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Dr. Suess, Lifelong Leftist Jewish Propagandist - Anti-German (WW2), Cultmarx Shill (FTN Podcast + Transcript)

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We want to take a look , another look at history .
More recent U.S. children 's literary history , perhaps .
Yeah , well , so , Tony , just grease @ @ @ @ @ @ @ talked about McDonald 's on the midweek show .
We had this in bottom of the stack forever about the creators behind the Happy Meal .
And I highly recommend , you know , go sign up for the paywall if you 're not a paywall .
So we talked about this on the midweek show about how the creator of McDonald 's Happy Meal , not just the creator of it , but also the artwork for the original box .
Were were the usual suspects , both of whom were Jewish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this combination of of the free toys with the fast food and the and the the way that this is marketed is is , you know , a hugely contributing factor to childhood obesity and things like that .
And we also talked about Arby 's .
I saw some guy in the comments was saying that he thought Arby 's stood for roast beef .
I thought that , too , until we discovered that Arby 's actually stands for Raffaelle Brothers who are both Jewish .
And then we talked a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But we 're talking about illustrator 's , childhood illustrator 's and how this this Jewish illustrator was chosen for the original box , for the Happy Meal to make it attractive for kids .
This guy who had won a lot of awards , you know , put these colorful images that children are familiar with on a box , give them a free toy , and they 're going to be hooked on Big Bird burgers , fries and syrupy cola drinks for life .
And I think we sort of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Because I 'd never really given it any thought what his background was , what what 's the deal with this guy ?
And we have I 've seen people , some people claiming that he 's Jewish , other people claiming that he 's not .
And it turned out that the the portal of the rabbit hole was finding out that he had been he had been declared an honorary Jew by the mayor of Jerusalem at one point .
And I was just like , holy shit , there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ smoke , there 's fire at James .
I mean , this guy has quite the background .
And the ensuing research into this into doctors , his background just blew my fucking mind .
I 'm sure other people have talked about this .
I 'm sure this has come up elsewhere in our circles .
Other people seem to know about this .
Other people seem to have no idea .
I was I was thunderstruck by Dr. Seuss .
Right .
And I like it all makes sense now when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is pushed , because the illustrations are n't really particularly that good anyway .
And then it 's sort of like , oh , it 's not because there 's anything talented about this .
Well , talented at subversion , I suppose , but nothing really good and wholesome about the books .
It 's actually kind of subversive , is n't it ?
Yes .
As he would describe of himself , subversive as hell .
Not a lot of talent .
A lot of talent .
Did he say Sayres @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dude , just get ready because .
Yes , the the amount .
Yes .
Actually .
So but what 's important is also understand .
Yes .
Understanding why he is promoted so heavily in the modern era .
But also why he is anything other than just a random cartoonist from the nineteen forties .
Because there were a lot of people drawing little cartoons for newspapers and magazines and what have you at the time .
And not all of them went on to become these the the definitive children @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a very good reason why Dr. Seuss , Mr. Geisel was was chosen for this role .
And as we 'll find out .
Yes .
Not biologically Jewish , but he did everything he could to become one .
He was born and raised in Springfield , Massachusetts .
His father was a brewer and later became a public park supervisor after the brewery closed due to prohibition and the family was of German descent .
And this is when you start to see him , him , you know , sort @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in power .
He claims that he and his sister experienced anti German prejudice from other children following the outbreak of World War One in 1914 .
Of course , there were so many people of German descent in in the United States at the time .
I find that story kind of hard to believe .
Well , even .
But even if it 's true , though , like let 's just say for for example , that it 's true , we know that it 's a common response by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rhetoric is employed .
And it is so , in fact , is so effective is that , yes , it does end up radicalizing some people .
But the response from others tends to be a need to prove how totally not racist you are .
So when whites are called racist , what is the result ?
They like adopt black children as babies and , you know , proudly allow their daughters to be married .
To blacks or in the case of .
What was that girl 's name @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I mean , the taco dad .
Molly to .
Like , you will not call me a racist .
You know , it 's like .
Yeah , in though in the in the Stanley family had this issue as well .
So it does seem actually plausible that maybe if maybe if Keisel was subjected to anti German press prejudice , his reaction is to show , like , how totally not racist he is .
And not just that the anti German predator Petrak prejudice may have taken the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ n't like you because you 're German and it 's probably because you do n't like Jews .
And this guy spent the rest of his natural existence showing just how much they were wrong .
And it 's just yeah , it 's like it really I do n't know .
You can entertain either theory , but I 'm talking about what we know , like this guy .
I had no idea .
But you just have to look at what he was doing before he became a popular kids @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what he was employed to do during World War Two , right ?
Right .
Yeah .
This was his role this week .
He was selected for this role and he performed well during this test .
And he was rewarded afterwards .
He was not a successful illustrator before World War Two .
He was a guy who had a degree in literature from Dartmouth , then went on to study at Oxford and was was not successful .
Right .
He was having trouble getting any of his manuscripts published @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's books published .
He was going nowhere .
It was it was a dead end role for him .
And so , too , to put food on the table .
He was a writer for this or maybe to put food on the table or maybe because he was drawn to this .
You have to decide he was drawn to this this New York magazine p.m. and there is no definitive is no absolute answer on what that stands for .
But the P.M. , it was a leftist newspaper @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Irving Haberman , Dan Israel , Julius Skippy Edelman and Leo leave cheeses , journalists .
Yeah , it just gets just getting started .
Journalist I.F .
Stone was the paper 's Washington correspondent .
He published an award winning series on European Jewish refugees attempting to run the British blockade to reach Palestine , which was collected and published as the underground to Palestine .
There are other staff included theater critic Louis Kronenberger and film critic Cecilia Agar .
So in the midst of World War Two , there was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mill , you and you .
Yet to prove his prove his anti-racism chops , he wow .
He became one of the most one of the most virulent anti German antiwhite cartoonists one could imagine .
Yeah , you got to look at the cartoon , because I did n't I 've never I had never seen these before .
But it just seems like an endless stream of cartoons that he did attacking Adolf Hitler , attacking the America first movement , attacking Lavonne , all of France or one of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its Dr Seuss , like you do n't even have like him for somebody showed you this and did n't tell you is Dr. Seuss you immediately know who did this because he even has Uncle Sam in a number of different iterations dressed up as a snitch , which we 're going to get into here as well .
The Snitches cartoon , everybody 's familiar with that as an allegory for Nazis and Jews .
I 'm sure you 're already realizing the star on the belly .
It 's like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into place .
But he was very pro FDR , but pro FDR in the sense of attacking the isolationists in the America the actual America first movement , not the one that has been has been perverted by by used and perverted by Donald Trump , but who remember when Trump made America first one of his slogans and how the oil saying was heard around the world and then quickly subsided as they realized that it was just they were he was appropriating it and making it gay .
And now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as a rallying point , it 's been gayed up by Trump .
Prior to that , it was unmolested and it was actually representative of people who did n't want to go to World War Two .
We 've talked about on the show before how World War two is not was not popular .
Getting involved in that fight was not popular .
And , you know , with Dr. Seuss , who 's not a doctor at all , was turned on to attacking Father Copelin .
He was attacking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who stood in the way of the U.S. rolling right into Europe and destroying Adolf Hitler and basically all of Europe with it .
And so , yeah , what a great tool of the establishment here , James .
Yeah .
And you need to you do need to go look up these cartoons .
And to see to see exactly what he was doing .
And you 're right .
You would think if you did not know the time and place in which Dr Seuss lived or .
History , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is someone copying his his art style .
But no , this is actually him .
You know , there 's the one with Hitler , a lynching Jews on on a tree and a hanging .
And there 's the one that .
Well , I have to .
Well , actually , Dr. Seuss here , Jeyes , he 's actually not wrong here with the uncles that Uncle Sam 's neach with the sign hanging from his beak .
This is I am part Jewish in the in the gallows @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this bird is possessed by an evil demon .
Well , as signed by Sheriff Charles Lindbergh .
Like this .
Oh , not wrong .
There 's always an element of truth in in a lot of what they do as we know .
But yeah , I mean , these this this artwork is just .
Yeah .
You just got to go look it up .
He got to do it .
And yeah , it 's it 's incredible that that he did this .
And yeah .
You @ @ @ @ @ @ @ react is that no child in America or in any other part of the world should ever see a Dr. Seuss book ever again , because it 's not just the propaganda from World War two .
And then World War Two is over .
Yay !
Victory .
We beat .
We beat Adolf Hitler , the evil Nazi .
And now we 're gon na move on to perfectly innocent , totally benign and banal children 's book that have no meaning whatsoever .
He 's just a good artist , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ good story about people .
Oh , yeah .
Do n't you love the Grinch and The Lorax and the Cat in the Hat ?
Are n't they just great stories that all children grow to know and love and recite from memory ?
It 's just like , oh , my God .
Well , yeah , you may not think that anybody should and should view his illustrations and read stories .
And I would happen to agree with you .
But some people disagreed with that .
Some people , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He did over dozens and dozens , I believe , hundreds of anti Hitler A.I.
, anti-American first cartoons .
And this guy who was struggling to sell a manuscript , could n't get it , could n't get a regular writing gig .
Other than this cartooning job at the end of the war , he 's approached by Random House Publishing , which was founded by Donald Simon Klopfer , a Jew , and Bennett CERT , a Jew .
And he gets this blockbuster deal .
All of a sudden @ @ @ @ @ @ @ illustrate and publish children 's books .
And this guy , Klopfer , you know , he say , OK , sure , he 's Jewish .
No , this guy was not just Jewish .
He was on the American Council for Judaism and actually resigned from the American Council on Judaism after a statement was issued that he found to be repugnant after Rabbi Elmer Berger , the executive director of the group , declared that Israel was engaged in aggression in the Middle East during the these six days war @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that he actually resigned in protest .
And then during the 50s , he got to promote a stance like no longer write is like the one anti Zionist Jew and like the entire country at this time .
This is the one guy , right .
Right .
Yeah .
In the 60s .
Oh , yeah , especially .
And so during the 50s , he was still doing cartooning .
But he got a promotion and he was cartooning for a publication called Redbook Magazine , which was published first @ @ @ @ @ @ @ illustrated by Steamer Rosen , Rosenthal and Eckstein , a firm of Chicago retail merchants .
So suddenly , Dr. Seuss gets his two big breaks after the war from two incredibly Jewish .
One hundred percent Jewish through and through company as well .
And then this guy one other one other thing .
This this A.I.
, A.I.
, fascist , anti-racist propaganda that he did .
This was n't just in the midst of World War Two .
He was still doing this stuff in the mid 50s and early @ @ @ @ @ @ @ showing what a good Shabbos he was and continued to to pump this stuff because they were they had to keep this going .
I mean , this did n't just end in 1945 .
Like , this continued on and on and on and on .
And then they you know , as they took control of more institutions , especially with , you know , the deep dive we did on the student loans and making making that a priority takeover of academia .
It obviously became important for him to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ him start writing children 's books , because as I understand this , there is a decided delineation between the work that he did prior to writing these children 's books and what he was doing during the war .
I mean , correct me if I 'm wrong , but he was not a children 's cartoonist until that was what he started doing and became doing that full time .
It 's not like you can go back into the 1940s and find the kids books that Seuss wrote .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ happened once .
That became the direction that he trended in .
So that 's kind of interesting thing to point out as well .
Yeah , I know he had dabbled in illustration , but like , this guy had a Dartmouth degree , right ?
He was not he was not just some some like Rube that wrote only kids books .
This guy is well educated and had tried to make it as a regular author first .
But it was after they saw how powerful his his works were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ chose him as an emissary to create this propaganda for children going on into the system .
And that 's what he did .
What have we ?
What have we always been told about the evil Nazi propaganda ?
That would just get inside your mind and twist things up and make you think things that were n't right ?
It 's like it 's all projection .
It 's all now , certainly that the Nazis had great pop propaganda .
But look what look what they do .
Look what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This propaganda was so good that you did n't even know growing up Dr. Seuss .
It 's like , oh , this is a beloved children 's author .
Like .
But no , it 's actually some of the most insidious propaganda that 's that 's ever existed in this regard .
Yeah , you did n't know that when you 're reading The Cat in the Hat comes back as a kid , that this is actually an allegory because the cat is trying to clean up a mess and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ So he has to bring in his friends from all over the world .
This is , of course , representing internationalism , triumphing over nationalism and isolationism .
Horton hears a who is anti fascist , a rejection of conformity .
Yertle the Turtle is meant to symbolize Hitler overthrown because he oppressed people .
And one of the most egregious examples is the snitches , which was a direct and explicit rejection of anti-Semitism .
The moral lesson .
This is the one where some snitches have the green stars , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bellies .
Some do n't .
And then someone comes to town and has a machine that will put stars on them three dollars and take them off three dollars .
And they keep going through and through .
It 's ten .
Eventually they 're off for ten dollars .
I thought , Sylvester , monkey brain , whatever the guy 's name is with the machine , like his prices keep increasing .
That 's the element of truth .
It 's like you have this guy show up to solve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ element of this , which is kind of funny is that you have this guy show up to solve this problem for these snitches and he 's of a different race .
He looks nothing like them at all .
And he 's there with his machine and he 's like , you know , I 'll all out of I 'll put a star in your belly for three dollars .
Oh , you know , everybody has a star now .
That 's a problem .
So the people that want @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ten dollars and the prices keep increasing and it keeps going and going and going .
And then it says at the end of like there 's a video of , you know , somebody .
NARRATOR Reading the book once it says in the book , like once once this Sylvester Monkeyface , whatever has once the snitches have run out of money and have no more money to spend .
And they realize how silly this is , this guy just packs up and leaves town and it 's like , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that it 's like , who is this guy that looks like nobody else in this story comes in , sells them a bunch of useless shit like how the star take away a star .
Do this .
Do that , you know , and he is actually preying on the fact that these people are divided , in fact , dividing them in order to sell a product to them , creating a kosher dialectic out of the snitches .
And then once he 's taken all the money , he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , you know , it 's like .
And then the end , the moral of the story is like , yeah , the snitches all learn to just live together .
And everything was fine .
And they realized that stars were n't really important , no matter .
They 're all speeches , no matter what they are and blah , blah , blah , blah , blah .
But it 's like none of this stuff really dawns on you .
But as a kid , this is what is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Like , everybody 's the same .
This is where all this this pathology comes from .
And I 'm thinking Dr. Seuss .
I think he should just be renamed Dr. Semite .
I mean , that 's really what he is .
He 's just Dr. Semite because that 's what he is like .
Yeah .
It 's like I 'm gon na I 'm gon na have a visceral react , I think , to whenever I see a Dr. Seuss book .
And they 're everywhere .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Yeah .
The Lorax is another one .
This is one of Seuss 's deceptively whimsical characters who delivers a powerful ode to the virtues of tikkun olam , healing the world .
Apparently , there 's this woman who who wrote some Jew , wrote an article about how she loves reading her Jewish son , Green Eggs and Ham .
Even though ham is like the juicers Jews , Jews love this stuff so much .
Leverne put up with the ham in the book , I guess .
But she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lorax like he wanted to go around cleaning , cleaning up his neighborhood because The Lorax has like tikkun olam in it .
And then there 's the butter battle book , which I was n't even familiar with .
This must have been maybe one that was slick , too , on the nose , but it was written during the Cold War and tells the tale of the Zook 's and the UK 's whose argument about how to bread , butter , bread quickly turns out turns into an all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Zook 's are like the bottom Buttars and the UK 's of the top Buttars .
It 's like , well , top or bar .
It 's like , what is this even .
This is stupid .
It 's such .
It 's so stupid and just so on the nose that this is probably why .
But it was an allegory for Israel and Palestine .
That was another that was another thing in this whole situation .
But yeah , you were aware of the Japanese and interment cartoons @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Jews have said , well , Dr Semite was n't perfect .
I mean , he he did have his his failings .
But the reality is , is back then and they 'll even admit in Gisele 's circles , like this was a popular sentiment .
Why was it popular ?
Who did the Japanese internment camps in the United States ?
Those were Jews .
And that 's maybe that 's why .
Who 's that ?
Who 's that gay .
That gay Japanese guy who is always @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was always like big in the Japanese internment stuff like he .
George Takai .
Is that it ?
Yeah .
Oh , yeah , yeah , he seems to have disappeared .
It 's like , yeah , guy , we 're not talking about Japanese internment camps anymore .
So just shut the fuck up .
This will .
Yes .
So this thing about being racist Asians .
This actually came up four or five years ago now .
And there was this effort among these recently WOAK and recently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ specifically to cancel Dr Seuss .
And I remember this being a thing that came up quickly but then very quickly went away .
Yeah .
Right .
I know .
You know , because her stand that all of his books are allegories to make children like be anti-racist and love Jews .
Yeah .
Just stop .
Yeah .
And you want a perfect example of the the kosher license to be racist being given and taken away as they see fit .
Look at Dr. Seuss 's cartoons in favor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ guy that was was kvetching and clutching pearls about .
About the treatment of Jews in Germany .
Meanwhile , he was .
Yeah .
Drawing the foom and shoes and squinty eyes and drawing , you know , Japs getting kicked around by by brave , bold Americans like .
Yeah .
So funny .
How funny .
How it 'd be like that .
And he described himself well , one during the Cold War .
He he frequently talked about how the House un-American Activities Committee was more threatening to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And he spoke of the need to to maintain the US 's lifeline to Stalin and the USSR , who he depicted during World War Two as a porter carrying our war load .
So , yeah .
And then his wife dies .
And first thing he does a year later is marry a Jew , Audrey Diamond , and then , God , she 's the number two diamond .
She is .
She is indeed .
And then later in life , he was Spook 's speaking pretty openly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ goal of his illustration was , not to tell cute stories to kids and that and .
Now he said , quote , Kids can see a moral coming a mile off .
He said that there is an inherent moral in any story .
And then remarked that he was subversive as hell , end quote .
Yeah .
And it 's kind of funny .
I did n't know this either .
But in Horton hears a who .
There 's the the line .
A person 's a person no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was adopted .
I think I have vague recollection of this about this being adopted by the pro-life movement , which you would think if Dr. Samite was this , you know , wonderful kids author who cared about , you know , kids and good morals and blah , blah , blah , blah , blah , blah , blah .
That he would have no problem at all with this line from his book being appropriated in the name of a just cause .
But no .
Audrey Diamond objected to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ threat to sue .
I guess in the 80s , he thought , oh , yeah , sue them for doing this as well .
Yeah , the good the good .
Dr. Seuss himself threatened to sue this anti-abortion group for using the phrase on some of their stationery .
And yet , Audrey , Audrey Diamond came out and said , oh , God , I do n't like it when people hijack Dr. Seuss characters to to politicize them .
Oh , you know , God forbid anybody politicize these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is n't politicization .
Obviously , the point is using these for anything other than antiwhite anti fascist indoctrination and propaganda .
And that 's all this stuff is .
And you see , if you if you 've been around like a kid 's school library or or whatever , and this was starting when I was in school , but it has reached a fever pitch .
Now , the national what is it , the NEA , these education institutions .
They are fully on board with Dr. Seuss .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ month , in fact .
Oh , yeah .
Where it 's like assigned reading , where you have to read the Dr. Seuss books .
And I used to think , OK , this stuff is just stupid and like , the rhymes are kind of dumb .
And , you know , I 'll signal here .
I was at the reading level too high for Dr. Seuss and I was in school .
But you read this .
I feel like this is dumb .
But then you realize what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not about teaching you how to rhyme .
Redfish , bluefish , one fish , two fish , six million fish .
It 's about teaching you these moral lessons .
And that 's why they 've gone so in on this .
And that 's why you have articles you took in Dr. Seuss Jewish , and you will be inundated with articles like Seven Jewish Facts about Green Eggs and Ham , for example .
Yeah , yeah .
It 's it 's it 's pretty bad .
And yeah , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ going to have a visceral react to this from now on .
But yeah , people are wondering like , well , how did you guys end up from from , you know , the kosher dialectic of the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street and coronavirus to chai arms and whatever to Dr. Seuss .
It 's like , well , that 's how because we 've been meaning to talk about the Happy Meal for like weeks and weeks and weeks and .
And then .
Yeah .
Dr. Seuss came @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the rabbit hole .
I 'm sure a lot of people knew about this , but yeah .
I mean , there 's no shortage of books that need to be burned now .
Hi , James .
I was just going to say , you know , and grillings .
Drilling once again becomes an option .
Yeah , you find these books a dime a dozen at the several in place .
Yeah , it 's a look at the bright side .
You know , if we if we if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ability to heat your home , those Dr. Samite books are really toastie means of burning up that biomass .
Right .
They they give them away for free in most schools .
They 're they 're begging people to take them and read them to their kids .
So .
Yeah .
Good alternative to the wood pellets .
How do we say .
Let 's just let 's do this .
Let 's send all of our Dr. Seuss books to England instead of the wood pellets being cut down in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an alternative ending to the snitches where the snitches like after one iteration of having stars printed and removed from their stomachs , just like turn on Sylvester Monkey Brain and like start packing him on to a cattle car because that would be the appropriate reaction .
But instead , these snitches are just like running around and like like frantically like handing out shackles .
And he 's like , thank you .
Thank you .
Thank you .
As they stuffed shackles into a big bin .
And it 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like this is you know , it 's they want to make it seem like an allegory about the stars .
And it 's like , no , the snitches are actually I think the snitches are actually just races that are not Jewish .
The Jews are trying to divide and that 's Sylvestre or whatever his name is , that that 's actually the Jew .
And that story comes in town and does its bit .
And then he leaves , takes all the money .
And that 's kind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do n't think that was intentional .
I think it was still intended to teach a rest racial lesson .
But there again , there is an element of truth there .
And I think the alternative end ending there would actually be more appropriate where teachers actually catch on to what 's being done to them and react .
I have a visceral react to this guy and his machine and in everything else , it 's kind of funny .
Yeah .
The only way he could have a better is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , you do n't have any money .
Well , I just say yes and you 'll pay me back over over 300 easy installments .
Twenty 24 percent API .
He 's he has a friend who comes into town and is like one of those like machines in a truck that like unpacks itself .
And it 's just like a federal lending facility .
That 's the money tree .
Exactly .
Yeah .
My God .
Yeah .
Well , that 's about all we have .
Hope everybody @ @ @ @ @ @ @ See you guys sometime in the middle .
We know some time in the week .
We 'll catch you guys .
All right .
Is .
See ?
That 's .
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We want to take a look, another look at history. More recent U.S. children's literary history, perhaps.
Yeah, well, so, Tony, just grease the skids on this. So we talked about McDonald's on the midweek show.
We had this in bottom of the stack forever about the creators behind the Happy Meal. And I highly recommend, you know, go sign up for the paywall if you're not a paywall. So we talked about this on the midweek show about how the creator of McDonald's Happy Meal, not just the creator of it, but also the artwork for the original box. Were were the usual suspects, both of whom were Jewish. And we are talking about how this combination of of the free toys with the fast food and the and the the way that this is marketed is is, you know, a hugely contributing factor to childhood obesity and things like that. And we also talked about Arby's. I saw some guy in the comments was saying that he thought Arby's stood for roast beef. I thought that, too, until we discovered that Arby's actually stands for Raffaelle Brothers who are both Jewish. And then we talked a lot about Arby's as well. But we're talking about illustrator's, childhood illustrator's and how this this Jewish illustrator was chosen for the original box, for the Happy Meal to make it attractive for kids. This guy who had won a lot of awards, you know, put these colorful images that children are familiar with on a box, give them a free toy, and they're going to be hooked on Big Bird burgers, fries and syrupy cola drinks for life.
And I think we sort of outloud wondered whether or not Dr. Seuss. Because I'd never really given it any thought what his background was, what what's the deal with this guy? And we have I've seen people, some people claiming that he's Jewish, other people claiming that he's not. And it turned out that the the portal of the rabbit hole was finding out that he had been he had been declared an honorary Jew by the mayor of Jerusalem at one point. And I was just like, holy shit, there's a lot of where there's smoke, there's fire at James. I mean, this guy has quite the background.
And the ensuing research into this into doctors, his background just blew my fucking mind. I'm sure other people have talked about this. I'm sure this has come up elsewhere in our circles. Other people seem to know about this. Other people seem to have no idea. I was I was thunderstruck by Dr. Seuss. Right. And I like it all makes sense now when you see how hard Dr. Seuss stuff is pushed, because the illustrations aren't really particularly that good anyway.
And then it's sort of like, oh, it's not because there's anything talented about this. Well, talented at subversion, I suppose, but nothing really good and wholesome about the books. It's actually kind of subversive, isn't it?
Yes. As he would describe of himself, subversive as hell. Not a lot of talent. A lot of talent.
Did he say Sayres of his L.
He described him, dude, just get ready because. Yes, the the amount. Yes. Actually. So but what's important is also understand. Yes. Understanding why he is promoted so heavily in the modern era. But also why he is anything other than just a random cartoonist from the nineteen forties. Because there were a lot of people drawing little cartoons for newspapers and magazines and what have you at the time.
And not all of them went on to become these the the definitive children's story book author. It's a very good reason why Dr. Seuss, Mr. Geisel was was chosen for this role. And as we'll find out. Yes. Not biologically Jewish, but he did everything he could to become one. He was born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts. His father was a brewer and later became a public park supervisor after the brewery closed due to prohibition and the family was of German descent. And this is when you start to see him, him, you know, sort of aping the talking points of those in power. He claims that he and his sister experienced anti German prejudice from other children following the outbreak of World War One in 1914. Of course, there were so many people of German descent in in the United States at the time.
I find that story kind of hard to believe. Well, even.
But even if it's true, though, like let's just say for for example, that it's true, we know that it's a common response by some people in which is why antiwhite rhetoric is employed. And it is so, in fact, is so effective is that, yes, it does end up radicalizing some people. But the response from others tends to be a need to prove how totally not racist you are. So when whites are called racist, what is the result? They like adopt black children as babies and, you know, proudly allow their daughters to be married. To blacks or in the case of. What was that girl's name? John. The John Mud victim. I mean, the taco dad. Molly to.
Like, you will not call me a racist. You know, it's like. Yeah, in though in the in the Stanley family had this issue as well. So it does seem actually plausible that maybe if maybe if Keisel was subjected to anti German press prejudice, his reaction is to show, like, how totally not racist he is. And not just that the anti German predator Petrak prejudice may have taken the form of. You. We don't like you because you're German and it's probably because you don't like Jews. And this guy spent the rest of his natural existence showing just how much they were wrong. And it's just yeah, it's like it really I don't know. You can entertain either theory, but I'm talking about what we know, like this guy. I had no idea. But you just have to look at what he was doing before he became a popular kids book author, whatever.
This is what he was employed to do during World War Two, right?
Right. Yeah. This was his role this week. He was selected for this role and he performed well during this test. And he was rewarded afterwards. He was not a successful illustrator before World War Two. He was a guy who had a degree in literature from Dartmouth, then went on to study at Oxford and was was not successful. Right. He was having trouble getting any of his manuscripts published. He couldn't get his children's books published. He was going nowhere. It was it was a dead end role for him. And so, too, to put food on the table. He was a writer for this or maybe to put food on the table or maybe because he was drawn to this. You have to decide he was drawn to this this New York magazine p.m. and there is no definitive is no absolute answer on what that stands for. But the P.M., it was a leftist newspaper. And their contributors included people like Irving Haberman, Dan Israel, Julius Skippy Edelman and Leo leave cheeses, journalists. Yeah, it just gets just getting started. Journalist I.F. Stone was the paper's Washington correspondent. He published an award winning series on European Jewish refugees attempting to run the British blockade to reach Palestine, which was collected and published as the underground to Palestine. There are other staff included theater critic Louis Kronenberger and film critic Cecilia Agar. So in the midst of World War Two, there was this German guy in in in this mill, you and you. Yet to prove his prove his anti-racism chops, he wow. He became one of the most one of the most virulent anti German antiwhite cartoonists one could imagine.
Yeah, you got to look at the cartoon, because I didn't I've never I had never seen these before.
But it just seems like an endless stream of cartoons that he did attacking Adolf Hitler, attacking the America first movement, attacking Lavonne, all of France or one of the famous ones of these trees in its Dr Seuss, like you don't even have like him for somebody showed you this and didn't tell you is Dr. Seuss you immediately know who did this because he even has Uncle Sam in a number of different iterations dressed up as a snitch, which we're going to get into here as well.
The Snitches cartoon, everybody's familiar with that as an allegory for Nazis and Jews.
I'm sure you're already realizing the star on the belly. It's like, wow, it's all clicking into place.
But he was very pro FDR, but pro FDR in the sense of attacking the isolationists in the America the actual America first movement, not the one that has been has been perverted by by used and perverted by Donald Trump, but who remember when Trump made America first one of his slogans and how the oil saying was heard around the world and then quickly subsided as they realized that it was just they were he was appropriating it and making it gay. And now anybody who returns to America first as as a rallying point, it's been gayed up by Trump. Prior to that, it was unmolested and it was actually representative of people who didn't want to go to World War Two. We've talked about on the show before how World War two is not was not popular. Getting involved in that fight was not popular. And, you know, with Dr. Seuss, who's not a doctor at all, was turned on to attacking Father Copelin. He was attacking Charles Lindbergh. He's attacking anybody who stood in the way of the U.S. rolling right into Europe and destroying Adolf Hitler and basically all of Europe with it. And so, yeah, what a great tool of the establishment here, James.
Yeah. And you need to you do need to go look up these cartoons. And to see to see exactly what he was doing. And you're right. You would think if you did not know the time and place in which Dr Seuss lived or. History, you would think, oh, this is someone copying his his art style. But no, this is actually him. You know, there's the one with Hitler, a lynching Jews on on a tree and a hanging. And there's the one that. Well, I have to. Well, actually, Dr. Seuss here, Jeyes, he's actually not wrong here with the uncles that Uncle Sam's neach with the sign hanging from his beak. This is I am part Jewish in the in the gallows with a public notice. It says this bird is possessed by an evil demon. Well, as signed by Sheriff Charles Lindbergh. Like this. Oh, not wrong.
There's always an element of truth in in a lot of what they do as we know. But yeah, I mean, these this this artwork is just. Yeah. You just got to go look it up. He got to do it. And yeah, it's it's incredible that that he did this. And yeah. You don't like this. My visceral react is that no child in America or in any other part of the world should ever see a Dr. Seuss book ever again, because it's not just the propaganda from World War two. And then World War Two is over. Yay! Victory. We beat. We beat Adolf Hitler, the evil Nazi. And now we're gonna move on to perfectly innocent, totally benign and banal children's book that have no meaning whatsoever. He's just a good artist, right. James, he writes a good story about people. Oh, yeah. Don't you love the Grinch and The Lorax and the Cat in the Hat? Aren't they just great stories that all children grow to know and love and recite from memory? It's just like, oh, my God.
Well, yeah, you may not think that anybody should and should view his illustrations and read stories. And I would happen to agree with you. But some people disagreed with that. Some people, in fact, loved this auditioning. He did over dozens and dozens, I believe, hundreds of anti Hitler A.I., anti-American first cartoons. And this guy who was struggling to sell a manuscript, couldn't get it, couldn't get a regular writing gig. Other than this cartooning job at the end of the war, he's approached by Random House Publishing, which was founded by Donald Simon Klopfer, a Jew, and Bennett CERT, a Jew. And he gets this blockbuster deal. All of a sudden after World War Two to write, illustrate and publish children's books. And this guy, Klopfer, you know, he say, OK, sure, he's Jewish. No, this guy was not just Jewish. He was on the American Council for Judaism and actually resigned from the American Council on Judaism after a statement was issued that he found to be repugnant after Rabbi Elmer Berger, the executive director of the group, declared that Israel was engaged in aggression in the Middle East during the these six days war. And Klopfer found this so objectionable that he actually resigned in protest.
And then during the 50s, he got to promote a stance like no longer write is like the one anti Zionist Jew and like the entire country at this time. This is the one guy, right.
Right. Yeah. In the 60s. Oh, yeah, especially. And so during the 50s, he was still doing cartooning. But he got a promotion and he was cartooning for a publication called Redbook Magazine, which was published first in 1983 as the Red Book, illustrated by Steamer Rosen, Rosenthal and Eckstein, a firm of Chicago retail merchants. So suddenly, Dr. Seuss gets his two big breaks after the war from two incredibly Jewish. One hundred percent Jewish through and through company as well.
And then this guy one other one other thing. This this A.I., A.I., fascist, anti-racist propaganda that he did. This wasn't just in the midst of World War Two. He was still doing this stuff in the mid 50s and early 60s, like he was still like showing what a good Shabbos he was and continued to to pump this stuff because they were they had to keep this going.
I mean, this didn't just end in 1945. Like, this continued on and on and on and on. And then they you know, as they took control of more institutions, especially with, you know, the deep dive we did on the student loans and making making that a priority takeover of academia.
It obviously became important for him to start work, for them to have him start writing children's books, because as I understand this, there is a decided delineation between the work that he did prior to writing these children's books and what he was doing during the war.
I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but he was not a children's cartoonist until that was what he started doing and became doing that full time. It's not like you can go back into the 1940s and find the kids books that Seuss wrote. It's like, no, that only happened once. That became the direction that he trended in. So that's kind of interesting thing to point out as well.
Yeah, I know he had dabbled in illustration, but like, this guy had a Dartmouth degree, right? He was not he was not just some some like Rube that wrote only kids books. This guy is well educated and had tried to make it as a regular author first. But it was after they saw how powerful his his works were in World War Two, that they chose him as an emissary to create this propaganda for children going on into the system. And that's what he did.
What have we? What have we always been told about the evil Nazi propaganda? That would just get inside your mind and twist things up and make you think things that weren't right? It's like it's all projection. It's all now, certainly that the Nazis had great pop propaganda. But look what look what they do. Look what they did in the United States. This propaganda was so good that you didn't even know growing up Dr. Seuss. It's like, oh, this is a beloved children's author. Like. But no, it's actually some of the most insidious propaganda that's that's ever existed in this regard.
Yeah, you didn't know that when you're reading The Cat in the Hat comes back as a kid, that this is actually an allegory because the cat is trying to clean up a mess and he can't do it himself. So he has to bring in his friends from all over the world. This is, of course, representing internationalism, triumphing over nationalism and isolationism. Horton hears a who is anti fascist, a rejection of conformity. Yertle the Turtle is meant to symbolize Hitler overthrown because he oppressed people. And one of the most egregious examples is the snitches, which was a direct and explicit rejection of anti-Semitism. The moral lesson. This is the one where some snitches have the green stars, the green six pointed stars on their bellies. Some don't. And then someone comes to town and has a machine that will put stars on them three dollars and take them off three dollars. And they keep going through and through.
It's ten. Eventually they're off for ten dollars. I thought, Sylvester, monkey brain, whatever the guy's name is with the machine, like his prices keep increasing. That's the element of truth. It's like you have this guy show up to solve a problem. Like that's another element of this, which is kind of funny is that you have this guy show up to solve this problem for these snitches and he's of a different race. He looks nothing like them at all. And he's there with his machine and he's like, you know, I'll all out of I'll put a star in your belly for three dollars. Oh, you know, everybody has a star now. That's a problem. So the people that want the star removed, it's now ten dollars and the prices keep increasing and it keeps going and going and going. And then it says at the end of like there's a video of, you know, somebody. NARRATOR Reading the book once it says in the book, like once once this Sylvester Monkeyface, whatever has once the snitches have run out of money and have no more money to spend. And they realize how silly this is, this guy just packs up and leaves town and it's like, wow. So that's so amazing that it's like, who is this guy that looks like nobody else in this story comes in, sells them a bunch of useless shit like how the star take away a star.
Do this. Do that, you know, and he is actually preying on the fact that these people are divided, in fact, dividing them in order to sell a product to them, creating a kosher dialectic out of the snitches. And then once he's taken all the money, he packs up and leaves town. And, you know, it's like. And then the end, the moral of the story is like, yeah, the snitches all learn to just live together. And everything was fine. And they realized that stars weren't really important, no matter. They're all speeches, no matter what they are and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But it's like none of this stuff really dawns on you. But as a kid, this is what is seeded into your head that. Yeah. Like, everybody's the same. This is where all this this pathology comes from. And I'm thinking Dr. Seuss. I think he should just be renamed Dr. Semite. I mean, that's really what he is. He's just Dr. Semite because that's what he is like. Yeah. It's like I'm gonna I'm gonna have a visceral react, I think, to whenever I see a Dr. Seuss book. And they're everywhere. They're all over the place. Yeah. The Lorax is another one. This is one of Seuss's deceptively whimsical characters who delivers a powerful ode to the virtues of tikkun olam, healing the world.
Apparently, there's this woman who who wrote some Jew, wrote an article about how she loves reading her Jewish son, Green Eggs and Ham. Even though ham is like the juicers Jews, Jews love this stuff so much. Leverne put up with the ham in the book, I guess. But she said that after her son read The Lorax like he wanted to go around cleaning, cleaning up his neighborhood because The Lorax has like tikkun olam in it. And then there's the butter battle book, which I wasn't even familiar with. This must have been maybe one that was slick, too, on the nose, but it was written during the Cold War and tells the tale of the Zook's and the UK's whose argument about how to bread, butter, bread quickly turns out turns into an all out war. Apparently, like the Zook's are like the bottom Buttars and the UK's of the top Buttars.
It's like, well, top or bar. It's like, what is this even. This is stupid. It's such. It's so stupid and just so on the nose that this is probably why. But it was an allegory for Israel and Palestine.
That was another that was another thing in this whole situation. But yeah, you were aware of the Japanese and interment cartoons that he had done now in revisionism.
Jews have said, well, Dr Semite wasn't perfect. I mean, he he did have his his failings. But the reality is, is back then and they'll even admit in Gisele's circles, like this was a popular sentiment. Why was it popular? Who did the Japanese internment camps in the United States? Those were Jews. And that's maybe that's why. Who's that? Who's that gay.
That gay Japanese guy who is always attacking Trump on Twitter. And he was always like big in the Japanese internment stuff like he.
George Takai. Is that it? Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, he seems to have disappeared. It's like, yeah, guy, we're not talking about Japanese internment camps anymore. So just shut the fuck up. This will. Yes.
So this thing about being racist Asians. This actually came up four or five years ago now. And there was this effort among these recently WOAK and recently empowered college yesterday W types the Asians specifically to cancel Dr Seuss. And I remember this being a thing that came up quickly but then very quickly went away.
Yeah. Right. I know. You know, because her stand that all of his books are allegories to make children like be anti-racist and love Jews. Yeah. Just stop.
Yeah. And you want a perfect example of the the kosher license to be racist being given and taken away as they see fit. Look at Dr. Seuss's cartoons in favor of Japanese internment. This was the guy that was was kvetching and clutching pearls about. About the treatment of Jews in Germany. Meanwhile, he was. Yeah. Drawing the foom and shoes and squinty eyes and drawing, you know, Japs getting kicked around by by brave, bold Americans like. Yeah. So funny. How funny. How it'd be like that. And he described himself well, one during the Cold War. He he frequently talked about how the House un-American Activities Committee was more threatening to American freedom and then communism. Yeah. And he spoke of the need to to maintain the US's lifeline to Stalin and the USSR, who he depicted during World War Two as a porter carrying our war load.
So, yeah. And then his wife dies.
And first thing he does a year later is marry a Jew, Audrey Diamond, and then, God, she's the number two diamond. She is.
She is indeed. And then later in life, he was Spook's speaking pretty openly about what he did, what the goal of his illustration was, not to tell cute stories to kids and that and. Now he said, quote, Kids can see a moral coming a mile off. He said that there is an inherent moral in any story. And then remarked that he was subversive as hell, end quote.
Yeah. And it's kind of funny. I didn't know this either.
But in Horton hears a who. There's the the line. A person's a person no matter how small. And this this was adopted. I think I have vague recollection of this about this being adopted by the pro-life movement, which you would think if Dr. Samite was this, you know, wonderful kids author who cared about, you know, kids and good morals and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That he would have no problem at all with this line from his book being appropriated in the name of a just cause. But no.
Audrey Diamond objected to the use and apparently it was her threat to sue. I guess in the 80s, he thought, oh, yeah, sue them for doing this as well.
Yeah, the good the good. Dr. Seuss himself threatened to sue this anti-abortion group for using the phrase on some of their stationery.
And yet, Audrey, Audrey Diamond came out and said, oh, God, I don't like it when people hijack Dr. Seuss characters to to politicize them. Oh, you know, God forbid anybody politicize these Dr. Seuss characters. And the point isn't politicization. Obviously, the point is using these for anything other than antiwhite anti fascist indoctrination and propaganda. And that's all this stuff is. And you see, if you if you've been around like a kid's school library or or whatever, and this was starting when I was in school, but it has reached a fever pitch. Now, the national what is it, the NEA, these education institutions. They are fully on board with Dr. Seuss. I think there's a Dr. Seuss month, in fact. Oh, yeah. Where it's like assigned reading, where you have to read the Dr. Seuss books. And I used to think, OK, this stuff is just stupid and like, the rhymes are kind of dumb. And, you know, I'll signal here. I was at the reading level too high for Dr. Seuss and I was in school. But you read this. I feel like this is dumb. But then you realize what it's really about. It's not about teaching you how to rhyme. Redfish, bluefish, one fish, two fish, six million fish. It's about teaching you these moral lessons. And that's why they've gone so in on this. And that's why you have articles you took in Dr. Seuss Jewish, and you will be inundated with articles like Seven Jewish Facts about Green Eggs and Ham, for example.
Yeah, yeah. It's it's it's pretty bad. And yeah, like I said, I'm just going to have a visceral react to this from now on. But yeah, people are wondering like, well, how did you guys end up from from, you know, the kosher dialectic of the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street and coronavirus to chai arms and whatever to Dr. Seuss. It's like, well, that's how because we've been meaning to talk about the Happy Meal for like weeks and weeks and weeks and.
And then. Yeah. Dr. Seuss came up. So, yeah. Quite the rabbit hole. I'm sure a lot of people knew about this, but yeah. I mean, there's no shortage of books that need to be burned now. Hi, James.
I was just going to say, you know, and grillings. Drilling once again becomes an option. Yeah, you find these books a dime a dozen at the several in place.
Yeah, it's a look at the bright side. You know, if we if we if we if we end up without any ability to heat your home, those Dr. Samite books are really toastie means of burning up that biomass. Right.
They they give them away for free in most schools. They're they're begging people to take them and read them to their kids. So. Yeah. Good alternative to the wood pellets. How do we say. Let's just let's do this. Let's send all of our Dr. Seuss books to England instead of the wood pellets being cut down in the forests.
I think we need an alternative ending to the snitches where the snitches like after one iteration of having stars printed and removed from their stomachs, just like turn on Sylvester Monkey Brain and like start packing him on to a cattle car because that would be the appropriate reaction. But instead, these snitches are just like running around and like like frantically like handing out shackles. And he's like, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. As they stuffed shackles into a big bin. And it's just like, yeah, it's like this is you know, it's they want to make it seem like an allegory about the stars. And it's like, no, the snitches are actually I think the snitches are actually just races that are not Jewish.
The Jews are trying to divide and that's Sylvestre or whatever his name is, that that's actually the Jew. And that story comes in town and does its bit. And then he leaves, takes all the money.
And that's kind of the funny thing is that I don't think that was intentional.
I think it was still intended to teach a rest racial lesson. But there again, there is an element of truth there. And I think the alternative end ending there would actually be more appropriate where teachers actually catch on to what's being done to them and react. I have a visceral react to this guy and his machine and in everything else, it's kind of funny.
Yeah. The only way he could have a better is if the if he said, oh, you don't have any money. Well, I just say yes and you'll pay me back over over 300 easy installments. Twenty 24 percent API.
He's he has a friend who comes into town and is like one of those like machines in a truck that like unpacks itself. And it's just like a federal lending facility. That's the money tree. Exactly. Yeah. My God. Yeah. Well, that's about all we have. Hope everybody enjoyed the show, as always. See you guys sometime in the middle. We know some time in the week. We'll catch you guys. All right.
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russia-insider--2020-05-04--200,000 Christian, Anti-Communist Russian WW2 Refugees in Europe, Many Cossacks, Sent to Certain Dea

200,000 Christian, Anti-Communist Russian WW2 Refugees in Europe, Many Cossacks, Sent to Certain Death in USSR by UK, US (Operation Keelhaul, Doc. Film)

A shocking and disgraceful episode at the close of WW2 , in 1946 and 47 .
The fact that the top leadership in in the UK and US carried this out suggests a sympathy at the highest level for Communism , and an antipathy for the Russian nationalists who fought against it .
Those deported were mostly POWs captured by Germany , and civilians from Russia and Ukraine sent to Germany as forced labor .
They also included Russians and Ukrainians who had welcomed the Germans and fought along side them , and Russian emigres who had lived in Germany @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of which there were many .
( Wikipedia ) Many of the Russians committed suicide rather than be sent to the USSR .
The UK troops had to beat them severely to force them onto trains taking them back .
This film was made by the BBC in the 1980s , but never broadcast in Britain .
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It usually resulted in death , or crippling @ @ @

A shocking and disgraceful episode at the close of WW2, in 1946 and 47. The fact that the top leadership in in the UK and US carried this out suggests a sympathy at the highest level for Communism, and an antipathy for the Russian nationalists who fought against it.
Those deported were mostly POWs captured by Germany, and civilians from Russia and Ukraine sent to Germany as forced labor. They also included Russians and Ukrainians who had welcomed the Germans and fought along side them , and Russian emigres who had lived in Germany before the war who were pro-German, of which there were many. (Wikipedia)
Many of the Russians committed suicide rather than be sent to the USSR. The UK troops had to beat them severely to force them onto trains taking them back.
An artist's depiction of the rounding-up by British troops
This film was made by the BBC in the 1980s, but never broadcast in Britain.
The word 'Keelhaul' means a severe form of punishment meted out to sailors, involving dragging them by a rope under the keel of a ship. It usually resulted in death, or crippling physical damage.


russia-insider--2020-05-04--'Get Russian' - a Poem About the Meaning of Modern Russia by Caitlin Johnstone

Dissent is Russian , or haven ’ t you heard ?
It ’ s Russian to tell the truth .
Truth is Russian in an empire of lies .
If truth is Russian , I don ’ t want to be Australian .
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If truth is Russian , then I will ascend to the clouds kicking my feet out in front of me with my bum low to the ground whilst shouting “ Stallone was the bad guy in Rocky IV ” until my voice is hoarse .
If @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s all get Russian .
Get as Russian as possible .
Get so Russian it hurts .
Get so Russian they write Palmer Report articles about you .
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Get so Russian that Putin calls you and says tone it down .
Get so Russian that Khabib Nurmagomedov has nightmares about fighting you .
Camus said “ The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely Russian that your very existence is an act @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that .
Fold your arms and get low on the dance floor .
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russia-insider--2020-05-04--Russia-China Entente Deepens in Shadow of Pandemic, Both Claim US #1 Bioweapons Culprit

The Russian-Chinese entente emerged as one of the most significant templates of international politics in the recent period since the hugely consequential developments in Ukraine in 2014 that led to western sanctions against Moscow , which in turn galvanised the latter ’ s ‘ pivot to Asia ’ .
Of late , this entente , which falls short of a formal alliance , assumes prominence , given the shift under way in regional and global alignments triggered by the coronavirus pandemic .
The world economy faces recession and the US is threatened by a crisis unmatched since the Great Depression @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Americans filing for unemployment benefits is soaring past 30 million .
The decline of the US as a global power is accelerating .
But the US refuses to come to terms with this geopolitical reality and is determined to perpetuate its domination of the global arena , no matter what it takes .
China and Russia have been cast in the ‘ enemy ’ image .
In the short term at least , tensions will rise — in the US-China relations , in particular .
It was reported last week that the US @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s borders with the potential to deliver a surprise nuclear strike .
A Tass report quoted the First Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff ’ s Main Operations Department Lt. Gen.Viktor Poznikhir as saying that the US has developed a concept of pre-launch interception and planned to destroy intercontinental ballistic missiles of Russia , China and other countries while they are still in launchers .
Suffice to say , it is in the common interests of Russia and China that in their growing confrontation with the US , they stand by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There is every indication that US imperialism will assume an even more violent and oppressive character in the prevailing world situation .
The Russia-China entente is driven by their leaderships .
Within the period of a month in March-April , there have been two telephonic conversations between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss the pandemic and its ramifications as well as the imperative need to jointly face the ensuing challenges .
The Chinese readouts ( here and here ) underscored that Putin was critical of the “ provocation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ read the US ) and the “ attempt by some to smear China on the question of the origin of the virus.
” Putin affirmed that since the start of COVID-19 , Russia and China have “ stood in unity and extended mutual support , which is a testament to the strategic nature and high quality ” of their relationship .
The mutual support Russia and China are extending to each other creates space for both to effectively push back at the US .
Earlier this week on April 29 , the Chinese @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Moscow from time to time in recent years over the presence of Pentagon ’ s labs in the countries of the former Soviet Union for weaponising diseases .
Moscow has cited a specific lab near Tbilisi in Georgia , even claiming intelligence regarding visits by senior Pentagon officials to the centre recently .
The Russians claim that there are 11 such labs in Ukraine developed by the Pentagon .
They say when Crimea rejoined Russia in 2014 , they found out that in one such lab in Simferopol , which was apparently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them to Europe , 104 pools of ectoparasites , 46 samples of internal organs of rodents and 105 samples of human blood serum were found ready for despatch .
Moscow alleges that these labs conduct study on dangerous diseases , targeting specific ethnic groups , and include projects that are banned within the US itself .
On April 29 , at a media briefing in Beijing , the Chinese spokesman said , “ We noted the Russian foreign ministry spokesperson ’ s remarks and related reports .
The US established multiple biological laboratories @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mouth shut regarding the labs ’ functions , purposes and safety , causing deep concerns from local people and surrounding countries .
As we know , some local people strongly demand the labs be closed .
We hope the US will act in a responsible manner , heed the concerns from the international community , attach importance to local people ’ s health and safety , and take concrete measures to eliminate the doubts.
” As the legal successor of the Soviet Union , Russia inherited its status as a party to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Weapons Convention ( BWC ) in 1992 .
China too had acceded to the BWC in 1984 .
All Asian countries are signatories to the BWC .
Interestingly , so is the US , which had ratified the protocol in 1975 .
Now , the US Government has not officially accused China of intentionally developing the COVID-19 as a biological weapon , while Trump keeps talking in innuendos .
According to the assessment of the US intelligence , the virus was not man-made or genetically modified .
But Trump claims he has seen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a virology lab in Wuhan — although he couldn ’ t provide any evidence to support that claim .
China has reacted strongly to Trump ’ s jabs while Russia has been supportive of the Chinese stance .
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov recently spoke derisively about the talk in some European countries demanding compensation from Beijing for “ failing to timely inform the world community ” — and by Trump himself saying similar US claims would be “ much bigger than hundreds of billions US dollars.
” Indeed , this may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pursue a punitive strategy towards China .
Washington Post wrote on Thursday , “ In private , Trump and aides have discussed stripping China of its ‘ sovereign immunity , ’ aiming to enable the U.S. government or victims to sue China for damages.
” For the present , Russia agrees with the Chinese perception that the Trump administration is ratcheting up the rhetoric over Covid-19 to draw public attention away from its incompetence in countering the pandemic .
But Russian support becomes crucial for Beijing if push comes to shove with Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now , neither Russia nor China has sought each other ’ s help while negotiating bilateral relations with the US .
There is a paradigm shift taking place here , which becomes a leap of faith for both China and Russia as well as a qualitatively new phase in their entente , which has so far been focused on regional and global issues of common concern .

Richard Lugar Public Health Centre in Georgia, which Russia alleges to be a Pentagon laboratory for biological weapon development. Beijing has called on the US to respond to Russian concerns.
The Russian-Chinese entente emerged as one of the most significant templates of international politics in the recent period since the hugely consequential developments in Ukraine in 2014 that led to western sanctions against Moscow, which in turn galvanised the latter’s ‘pivot to Asia’.
Of late, this entente, which falls short of a formal alliance, assumes prominence, given the shift under way in regional and global alignments triggered by the coronavirus pandemic. The world economy faces recession and the US is threatened by a crisis unmatched since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits is soaring past 30 million.
The decline of the US as a global power is accelerating. But the US refuses to come to terms with this geopolitical reality and is determined to perpetuate its domination of the global arena, no matter what it takes. China and Russia have been cast in the ‘enemy’ image. In the short term at least, tensions will rise — in the US-China relations, in particular.
It was reported last week that the US is deploying missile defence systems near Russia’s borders with the potential to deliver a surprise nuclear strike. A Tass report quoted the First Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff’s Main Operations Department Lt. Gen.Viktor Poznikhir as saying that the US has developed a concept of pre-launch interception and planned to destroy intercontinental ballistic missiles of Russia, China and other countries while they are still in launchers.
Suffice to say, it is in the common interests of Russia and China that in their growing confrontation with the US, they stand by each other and support each other. There is every indication that US imperialism will assume an even more violent and oppressive character in the prevailing world situation.
The Russia-China entente is driven by their leaderships. Within the period of a month in March-April, there have been two telephonic conversations between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss the pandemic and its ramifications as well as the imperative need to jointly face the ensuing challenges.
The Chinese readouts (here and here) underscored that Putin was critical of the “provocation and stigmatisation by some country” (read the US) and the “attempt by some to smear China on the question of the origin of the virus.” Putin affirmed that since the start of COVID-19, Russia and China have “stood in unity and extended mutual support, which is a testament to the strategic nature and high quality” of their relationship.
The mutual support Russia and China are extending to each other creates space for both to effectively push back at the US. Earlier this week on April 29, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman endorsed the concerns expressed by Moscow from time to time in recent years over the presence of Pentagon’s labs in the countries of the former Soviet Union for weaponising diseases. Moscow has cited a specific lab near Tbilisi in Georgia, even claiming intelligence regarding visits by senior Pentagon officials to the centre recently.
The Russians claim that there are 11 such labs in Ukraine developed by the Pentagon. They say when Crimea rejoined Russia in 2014, they found out that in one such lab in Simferopol, which was apparently a hub for collecting materials and sending them to Europe, 104 pools of ectoparasites, 46 samples of internal organs of rodents and 105 samples of human blood serum were found ready for despatch.
Moscow alleges that these labs conduct study on dangerous diseases, targeting specific ethnic groups, and include projects that are banned within the US itself. On April 29, at a media briefing in Beijing, the Chinese spokesman said,
“We noted the Russian foreign ministry spokesperson’s remarks and related reports. The US established multiple biological laboratories in former USSR countries but kept its mouth shut regarding the labs’ functions, purposes and safety, causing deep concerns from local people and surrounding countries. As we know, some local people strongly demand the labs be closed. We hope the US will act in a responsible manner, heed the concerns from the international community, attach importance to local people’s health and safety, and take concrete measures to eliminate the doubts.”
As the legal successor of the Soviet Union, Russia inherited its status as a party to the Geneva Protocol and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1992. China too had acceded to the BWC in 1984. All Asian countries are signatories to the BWC. Interestingly, so is the US, which had ratified the protocol in 1975.
Now, the US Government has not officially accused China of intentionally developing the COVID-19 as a biological weapon, while Trump keeps talking in innuendos. According to the assessment of the US intelligence, the virus was not man-made or genetically modified. But Trump claims he has seen evidence suggesting the novel coronavirus originated in a virology lab in Wuhan — although he couldn’t provide any evidence to support that claim.
China has reacted strongly to Trump’s jabs while Russia has been supportive of the Chinese stance. The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov recently spoke derisively about the talk in some European countries demanding compensation from Beijing for “failing to timely inform the world community” — and by Trump himself saying similar US claims would be “much bigger than hundreds of billions US dollars.”
Indeed, this may become serious stuff if Trump chooses to pursue a punitive strategy towards China. Washington Post wrote on Thursday, “In private, Trump and aides have discussed stripping China of its ‘sovereign immunity,’ aiming to enable the U.S. government or victims to sue China for damages.”
For the present, Russia agrees with the Chinese perception that the Trump administration is ratcheting up the rhetoric over Covid-19 to draw public attention away from its incompetence in countering the pandemic. But Russian support becomes crucial for Beijing if push comes to shove with Trump in the coming months.
Up until now, neither Russia nor China has sought each other’s help while negotiating bilateral relations with the US. There is a paradigm shift taking place here, which becomes a leap of faith for both China and Russia as well as a qualitatively new phase in their entente, which has so far been focused on regional and global issues of common concern.


russia-insider--2020-05-04--Explanation of New Military Cathedral, Rise of Christianity in Russia, Its Relation With the State (

Explanation of New Military Cathedral, Rise of Christianity in Russia, Its Relation With the State (Dr. Steve Turley Video)

Turley is very good on this .
He is Orthodox , converted from Protestant , and he knows what he @ @ @ @ @ also explains Orthodox attitudes towards the military , the collaboration of church and state in @ @ @ @ @ of separation of church and state practised in the West .
Very interesting .
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russia-insider--2020-05-05--Dr. Suess, Lifelong Leftist Jewish Propagandist - Anti-German (WW2), CultMarx Shill (FTN Podcast + T

Dr. Suess, Lifelong Leftist Jewish Propagandist - Anti-German (WW2), CultMarx Shill (FTN Podcast + Transcript)


russia-insider--2020-05-05--The Overwhelming Evidence Alexander Hamilton Was a Secret Jew - Part 2 (FTN Podcast, Audio + Transcr

The Overwhelming Evidence Alexander Hamilton Was a Secret Jew - Part 2 (FTN Podcast, Audio + Transcript)

In addition to their 'Week in Review ' coverage of political news , the FTN team does an amazing job with their so-called 'Deep Dives ' , in-depth investigations on varied subjects , from historical revisionism to how are dirt poor Latinos getting the money for the expensive journey to the US ( you guessed it , 'money-lenders ' , charging 50 % per year . )
- and many , many more .
It is a hugely valuable archive , available to subscribers .
FTN recently made this episode available to the general public , ( it was behind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the whole thing on their YouTube Channel or at the website .
This episode is one of their most earth-shattering , and sure to be a big draw for anyone interested in US history .
Highly recommended .
Truth to Power will be bringing you excerpts from this important episode over the coming days .
Jazz , James , and Borzoi dive deep into the life and legacy of Alexander Hamilton , one of America ’ s most astro-turfed founding fathers .
Little is known about Hamilton ’ s early life , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a framer of the U.S. Constitution , first Secretary of the Treasury , creator of the nation ’ s first national bank , the architect of the inherently corrupt system of debt-financed capitalism we are saddled with today , chief author of The Federalist Papers , master of media manipulation , election meddler , and almost but never actually President of the United States .
Rest assured , we thoroughly smash that early life in order to fully understand the identity of the man himself ; who he is , where he comes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and ultimately , in turn , how he shaped the world itself .
Only once one fully understands Hamilton from those perspectives , do the trajectory and context of subsequent historical events , from war to immigration , finance to foreign policy , and from consumerism to vulture capitalism , become crystal clear .
We 've included a clip about Hamilton 's little known Jewish education in childhood , but we highly recommend you check out the full epdisode .
The full episode is now on FTN 's YouTube channel , embedded below @ @ @ @ @ @ @ About the FTN and TRS podcasts : FTN and the other podcasts on the TRS podcast platform have become required listening for anyone serious about understanding American politics .
In a highly professional and competent manner , they analyze topics , including Jewish influence , that others wo n't .
The FTN podcast in particular is hard news focused , delivering fresh dissident angles on current events that ruthlessly challenge the mainstream narrative .
Some of their episodes are free to the public , while others are behind a $ 10 monthly paywall @ @ @ @ @ @ @ journalism today because you get access to several excellent shows for that price .
We highly recommend Eric Striker 's , ( editor of the excellent National Justice website ) , and Mike Enoch 's 'Strike and Mike ' ( 1X per week ) which are also more hard news focused .
The Daily Shoah with Mike Enoch , Jesse Dunstan , and Alex McNabb , ( 3X per week ) , which is a less formal , Joe Rogan style radio talk show , is also excellent .
Transcript : The following @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some errors but it is surprisingly accurate .


russia-insider--2020-05-05--US Faking Intel to Frame China for COVID, Just Like They Did With WMDs in Iraq

China ’ s communist leaders have blood on their hands , so say U.S. hawks .
Chinaphobes in Congress and a battalion of media pundits are demanding compensation from Beijing for the spiraling death toll and economic destruction incurred by the United States .
Already U.S. states have begun litigation to sue China .
Rightwing think-tanks like the Hudson Institute are projecting that China is liable to pay out trillions of dollars for American losses over the Covid-19 pandemic .
The chorus of “ Yellow Peril ” fever goes beyond financial retribution right up to creating a casus belli against @ @ @ @ @ @ @ U.S. warships have stepped up provocative maneuvers in the South China Sea this week .
President Donald Trump and his top envoy Mike Pompeo have weighed in to point the finger at China for pandemic mayhem hitting the U.S. China is being set up as the scapegoat to “ explain ” why the supposedly most powerful nation in the world has been left so ravaged by a virus .
The “ blame China ” narrative turns on two sub-plots .
It is claimed in U.S. media that the Chinese authorities knew a lot @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about the potential harm from the epidemic when it first emerged in the city of Wuhan in December .
The insinuation is that China ( and the World Health Organization ) engaged in a cover-up about the scale of the disease , thereby putting other nations in danger through misinformation .
The second sub-plot in the “ blame China ” agenda is that a Chinese virology laboratory leaked out the deadly virus , either by accident or as part of biowarfare program .
That again implies a China cover-up .
Both sub-plots fit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and anti-China hawks more generally : “ China Lied , People Died ” .
In both cases , however , it is more than plausible that the media agitation is information warfare to scapegoat China .
What is happening here this : a disastrous current situation in America is being retrospectively “ explained ” with false U.S. intelligence claims that seek to shift blame on to China , and , crucially , distract from questions about inherent systematic failure in Washington .
On the “ China knew more but didn ’ t let @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this theme came from an ABC report published on April 9 .
It quotes anonymous U.S. sources as saying that the Pentagon ’ s disease experts were briefing the White House and senior national security officials about a new contagion sweeping through China ’ s Wuhan region as far back as November .
As ABC reported with convenient sinister implication : “ Those analyses said China ’ s leadership knew the epidemic was out of control even as it kept such crucial information from foreign governments and public health agencies.
” The basic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to by ABC ’ s anonymous sources are only alleged to have happened .
Where ’ s the evidence , transcripts , memos and so on ?
An open mind should ask the question : was such an intel assessment even formulated ?
ABC ’ s report took off in the pundit-sphere even though it updated its report with a disclaimer from the Pentagon denying that any such assessment existed .
Fair enough , maybe the Pentagon is mischievously disowning .
There again , more likely , ABC is being played by its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
A few other contradictions are the following : Mark Esper , the Pentagon chief , subsequently told ABC in an interview that he didn ’ t know anything about any such alleged contagion warning which he had supposedly received back in November or December .
Esper ’ s cack-handed tone suggests he simply did not receive any such briefing , rather than any sort of smart sophistry on his part .
Furthermore , if the alleged Pentagon intelligence warning of a new contagion was presumably circulated in Presidential Daily Briefs , why @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pandemic during January and February ?
Indeed , why was Trump on record for praising China ’ s efforts at controlling the outbreak during this crucial period if he had been warned , allegedly , about the pandemic and the implied cover-up by Beijing ?
Here ’ s another amusing cause for doubt .
The Pentagon ’ s National Center for Medical Intelligence ( NCMI ) – the agency which purportedly warned of a contagion in China back in November – is officially tasked with detecting diseases which “ pose serious risk to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Strangely enough , the NCMI didn ’ t seem to know about outbreaks of COVID-19 onboard U.S. aircraft carriers deployed in Asia-Pacific which only came to light when navy crews publicly complained – yet we are led to believe the same agency knew what was going down in the obscure environs of Wuhan , even before Chinese authorities knew about the virus .
The second sub-plot is the alleged escape of the virus from the Wuhan Institute of Virology .
The WIV is an internationally respected disease research center , which has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ researchers .
It operates at the highest international safety standards , yet somehow the WIV supposedly let a deadly virus escape .
There is an added insinuation that the virus was man-made as part of a scientific program .
President Trump said last week that Washington “ was looking into it ” and hinted that the release may even have been deliberate .
This is a shoddy conspiracy theory based on zero evidence , as documented by investigative journalist Max Blumenthal .
The claim of “ lab release ” has been doing the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Washington Times for months .
It has recently been elevated by equally dodgy reporting in the Washington Post that has all the hallmarks of an intel psy-ops .
The World Health Organization , as well as a vast body of scientific opinion , concludes that the Covid-19 virus ( also known as SARS-CoV-2 ) is of natural origin emanating from wildlife , and that it is neither man-made nor manipulated in a lab .
Indeed , many eminent scientists in the field of virology have condemned “ conspiracy theories ” claiming the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ pure baloney ” .
What this all boils down to is an attempt by American anti-China hawks and elements of U.S. intelligence to retrospectively construct a narrative which lays the blame for the Covid-19 global crisis on Beijing .
Given the abysmal failure of the U.S. to mitigate this crisis – exposing the deep flaws of its capitalistic society – the temptation is all the stronger for Washington to jump on the bandwagon scapegoating China .
Considering Trump ’ s re-election hopes are at stake , it is not surprising he is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bandwagon .
But concocting intel to fit a conclusion is a precarious pursuit .
It has disturbing resonance with the Iraqi WMD intel manufacturing and media indulgence which led to disastrous war .
Is U.S. power so shameless that it would prefer war rather than face public accountability for its own criminal complacency and neglect ?
You better believe it .

Concocting intel to fit a conclusion is a precarious pursuit. It has disturbing resonance with the Iraqi WMD intel manufacturing and media indulgence which led to disastrous war.
China’s communist leaders have blood on their hands, so say U.S. hawks. Chinaphobes in Congress and a battalion of media pundits are demanding compensation from Beijing for the spiraling death toll and economic destruction incurred by the United States.
Already U.S. states have begun litigation to sue China. Rightwing think-tanks like the Hudson Institute are projecting that China is liable to pay out trillions of dollars for American losses over the Covid-19 pandemic.
The chorus of “Yellow Peril” fever goes beyond financial retribution right up to creating a casus belli against China. It is no coincidence that U.S. warships have stepped up provocative maneuvers in the South China Sea this week.
President Donald Trump and his top envoy Mike Pompeo have weighed in to point the finger at China for pandemic mayhem hitting the U.S. China is being set up as the scapegoat to “explain” why the supposedly most powerful nation in the world has been left so ravaged by a virus.
The “blame China” narrative turns on two sub-plots. It is claimed in U.S. media that the Chinese authorities knew a lot more than they let on they did about the potential harm from the epidemic when it first emerged in the city of Wuhan in December. The insinuation is that China (and the World Health Organization) engaged in a cover-up about the scale of the disease, thereby putting other nations in danger through misinformation.
The second sub-plot in the “blame China” agenda is that a Chinese virology laboratory leaked out the deadly virus, either by accident or as part of biowarfare program. That again implies a China cover-up. Both sub-plots fit the slogan taken up by Trump supporters and anti-China hawks more generally: “China Lied, People Died”.
In both cases, however, it is more than plausible that the media agitation is information warfare to scapegoat China. What is happening here this: a disastrous current situation in America is being retrospectively “explained” with false U.S. intelligence claims that seek to shift blame on to China, and, crucially, distract from questions about inherent systematic failure in Washington.
On the “China knew more but didn’t let on” claim, the primer for this theme came from an ABC report published on April 9. It quotes anonymous U.S. sources as saying that the Pentagon’s disease experts were briefing the White House and senior national security officials about a new contagion sweeping through China’s Wuhan region as far back as November.
As ABC reported with convenient sinister implication: “Those analyses said China’s leadership knew the epidemic was out of control even as it kept such crucial information from foreign governments and public health agencies.”
The basic problem is “those analyses” referred to by ABC’s anonymous sources are only alleged to have happened. Where’s the evidence, transcripts, memos and so on? An open mind should ask the question: was such an intel assessment even formulated?
ABC’s report took off in the pundit-sphere even though it updated its report with a disclaimer from the Pentagon denying that any such assessment existed. Fair enough, maybe the Pentagon is mischievously disowning. There again, more likely, ABC is being played by its anonymous sources to concoct an anti-China narrative?
A few other contradictions are the following: Mark Esper, the Pentagon chief, subsequently told ABC in an interview that he didn’t know anything about any such alleged contagion warning which he had supposedly received back in November or December. Esper’s cack-handed tone suggests he simply did not receive any such briefing, rather than any sort of smart sophistry on his part.
Furthermore, if the alleged Pentagon intelligence warning of a new contagion was presumably circulated in Presidential Daily Briefs, why was Trump voicing complacency about the potential pandemic during January and February? Indeed, why was Trump on record for praising China’s efforts at controlling the outbreak during this crucial period if he had been warned, allegedly, about the pandemic and the implied cover-up by Beijing?
Here’s another amusing cause for doubt. The Pentagon’s National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) – the agency which purportedly warned of a contagion in China back in November – is officially tasked with detecting diseases which “pose serious risk to U.S. forces” in Asia and internationally. Strangely enough, the NCMI didn’t seem to know about outbreaks of COVID-19 onboard U.S. aircraft carriers deployed in Asia-Pacific which only came to light when navy crews publicly complained – yet we are led to believe the same agency knew what was going down in the obscure environs of Wuhan, even before Chinese authorities knew about the virus.
The second sub-plot is the alleged escape of the virus from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The WIV is an internationally respected disease research center, which has partnered with French and other governments’ researchers. It operates at the highest international safety standards, yet somehow the WIV supposedly let a deadly virus escape. There is an added insinuation that the virus was man-made as part of a scientific program. President Trump said last week that Washington “was looking into it” and hinted that the release may even have been deliberate.
This is a shoddy conspiracy theory based on zero evidence, as documented by investigative journalist Max Blumenthal. The claim of “lab release” has been doing the rounds in dodgy rightwing U.S. media like the Washington Times for months. It has recently been elevated by equally dodgy reporting in the Washington Post that has all the hallmarks of an intel psy-ops.
The World Health Organization, as well as a vast body of scientific opinion, concludes that the Covid-19 virus (also known as SARS-CoV-2) is of natural origin emanating from wildlife, and that it is neither man-made nor manipulated in a lab. Indeed, many eminent scientists in the field of virology have condemned “conspiracy theories” claiming the virus came out of a lab as “pure baloney”.
What this all boils down to is an attempt by American anti-China hawks and elements of U.S. intelligence to retrospectively construct a narrative which lays the blame for the Covid-19 global crisis on Beijing. Given the abysmal failure of the U.S. to mitigate this crisis – exposing the deep flaws of its capitalistic society – the temptation is all the stronger for Washington to jump on the bandwagon scapegoating China.
Considering Trump’s re-election hopes are at stake, it is not surprising he is clambering into the driving seat of this bandwagon.
But concocting intel to fit a conclusion is a precarious pursuit. It has disturbing resonance with the Iraqi WMD intel manufacturing and media indulgence which led to disastrous war.
Is U.S. power so shameless that it would prefer war rather than face public accountability for its own criminal complacency and neglect? You better believe it.