keep repeating the same mistakes and govern for themselves. It is a continuing snobbery and contempt for the masses even though those masses, through taxation, pay for the elites self-indulgence. The extent in which the various elites are in denial Such a shame that Hungarian is a diabolical language to learn and that property prices have gone up ever since, post Merkel’s 2015 open door to immigrants, Germans have been buying up the place especially in northern Hungary (I don’t blame them. My own search for an affordable bolt hole continues).
I am currently concerned about the election in France which looks set to be a replay of 2017 with Macron exposing Le Pen’s intellectual limitations in the second round debate. Much as I would enjoy Macron and his anywhere supporters getting thier come-uppance, Le Pen would be a disaster of a different kind She is not ‘far right’ as the media have painted her. She is a national socialist. Her program is one of renationalisation and VAT cuts that will make inflation in France far worse and push up the debt to GDP ratio to dangerous levels. The damage to the French economy would be a high price to pay for the pleasure of ousting Macron. If it does come down to Macron v Le Pen, then voters are left with a choice of the lesser of two evils (as usual) but with stakes higher than before. If I was a French voter I would vote for Zemmour. If he does not get to the second round then I might just give up and not vote – my current position in the UK – or I might, thinking about the likely look on Von Leyen’s face, vote Le Pen then emigrate. Hungarian would be hard to learn but with the right motivation ….
In June France elects a new assembly. The French could partially undo the mistake of the presidentail election. I’m not optimistic though. The heady days of 2016 are a long way in the past. Botorkálj tovább !
Absolutely Stout. But only GDP per head ( GDP/C ) mentionable. GDP is a poor measure.except for signalling political panic or propoganda.
An excellent comment.
So, What to do ? The old Britain has gone and is impossible to resurrect. The ability to organise, which used to be in our genes, has gone. For many reasons. We are now as a society on the same rung as a Ganges fisherman, but with a decaying and slimy and untrustworthy infrastructure..
And we actually do not know what we’ve done.
TG- you missed several such as:- meritocracy, education and work ethic to name but three. To be replaced with we are all equal, no more selection of the best, and *I* am entitled
On top of that the old joke remains true – immigrants come to Britain knowing two four letter words. Rice and dole.
clever of you to spot that, They are all aspects of behaviour that was instinctive and now being questioned. But my point really was that the only accepted organisations now seem to be the traditional of the police , army, etc and government bodies. Quangos etc.While the rest of us have formless meetings and computer rag bags, disseminated randomly. Extremely wasteful and destructive. temptation to ignore logic etc.