History (Partial) of US Government Experimenting on its Citizens – No One Should be Surprised by Today’s Events!

I will only hit some notable highlights of government experimentation on the people over the last 100 years .. we truly are seen as guinea pigs.

The first blatant even occurred during Prohibition 1.0 when alcohol was made illegal across the USA, and to punish those who found “workarounds” …:

In 1926, President Calvin Coolidge’s government decided to turn to chemistry as an enforcement tool … By mid-1927, the new denaturing formulas included some notable poisons … The Treasury Department also demanded more methyl alcohol be added — up to 10 percent of total product. It was the last that proved most deadly...In 1926, in New York City, 1,200 were sickened by poisonous alcohol; 400 died. The following year, deaths climbed to 700. These numbers were repeated in cities around the country. (In 1926, the population of the United States was about 117 million people.) Officially, the special denaturing program ended only once the 18th Amendment was repealed in December 1933.

I guess that is slightly better than the “no jab, no job” consequences, but still!

in 1931, Dr. Cornelius Rhoads, a 1945 recipient of Legion of Merit, infected people with cancer cells while working with the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Investigations in Puerto Rico, under the auspices of studying hookworm-caused anemia and tropical sprue anemia

Just some “safe” research on an unsuspecting people .. no wonder by 1946-1948 there was a worldwide support of the Nuremberg Code following the information release of what the Nazi regime did to Jews from the 1930s until the end of WWII.

A year later after Dr. Rhoads’ experiments, the famous Tuskegee Experiments started on 600 black men who were not afforded informed consent, and they were experimented on from 1932 until 1972!

In 1932, the USPHS, working with the Tuskegee Institute, began a study to record the natural history of syphilis. It was originally called the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male” (now referred to as the “USPHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegee”). The study initially involved 600 Black men – 399 with syphilis, 201 who did not have the disease. Participants’ informed consent was not collected. Researchers told the men they were being treated for “bad blood,” a local term used to describe several ailments, including syphilis, anemia, and fatigue. In exchange for taking part in the study, the men received free medical exams, free meals, and burial insurance.

By 1943, penicillin was the treatment of choice for syphilis and becoming widely available, but the participants in the study were not offered treatment.

In 1946, during the Nuremberg Trials, the US itself continued experimenting on unsuspecting people in another country .. is this similar to “off-shoring” GOF (Gain of Function) research to China? … :

… fourteen years after the Tuskegee experiment started, the U.S. also conducted syphilis experiments in Guatemala, purposely infecting Guatemalan men and women with syphilis ..

After the Nuremberg Trials, I am guessing that the researchers in the USA believed they were exempt from the natural law that they punished German leadership for in 1948 with both hangings and incarceration:

.. during the 1950s, MIT researchers and the Quaker Oats Company fed the mentally disabled children at the Walter E. Fernald School in Waltham, MA, doses of radiation in their cereal ..

After this event it seemed that our military wanted to test even more things in the 1950s on the citizens they swore to “protect”:

They conducted the following air strikes/naval attacks:

  • The CIA released a whooping cough virus on Tampa Bay, using boats, and so caused a whooping cough epidemic. 12 people died.
  • The Navy sprayed San Francisco with bacterial pathogens and in consequence many citizens developed pneumonia.
  • Upon Savannah, GA, and Avon Park, FL, the army released millions of mosquitoes in the hopes they would spread yellow fever and dengue fever. The swarm left Americans struggling with fevers, typhoid, respiratory problems, and the worst, stillborn children.

Even worse was that after the swarm, the Army came in disguised as public health workers.

Beyond this the known experiments were like:

  • Project MKULTRA’s Subproject 68 which involved a CIA project that subjected patients to electro-convulsive therapy at 30-40 times the normal power to put patients into a drug-induced coma for months on-end and playback tapes of simple statements or repetitive noises over and over again. The victims forgot how to talk, forgot about their parents, and suffered serious amnesia.
  • The injection of Vietnam War prisoners with Agent Orange
  • Operation Midnight Climax where LSD experimentation was accomplished by CIA brothels

Then there was this 1960s experiment:

Between 1960 and 1971, the Department of Defense funded non-consensual whole body radiation experiments on mostly poor and black cancer patients, who were not told what was being done to them. Patients were told that they were receiving a “treatment” that might cure their cancer, but the Pentagon was trying to determine the effects of high levels of radiation on the human body. One of the doctors involved in the experiments was worried about litigation by the patients. He referred to them only by their initials on the medical reports. He did this so that, in his words, “there will be no means by which the patients can ever connect themselves up with the report”, to prevent “either adverse publicity or litigation”

While there were many revelations of these past experiments in the 1970s, do not suspect for a moment that these experiments did not continue. The deep-state and other forces only desired a more covert way to accomplish this type of research on unsuspecting individuals, like Event 201 in October 2019 and beyond.

Do you trust your government yet?

The experiments continue ..

Stay alert my friends!

-SF1

When Harm is Intended by the Mob, One Possible Result is Much Good – Stay the Course!

I reflect on my posts in 2018 and 2019 and I see the danger I saw in current and possible future events. This all seemed to ramp up in 2020 and this year to a fever pitch. I also noted to myself that I have a tendency to spot the bad, the red flags, and then wrap up with a line or two of hope.

Today I want to do something different. Maybe it is because today is my last official day of my corporate career of 45 years through the US Navy, a small multi-state computer business as a field engineer, and through a few pharmaceuticals, I have seen the good, the bad and the ugly. It does seem that politics and the lies associated with that has invaded almost all areas of large corporations these days.

While this all sounds bad, there is much good that can come from this! Take it from someone you may know of through a story you were told, who was sold into slavery as a young boy by his brothers .. who later in his role in an empire’s leadership (a truly amazing story) helped save not just the empire from famine, but also his own nomadic people:

You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. – Genesis 50:20 The Bible

Evils intentions turned on its head, a great story every time.

Joseph’s own character remain true to his internal compass based on his God connection throughout the good times and bad, and in this case during his lifetime it ended on a very good note. His family, his people and the empire were all spared death.

So between a listen to Dr. Simone Gold talk (given 29OCT2021) of America’s Frontline Doctors at a Calvary Chapel church in Ventura, CA, USA yesterday (note: begins at the 25:00 min mark) ..

https://rumble.com/vofons-the-uncensored-truth-tour-time-to-make-a-stand-godspeak-calvary-chapel.html

.. to a Catherine Austin Fitts interview (note: link expires on 02NOV2021) from Dr. Joseph Mercola ..

… the MESSAGE is that there are finally some positive changes happening as a result of this latest surge of evil.

Firstly, during a Q&A at the end of Dr. Simone Gold’s talk she had a question from a mother of a 5 year old boy whose annual well-check appointment was coming up and she was sure she would be bullied to get her son the jab and if she refused that CPS (Child Protective Services) would be called. Dr. Gold suggest that she cancel that appointment. Dr. Gold also suggested that if the child was healthy, there was little reason to follow-through with the appointment anyway BUT the next thing she said is that her organization, America’s Frontline Doctors was hoping to get in that space .. as a parallel medical services network to the existing US government-Pharma-Medical complex!

Secondly, Catherine Austin Fitts also had words of hope in her interview, see these clips:

There are signs of real change, however — positive change. Austin Fitts notes that, for the first time in her life, she’s seeing extraordinarily talented, well-educated people who have always been reluctant to rock the boat say they want out; they’d rather die than be enslaved by organized crime.

“I remember one really phenomenal scientist and doctor saying to me, ‘I’m ready to start a whole new civilization.’ There’s a wave of talent and gravitas I’ve never seen before saying, ‘I’d rather be part of the new. I’ve had it with this.’

So, I see a tremendous breakout — not just pushback — of people who want to be part of something that is civilized. They realize that corruption has reached a point where there’s no point trying to get along or be in the middle of the road or go along …

The challenge for all of us is, how can we swing our savings and our retirement savings to finance the creation of that new capacity? On one hand, you have students leaving school and needing to homeschool. On the other hand, you have teachers leaving schools because they don’t want to get the injection.

We’ve got to create businesses and networks and websites that help us find each other. If that process occurs in an entrepreneurial way, it could be very positive and very exciting.

That’s what I see in the new media. But it also needs to happen in health care and in education, and it’s going to require enough people realizing that the Titanic is sinking. There’s no way back. They might as well grab some planks and start building arks.

Without integrity, there’s no civilization. So, if you want to be part of something that has integrity, you can’t stay [in the old system]. I say it again, there’s no middle of the road … I say, say yes to science, say yes to integrity, say yes to law.

Every person’s circumstance is different, but find a way to translate that yes into something productive. Be useful. That’s what I tried to do. I had a wonderful life as an investment banker, but I woke up and I couldn’t [continue] … I did billion-dollar deals. I didn’t know how to do a financial plan for somebody who had $25,000.

So, I started by just answering people’s questions and those questions evolved into two businesses, the Solari Report and Solari Investment Advisory Services. It took many years, but I just tried to be useful. So, we each have to start there.

We have to ask, what skills do I have? What skills can I learn? What skills can I evolve? And how can I serve the people around me? What can I do to be useful? And we go from there.

But you have to choose integrity and civilization or choose being a slave of organized crime. You have to make that choice. And you know something? It’s a dangerous choice. I almost didn’t make it. But as I told my old partner, I’d rather die in the wilderness than be in the underground places with you guys.”

While so many have gone crazy in herds, there needs to be ways for people to connect as they return one-by-one to a world that values integrity, liberty and freedom.

To summarize, I will let Dr. Joseph Mercola and Catherine Austin Fitts have the floor:

So, how can the average person resist this diabolical plan? One strategy would be to move to a state or country that has made vaccine passport requirements illegal. Another strategy is to simply refuse the passport, no matter what the ramifications.

This goes for those who have gotten one or two COVID jabs as well. To maintain a valid passport, you’ll have to take boosters. How many are you willing to take? How many times are you willing to risk your health and life? At some point, you’ll have to make the same decision as everyone who is unvaccinated — freedom or slavery.

What this means is we’ll also need to create alternate and parallel systems for everything we’ll be denied access to if we don’t have a valid vaccine passport. This includes education, food production, services of various kinds, health care and economy.

These parallel systems will be crucial anyway, as the U.S. entitlement programs — Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — look like they’ll be out of money by 2028. And, as these programs vanish, they’ll take the drug industry down with them, as they are drug companies’ primary revenue source.

“I discovered there was a whole community of people who did RV living because they just didn’t trust any jurisdiction. They wanted the ability to get up and go, and that group has been growing steadily.

So, my feeling is we have to say no, and we have to do whatever we can do. I went through that decision process during the [government] litigation because I was absolutely convinced that if I kept saying no, chances were very high I could be killed. I was poisoned on many occasions, so I dealt with some pretty severe harassment.

All I can tell you is that saying no turned out to be the smartest thing I ever did. I’m not saying that isn’t difficult. It’s exceptionally inconvenient. I went from being a very wealthy person to having to live through periods of intense poverty. It was pretty gruesome.

But at the same time, you come out the other end and it’s a great life. It’s just a great life to be free … I don’t think there’s any way to get to a free and inspired life other than hurtling into it. You have to say no. And if we don’t say no, we’re going to be slaves. Frankly, I’d rather be dead than take these injections. God knows what’s in them.”

What the evil forces in this world intended for harm, God ………..

Stay the course friends of freedom!

-SF1

Novel Virus? mRNA Rx Helps? Knowing History Assists Us with Truer Perspectives About Reality

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

― C. S. Lewis

We are told, and most believe, a raft of lies since March 2020 (and truth be known, government has lied to its citizens since the beginning of time, it is what they do).

Why do we give government (and those that align themselves with that group of people) the benefit of the doubt when history itself serves to show that government is NO friend of the people.

Think WMDs in Iraq (triggering invasion of Iraq), Gulf of Tonkin incident (triggering Vietnam War ramp-up) and the “surprise” of Pearl Harbor attack (triggering the US to enter WWII). As Elaine on Seinfeld would say:

Fake, fake … fake

This is precisely why for our own health, government needs to do as little “for” us as possible. People simply die with too much government .. just ask the Chinese with Mao, Russia with Stalin and Germany with Hitler.

Apparently, the people still hold out that government is a good god and will deliver them into the land of safety .. via a boxcar if necessary:

Maybe now one can read the Tale of the Vax (parallel to the Tale of 9/11) that the recent 18 months has unveiled, and tell me you still trust the government:

Question– Have the mRNA vaccines been tested on animals?

Answer– Yes, they have.

Question– Were the animal trials successful?

Answer– Yes and no.

Yes, the experiments on mice showed that a low dose of the vaccine induces a robust antibody response to the infection.

But, no, the antibodies were not able to attack the spike protein from a different strain of the virus.

Question– I’m not sure what that means? Do you mean that the vaccine DOES provide some limited protection from the original (Wuhan) virus, but does not necessarily provide protection from the variants?

Answer– That’s right, but it’s a bit more complicated than that because– as the virus changes — the antibodies that helped to fight the original virus can actually enhance the “infectivity” of the variant. In other words, vaccine-generated antibodies can switch-sides and increase the severity of the illness. Simply put, they can make you sicker or kill you. Scientists have known this for a long time. Check out this clip from a 2005 research paper:

“A jab against one strain might worsen infection with others….

In the.. study, Gary Nabel of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.. injected mice with spike protein from a SARS virus taken from a human patient infected in early 2003. They then collected the antibodies the animals produced.

In lab experiments, they showed that these antibodies were unable to attack spike protein from a different strain of SARS, isolated from a patient infected in late 2003….The team next tested whether the antibodies would attack spike proteins from two SARS strains isolated from civets, from which the virus is thought to have originally jumped into humans. In this case, they found hints that the antibodies actually boosted the ability of the virus to infect cells.…

The results show that the virus changes over time, so that a strain that crops up in one outbreak might be quite different from that in a later outbreak. “This virus is not standing still and we need to take this into account,” Nabel says.

This raises the prospect that a vaccine against one strain of SARS virus could prove ineffective against others. Worse, a jab against one strain might even aggravate an infection with SARS virus from civets or another species. “It’s obviously a concern,” Nabel says..
This would not be the first case where exposure to one strain of a virus can worsen infection with another.” (“Caution raised over SARS vaccine”, Nature)

So much for the “novel” aspect of SARS-CoV-2 (note that this is not #1, but #2 duh). Scientists have known for over 15 years that the jab would do what it did this summer .. make the jabbed MORE prone towards dealing with infections worse than if one were NOT JABBED.

Get it?

It DOES make more sense when you understand they want to kill us!

I will let this article continue this thought …

Question– I’m still confused. Can you summarize what they’re saying?

Answer– Sure. They’re saying that scientists have known for nearly two decades that vaccines narrowly aimed at just one protein are bound to fail. They’re saying that the spike protein is highly-adaptable and capable of changing its shape to survive. They’re saying that vaccines aimed at the spike protein will inevitably produce variants that evade vaccine-generated antibodies. They’re saying that by narrowing the vaccine’s focus to the spike protein alone, the drug companies have ensured that previously helpful antibodies will do an about-face, allow the virus to enter healthy cells, replicate at will, and cause sickness or death. They are saying that the current crop of vaccines is in fact perpetuating the pandemic. And–since the science has been clear for the last 16 years– we can add one more observation to the list, that is, that the current approach to mass vaccination is neither haphazard, slapdash or random. It is intentional. The vaccination campaign managers are deliberately ignoring the science in order to sustain a permanent state of crisis. Science is being manipulated to achieve a political objective.

Politics kills .. and this whole Covid-thing is theater, from the masks to the social distancing to the “vaccine” .. it is just to distract from what is at the core of this tectonic change in societies around the world. From the “surprise” beginnings of vax production:

“The virus broke out in Wuhan…on Jan. 7, and less than a week later Moderna had a proposed sequence for an mRNA vaccine against it???

Really? Is that the same Moderna that had been playing-around with mRNA for over a decade but was never able to successfully bring a vaccine to market?

Yep, the very same company. Here’s more:

“And by Feb. 24, the team was shipping vials from a plant in Norwood, Mass??”

Wow! Another Covid miracle! You almost get whiplash watching these companies crank out their “wonder drugs” at record-breaking speed.

Keep in mind, there’s a very high probability that the virus was man-made, (In other words, it’s a bioweapon.) and the people who have been implicated in the funding and creation of that bioweapon are also closely aligned with the big drug companies that have produced the antidote in record time that has already netted tens of billions of dollars in profits for a drug for which there was no reliable animal testing, no long-term safety data, and no formal regulatory approval.

.. through the 56 day animal trials the ended WAY too soon and on to the “blowing up” the human trials:

The obvious purpose of the trials was to get the vaccines over the finish-line before anyone figured out what was going on. It’s the same reason why the drug companies “unblinded” their human trials after the vaccines got the green light from the FDA. Shortly after the trials were concluded, the people in the placebo arm were allowed to get vaccinated.

Why would they do that? Why would they vaccinate the people who willingly allowed themselves to be guinea pigs for the sake of public health, only to vaccinate them shortly after, thus, eliminating any chance of finding out what the long-term safety issues might be? It makes no sense, does it?

Take a look at this short clip from the British Medical Journal whose scientists are equally bewildered:

“The (drug) companies say they have an ethical obligation to unblind volunteers so they can receive the vaccine. But some experts are concerned about a “disastrous” loss of critical information if volunteers on a trial’s placebo arm are unblinded…

Although the FDA has granted the vaccines emergency use authorization, to get full license approval two years of follow-up data are needed. The data are now likely to be scanty and less reliable given that the trials are effectively being unblinded.

Consumer representative Sheldon Toubman, a lawyer and FDA advisory panel member, said that Pfizer and BioNTech had not proved that their vaccine prevents severe covid-19. “The FDA says all we can do is suggest protection from severe covid disease; we need to know that it does that,” he said.

He countered claims, based on experience with other vaccines, six weeks of follow-up was long enough to detect safety signals. Six weeks may not be long enough for this entirely new type of “untested” [mRNA] vaccine, Toubman said.

Goodman wants all companies to be held to the same standard and says they should not be allowed to make up their own rules about unblinding. He told The BMJ that, while he was “very optimistic” about the vaccines, “blowing up the trials” by allowing unblinding “will set a de facto standard for all vaccine trials to come.” And that, he said, “is dangerous.”

(“Covid-19: Should vaccine trials be unblinded?” The British Medical Journal)

.. this whole thing is a horrible show that kills so many people along the way … and politicians don’t bat an eye or shed a tear. The parasites are expendable.

Like I have said before, with 45 million getting the Swine Flu vaccine like I did in US Navy boot-camp in 1976, only 26 deaths among the vaccinated shut down that attempt to reduce deaths and hospitalizations when it was shown to be a solution that was worse than the disease. Unfortunately, common sense like that is in short supply these days.

In summary:

Is it really that hard to see the outline of a political agenda here? After all, aren’t the drug companies working with the regulatory agencies that are working with the public health officials that are working with the media that are working with the corrupted politicians that are working with the Intel agencies that are working with the meddling globalist billionaires that are working with the giant private equity firms that oversee the entire operation pulling the appropriate strings whenever needed? ..

Don’t you think people are entitled to know what the government wants to inject into their bodies? Don’t you think they have a right to know how it will effect their immune systems, their vital organs and their overall health? Don’t you think they have the right to decide for themselves which drugs they will take and which they will refuse to take?

Forcing someone to take a drug he does not want, is not just wrong. It’s unAmerican. Which is why people should reject vaccine mandates as a matter of principle. They are an attack on personal liberty, the foundation of our constitutional system. It’s a principle worth dying for.

As for the mass vaccination campaign, it is the most maniacally-genocidal project ever concocted by man. There’s simply no way to calculate the amount of suffering and death we are about to face for trusting people whose policies were obviously shaped by their undiluted hatred of humanity. As German microbiologist Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi said:

“In the end, we’re going to see mass illness and deaths among people who normally would have had wonderful lives ahead of them.”

Sad.

Truth.

-SF1

Frightened Sheep – How Did the More Financially Secured Get So Scared of Life

A recent article shares very articulately how a group of upper-middle class people got so scared of life in this day and age of advanced technologies and modern day conveniences.

This is something I have thought of from time to time in my own career exposure to this class of people. One thing I had noticed was that the older members of this crowd ten and twenty years ago were not quite as disconnected as the current crop of intellectuals. It seems that while the next generation had almost a 100% university socialization, their predecessors had more time exposed to real life “in the trenches”.

I found myself over the years drawn to the realness that the working class brought to the laboratories I worked in more than the intellectuals who could barely have a conversation with you about anything other than science.

This articles goes a long way to help unpack what happened even though it is short on solutions other than re-discovering the value of being exposed to real work towards gaining empathy to those who do this day-in and day-out for their entire lives while keeping a smile.

Here is some clips, but I encourage you to read the whole article!

They’re all around us, especially those of us who live in relatively prosperous metropolitan neighborhoods in the US or Western Europe. Despite being—at least in material terms—among the most fortunate people who have ever walked the earth, they are very scared. And they want you to be very frightened too.

I guess that is part of my own resentment of these types of scared and scarred people .. is that they want others to act as they do.

Indeed, many of them see your refusal to be as frightened as they are about life’s inevitable risks as a grave problem which entitles them and their often powerful and influential fellow travelers to recur to all manner of authoritarian practices to insure that you adhere to their increasingly neurotic view of reality.

This tendency has been in full bloom lately as the people who have sat safely behind their laptops during the last 20 months have harangued and threatened those who have been out on job sites and meatpacking plants mixing freely with others and the virus, to internalize their own obsessions.

It does seem that the COVID season has enhanced the process that brought these people to this point in life. As pure sheep, most see nothing wrong with their worldview as safety is #1 in their lives.

The author goes on to point out that a lot of this is a new thing historically (and isn’t it wonderful to have history to point to towards unveiling more normal times in days gone by):

For most of recorded time prosperity and education have been the gateway to a life of relative freedom from worry. But now, the people who most enjoy these benefits are, it seems, wracked with anxiety and, in the not infrequent way of many people suffering that plague, and hellbent on sharing their misery with others.

From this point on the author shares some theories as to how this all came about:

One way of explaining the phenomenon is in the context of income inequality and its devastating effects on the shape and size of the upper middle class, and those who still believe they have a realistic chance of joining its ranks. Those who have “made it” into that sub-group are deeply cognizant of the unstable nature of their status in a world of corporate buyouts and rampant layoffs. And they worry that they may not be able to provide their children with the ability to retain what they see, rightly or wrongly, as the only real version of the good life.

Thus, when the people way up on top made the decision following September 11th to make the inducement of fear the cornerstone of political mobilization in an increasingly post-political and post-communal society, they found a ready reserve of support in this anxious if also relatively prosperous cohort of the population.

And after two decades of having their already anxious inner selves massaged daily by an a steady drumbeat of fear (and a diet of Trump as Hitler for dessert) both they and their children fell like ripe fruit into the hands of those that wanted to sell them on the “unprecedented” threat posed by a disease that leaves 99.75% of its victims wonderfully alive.

So as you can see, there are several themes that emerge in the CSI for what went wrong, as in, “how did our society produce so many pure sheep?”

Isolation is yet another ingredient:

Adding another layer to this general phenomenon is the increasing isolation of our educated classes from “physicality” in both their work and communal lives.

Until the 1990s it was virtually impossible for anyone other than the richest of the rich not to have any active or passive acquaintance with the world of physical work. Indeed, for the first three or four decades after World War II many of those who could financially afford to relieve their children of this acquaintance with physical work often did not do so, as they believed that knowing what it meant to sweat, ache, be crushingly bored and, not infrequently, humiliated during the course of the day was essential to gaining a more rounded and empathetic understanding of the human condition.

All that ended when the financialization of the economy and the rise of the internet made what Christopher Lasch presciently termed the “rebellion of the elites a much more palpable possibility.”

For example, very few of my students have ever worked during their summers in anything other than office jobs, often procured through family connections. They thus have little understanding, and hence little empathy, of just how brutal and demeaning daily work can be for so many people.

I think you can see that this “understanding” might be useful in helping these people out of this “funk” and towards living real life, dangerous and free in the months and years to come as some of these sheep having gone crazy in herds can return one by one to a more normal worldview.

You never know how your knowledge of history or of society’s brokenness can make you a blessing in another’s life someday!

Be true, stay the course and be kind .. many are walking wounded in this world.

-SF1

Does Putin Have an Edge Mentally on “Let’s Go Brandon”? Putin’s Wisdom on Display

When I read this address given at the Valdai Discussion Club I was impressed by the range of thought that Vladimir Putin possessed. While I do not agree with much of what he said, there were parts that were spot on IMHO. Here are a few clips:

The attempt to create it [stable world order] after the end of the Cold War on the basis of Western domination failed, as we see. The current state of international affairs is a product of that very failure, and we must learn from this.

Some may wonder, what have we arrived at? We have arrived somewhere paradoxical. Just an example: for two decades, the most powerful nation in the world has been conducting military campaigns in two countries that it cannot be compared to by any standard. But in the end, it had to wind down operations without achieving a single goal that it had set for itself going in 20 years ago, and to withdraw from these countries causing considerable damage to others and itself. In fact, the situation has worsened dramatically.

The last 20 years have effectively been the “blowback” for starting these wars based on the lies around 9/11. The mistakes made impacted the lives of untold millions, killed a million Iraqis, maimed hundreds of thousands physically and psychologically and killed thousands of US service personnel who believed their leadership in the noble cause delivered by the war criminal G.W. Bush. Given this reflection, how long will it take to realize the 9/11-like event the US and many other countries around the world experienced in the spring of 2020 called “Covid”?

I digress.

Putin went of to share his thoughts around the social and cultural upheavals underway on most Western nations including the USA:

We look in amazement at the processes underway in the countries which have been traditionally looked at as the standard-bearers of progress. Of course, the social and cultural shocks that are taking place in the United States and Western Europe are none of our business; we are keeping out of this. Some people in the West believe that an aggressive elimination of entire pages from their own history, “reverse discrimination” against the majority in the interests of a minority, and the demand to give up the traditional notions of mother, father, family and even gender, they believe that all of these are the mileposts on the path towards social renewal.

Listen, I would like to point out once again that they have a right to do this, we are keeping out of this. But we would like to ask them to keep out of our business as well. We have a different viewpoint, at least the overwhelming majority of Russian society – it would be more correct to put it this way – has a different opinion on this matter. We believe that we must rely on our own spiritual values, our historical tradition and the culture of our multiethnic nation.

The advocates of so-called ‘social progress’ believe they are introducing humanity to some kind of a new and better consciousness. Godspeed, hoist the flags as we say, go right ahead. The only thing that I want to say now is that their prescriptions are not new at all. It may come as a surprise to some people, but Russia has been there already. After the 1917 revolution, the Bolsheviks, relying on the dogmas of Marx and Engels, also said that they would change existing ways and customs and not just political and economic ones, but the very notion of human morality and the foundations of a healthy society. The destruction of age-old values, religion and relations between people, up to and including the total rejection of family (we had that, too), encouragement to inform on loved ones – all this was proclaimed progress and, by the way, was widely supported around the world back then and was quite fashionable, same as today. By the way, the Bolsheviks were absolutely intolerant of opinions other than theirs.

This, I believe, should call to mind some of what we are witnessing now. Looking at what is happening in a number of Western countries, we are amazed to see the domestic practices, which we, fortunately, have left, I hope, in the distant past. The fight for equality and against discrimination has turned into aggressive dogmatism bordering on absurdity, when the works of the great authors of the past – such as Shakespeare – are no longer taught at schools or universities, because their ideas are believed to be backward. The classics are declared backward and ignorant of the importance of gender or race. In Hollywood memos are distributed about proper storytelling and how many characters of what colour or gender should be in a movie. This is even worse than the agitprop department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Countering acts of racism is a necessary and noble cause, but the new ‘cancel culture’ has turned it into ‘reverse discrimination’ that is, reverse racism. The obsessive emphasis on race is further dividing people, when the real fighters for civil rights dreamed precisely about erasing differences and refusing to divide people by skin colour. I specifically asked my colleagues to find the following quote from Martin Luther King: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by their character.”

The Russians are blessed to have a more recent example of yet another failure of the totalitarianism stripe (packaged either as socialism, fascism or communism). From this experience, the Russian citizens are much wiser than their American counterparts in understanding what is really at stake in the long term.

We all could learn by reading what people from other nations share even if we do not agree with all they might say. Remember, this is “a place to entertain a thought without accepting it” 🙂

Love freedom, keep your principles .. and let your actions speak louder than words!

-SF1