russia-insider--2020-12-25--Izborsk - a Charming Town on the Russian Baltic Border (Estonia)

`` Look : the fortress walls are THAT thick !
It ’ s easy to imagine what life was like here in times of war and peace .
This article from our archives was first published on RI in December 2017 This scenic place was formerly a first-line frontier defense city .
This is the very first installment to embark on an Instagram journey through the vastness of Russia — why don ’ t you join us ?
An ancient fortress with walls several meters thick , ostriches roaming the wooded flatlands and a pagan sacred site : see all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are visiting Izborsk ( or Old Izborsk , as the locals call it ) , 455 miles north-west of Moscow , just near the Russian-Estonian border : it was once a bustling city on the very first line of the North-West frontier defense repeatedly besieged by the Livonian Order and other daring invaders , never succeeding in direct combat .
Now it is a village , not a city , and you can hardly imagine a more peaceful or picturesque place .
The heart of the ancient city was Izborsk Fortress , now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
This strong fortification dates from the 14th century , built near the site of an earlier one .
Even now , the six still-standing towers are evidence of the fortress ’ s defensive power This is how the village looked just a century ago .
Now the carefully restored houses mark the beginning of the tourist area of Izborsk .
Look at the pavement : it ’ s the real ancient one , also restored .
This exquisite natural beauty is called Slovenskiye Springs , more than a thousand years old .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ are more ancient than the time-worn stone walls !
Since ancient times , the springs have had sacral significance , being first a pagan site and then bearing the second name of The Springs of the Twelve Apostles .
The Slovenskiye Springs make their way to Lake Gorodishchenskoye , a habitat for ducks and graceful swans .
An ancient legend has it that these swans have never left the lake , and as long as they remain there Izborsk will never fall .
Since both the swans and the village ( and even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ legend is definitely true !
This tiny chapel was founded not far from Izborsk in the name of the Derzhavnaya Icon of the Mother of God .
Although it seems as ancient as any Izborsk church , it dates from 2012 .
The Poklonnyi ( Worshipful Submission ) Cross nearby commemorates all the victories of the Russian military and all the fallen Russian warriors ; its basement ( called The Holy Hill of the Unity and Glory of Russia ) consists of earth from all the places of Russian military glory .
... @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the battles stop thundering , this is what the Izborsk vicinity looks like .
Perfect beauty and tranquility .
Time seems to stop flowing here , and calm pervades the soul .
But did you ever imagine that this land is home to… ostriches ?
That ’ s right .
Not only can you give them a stroke , but also try fried ostrich eggs !
Well , probably one egg — because of its size .
The cheapest way to spend your time in Izborsk : bring a tent !
But mind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Russia isn ’ t renowned for its mild climate .
Although Izborsk and its surroundings are among the most peaceful places in the world , there ’ s still room for the adrenalin rush !
The scenic nature contributes to that even more .
This is how a typical ancient Izborian domestic goddess used to spend her time in days gone by : at the stove .
Of course , it happened only when all the house duties were done and dusted , so to speak , i.e .
pretty much never .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ guys are our contemporaries .
But what could be a better place to bring the past back to life than an ancient fortress ?
By the way , Izborsk hosts a few re-enactment festivals every year : a great chance to imagine ancient life , warts and all .
Need a lift ?
: ) Frankly speaking , you won ’ t need one here in Izborsk : ancient cities , even the most powerful ones , are not really large by modern standards .
Everything is easily reached on foot .
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most surprising side of Izborsk : it ’ s a cat-loving city !
Cats can be seen everywhere ( this one is nestled right in the fortress ) , plus they ’ re nice-looking and well-fed .
And they have no fear of human beings , so please don ’ t exploit that .
An ancient custom for an ancient city : these lanterns were in use decades ago , but seem to fit these houses perfectly .
...
The forward march of progress .
Like it or not the technological revolution is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the legacy of the past : this cross is named after Truvor , a legendary Varangian ( Viking ) , brother to Rurik , who made Truvor prince of Izborsk .
True or not , Truvor is a popular character of many legends and tales told to tourists here , although this particular cross might have nothing to do with Truvor : it dates from the 14th-15th century , while the legendary prince died in 864 , according to the annals .
Nothing extraordinary , just clay pots decorating a palisade .
Well @ @ @ @ @ @ @ good way to dry them , but they have ornamental value , too !
Look : the fortress walls are THAT thick !
It ’ s easy to imagine what life was like here in times of war and peace .
But why don ’ t you reply to the invitation and see for yourself ?

"Look: the fortress walls are THAT thick! It’s easy to imagine what life was like here in times of war and peace.
This article from our archives was first published on RI in December 2017
This scenic place was formerly a first-line frontier defense city.
This is the very first installment to embark on an Instagram journey through the vastness of Russia — why don’t you join us? An ancient fortress with walls several meters thick, ostriches roaming the wooded flatlands and a pagan sacred site: see all this and more!
This time we are visiting Izborsk (or Old Izborsk, as the locals call it), 455 miles north-west of Moscow, just near the Russian-Estonian border: it was once a bustling city on the very first line of the North-West frontier defense repeatedly besieged by the Livonian Order and other daring invaders, never succeeding in direct combat.
Now it is a village, not a city, and you can hardly imagine a more peaceful or picturesque place.
Surroundings
Photo: @lottusik via Instagram
The heart of the ancient city was Izborsk Fortress, now the village’s main tourist attraction. This strong fortification dates from the 14th century, built near the site of an earlier one. Even now, the six still-standing towers are evidence of the fortress’s defensive power
.
Photo: @soldatova_anna via Instagram
This is how the village looked just a century ago. Now the carefully restored houses mark the beginning of the tourist area of Izborsk. Look at the pavement: it’s the real ancient one, also restored.
Photo: @andre_zlatocvet via Instagram
This exquisite natural beauty is called Slovenskiye Springs, more than a thousand years old. Just think, the clear water sprays are more ancient than the time-worn stone walls! Since ancient times, the springs have had sacral significance, being first a pagan site and then bearing the second name of The Springs of the Twelve Apostles.
Photo: @fuls_photo via Instagram
The Slovenskiye Springs make their way to Lake Gorodishchenskoye, a habitat for ducks and graceful swans. An ancient legend has it that these swans have never left the lake, and as long as they remain there Izborsk will never fall. Since both the swans and the village (and even the fortress) are present, the legend is definitely true!
Photo: @poisson_d_avril via Instagram
This tiny chapel was founded not far from Izborsk in the name of the Derzhavnaya Icon of the Mother of God. Although it seems as ancient as any Izborsk church, it dates from 2012. The Poklonnyi (Worshipful Submission) Cross nearby commemorates all the victories of the Russian military and all the fallen Russian warriors; its basement (called The Holy Hill of the Unity and Glory of Russia) consists of earth from all the places of Russian military glory.
Photo: @kolpigina via Instagram
...And when military victories are won and the battles stop thundering, this is what the Izborsk vicinity looks like. Perfect beauty and tranquility. Time seems to stop flowing here, and calm pervades the soul.
Photo: @margo_ivanovaaaa via Instagram
But did you ever imagine that this land is home to… ostriches? That’s right. Not only can you give them a stroke, but also try fried ostrich eggs! Well, probably one egg — because of its size.
People
Photo: @tiapkinandrei via Instagram
The cheapest way to spend your time in Izborsk: bring a tent! But mind the weather: the North-West region of Russia isn’t renowned for its mild climate.
Photo: @nw_wind via Instagram
Although Izborsk and its surroundings are among the most peaceful places in the world, there’s still room for the adrenalin rush! The scenic nature contributes to that even more.
Photo: @deinochka via Instagram
This is how a typical ancient Izborian domestic goddess used to spend her time in days gone by: at the stove. Of course, it happened only when all the house duties were done and dusted, so to speak, i.e. pretty much never.
Photo: @mr.lawey via Instagram
Don’t be alarmed, these guys are our contemporaries. But what could be a better place to bring the past back to life than an ancient fortress? By the way, Izborsk hosts a few re-enactment festivals every year: a great chance to imagine ancient life, warts and all.
Photo: @ian.vasilev via Instagram
Need a lift? :) Frankly speaking, you won’t need one here in Izborsk: ancient cities, even the most powerful ones, are not really large by modern standards. Everything is easily reached on foot.
Closeups
Photo: @skalka_ via Instagram
This is definitely the cutest and probably the most surprising side of Izborsk: it’s a cat-loving city! Cats can be seen everywhere (this one is nestled right in the fortress), plus they’re nice-looking and well-fed. And they have no fear of human beings, so please don’t exploit that.
Photo: @kelmberg via Instagram
An ancient custom for an ancient city: these lanterns were in use decades ago, but seem to fit these houses perfectly.
Photo: @molibobr via Instagram
...The forward march of progress. Like it or not the technological revolution is seemingly unstoppable.
Photo: @rusulsk via Instagram
One more part of the legacy of the past: this cross is named after Truvor, a legendary Varangian (Viking), brother to Rurik, who made Truvor prince of Izborsk. True or not, Truvor is a popular character of many legends and tales told to tourists here, although this particular cross might have nothing to do with Truvor: it dates from the 14th-15th century, while the legendary prince died in 864, according to the annals.
Photo: @irina.gvozdeva1 via Instagram
Nothing extraordinary, just clay pots decorating a palisade. Well, ok, it might be a good way to dry them, but they have ornamental value, too!
Photo: @kuzianl via Instagram
Look: the fortress walls are THAT thick! It’s easy to imagine what life was like here in times of war and peace.
But why don’t you reply to the invitation and see for yourself?
Source: Russia Beyond the Headlines


russia-insider--2020-12-26--78 Years Ago Today Churchill Incinerated 100,000 Defenseless Civilians in Dresden

`` In the sky Allied fighter planes caught sight of the civilian train and opened fire on the children inside , whose blood was soon pouring out of the wreckage . ''
This article from our archives was first published on RI in February 2018 The original headline of this article was : 'The People Who Were Burned to Ashes on Ash Wednesday' It was Shrove Tuesday , 1945 in the magnificent German art city of Dresden , which was packed with helpless Christian refugees fleeing the Red Army of the Stalinist USSR .
Dresden ’ s native Lutheran and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Saxon folk costumes , were aboard a train taking them home after Mardi Gras parties at different points in the far-flung city .
Still merry from the night ’ s festivities , they cavorted on the train prior to Ash Wednesday , February 14 , and the solemnities that would be observed even in wartime , in memory of the passion and death of Jesus .
In the sky Allied fighter planes caught sight of the civilian train and opened fire on the children inside , whose blood was soon pouring out of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not at all in the American mind .
The holocaust in Dresden , lasting two days and killing at least 100,000 people , like the atomic holocaust in Hiroshima and Nagasaki , usually merits not much more than a few sentences or a single paragraph in the back pages of metropolitan newspapers , unlike “ Yom HaShoah ( יום השואה ) Holocaust Remembrance Day , ” in April , which is observed with countless civic , educational and media events , hosannahs , apologies and genuflections , from the Vatican to the White @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Japanese victims of Allied war crimes were of the wrong race and religion .
In the spring of 1945 , after prosecuting the bombing holocaust against every major German city , and with the end of the Second World War in sight in Europe , Winston Churchill began to consider his reputation in the post-war period , when the 500,000 German innocents he ordered incinerated could come back to haunt him and stain his prestige .
On March 28 , 1945 he issued a deceitful , back-stabbing memo blaming the mass incineration on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , upon its commander Arthur Harris , whose force would be denied a post-war campaign medal , and Harris a peerage .
Harris and Bomber Command had been only following Winston Churchill ’ s explicit orders , yet Churchill attempted to shift responsibility onto the corps of airmen who had suffered among the highest casualties of any branch of the British military .
Churchill , like many others , endeavored to blame Germany for being the first to saturate civilians with terror-bombs —at Guernica in Spain on behalf of Franco ’ s forces @ @ @ @ @ @ @ war with Holland .
In both cases Churchill stated that thousands had been killed .
Even one death is regrettable of course , but less than 100 people were killed in Guernica according to historian David Irving , and less than a thousand in Rotterdam , when the Luftwafe accidentally struck a margarine factory and the flammable liquid burned houses nearby .
Churchill had said “ thousands ” died in Guernica , and that 30,000 perished in Rotterdam , which is more than what Deborah Lipstadt says died in the two-day inferno in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 25,000 is now the officially fixed count to which the “ news media ” comform without deviation ) .
The Germans had pledged not to be the first to bomb civilian centers in Britain .
Churchill had hoped they would carpet bomb London to give him the excuse to silence the large peace movement in England which was dogging him in 1940 , at a time when the Germans had not dropped a single bomb on London , almost a year after Britain had declared war on Germany .
The British Prime Minister @ @ @ @ @ @ @ August , 1940 , when a lone , wayward German bomber “ lost its way flying up the Thames ” river .
It had orders to attack an oil refinery , but instead dropped its bombs on London ’ s East End .
No one was killed thankfully , but Churchill was elated .
He had the excuse he needed to massively retaliate against Berlin , knowing Hitler would respond in kind , and that the British peace movement would vanish in the smoke and flames of the “ Battle of Britain ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a hundred bombers to attack Berlin .
Royal Air Force ( RAF ) commanders warned him that the Luftwaffe would do the same to London .
At this juncture we pause to contemplate the bloody treason that was at the heart of Churchill ’ s soul : he wanted as many of his own English civilians in London to die as possible , so he could point to their deaths as the justification for a total war against Germany , and he succeeded in his objective .
Some of the victims of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the war crime the leaders of Britain and the United States perpetrated in Dresden is justified on the basis of the tired fable that “ Germany did it first to Rotterdam and Guernica , ” and “ Look at the terror the Germans visited upon London.
” Nothing that occurred in Guernica , Rotterdam , or for that matter London , begins to even approach the scale of the holocaust that the firebombs of the air forces of Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt inflicted on Dresden .
On September 4 , 1940 Hitler gave @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if the “ mad drunkard ” Churchill continued to attack Berlin , the Germans were not going to stand by and take it .
It was Neanderthal thinking on the führer ’ s part : you club me over the head and I will club you .
Hitler was almost always outfoxed by the clever machinations of the masonic treachery at the heart of Britain ’ s ruling class .
No matter what Churchill ordered , Hitler should have limited his air campaign to British military sites and munitions factories ( the Luftwaffe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ built Britain ’ s Lancaster bombers ) .
On September 6 the English people heard the ominous drone of a fleet of Luftwaffe bombers flying up the Thames .
Some 3,000 Londoners subsequently died .
Now Churchill had what he wanted .
You won ’ t find these facts in the multi-volume history he wrote , or in the pages of the work of the conformist historians .
To learn the truth one must read and study the revisionists , particularly the demonized David Irving , the preeminent military historian of World War @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s nemesis , Deborah Lipstadt meanwhile , has taken it upon herself to deny the holocaust casualty figure of 100,000 for Dresden , but God help any one of us who would have the temerity to doubt the Six Million casualty figure of Holocaustianity , or even to apply the word “ holocaust ” to what happened in Dresden .
I challenge any reader to collect the legacy media ’ s descriptions of the bombing of Dresden from the 1990s onward and count how many term it a holocaust .
The extent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Orwellian dystopia of our own making is revealed when we consider the fact that it is regarded as highly insensitive or indeed “ anti-Semitic ” to violate the self-appointed Newspeak holocaust trademark appropriated by the Holy People , and apply it to the German cities that were incinerated , or to Hiroshima and Nagasaki , even though those war crimes were genuine holocausts by dictionary definition : “ Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale , especially caused by fire .
Origin : Greek holokauston , from holos ‘ whole ’ and kaustos @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Holocaustianity it is not decreed that most Judaic victims of the Nazis perished by fire .
A half-million German civilians and three-quarters of a million Japanese civilians ( including the victims of the fire-bombing of Toyko ) , were indeed burned to death , yet it is a thought crime to say so .
Tell me we are not all cowards for allowing truth itself to be forbidden .
We live in Talmudic times .
This writer is sometimes accused , as a researcher in the field of the Babylonian Talmud , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not .
It is not so much the Talmudic texts themselves that we observe in our society , but the results of their influence .
The single most remarkable dimension of Talmudic halacha is its narcissistic exceptionalism , born of the self-worship it inculcates .
Prof. Lipstadt , who has made an career out of stigmatizing anyone who doubts any aspect of the “ Holocaust ” narrative , as a diabolic “ Holocaust denier , ” is free to deny , without negative consequences , the holocaust in Dresden , because of her @ @ @ @ @ @ @ People .
She may do as she likes with history , in ways that the rest of us may not .
For that reason alone we can not respect the religion of Holocaustianity .
It is not history .
It is a product of Talmudic megalomania .
Few of us tolerate fanatical egoism from Catholics , Protestants or Muslims .
The very idea raises our secular indignation and “ Separation of Church ( or Mosque ) and State !
” is our cry , in the face of it .
But to shout @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” in nations where Holocaustianity is the last truly believed state religion in the otherwise agnostic West , would be unthinkable for anyone who valued their reputation , employment , personal safety , or in Europe , freedom from incarceration .
Beyond the “ Jew and gentile ” entanglement is the fratricide : Churchill and his top military circle were not Judaic , yet they set afire the medieval cities of their German cousins , who only two generations before had comprised the royal blood within the House of the German-speaking Queen Victoria @ @ @ @ @ @ @ religious wars in Europe had not managed to wreak the destruction which Mr. Churchill and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt directed against the cultural treasure houses of western civilization , in cities like Dresden .
They tossed a match into Dresden as casually as a drooling meth addict would torch an apartment building for revenge on the landlord who had evicted him .
Yet “ conservative Christian ” American university professors and administrators in institutions of higher learning such as Michigan ’ s esteemed Hillsdale College , which is the recipient of millions of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seeking to preserve western civilization , have hallowed Churchill into a paragon of decency , courage and western leadership .
This view of this mass murdering vandal is such a defect of vision as to be fatal spiritually , culturally and politically on a national scale .
If the powers that be decided , for example , that Russia needed to be fire-bombed , given sufficient pretext our “ Conservatives ” would do it all over again in the name of “ civilization.
” The blood of the innocent in Moscow and St. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hillsdale College type of crusaders than the charred bodies of the civilians in the apocalyptic wreckage of Dresden .
American civilization in 2018 is not worthy of the name .
We have the illusion of a civilization , which we cherish for our own aggrandizement and nostalgia .
“ Conservative ” America has made common cause with the Talmudic mentality , as did Antonin Scalia , another of its plaster saints .
At the start of Lent 2018 , seventy-three years after the Allies ’ mass murder in Dresden , we inhabit the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Christ on the Cross is sold not just for a buck , but for a bucket of Talmudic vindication .

"In the sky Allied fighter planes caught sight of the civilian train and opened fire on the children inside, whose blood was soon pouring out of the wreckage."
This article from our archives was first published on RI in February 2018
The original headline of this article was: 'The People Who Were Burned to Ashes on Ash Wednesday'
It was Shrove Tuesday, 1945 in the magnificent German art city of Dresden, which was packed with helpless Christian refugees fleeing the Red Army of the Stalinist USSR. Dresden’s native Lutheran and Catholic children, dressed in their festive Saxon folk costumes, were aboard a train taking them home after Mardi Gras parties at different points in the far-flung city.
Still merry from the night’s festivities, they cavorted on the train prior to Ash Wednesday, February 14, and the solemnities that would be observed even in wartime, in memory of the passion and death of Jesus. In the sky Allied fighter planes caught sight of the civilian train and opened fire on the children inside, whose blood was soon pouring out of the wreckage.
He is the real war criminal
This carnage registers almost not at all in the American mind. The holocaust in Dresden, lasting two days and killing at least 100,000 people, like the atomic holocaust in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, usually merits not much more than a few sentences or a single paragraph in the back pages of metropolitan newspapers, unlike “Yom HaShoah (יום השואה) Holocaust Remembrance Day,” in April, which is observed with countless civic, educational and media events, hosannahs, apologies and genuflections, from the Vatican to the White House. The barely remembered German and Japanese victims of Allied war crimes were of the wrong race and religion.
In the spring of 1945, after prosecuting the bombing holocaust against every major German city, and with the end of the Second World War in sight in Europe, Winston Churchill began to consider his reputation in the post-war period, when the 500,000 German innocents he ordered incinerated could come back to haunt him and stain his prestige. On March 28, 1945 he issued a deceitful, back-stabbing memo blaming the mass incineration on his own Bomber Command and by insinuation, upon its commander Arthur Harris, whose force would be denied a post-war campaign medal, and Harris a peerage.
Harris and Bomber Command had been only following Winston Churchill’s explicit orders, yet Churchill attempted to shift responsibility onto the corps of airmen who had suffered among the highest casualties of any branch of the British military.
Churchill, like many others, endeavored to blame Germany for being the first to saturate civilians with terror-bombs —at Guernica in Spain on behalf of Franco’s forces, and in Rotterdam, during the war with Holland. In both cases Churchill stated that thousands had been killed. Even one death is regrettable of course, but less than 100 people were killed in Guernica according to historian David Irving, and less than a thousand in Rotterdam, when the Luftwafe accidentally struck a margarine factory and the flammable liquid burned houses nearby.
Churchill had said “thousands” died in Guernica, and that 30,000 perished in Rotterdam, which is more than what Deborah Lipstadt says died in the two-day inferno in Dresden (the absurdly low figure of 25,000 is now the officially fixed count to which the “news media” comform without deviation).
The Germans had pledged not to be the first to bomb civilian centers in Britain. Churchill had hoped they would carpet bomb London to give him the excuse to silence the large peace movement in England which was dogging him in 1940, at a time when the Germans had not dropped a single bomb on London, almost a year after Britain had declared war on Germany.
The British Prime Minister obtained his pretext toward the end of August, 1940, when a lone, wayward German bomber “lost its way flying up the Thames” river. It had orders to attack an oil refinery, but instead dropped its bombs on London’s East End. No one was killed thankfully, but Churchill was elated.
He had the excuse he needed to massively retaliate against Berlin, knowing Hitler would respond in kind, and that the British peace movement would vanish in the smoke and flames of the “Battle of Britain” and the “Blitz.” Churchill ordered a hundred bombers to attack Berlin. Royal Air Force (RAF) commanders warned him that the Luftwaffe would do the same to London.
At this juncture we pause to contemplate the bloody treason that was at the heart of Churchill’s soul: he wanted as many of his own English civilians in London to die as possible, so he could point to their deaths as the justification for a total war against Germany, and he succeeded in his objective.
Some of the victims of the Allied holocaust in Dresden
To this day the war crime the leaders of Britain and the United States perpetrated in Dresden is justified on the basis of the tired fable that “Germany did it first to Rotterdam and Guernica,” and “Look at the terror the Germans visited upon London.” Nothing that occurred in Guernica, Rotterdam, or for that matter London, begins to even approach the scale of the holocaust that the firebombs of the air forces of Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt inflicted on Dresden.
On September 4, 1940 Hitler gave a speech in which he stated that if the “mad drunkard” Churchill continued to attack Berlin, the Germans were not going to stand by and take it. It was Neanderthal thinking on the führer’s part: you club me over the head and I will club you. Hitler was almost always outfoxed by the clever machinations of the masonic treachery at the heart of Britain’s ruling class.
No matter what Churchill ordered, Hitler should have limited his air campaign to British military sites and munitions factories (the Luftwaffe never bothered to attack the factories that built Britain’s Lancaster bombers).
On September 6 the English people heard the ominous drone of a fleet of Luftwaffe bombers flying up the Thames. Some 3,000 Londoners subsequently died. Now Churchill had what he wanted. You won’t find these facts in the multi-volume history he wrote, or in the pages of the work of the conformist historians. To learn the truth one must read and study the revisionists, particularly the demonized David Irving, the preeminent military historian of World War II in the Atlantic theatre.
Irving’s nemesis, Deborah Lipstadt meanwhile, has taken it upon herself to deny the holocaust casualty figure of 100,000 for Dresden, but God help any one of us who would have the temerity to doubt the Six Million casualty figure of Holocaustianity, or even to apply the word “holocaust” to what happened in Dresden.
I challenge any reader to collect the legacy media’s descriptions of the bombing of Dresden from the 1990s onward and count how many term it a holocaust.
The extent to which we are imprisoned in an Orwellian dystopia of our own making is revealed when we consider the fact that it is regarded as highly insensitive or indeed “anti-Semitic” to violate the self-appointed Newspeak holocaust trademark appropriated by the Holy People, and apply it to the German cities that were incinerated, or to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, even though those war crimes were genuine holocausts by dictionary definition: “Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire. Origin: Greek holokauston, from holos ‘whole’ and kaustos ‘burned.”
Even in the liturgy of Holocaustianity it is not decreed that most Judaic victims of the Nazis perished by fire. A half-million German civilians and three-quarters of a million Japanese civilians (including the victims of the fire-bombing of Toyko), were indeed burned to death, yet it is a thought crime to say so. Tell me we are not all cowards for allowing truth itself to be forbidden. We live in Talmudic times.
This writer is sometimes accused, as a researcher in the field of the Babylonian Talmud, of seeing the Talmud where it is not. It is not so much the Talmudic texts themselves that we observe in our society, but the results of their influence. The single most remarkable dimension of Talmudic halacha is its narcissistic exceptionalism, born of the self-worship it inculcates.
Prof. Lipstadt, who has made an career out of stigmatizing anyone who doubts any aspect of the “Holocaust” narrative, as a diabolic “Holocaust denier,” is free to deny, without negative consequences, the holocaust in Dresden, because of her exceptional status as one of the Holy People. She may do as she likes with history, in ways that the rest of us may not. For that reason alone we cannot respect the religion of Holocaustianity.
It is not history. It is a product of Talmudic megalomania. Few of us tolerate fanatical egoism from Catholics, Protestants or Muslims. The very idea raises our secular indignation and “Separation of Church (or Mosque) and State!” is our cry, in the face of it. But to shout “Separation of Synagogue and State!” in nations where Holocaustianity is the last truly believed state religion in the otherwise agnostic West, would be unthinkable for anyone who valued their reputation, employment, personal safety, or in Europe, freedom from incarceration.
Beyond the “Jew and gentile” entanglement is the fratricide: Churchill and his top military circle were not Judaic, yet they set afire the medieval cities of their German cousins, who only two generations before had comprised the royal blood within the House of the German-speaking Queen Victoria.
A thousand years of national and religious wars in Europe had not managed to wreak the destruction which Mr. Churchill and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt directed against the cultural treasure houses of western civilization, in cities like Dresden. They tossed a match into Dresden as casually as a drooling meth addict would torch an apartment building for revenge on the landlord who had evicted him.
Yet “conservative Christian” American university professors and administrators in institutions of higher learning such as Michigan’s esteemed Hillsdale College, which is the recipient of millions of dollars in donations from “Conservatives” seeking to preserve western civilization, have hallowed Churchill into a paragon of decency, courage and western leadership. This view of this mass murdering vandal is such a defect of vision as to be fatal spiritually, culturally and politically on a national scale.
If the powers that be decided, for example, that Russia needed to be fire-bombed, given sufficient pretext our “Conservatives” would do it all over again in the name of “civilization.” The blood of the innocent in Moscow and St. Petersburg would signify no more to the Hillsdale College type of crusaders than the charred bodies of the civilians in the apocalyptic wreckage of Dresden.
American civilization in 2018 is not worthy of the name. We have the illusion of a civilization, which we cherish for our own aggrandizement and nostalgia. “Conservative” America has made common cause with the Talmudic mentality, as did Antonin Scalia, another of its plaster saints.
At the start of Lent 2018, seventy-three years after the Allies’ mass murder in Dresden, we inhabit the money changer’s house, where Christ on the Cross is sold not just for a buck, but for a bucket of Talmudic vindication.
Source: The Unz Review


russia-insider--2020-12-26--A Revisionist Stroll Through History: The Spanish Expulsion of the Jews to WW1

Turns out Napoleon was right , history IS a set of lies agreed upon ( by the victors ) This article from our archives was first published on RI in February 2018 We ca n't recommend this charming article enough , partly because it is so well-written , but also because of the light it sheds on important world events .
If the information age we are living through is anything , it is the re-writing of history - and this re-writing will change the world beyond recognition .
On hearing the word ‘ revisionism , ’ suspicion lurks in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sound in the mind of others .
Suspicion is the elder sister of twins , credulity and incredulity .
And of all kinds of credulity , the most obstinate and wonderful is that of zealots ; of men who resign the use of their eyes and ears , and resolve to believe nothing that does not favor those whom they profess to follow .
Hence the law of truth , which most would accept in principle , is broken without penalty , without censure , and in compliance with inveterate prejudice and prevailing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what they wish , and encourage rather those who gratify them with pleasure , than those who provide them with fidelity , ( or at least try to . )
Still , revisionism implies nothing else but an effort to seek historical truth and to discredit myths that are a barrier to peace and general goodwill among nations .
There is nothing upon which more writers , in all ages , have laid out their abilities , than revisionism .
And it affords no pleasing reflection to discover that a subject so controversial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ surprise some that the first undisputed revisionist was a relatively little known Renaissance scholar named Lorenzo Valla ( 1407-1457 ) .
He used his knowledge of classical Latin to prove that an important text written by Emperor Constantine , one thousand years before , was actually a forgery .
To the skeptic who understandably asks , “ So what ?
” the answer may surprise him .
That discovery destroyed the historical justification for the Catholic Church to have a judicial right to the possession ( essentially at will ) , of earthly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ document titled “ The Donation of Constantine , ” stated , “ I , Constantine , donated the whole of the Western Roman Empire to the Roman Catholic Church , as an act of gratitude for having been miraculously cured of leprosy by Pope Sylvester I.
” Lorenzo Valla proved that the vernacular Latin of the forged ‘ donation ’ was in use only in the 8th century AD , rather than the 4 , th when the document had allegedly been written .
The incentive for Valla ’ s research was a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Aragon and the Pope of the time .
Understandably the Church rejected the conclusion , but rather than been pilloried , insulted , derided , ostracized , banned or burned , Valla actually even enjoyed the patronage of Pope Callixtus III .
Perhaps the spirit of the Renaissance inspired indulgence and forbearance , instead of hatred and revenge .
Which is more than can be said about what happened to recent revisionists of more recent events .
To step back a little , let ’ s take the American Revolution for example @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of English-imported tea into Boston harbor as evidence of an unsullied love of freedom and of courageous revolting by idealistic patriots against a tyrannical enemy and extortionist import taxes .
But revisionists have shown that the first financier of the Revolution was John Hancock , a wealthy merchant from a family that made its fortune from smuggling .
Tea happened to be a major item , generously drunk by colonists and locals .
It just so happened that England had a large overstock of stored and unsold tea from the East Indian Company @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it in America at a price that , even with the import tax , was less than the cost of the tea smuggled in America from Holland .
This substantially cut into the profit of the Hancock business .
Hancock but caught the stream in the torrent of occasion In 1812 America wanted to conquer Canada to bring freedom thither , as pompously declared by Gen. William Hull in his annexation proclamation , before being defeated at Detroit .
Two years later , during the peace negotiations with the British , the Americans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Canada .
“ But how about Gen.
Hull ’ s declaration in Detroit ?
” asked the British .
“ That was not really government-sanctioned policy , ” was the reply , as documented in the records .
And when the British requested some territorial exchanges and concessions that would have preserved independence for some American Indians , the Americans flatly refused .
In a report to his boss in London , Lord Bathurst , the British negotiator Henry Goulburn wrote “ …till I came here I had no idea of the fixed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ heart of every American , to extirpate ( sic ) the Indians and appropriate their territory.
” Yet , in the non-revisionist annals of history , the war of 1812 was “ The War That Forged A Nation.
” To the Civil War ( 1861-1865 ) , the term ‘ revisionism ’ has not generally been applied – though , to be pedantic about it , in the South the same war was called “ War for Southern Independence.
” Yet unofficial revisionists have focused on the causes of the Civil War far @ @ @ @ @ @ @ World War .
Nevertheless , it is no longer impolitic to say that the war had little and only tangentially to do with slavery emancipation .
Revisionists have equally shown that , at the time of the Spanish American war in 1898 , President McKinley , with the full Spanish concessions to his demands in his pocket , concealed the Spanish capitulation from Congress and demanded war .
Which in turn required an excuse ( “ casus belli ” is the technical term ) .
The sinking of the Maine did nicely , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up the Maine was the 9/11 of the Spanish-American War .
Today it is acceptable to tell the truth about the Maine , partly or mostly because 120 years have worn out the print of remembrance , and much greater horrors have shown the immense power of immense evil .
Besides , the relatively recently published “ Operation Northwood ” papers show a detailed plan for a false flag operation that included the killing of an unspecified number of Americans , to justify the invasion of Cuba during Kennedy ’ s time .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ false North Vietnamese attack on an American frigate in the Gulf of Tonkin was the notorious excuse for the Vietnam War .
It is somewhat disheartening to agree with Oscar Wilde that “ truth is a matter of style.
” And if use almost can change the stamp of nature , habituation to mass media bombardment using the same story can make the story appear true and quell the power of independent thought .
Furthermore , insensibly and by degrees , the popular media , controlled by a state-within-the state , has cleverly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ accept that astuteness redeems any evil .
Actual cases have literally shown that with lots of money even a moderately unintelligent criminal can get away with murder .
As for 9/11 , I will not repeat what has been said , written , debated or demonstrated by thousands of others .
In my mind there remains printed the expression of Larry Silverstein , either owner , or renter , or lessee of the towers , depending on intricate legal arguments and definitions .
When he claimed on television that he did not go @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he had an appointment with a dermatologist , and his wife insisted that he keep it .
Physiognomy , however , is a justly debatable science , immune to revisionism .
It was WW1 that actually brought the term “ revisionism ” into general use , and for good reasons .
For the revisionists counted on an accurate assessment of the causes of the War for a review and re-write of the Treaty of Versailles .
The treaty assigned to Germany and Austria the sole responsibility for the conflict .
The Germans were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ suggesting wild hordes of horse-mounted barbarians who brought havoc to the Roman Empire .
That the German ‘ Huns , ’ in 1914 , had the most socially advanced measures and safety-net for workers in Europe , including the equivalent of social security , was deemed irrelevant .
But at the onset of the war new methods of communication , mass journalism and propaganda could whip up popular opinion and mass hatred as never before in the history of warfare .
By then propaganda , especially of the Edward Bernay ’ s type @ @ @ @ @ @ @ evil , as discussed in the article “ The Fraud of Freud.
” Propaganda , then and now , is ever ready to surprise the unawareness of the thoughtless , prone to be misled by meteors mistaken for stars .
Media-whipped-up hysteria made Germany entirely responsible not only for the outbreak of war in 1914 but also for the American entry in April 1917 .
President Wilson , who decided to join the war to make the world safe for democracy , even imprisoned union leader Eugene Debs for having said that profit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for that decision .
Other revisionists connected the entry of America in WW1 to the quid-pro-quo worked-out in England by certain bankers , in exchange for the Balfour declaration and the consequent eventual ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians .
At Versailles , the victors alleged that , on July 5 , 1914 , the Kaiser had called a Crown Council of leading German government officials , ambassadors , and financiers .
Where he told them to ready themselves for the war he would shortly declare .
Whereupon the financiers asked for a two @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and securities .
The Kaiser agreed and then left for his habitual summer North Sea vacation on his yacht .
All this was , allegedly , concocted to give the enemy a false sense of security .
An American revisionist proved from available documents that the Crown Council legend was a complete myth .
Some of the alleged participants were not in Berlin at the time .
And the Kaiser ’ s actual attitude , on that 5th of July , was 180 degrees opposite to the official narrative , while the two-week @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fabrication .
What actually happened has a tinge of Clintonian-style scandal .
The secretary to the German Ambassador in Constantinople , Baron Hans von Wangenheim , revealed the facts .
Von Wangenheim had a mistress in Berlin and , in the early days of the crisis of 1914 , she demanded that he return at once to Berlin to settle some critical matters with her .
He complied and , to conceal from his wife the real reason for the trip , he told her that the Kaiser had suddenly summoned him to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ told his wife about the fanciful Crown Council he had dreamed up .
Shortly later , with his wife by his side , von Wangenheim met Morgenthau , then the American Ambassador at Constantinople , at a diplomatic reception .
Morgenthau had heard about von Wangenheim ’ s trip to Berlin and pressed him to say something about it .
Under the circumstances , von Wangenheim could only repeat the myth he had told his wife .
To what extent liquor may have lessened his restraint , and how much Morgenthau elaborated on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forever buried several fathoms in the earth , or sunk into the bottomless sea of things unknown .
Still , that preposterous tale demonstrates the value of revisionism and how momentous and tragic events hang on the most palpable fabrications .
For on its basis , the then British Prime Minister Lloyd George advocated the hanging of the German Kaiser ( which the Dutch refused to do , for the Kaiser was in exile in Holland ) .
More recently , Colin Powell ’ s vial full of milk , paraded as antrax @ @ @ @ @ @ @ excuse to wage a war on behalf of Israel that netted the destruction of a country , the death of over thousands of American soldiers and a million plus Iraqis .
What caused WW2 would demand an equal or greater volume of revisionism , if free speech were not equated to heresy .
To name just one , mostly-buried and poorly-answered question – England declared war on Poland because Germany had invaded part of it , to recover lands lost in WW1 .
Why did not England declare war on the USSR , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recover land lost under the terms of the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty in WW1 ?
Here the revisionists hit a lexical wall .
England and France did not declare war on the USSR because the USSR was “ in a state of neutrality.
” One current hot topic for revisionism is the so-called “ Russia-gate.
” In the US – according to statistics – less than 10 % can even locate Ukraine on a map , as fascination for sports alone dramatically outweighs any potential interest in foreign things , let alone foreign history @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But even for millions in business or business related occupations , concern in foreign matters yields no physical , tangible residue , in the way of durable goods or profit .
Consequently , such interests are deemed imbecile and distasteful to men whose habitual occupation is with the acquisition of wealth or the thought of it .
Therefore to suggest that Russia influenced the American electorate to vote for Trump , brings sublimity to the ridiculous .
Yet even the “ The New York Times , ” which usually exhibits a shrewd eye @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the best policy , has succumbed to the temptation of promoting a legless fabrication .
While the insupportably disagreeable lackeys of the information industry continue to lie without being belied , deceive without being unmasked , and wear the medals of their own crimes .
I will conclude this scant and thoroughly incomplete anthology of revisionism by referring to the Spanish Inquisition , which , more than from history books , is remembered thanks to the related satirical sketches of Monty Python .
Telegraphically compressed , the history goes as follows .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jews from their respective kingdoms .
Or rather , the Jews were told to convert ( to Christianity ) , or leave .
Those who could leave left , those who didn ’ t and did not convert suffered persecution .
Of those who converted , henceforth called “ conversos ” , many maintained their important and lucrative positions inside what today we call the establishment .
As an instance – and the related documentation is ample – take the case of Alonso de Cartagena .
When 4 or 5-year old , he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Ha-Levi , in turn , had converted to Christianity just before the anti-Jewish pogroms of 1391 , and later was elected bishop of Cartagena and Burgos , while his wife remained faithful to her original faith .
Anyway , the perception at large that the conversion to Christianity was just a front , led to two important developments .
In 1492 King Ferdinand , who now ruled Castile and Aragon , banned from Spain the unconverted Jews with no exception , while the Inquisition ( a kind of National Security Agency ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conversion was sincere or not .
This decision to expel had been brewing for some time .
In the meantime Pope Eugenius IV had nominated Cartagena Junior as Bishop of Burgos .
Cartagena was a very learned man who translated Cicero and the books of Seneca in Castilian .
And he also set himself to combat the view that Jews could not really be Christian , in his treatise titled “ Defensorium.
” According to his ( we can call it revisionist ) view , the idea of the Jews being the “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Abram ’ s circumcision – he wrote – was just a mark of an alliance , not a result of his merits .
This is why “ ( God ) generously decided to give his people the law , so that the distinction among peoples be perceived not only in the flesh by cutting off the foreskin , but also in the customs by cutting off vices.
” [ Dios ] se dignó darle generosamente la ley para que la diferencia no fuese percibida sólo en la carne , por el corte del @ @ @ @ @ @ @ por el corte de los vicios ” ( Cartagena , Defensorium ) .
But this was not enough .
Unsubstantiated historical rumor says that Ferdinand was reluctant to pass the expulsion measure , considering that he had received a very generous offer from prosperous members of the Spanish AIPAC of the time .
At which Torquemada allegedly threw a cross at the feet of Ferdinand and said , “ Christ was betrayed for 30 pieces of silver .
Would you betray him , just because the reward is higher ?
” Even so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after the Jews ’ expulsion of 1482 .
For in 1539 Ignatius of Loyola along with four other conversos and one established Christian , founded the Jesuit order .
Bitter fights between the parties of “ Jesuits-conversos-in ” and “ Jesuits-conversos-out , ” lasted well into the 17th century .
In the overall context , it is interesting to consider the views of Benzion Netaniahou , father of Benjamin Netan-you-know-who .
Benzion died in 2012 aged 102 , and in 1995 published his book titled , “ The Origins of the Inquisition.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , B. Netaniahou ’ s intent was , Other revisionist critics have disputed that B. Netaniahou wished to portrays Jews as naive , by quoting the following passage from his book , “ It was primarily because of the functions of the Jews as the king ’ s revenue gatherers in the urban areas that the cities saw the Jews as the monarch ’ s agents , who treated them as objects of massive exploitation .
By serving as they did the interests of the kings , the Jews seemed to be working @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and thus we touch again on the phenomenon we have referred to : the fundamental conflict between the kings and their people—a conflict not limited to financial matters , but one that embraced all spheres of government that had a bearing on the people ’ s life .
It was in part thanks to this conflict of interests that the Jews could survive the harsh climate of the Middle Ages , and it is hard to believe that they did not discern it when they came to resettle in Christian Europe .
Indeed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Carolingians , for assurances of protection before they settled in a place show ( a ) that they realized that the kings ’ positions on many issues differed from those of the common people and ( b ) that the kings were prepared , for the sake of their interests , to make common cause with the “ alien ” Jews against the clear wishes of their Christian subjects .
In a sense , therefore , the Jews ’ agreements with the kings in the Middle Ages resembled the understandings they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ancient world.
” Conclusion ?
The resentment against the Jews was the fault of the kings .
Or rather , Jews were not naive , as one of the book reviewers suggested .
Instead they realized that in allying themselves with exploiting ruling elites , they would incur the wrath of the people and thus require princely assurances of protection .
The Jewish alliance with local exploitative elites is a constant among alleged causes of anti-Jewish resentment , in Europe and elsewhere .
Whether this set of affairs can be observed in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do not feel qualified to determine .
Considering that the purpose here is/was to review revisionism , not to draw , declare or dismiss sundry articles of truth .
Furthermore , of things that revolve around human life , the world is the proper judge .
To despise its sentence , if it were possible , is not just ; and if it were just , is not possible .
For in the end , as it was said , and not by me , “ Nothing is good or bad , but @ @ @ @ @ @

This article from our archives was first published on RI in February 2018
We can't recommend this charming article enough, partly because it is so well-written, but also because of the light it sheds on important world events. If the information age we are living through is anything, it is the re-writing of history - and this re-writing will change the world beyond recognition.
On hearing the word ‘revisionism,’ suspicion lurks in the mind of some, and alarms sound in the mind of others. Suspicion is the elder sister of twins, credulity and incredulity. And of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate and wonderful is that of zealots; of men who resign the use of their eyes and ears, and resolve to believe nothing that does not favor those whom they profess to follow.
Hence the law of truth, which most would accept in principle, is broken without penalty, without censure, and in compliance with inveterate prejudice and prevailing passions. Men are willing to credit what they wish, and encourage rather those who gratify them with pleasure, than those who provide them with fidelity, (or at least try to.)
Still, revisionism implies nothing else but an effort to seek historical truth and to discredit myths that are a barrier to peace and general goodwill among nations. There is nothing upon which more writers, in all ages, have laid out their abilities, than revisionism. And it affords no pleasing reflection to discover that a subject so controversial is anything but exhausted.
It may surprise some that the first undisputed revisionist was a relatively little known Renaissance scholar named Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457). He used his knowledge of classical Latin to prove that an important text written by Emperor Constantine, one thousand years before, was actually a forgery. To the skeptic who understandably asks, “So what?” the answer may surprise him.
That discovery destroyed the historical justification for the Catholic Church to have a judicial right to the possession (essentially at will), of earthly lands and geographical domains.
The forged document titled “The Donation of Constantine,” stated, “I, Constantine, donated the whole of the Western Roman Empire to the Roman Catholic Church, as an act of gratitude for having been miraculously cured of leprosy by Pope Sylvester I.”
Lorenzo Valla proved that the vernacular Latin of the forged ‘donation’ was in use only in the 8th century AD, rather than the 4,th when the document had allegedly been written.
The incentive for Valla’s research was a land dispute between his patron Alfonso V of Aragon and the Pope of the time. Understandably the Church rejected the conclusion, but rather than been pilloried, insulted, derided, ostracized, banned or burned, Valla actually even enjoyed the patronage of Pope Callixtus III. Perhaps the spirit of the Renaissance inspired indulgence and forbearance, instead of hatred and revenge. Which is more than can be said about what happened to recent revisionists of more recent events.
To step back a little, let’s take the American Revolution for example. Patriotic historians have hailed the dumping of English-imported tea into Boston harbor as evidence of an unsullied love of freedom and of courageous revolting by idealistic patriots against a tyrannical enemy and extortionist import taxes.
But revisionists have shown that the first financier of the Revolution was John Hancock, a wealthy merchant from a family that made its fortune from smuggling. Tea happened to be a major item, generously drunk by colonists and locals.
It just so happened that England had a large overstock of stored and unsold tea from the East Indian Company. To dispose of it they sold it in America at a price that, even with the import tax, was less than the cost of the tea smuggled in America from Holland. This substantially cut into the profit of the Hancock business. Hancock but caught the stream in the torrent of occasion
In 1812 America wanted to conquer Canada to bring freedom thither, as pompously declared by Gen. William Hull in his annexation proclamation, before being defeated at Detroit. Two years later, during the peace negotiations with the British, the Americans denied of ever having intended to annex Canada. “But how about Gen. Hull’s declaration in Detroit?” asked the British. “That was not really government-sanctioned policy,” was the reply, as documented in the records.
And when the British requested some territorial exchanges and concessions that would have preserved independence for some American Indians, the Americans flatly refused. In a report to his boss in London, Lord Bathurst, the British negotiator Henry Goulburn wrote “…till I came here I had no idea of the fixed determination which there is, in the heart of every American, to extirpate (sic) the Indians and appropriate their territory.”
Yet, in the non-revisionist annals of history, the war of 1812 was “The War That Forged A Nation.”
To the Civil War (1861-1865), the term ‘revisionism’ has not generally been applied – though, to be pedantic about it, in the South the same war was called “War for Southern Independence.” Yet unofficial revisionists have focused on the causes of the Civil War far more than on the causes of either World War. Nevertheless, it is no longer impolitic to say that the war had little and only tangentially to do with slavery emancipation.
Revisionists have equally shown that, at the time of the Spanish American war in 1898, President McKinley, with the full Spanish concessions to his demands in his pocket, concealed the Spanish capitulation from Congress and demanded war. Which in turn required an excuse (“casus belli” is the technical term). The sinking of the Maine did nicely, with 268 dead American sailors. Blowing up the Maine was the 9/11 of the Spanish-American War.
Today it is acceptable to tell the truth about the Maine, partly or mostly because 120 years have worn out the print of remembrance, and much greater horrors have shown the immense power of immense evil.
Besides, the relatively recently published “Operation Northwood” papers show a detailed plan for a false flag operation that included the killing of an unspecified number of Americans, to justify the invasion of Cuba during Kennedy’s time. And, as universally acknowledged, the false North Vietnamese attack on an American frigate in the Gulf of Tonkin was the notorious excuse for the Vietnam War.
It is somewhat disheartening to agree with Oscar Wilde that “truth is a matter of style.” And if use almost can change the stamp of nature, habituation to mass media bombardment using the same story can make the story appear true and quell the power of independent thought.
Furthermore, insensibly and by degrees, the popular media, controlled by a state-within-the state, has cleverly assuaged the mesmerized audience to believe and accept that astuteness redeems any evil. Actual cases have literally shown that with lots of money even a moderately unintelligent criminal can get away with murder.
As for 9/11, I will not repeat what has been said, written, debated or demonstrated by thousands of others. In my mind there remains printed the expression of Larry Silverstein, either owner, or renter, or lessee of the towers, depending on intricate legal arguments and definitions. When he claimed on television that he did not go to his office on 9/11, because he had an appointment with a dermatologist, and his wife insisted that he keep it. Physiognomy, however, is a justly debatable science, immune to revisionism.
It was WW1 that actually brought the term “revisionism” into general use, and for good reasons. For the revisionists counted on an accurate assessment of the causes of the War for a review and re-write of the Treaty of Versailles. The treaty assigned to Germany and Austria the sole responsibility for the conflict.
The Germans were ‘Huns’ (sic), suggesting wild hordes of horse-mounted barbarians who brought havoc to the Roman Empire. That the German ‘Huns,’ in 1914, had the most socially advanced measures and safety-net for workers in Europe, including the equivalent of social security, was deemed irrelevant.
But at the onset of the war new methods of communication, mass journalism and propaganda could whip up popular opinion and mass hatred as never before in the history of warfare. By then propaganda, especially of the Edward Bernay’s type, was the arbiter of good and evil, as discussed in the article “The Fraud of Freud.” Propaganda, then and now, is ever ready to surprise the unawareness of the thoughtless, prone to be misled by meteors mistaken for stars.
Media-whipped-up hysteria made Germany entirely responsible not only for the outbreak of war in 1914 but also for the American entry in April 1917.
President Wilson, who decided to join the war to make the world safe for democracy, even imprisoned union leader Eugene Debs for having said that profit, not democracy was the only motive for that decision.
Other revisionists connected the entry of America in WW1 to the quid-pro-quo worked-out in England by certain bankers, in exchange for the Balfour declaration and the consequent eventual ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.
At Versailles, the victors alleged that, on July 5, 1914, the Kaiser had called a Crown Council of leading German government officials, ambassadors, and financiers. Where he told them to ready themselves for the war he would shortly declare. Whereupon the financiers asked for a two weeks delay, to sort out loans and securities. The Kaiser agreed and then left for his habitual summer North Sea vacation on his yacht. All this was, allegedly, concocted to give the enemy a false sense of security.
An American revisionist proved from available documents that the Crown Council legend was a complete myth. Some of the alleged participants were not in Berlin at the time. And the Kaiser’s actual attitude, on that 5th of July, was 180 degrees opposite to the official narrative, while the two-week time requested by the bankers was imaginative fabrication.
What actually happened has a tinge of Clintonian-style scandal. The secretary to the German Ambassador in Constantinople, Baron Hans von Wangenheim, revealed the facts.
Von Wangenheim had a mistress in Berlin and, in the early days of the crisis of 1914, she demanded that he return at once to Berlin to settle some critical matters with her. He complied and, to conceal from his wife the real reason for the trip, he told her that the Kaiser had suddenly summoned him to Berlin.
On his return, he told his wife about the fanciful Crown Council he had dreamed up. Shortly later, with his wife by his side, von Wangenheim met Morgenthau, then the American Ambassador at Constantinople, at a diplomatic reception.
Morgenthau had heard about von Wangenheim’s trip to Berlin and pressed him to say something about it. Under the circumstances, von Wangenheim could only repeat the myth he had told his wife. To what extent liquor may have lessened his restraint, and how much Morgenthau elaborated on what von Wangenheim actually said will be forever buried several fathoms in the earth, or sunk into the bottomless sea of things unknown.
Still, that preposterous tale demonstrates the value of revisionism and how momentous and tragic events hang on the most palpable fabrications. For on its basis, the then British Prime Minister Lloyd George advocated the hanging of the German Kaiser (which the Dutch refused to do, for the Kaiser was in exile in Holland).
More recently, Colin Powell’s vial full of milk, paraded as antrax at the United Nations, was the excuse to wage a war on behalf of Israel that netted the destruction of a country, the death of over thousands of American soldiers and a million plus Iraqis.
What caused WW2 would demand an equal or greater volume of revisionism, if free speech were not equated to heresy. To name just one, mostly-buried and poorly-answered question – England declared war on Poland because Germany had invaded part of it, to recover lands lost in WW1. Why did not England declare war on the USSR, who invaded Poland from the East to recover land lost under the terms of the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty in WW1? Here the revisionists hit a lexical wall. England and France did not declare war on the USSR because the USSR was “in a state of neutrality.”
One current hot topic for revisionism is the so-called “Russia-gate.” In the US – according to statistics – less than 10% can even locate Ukraine on a map, as fascination for sports alone dramatically outweighs any potential interest in foreign things, let alone foreign history or the policies of foreign governments.
But even for millions in business or business related occupations, concern in foreign matters yields no physical, tangible residue, in the way of durable goods or profit. Consequently, such interests are deemed imbecile and distasteful to men whose habitual occupation is with the acquisition of wealth or the thought of it.
Therefore to suggest that Russia influenced the American electorate to vote for Trump, brings sublimity to the ridiculous. Yet even the “The New York Times,” which usually exhibits a shrewd eye to the limits within which dishonesty is the best policy, has succumbed to the temptation of promoting a legless fabrication. While the insupportably disagreeable lackeys of the information industry continue to lie without being belied, deceive without being unmasked, and wear the medals of their own crimes.
I will conclude this scant and thoroughly incomplete anthology of revisionism by referring to the Spanish Inquisition, which, more than from history books, is remembered thanks to the related satirical sketches of Monty Python.
Telegraphically compressed, the history goes as follows. In 1391 various rulers of Spain banned the Jews from their respective kingdoms. Or rather, the Jews were told to convert (to Christianity), or leave. Those who could leave left, those who didn’t and did not convert suffered persecution. Of those who converted, henceforth called “conversos”, many maintained their important and lucrative positions inside what today we call the establishment.
As an instance – and the related documentation is ample – take the case of Alonso de Cartagena. When 4 or 5-year old, he was baptized by his father Shlomo ha-Levi. Ha-Levi, in turn, had converted to Christianity just before the anti-Jewish pogroms of 1391, and later was elected bishop of Cartagena and Burgos, while his wife remained faithful to her original faith.
Anyway, the perception at large that the conversion to Christianity was just a front, led to two important developments. In 1492 King Ferdinand, who now ruled Castile and Aragon, banned from Spain the unconverted Jews with no exception, while the Inquisition (a kind of National Security Agency), set itself to determine if the conversion was sincere or not.
This decision to expel had been brewing for some time. In the meantime Pope Eugenius IV had nominated Cartagena Junior as Bishop of Burgos. Cartagena was a very learned man who translated Cicero and the books of Seneca in Castilian. And he also set himself to combat the view that Jews could not really be Christian, in his treatise titled “Defensorium.”
According to his (we can call it revisionist) view, the idea of the Jews being the “chosen people” was a misinterpretation. Abram’s circumcision – he wrote – was just a mark of an alliance, not a result of his merits. This is why “(God) generously decided to give his people the law, so that the distinction among peoples be perceived not only in the flesh by cutting off the foreskin, but also in the customs by cutting off vices.” [Dios] se dignó darle generosamente la ley para que la diferencia no fuese percibida sólo en la carne, por el corte del prepucio, sino en las costumbres, por el corte de los vicios” (Cartagena, Defensorium).
But this was not enough. Unsubstantiated historical rumor says that Ferdinand was reluctant to pass the expulsion measure, considering that he had received a very generous offer from prosperous members of the Spanish AIPAC of the time. At which Torquemada allegedly threw a cross at the feet of Ferdinand and said, “Christ was betrayed for 30 pieces of silver. Would you betray him, just because the reward is higher?”
Even so, the debate did not end, after the Jews’ expulsion of 1482. For in 1539 Ignatius of Loyola along with four other conversos and one established Christian, founded the Jesuit order. Bitter fights between the parties of “Jesuits-conversos-in” and “Jesuits-conversos-out,” lasted well into the 17th century.
In the overall context, it is interesting to consider the views of Benzion Netaniahou, father of Benjamin Netan-you-know-who.
Benzion died in 2012 aged 102, and in 1995 published his book titled, “The Origins of the Inquisition.”
According to a commentary by a critic, B. Netaniahou’s intent was ,
“to dissect the consequences of Jewish naiveté. His fascination with medieval Spain wasn’t based only on the behavior of the victimizers but of the victims. He not only drew a line connecting what he defined as the racial anti-Semitism of the Inquisition with Nazism, but implicitly drew a line between the Jews who saw medieval Spain as their golden land and the Jews who saw modern Germany as their new Zion. It is precisely that dread of Jewish self-deception that has defined the politics of Benzion’s son.”
Other revisionist critics have disputed that B. Netaniahou wished to portrays Jews as naive, by quoting the following passage from his book,
“It was primarily because of the functions of the Jews as the king’s revenue gatherers in the urban areas that the cities saw the Jews as the monarch’s agents, who treated them as objects of massive exploitation. By serving as they did the interests of the kings, the Jews seemed to be working against the interests of the cities; and thus we touch again on the phenomenon we have referred to: the fundamental conflict between the kings and their people—a conflict not limited to financial matters, but one that embraced all spheres of government that had a bearing on the people’s life. It was in part thanks to this conflict of interests that the Jews could survive the harsh climate of the Middle Ages, and it is hard to believe that they did not discern it when they came to resettle in Christian Europe. Indeed, their requests, since the days of the Carolingians, for assurances of protection before they settled in a place show (a) that they realized that the kings’ positions on many issues differed from those of the common people and (b) that the kings were prepared, for the sake of their interests, to make common cause with the “alien” Jews against the clear wishes of their Christian subjects. In a sense, therefore, the Jews’ agreements with the kings in the Middle Ages resembled the understandings they had reached with foreign conquerors in the ancient world.”
Conclusion? The resentment against the Jews was the fault of the kings. Or rather, Jews were not naive, as one of the book reviewers suggested. Instead they realized that in allying themselves with exploiting ruling elites, they would incur the wrath of the people and thus require princely assurances of protection.
The Jewish alliance with local exploitative elites is a constant among alleged causes of anti-Jewish resentment, in Europe and elsewhere. Whether this set of affairs can be observed in the current Zeitgeist of American history, I do not feel qualified to determine. Considering that the purpose here is/was to review revisionism, not to draw, declare or dismiss sundry articles of truth.
Furthermore, of things that revolve around human life, the world is the proper judge. To despise its sentence, if it were possible, is not just; and if it were just, is not possible. For in the end, as it was said, and not by me, “Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
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russia-insider--2020-12-27--Permanent Adolescence: The Epidemic That Will Destroy America

This article from our archives was first published on RI in August 2017 As a Humanities professor I have had the opportunity to teach psychology and social psychology for more than 20 years .
Occasionally the knowledge obtained in these areas allows me analyze and understand social behavior and certain cultural trends .
This is one those occasions .
If one is able to observe American society in an objective manner ( granted no easy task ) it becomes clear that the country is suffering from an epidemic of arrested emotional development ( AED ) .
This particular illness is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , greed , immaturity , fear , blame , shame , resentments , anger , confusion and suffering .
What it means is that the vast majority of Americans are stuck in adolescence exhibiting behavior like lying , negative attitudes , disobedience and disrespect , drug and alcohol abuse , depression , and issues of sexuality .
One has only to watch American movies or television shows to get a snapshot of juvenile , puerile , and base comedy characteristic of adolescent humor .
It ’ s no accident that 42 year old @ @ @ @ @ @ @ teenager ” performing comedy that mostly includes bathroom humor and gags that are based on and appeal to a silly sense of immaturity .
The other darling of late-night shows in America is Stephen Colbert who specializes in insulting public figues in an overtly adolescent display of negative attitude and disrespect .
Another hallmark of AED is to evade responsibility and blame others for failure .
One has only to observe the millions of Hillary supporters to understand this phenomenon .
Also common for AED sufferers is to show disrespect in sophomoric ways @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with monuments being defaced and destroyed .
Teenagers , of course , tend to have identity issues often involving sexuality which is another phenomenon all too apparent in contemporary America .
It ’ s almost uncool not to be LGBT or confused about your gender nowadays .
Soon there will be as many genders as ice-cream flavors for it ’ s all just a matter of taste !
In terms of cognitive activity AED is characterized by exaggeration and over-simplification .
If you are angry with one of your parents you might refer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
This negative attitude now is extended to anyone who disagrees with you and can be seen in slogans such as “ No Trump , No KKK , No Fascist USA ” .
Adults are an endangered species .
The cognitive effect of exaggeration and over-simplification leads to irrationality and confusion .
Witness the millions of people who think they are being anti-racist by opposing “ White Supremacy ” .
No anthropologist on earth would claim that “ White ” is a race ( although a Neo- Nazi would ) It ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Irish were discriminated against for more than a hundred years in America due to Anglo-Saxon racism yet the Irish are considered “ white ” .
There are millions of Americans of German , Polish , and Scandinavian extraction who have been working-class and lower for a very long time .
Are these “ white people ” guilty of supremacy ?
Against whom ?
Themselves ?
Of course , what the protestors should be focusing on is class and not race which is really an arbitrary term .
Unfortunately .
the progressive movement in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ street ” to “ occupy the public bathroom ” .
Lenin would be turning over in his grave - if he had one .
With regard to alcohol and drug addiction in America , the statistics are startling .
Opiod addiction alone is becoming a national health issue as is depression .
Alcohol abuse , of course , is also quite high .
Lying is also becoming commonplace .
It used to be just politicians and lawyers who were known to “ play with the truth ” .
Nowadays the mainstream media is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with CNN now wearing the title of FAKE NEWS .
The teenage attempt to rebel and show disobedience is often manifested through the use of profanity intended to shock the older generation .
Gratuitous profanity is pervasive in American culture and has replaced the imagination as a form of creativity .
It is not an accident that Pussy Riot - a group of “ performance artists '' using profanity in a Cathedral considered sacred to “ shock ” the Russian public and “ disobey ” authorities - has found a home in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , another symbol of eternal adolescence .
Her AED was on full display last year when she publicly offered all men fellatio if they voted for Hillary Clinton .
And as any rebellious teenager attempting to shock the “ older generation ” she had to announce that she “ swallows ” .
Stay classy , Madonna .
Keep in mind we ’ re talking about a 59 year old mother of six .
You see…if everyone is a teenager there is no adult supervision .
That is the problem .
After an autopsy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ how and why the American Empire expired , the obituary will include multiple causes of death and AED will be listed prominently .
Perhaps a precocious teenager will be allowed to write the epitaph that will read… ” When extended , the bridge between adolescence and adulthood can take a heavy toll ” .

This article from our archives was first published on RI in August 2017
As a Humanities professor I have had the opportunity to teach psychology and social psychology for more than 20 years. Occasionally the knowledge obtained in these areas allows me analyze and understand social behavior and certain cultural trends. This is one those occasions.
If one is able to observe American society in an objective manner (granted no easy task) it becomes clear that the country is suffering from an epidemic of arrested emotional development (AED). This particular illness is characterized by some combination of: addiction, greed, immaturity, fear, blame, shame, resentments, anger, confusion and suffering. What it means is that the vast majority of Americans are stuck in adolescence exhibiting behavior like lying, negative attitudes, disobedience and disrespect, drug and alcohol abuse, depression, and issues of sexuality.
One has only to watch American movies or television shows to get a snapshot of juvenile, puerile, and base comedy characteristic of adolescent humor. It’s no accident that 42 year old Jimmy Fallon is essentially the “eternal teenager” performing comedy that mostly includes bathroom humor and gags that are based on and appeal to a silly sense of immaturity. The other darling of late-night shows in America is Stephen Colbert who specializes in insulting public figues in an overtly adolescent display of negative attitude and disrespect.
Another hallmark of AED is to evade responsibility and blame others for failure. One has only to observe the millions of Hillary supporters to understand this phenomenon. Also common for AED sufferers is to show disrespect in sophomoric ways usually by damaging property as we see with monuments being defaced and destroyed.
Teenagers, of course, tend to have identity issues often involving sexuality which is another phenomenon all too apparent in contemporary America. It’s almost uncool not to be LGBT or confused about your gender nowadays. Soon there will be as many genders as ice-cream flavors for it’s all just a matter of taste!
In terms of cognitive activity AED is characterized by exaggeration and over-simplification. If you are angry with one of your parents you might refer to them as a Nazi or Fascist.
This negative attitude now is extended to anyone who disagrees with you and can be seen in slogans such as “No Trump, No KKK, No Fascist USA”. Adults are an endangered species. The cognitive effect of exaggeration and over-simplification leads to irrationality and confusion. Witness the millions of people who think they are being anti-racist by opposing “White Supremacy”. No anthropologist on earth would claim that “White” is a race (although a Neo- Nazi would) It’s not even a primary color. The Irish were discriminated against for more than a hundred years in America due to Anglo-Saxon racism yet the Irish are considered “white”. There are millions of Americans of German, Polish, and Scandinavian extraction who have been working-class and lower for a very long time. Are these “white people” guilty of supremacy? Against whom? Themselves?
Of course, what the protestors should be focusing on is class and not race which is really an arbitrary term. Unfortunately. the progressive movement in America has gone from “Occupy Wall street” to “occupy the public bathroom”. Lenin would be turning over in his grave - if he had one. With regard to alcohol and drug addiction in America, the statistics are startling. Opiod addiction alone is becoming a national health issue as is depression. Alcohol abuse, of course, is also quite high. Lying is also becoming commonplace. It used to be just politicians and lawyers who were known to “play with the truth”. Nowadays the mainstream media is widely seen as a mainstream of lies with CNN now wearing the title of FAKE NEWS.
The teenage attempt to rebel and show disobedience is often manifested through the use of profanity intended to shock the older generation. Gratuitous profanity is pervasive in American culture and has replaced the imagination as a form of creativity. It is not an accident that Pussy Riot - a group of “performance artists" using profanity in a Cathedral considered sacred to “shock” the Russian public and “disobey” authorities - has found a home in the United States and been befriended by Madonna, another symbol of eternal adolescence. Her AED was on full display last year when she publicly offered all men fellatio if they voted for Hillary Clinton. And as any rebellious teenager attempting to shock the “older generation” she had to announce that she “swallows”. Stay classy, Madonna. Keep in mind we’re talking about a 59 year old mother of six.
You see…if everyone is a teenager there is no adult supervision. That is the problem. After an autopsy is conducted years from now to ascertain how and why the American Empire expired, the obituary will include multiple causes of death and AED will be listed prominently. Perhaps a precocious teenager will be allowed to write the epitaph that will read…”When extended, the bridge between adolescence and adulthood can take a heavy toll”.