This was great. When COVID started, I saw that they were judging Chinese and Russian lockdowns differently or ignoring them along with local mandates they had.
It reminded me of a method of finding spooks... Just like you did, picking an issue to test whether they are genuine in their ideals. They fail miserably!
With COVID, how does a guy like this who reads everything and knows the politics not see that everyone is taking this narrative in the ass?
Matt once wrote that it was something about how they think the han Chinese lineage was targeted by a bioweapon.. ok but didn't you also say that they had good and safe vaccines, not made by crooked big pharma?
I'm rambling, probably because it feels nice to out a scam.
Here's another guy that saw through Ehret and others who push the same "dream" of a "multi-polar" world. I posted your article in a thread there.
Do you have a link that describes the technique you referred to when you said:
It reminded me of a method of finding spooks... Just like you did, picking an issue to test whether they are genuine in their ideals. They fail miserably!
That technique seems very sensible to me.... Put peoples feet to the fire! I hate it when people pretend like the problem of controlled opposition is unsolveable, or that it doesnt matter when people are flooding the zone with shit, because its the responsibility of every news reader to think critically about what they read... of course thats true, but it becomes much harder when the zone is full of shit!
If we want the flowers of truth to grow, we need to weed the garden. And its not that complicated, IMHO, all we would need to do is look to the Web of Trust and cryptographic PGP public-key signing. Academics use citations, and professionals use credentials, but now that the system of ranking credibility has become hopelessly corrupted, we need to create a P2P equivalent. And one look further than the Web of Trust for a very workable model of how that might operate. It used to be that one way of gaging status in the anarchist movement was by checking how many people had signed a given persons public PGP key, and who they were, and who had signed their keys, etc. What you end up with is basically a system where peoples trustworthiness is ranked and scored, which arguably is hierarchical and akin to a social credit system, which is maybe why people dont like the idea. Or maybe they just havent thought of it. But if people do decide to get serious about combatting controlled opposition, Ive got a proposal.
It's the Sherlock Holmes technique. While super educated Watson got hung up on details, Sherlock saw that some evidence seemed off. Turns out that evidence was and it helped him find the real story.
Your p2p idea is awesome. We sort of have that with product reviews. But of course there are fake reviews so the Sherlock technique helps there, lol.
The p2p system is how we could basically block psychopaths, not by the law but by people refusing to do business with someone who has no real empathy.
But, if people started judging on incorrect metrics, that could backfire.
For example, a woke person considers you unempathetic because you don't sacrifice for the better good. There's too many things that are subjective.
Thanks! Im glad you like the idea! To me, the truth movement´s approach to controlled opposition reminds me of Ned Flander´s parents - ¨We´ve tried nothing and we´re all out of ideas!¨ Obviously, it would take coordination and a systematic approach, and no system will ever be foolproof (or genius-proof), but it would absolutely be possible to weed the garden and out the worst offenders.
Interesting! Could you please link to the article where Waggaman talks about Ehret?
The term ¨multipolar world order¨ is hilarious to me... It´s not the New World Order, it´s the Multipolar World Order! Which is to be different from the old world order... Umm... doesn´t that make it a New World Order? But dont worry, its multipolar! Like the Earth, which has two poles, and which the global technate will rule over, if the techno-fascists have their way. (Which they won´t, by the way... if you live in a country like Canada or England it might seem like these psychopaths have humanity by the balls, but I live in Mexico, and its evident to me that such is not the case. Case in point: Afghanistan. If you haven´t taken over Afghanistan, you haven´t taken over the world. And somehow I doubt the Taliban will be amenable to the ¨New Silk Road¨ when the CCP is exterminating their Muslim brethren.
Not much specific stuff. He's mainly writing articles and making fun of the guys like Ehret and others who think that even though Russia or China did so and so, they're working in 5d chess. Lol I used the same with coworkers who supported Trump.
Notice how much these people excuse bad behavior, like the pipeline you mentioned!
You'll enjoy this video where "slavsquat" aka Riley Waggaman talks about the con-vid nonsense and Matt and Tom Luongo act like they didn't know.
You would think they would be first to know about mandates in their "hero" countries.
The BRICS system sounded interesting, especially to one who questions the dollar hegemony. But yeah, it's just a "nicer" centralized system which like you state, won't work out especially because they can't even dominate the area with weapons and drones, lol!
This article had me laughing out loud. It speaks to the saying, "to be well adjusted in an insane world, is no sign of mental health." We need more diagnosed schizophrenics on the case calling a spade a spade obviously.
Great article...For some of your substacks it would be nice if you had a short video introducing people to your topic and drawing them in to your article. I try to post many of your articles but many people just have time to watch videos or habitually do so. Many thanks. Kman, editor, Digileak News Not Noise
Thanks for the suggestion, but I don´t own a phone, computer, or camera, so that won´t be possible. (I do my writing at internet cafes). Furthermore, my nickname used to be Mumbly Joe, and I have a strong Ottawa accent. I hate hearing my own voice most of the time. I do not speak well. I wish I did!
Thank you for sharing! I actually have put out a lot of video content on Youtube (search Nevermore Zine), on what I think are some very interesting subjects, but they really havent gotten much traction... Im guessing that most people find my voice as unpleasant to listen to as I do!
I realise that I am very late to this particular party and I apologise but I had not heard of you before today. I am a Brit and I had a bit of a run-in with Matt Ehret which shocked me a few months ago.
Basically, I had asked his opinion (bad move, I know) of a very unusual document I had mirrored on my Substack. Eventually, after being nudged a few times for a response he deigned to give it the once-over and came back with a scathing almost hostile appraisal which shook me.
I responded but he did not pursue the argument further. I was entirely surprised because the document I had discovered was revealing some dire facts about the governance of USA and all 5-Eyes countries by inference. I pointed out that he was defending establishment academic narratives because to do otherwise would undermine the entire history as we have been led to know it.
I would love to hear what you think of the document and Matt Ehret's knee-jerky reply.
Hey! Thanks for taking the time to comment. I read your piece and I must confess that I lack the historical knowledge to know whether you´re on to something or not. No obvious errors or faulty logic jumped out at me, but you are making a very extraordinary claim, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof... that said, proving anything when it comes to secret societies is very hard. You´ll notice that I pretty much never talk about secret societies.
Personally, I would not have been offended by Ehret´s response, but I guess everyone is different. I like being challenged because I love to debate and argue, personally, and I don´t think that his response what rude to the point of disrespect. He was disagreeing with you and raising some valid points. I´d be a hypocrite if I condemned him for being rude. Have you read my posts about him?
As to whether the Knights Templar secretly rule the world, I have no idea. That seems like a rabbit hole thats very booby-trapped. I assume thats theres something to it, but I also assume that it would be very easy to come to the wrong conclusion... and spend a lot of time in the process.
The burden of proof is on you, though. You are making a very big claim and so it´s on you to prove it, if it can be proven...
Thanks for commenting! I´m glad you found your way here.
Happy to have found you! Yes, of course the burden of proof lies with me and yes, the terrain is booby trapped but it brings other threads I have pulled together, so it lurks in a corner of my mind whenever geo-political shifts are impacting us.
Honestly, I´m careful what rabbit holes I go down, because once my curiosity get piqued, I can spend a lot of time without anything to show for it... plus Im not a history. My job is understanding things relevant to the current moment. Who rules the world is no one near as important as what we are going to do to resist them...
Iain Davis claims that the Black Nobility rules the world and is a level above the Rothschilds, but I have only seem him touch on the subject...
I don´t really get all the stuff with the Jesuits to be honest. I´ve got a lot to catch up on....
Thanks for sharing! I actually had already that article of yours... You´ve definitely piqued my interest! I´m going to have to resist the temptation to go down this rabbit hole because I have a book to finish and I can´t afford to spend the time researching this right now! But I think I´ll come back to it at some point...
Are you familiar with Robert Anton Wilson´s idea about fungible vs. non-fungible conspiracy theories? Basically anytime someone suggests that all members of a group are part of One Big Cosnspiracy, you can throw that theory in the trash and go back to the drawing board. This is easy enough to see with jews (neo-nazis want to blame everything on jews so they´ll play a game of pin the blame on the jew, whether or not that makes sense.
I think most people in the truth movement get this when it comes to jews but not when it comes to masons, jesuits, etc...
Cynthia Chung seems to think someone being associated with the Theosophical Society is enough to prove that they are in league with the Devil or whatever... But the fact of the matter is that you can probably associate just about any countercultural figure with either Madame Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley or Gurdjieff. All three of them really got around!
This guilt-by-association stuff is dumb... Two people knowing each other collaborating on a project does not mean that they had identical politics.
Let me take a non-magical example, because it´s clear that some folks (like Chung) want people to associate unconventional spiritual practices with evil.
Let´s take Marx. Okay, I´ve accepted that he was probably an agent of international bankers... does that mean that nothing that he said is valid or worthy of consideration?
Apparently Bakunin translated Das Kapital into Russian, so clearly he thought it was an important work. I haven´t read Marx in years, but back when I was hanging out with Marxists I tended to agree with his diagnosis of the problem of capitalism while disagreeing with his prognosis (dictatorship of the proletariat, abolition of the family, etc).
I think that we need to judge ideas on their own merit, regardless of where they come from...
I agree entirely. I have known the daughters of bloodline families who were completely oblivious of their parents' business affairs. They were more interested in drinking a lot of alcohol, riding long-suffering ponies at gymkhanas and getting to Oxford or Cambridge purely to bag a rich husband!
M.Ehret came into question after his first GTW appearance because he subsequently went on another podcast and shit on James Corbett because of James’ claims that Putin is a puppet of the NWO.
GTW (Grand Theft World) members like myself are huge corbett fans and Richard and him have been colleagues for many years. There were talks about having him on the show again and an lengthy ensuing town hall meeting to discuss what the group knows of him. My big take away was Matt has a great historical knowledge but portrays it in a story-fied way to suit his ends. He is also on the payroll of a Russian university a fact which he doesn’t hide. (His rantings about a multi-polar world order makes me think of Oceanian always being at war with Eurasia.)
I have two of his books which he spends many pages talking about the historical attempts to bridge North America to Asia by train. He also tells of Russias role in the American civil war. He rallies against the Anglo establishment as the failings of that rail project and also names figures responsible for canada never being able to shake itself from the empire and our ensuing place on that chess board.
As far as I’ve looked into the historical claims he makes they seem factual, but as your piece points out it’s for a reason (which I don’t agree with)
He was eventually brought back on to GTW and also took part in one of the town hall sessions. And both were quite good.
He is very knowledgeable but super sus and I’m stoked you took time to call him out!
Thanks for the tip! I wrote a piece calling for him to explain his relationship with that university, and he has yet to reply. I know for a fact that he is aware of the letter (thanks to Cynthia Chung), but apparently he doesnt think its in his best interest to answer.
They are traitors if they promote in any way China's "new silk road" plans. China is raping lands across the globe as well as murdering and enslaving peoples of those lands. There is only one objective behind the CCP, and that is to take all that it wants. A good book to read on government traitors is Red Handed by Peter Schweizer. Maybe Matthew's wife is a Chinese asset.
Well, they´re clearly on the same page. Someone sent me an email to inform me that Ehret is on the payroll of a Russian university (which apparently he doesnt hide). Id be curious what work he does for them, since CPR seems like it would be a full time job. He´s very prolific.
First time to your substack - was directed here by the excellent Iain Davis.
Interesting read, and drew my attention for a number of reasons. Not read any of Ehret's stuff, but heard him a few times on different TNT Radio shows. He immediately got my back up, and my Spidey senses went into overdrive. Can't put my finger on exactly why, was just a gut feeling, which, historically, have proven right more often than not. He also wound up Joe Olson, whom I have a lot of time for, and dissing Corbett is a no-no in my book.
A few uninformed observations from my cosy corner in SW old Scotia;
I really think that it is worth listening to the gut feelings that we have about people... Like you, I feel that my gut is right more often than not. However, I wonder whether that is the case for everyone... or whether I should encourage people in general to trust their gut.
Let me give an example... Okay, so for as much as we´re all sick of hearing about racism, the fact is that racism is very real, and it is a matter of great political importance. So let´s imagine a racist who instantly assumes black people, or jews, or whatever, are a certain way... Would they feel like they had ¨a gut feeling¨ if they instantly distrusted a given person who happened to belong to a racial group that they mistrusted?
I´m guessing that they would. This makes me a little hesitant to encourage people to ¨trust their gut¨ or whatever... We all need to correct for various cognitive biases, and racism is one of them. Sometimes your first thought is your best thought, but not always. Sometimes your first thought is your worst thought.
It kills me when people act like the BRI is benevolent because they´ve built some hospitals in Africa or whatever. How stupid are people? Do they not understand the concept of a charm offensive? Do they really think that the CCP is motivated by a desire to ¨lift people out of poverty¨. Give me a fucking break! Makes me think of the Peanuts comics when Lucy holds the football and always pulls it away and Linus keeps falling for it. Yeah fucking right the CCP cares about Africans. Sometimes I feel like I came from another planet or something because I have no idea how anyone believes this shit.
BTW, Cynthia Chung & Matt Ehret are not "lonely" "dissidents" who are CCP apologist. There is a whole bunch of so-called "western intelligentsia" doing this China/dictatorship defense and advocacy in the name of anti-imperialism. You can find this bunch of useful statist idiots in https://www.globalresearch.ca/
Appreciate the article. I also came to Ehret through Whitney Webb, whom I also hold in the highest regard. And, like you, I was totally impressed with the same Ehret articles you cite. I totally believe journalists (even real ones) are and have been "infiltrated." That's basically been proven and documented. For myself, I'm fairly quick to wonder about it but cautious in making accusations. I've always felt removed, lukewarm at best, at all the talk about the Silk Road initiative, BRI. Pepe Escobar, another writer/journalist I used to follow regularly (and he's excellent) also seems emotionally vested in the phenomenon. And there are others. Interestingly, I think both Escobar and Ehret (and perhaps Chung) are/were affiliated with the Strategic Culture Foundation, for what that's worth. Short of EVERYONE into this being "an agent of the CCP," perhaps this indicates some underlying and overriding desperate hope for an alternative to what probably most of us agree is the abominable degeneration of the "Western Anglo American Empire." This is not to say there aren't any shady players or that the proposed alternative is an answer, let alone THE answer. Guess it's a never ending challenge of separating the wheat from the chaff.
It honestly seems like a pretty shoddy propaganda effort, if you ask me. I mean, theyre blatantly shilling for the CCP... A more sophisticated effort would find things to criticize about the CCP and Putin in order to seem more credible.
This is some fucking amateur hour shit. Id be embarrassed if I was their employer.
I always took Ehret and wife to be connected to the Larouchies, though the don't appear to have any official connection (they seem to push the same talking points).
Yes, I can understand that perception. I recently saw a conference put on by Larouche people. Actually, I found it to be good quality overall. This is another "sect" that I was trained to automatically dismiss and/or denigrate; I now find things are a little more complicated than the snap black and white judgments.
Oh, I actually agree with you--there's a lot of good from the Larouchies, it's just that sometimes they can be a bit cult-like, with all their people sounding like an echo chamber. But they are good on a lot of topics. And their intelligence gathering is very good (you can dig up some interesting info on the Executive Intelligence Review publication). So, yes, I actually always like to get their opinions on things (worth considering), it's just that I don't always agree.
It is more likely throttling by Youtube. They basically control what people can see.
I had about 60 videos on Youtube. Took most of them down and left a few to keep an account for my own favourites.
Have videos on Bitchute (social justice) and Vimeo (Food Sovereignty and Health) and the story of Dr Shiv Chopra, author of the book, Corrupt to the Core - Memoirs of a Health Canada Whistle Blower.
Now that I´ve written 3 articles about them and received no response, I´m pretty much thinking ¨was everyone else asleep at the wheel? This shit is obvious!¨
Matthew Ehret publishes on https://risingtidefoundation.net/ I really enjoyed his articles about Aristotle and Plato. Yet there is a sub current in his writings, and you may have hit on the source of it.
Your point about the Uyghurs seems outdated. The Uyghur narrative is now well known to be Western propaganda. "In reality, China protects Uyghur culture, and tolerates Muslim religion" from "The CIA and Uyghur Jihadists" at https://www.voltairenet.org/article208556.html
At the end of the day, what's wrong with paying people to counter Western propaganda?
Really? This doesnt seem believable to me. If anything, the Uyghur genocide seems to be played down in the western MSM. Could you link me to a thinker that you think that I would be familiar with who supports the position that the Uyghur genocide is exaggerated?
Man, i appreciate all that you do, but you need to be better informed about this uyghur propaganda garbage, produced by lunatic evangelical nationalists and US govt NeoConservatives (which run both oligarchal parties in the US). It seems you fallen hook line and sinker for the massive disinformation campaign on this, which is produced jointly by vile christian evangelical nationaliats and the US gov't agency called NED (which does legally in the open what the CIA used to do secretly for decades - funds regime change operations all across the planet with a budget of billions of dollars, and part of this is the training and acting lessons they provide to paid "dissidents" in tne countries that the american capitalists (that run the US govt) target for take down and plunder, for disobeying their orders for privatization of their economy, resources, industry and services from tbe public domain into the private hands of american capitalists).
The entire fake 'uygur genocide' propaganda disingormation campaign a d regime-change operation rests on the BS "research" of a single lunatic evangelical funtamentalist from Germany who claims that his "god" appeared to him in a dream and told him to take down china because it is satan. I kid you not, the so-called "researvh" of this evangelical maniac is the only source of all the bogus insane claims and "data" that the MSM and US govt (not to mention christian-conservative nationalists) use as "evidence" and "proof" for their campaign to destroy their target country, who just happens to be the greateat challenger to the american capitalists hegemony over the entire planet's resources.
And then the "research" of this ideologically-motivated evangelical lunatic is picked up by NED who ran with it and trained and paid numerous uyghur immigrants on how to act what to say in press conferences, all of it proven to be ridiculously idiotic and false if you actually take the time to scrutinize their claims a d don't just blindly believe and buy into the scripts the NED hands them out to read.
Go to grayzone website and do a search for 'uyghur' and you'll see numerous in-depth investigations they did (much MUCH more in-depth than the shallow caricature you presented here) which reveals all the endless lies that this evangelical lunatic came up with in his "research" (which, i remind you, is the sole source of all the so-called "proof" that the capitalists' mainstream propaganda media is reporting on as "evidence" of "uyghur genocide" and is the source of all US govt claims).
Read all their in-depth investigations which blow all this disinformation propaganda regime-change operation right out of the water (disinformation campaign thatt is pushed and promoted jointly by capitalist billionaires' media, by US govt NeoCons and by hate-driven christian fundamentalists)
PS. I also saw the videos of the british cyclist (that thinking-turtle mentioned above) who cycled the length and bredth of xinjiang (yes, any westerner can go and walk or cycle or drive freely all across xinjiang, and check for oneself the claims made by the lunatic evangical and the capitalists' regime-change operation). He cycled all across xinjiang armed with the maps that the the German christian lunatic provided as "evidence" of "concetration camps" in xinjiang. He was literally standing 20 feet away from where the map of the evangelical and US govt claims is a location of a "concentration camp" and all he saw was an abandoned and dilipitated old factory that was clearly not in use for decades, with no one around for miles and miles..)
But anyway, this is just one tiny example of the many lies pushed out by the hate-filled christian nationalists and the US govt. Read the grayzone's numerous in-depth investigations that blow the lid rignt off this whole insane disinformation campaign, campaign for yet another vile regime-change operation that american NeoCon capitalists (and chrisitian nationalists) are running.
PPS. And i won't even start going here into the obviously ridiculous absurdity of evangelical christian fundamentalists and american govt NeoConservatives who murder millions in muslim countries in cold blood for their narrow sectarian nationalist & capitalist interests and poisonous right-wing ideology, and who now suddenly pretend to really really care about the lives of muslims in china. Yes honestly, swear to god, these murderers really really do care about the lives and rights of muslims..(especially when muslim lives can be used as a weapon to attack their hated target country, the country that threatens their hegemony over the planet).
I mean, man, if you don't see through this obvious BS then i really don't know what to say..
The only time that I have written about the Uyghur genocide is in passing... I did write something back in May 2021 about concentration camps in China... Just wondering... are you saying that there arent concentration camps in China, or that there arent concentration camps in Xinjiang province? Here, Ill post that article, and maybe you can point me to whatever specific factual errors I made. I like to be able to stand by everything I write, so if I am mistaken here, I will consider posting a correction...
Honestly I do rely on irrational mental shortcuts sometimes... I mean, Australia definitely built concentration camps during COVID, so I wouldnt really be surprised in China did too... But thats the kind of mental jump that can make you make mistakes. Id honestly be amazed if there werent huge concentration camps in China, given that it is a hyper-authoritarian state.
Anyway, here´s what I wrote back in May 2021. Link below for pics.
China has moved at least 20 000 thousand people into concentration camps, but don’t worry, they’ve got WiFi.
This is an aerial view of the construction site of the quarantine camp in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China.
Not only is China engaged in a massive program of genocide against its Uyghur population, it is also building massive concentration camps – ahem – quarantine centres. Chinese authorities have been moving entire villages into centralized quarantine facilities. But don’t worry, it’s all being done to save lives!
“The new quarantine camp will house close contacts of confirmed COVID-19 patients, as authorities continue an extensive contact tracing and testing program.”
Each prefabricated room is expected to measure 18 square meters (around 194 square feet), and will come with an en-suite bathroom and shower, desks, chairs, beds, Wi-Fi, and a television set, according to the state-owned broadcaster CCTV.
It was originally planned to house 3,000 people, but has since been expanded to a capacity of 4,160. More than 4,000 construction workers performed “six days’ and nights’ work” to complete the first phase, said Shijiazhuang Deputy Mayor Meng Xianghong on Tuesday.
Authorities began construction on Jan. 13 and the first section of the camp is now complete and ready for use, while construction continues on the second phase, according to state-owned broadcaster CCTV.
The ambitious task is reminiscent of earlier efforts during the initial stages of the pandemic, during which authorities built several medical facilities from scratch, including a 1,000-bed hospital in just 10 days.
More than 20,000 citizens from 12 villages in Shijiangzhuang have since been relocated to other quarantine sites as a preventative measure, Chinese state media outlet CGTN reported last week.
Hebei authorities are now urging residents to stay at home, with officials sent to urban and rural areas to enforce measures and ensure people aren’t traveling across the province and into Beijing.
It should be remembered that the term lock-down comes from the prison system. Inmates are put on lock-down when there is perceived to be a greater risk of revolt. If China is building concentration camps outside its capital, it obviously does not bode well for the future if the ascendant world power shares two of the worst features of the Nazi regime – genocide and concentration camps.
There really is no question that totalitarianism is here, and is expanding. The question is rather one of how long it will take before such tactics are taken up in the West.
Is it perhaps childish or morbid to terrify ourselves with visions of a totalitarian future? Before writing this off as a nightmare that can’t come true, just remember that in 2019 the world of today would’ve seemed a nightmare that couldn’t come true.
Hey, thank you for bringing my awareness to this... I honestly havent delved too deep into it, to be honest, and I am willing to change my mind... I have other rabbit holes to explore right now, but Ill keep this subject in my peripheral awareness for now... also chance you could send me some links to articles that you think are especially convincing?
To everyone else that might be reading this, please tell me if you think that Im wrong! I like being right, and so you´re doing me a favour if you let me know when Im wrong.
I´ll also point out that I dont necessarily put a ton of thought into things I write in the comments here... If I put something in an article, it means I know what Im talking about and Im prepared to defend my assertions, but in the comments, I consider the standard to be lower... like, just imagine we´re just two people having a conversation... idk if this is how other Substackers think of things, but its how I think of it...
I remember a video of a guy who cycled through North-West China where the Uyghurs live. Then there is a BBC documentary about Uyghurs that consisted of Chinese government videos edited to look bad. There was a report from a group of Islamic nations who backed China's policy. Sadly I can find none of them on any search engine.
Honestly, a quick look-see makes me trust Blumenthal less... like listen to this:
One of the sources about [the claim] was a Chinese dissident organisation and a group of Chinese activists who are opposed to the Chinese Communist Party and who are based here in Washington. They're called Chinese human rights defenders, and they are funded by the NED, the US government's regime change arm. They produced a study that claimed that there were 600,000 and a million Uygurs in “concentration camps”.
But the study only interviewed a few Uygurs, and then from those interviews, they calculated the population of the villages from where those Uygurs came from and then extrapolated from the population, the total number. It's a completely phony methodology from a partisan US-backed group.
uggghhh... not impressed, Mr. Blumenthal. Quibbling about statisticaly methodology and using the guilt-by-association trick? Were about genocide here. Are they trying to beat a charge on genocide on technicalities? That dont fly in my book.
Im willing to be convinced, but as of the current moment I believe that the images that I have seen, and accounts that I have seen from members of the Uyghur diaspora living in exile, are genuine.
Id be curious as to what other people think though.
Yes, I agree it is good to exchange opinions. Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with me, and please feel free to share more information if you come across anything that you think is particularly worthy of attention.
Well, she clearly has a good moral compass, so if she is a statist, I´m going to guess that she is for the same reasons that Orwell was.
Orwell´s justification for statism is that the weak need to be protected from the strong. I don´t have a good reply for this, because I agree with the main thrust of the argument... I do believe that the weak do need to be protected... but the problem is that the only ones who can protect them are the strong, and guess what? That brings us right back to square one. Six thousand years of civilization and we have yet to solve this problem. I´m honestly not sure that there is a solution...
Well, it is the misunderstanding or rather NOT properly understanding of the system of government authority.
How can you define "the weak" and the "strong” in statist society?
Under statist system of power, the so-called “strong/powerful” becomes strong/powerful because the State/Government makes them strong/powerful by supporting and protecting them!
Étienne de La Boétie “Discours de la servitude volontaire” dissects and explains this “misunderstanding” very clearly.
How many times have you witnessed Government protecting the “weak” against the “strong? Even in the so-called “court of law?”
How many times have you witnessed Government protecting the “strong” against the “weak?”
(Do I need to cite the plights of Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, victims of government thugs’ brutality… and the case of Jeffery Epstein and his fly-list and his young victims?)
The fact is that the 1% is just a bunch of weak individuals (the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, the Bushs, the Clintons, Jeffery Epstein Bill Gates, Elan Musk and their ilk become “powerful” and controls almost all resources and dictate almost all aspects of the 99%… all because THEY are operating hand in hand with the State power/ government authority and are supported and protected by State power/ government authority.
Without Government, you and I, the weaks, can freely fight back individually or band together to fight back any bullying from such (perceived) “strong”. You can see that without the support and protection from State power and government authority, there is no such “strong” in society!
It’s the Government that protects the “strong” against the weak by holding back, oppressing, and suppressing the weak, who are the majority of society, from rising up against the minority “strong”!
It’s truly mind boggling that many “supposed to know better” dissidents (e.g Orwell, Webb) still hold the false belief / make believe that “GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE” and that “government is there to protect the “weak” against the “strong,” despite all the evidences to the contrary, which not only are ample in the whole history of mankind but right in front of their own eyes and in their own daily life.
You have raised some big and important issues here, ones with too much nuance to settle with fundamentalist politics (or a brief comment thread!). I have respected Ehret's work and also share some of your misgivings about the CCP-worship. It seems we have a few candidates for the "Great Satan" in the world. Clearly Ehret makes a strong case that it's what he calls the Anglo-American axis. Instead, he champions the CCP and its Belt-Road and BRICS multipolar model. On the surface, I have to agree with that preference. It gets more problematic if we impute more imperial motives to the CCP, or delve into its social-credit philosophy. Then of course there are the mother-WEFer globalists, who are opposed to any national power whether from West or East. This model is again unipolar in effect, only vertical/pyramidal, instead of horizontal (West or East hegemony). Then there's the additional critique that all the above is technocratic, authoritarian, materialistic, corporatist, and ecocidal, and that it denies and destroys individual rights, ancient values and cultures, and ecosystems. This is where the insidious genius of Agenda 2030 comes in, which co-opts those "natural" values in its global service. Caught in the middle is the Indigenous interest, itself divided and conquered, between survival for industrial crumbs, or holding out for ancient claims on territory. Bottom line, it's important to unpack all this right now; but it's tough to pick sides with any clarity or consistency as a political stance. Rather, an insistence on core values and principles, and remaining leery of any grand project seeking to impose itself in the name of those ideals.
This is all made more complicated, of course, by the fact that each indigenous nation is, to a significant degree, at war with itself... In each community there is a pro-development element which is happy to accept money for nothing, and an anti-development element, which is motivated by something other than self-interest.
Right-wingers like to accuse anarchists of being outside agitators, and pretend that anarchists are maniupulating indigenous land defenders, but really what anarchist have been doing for years is supporting the indigenous factions whose politics are resonant with theirs. And I will defend this practice up and down. What else are you going to do? Ally yourself with a group because of their ethnicity irrespective of their political goal? How does that make any sense? Collaboration between anarchists and indigenous sovereigntists makes sense between our goals overlap in important ways.
So... Three or four months ago, I think I was where you are now. Let´s face it - Putin makes some good points, if you listen to what he has to say. He certainly presents a version of reality which is much more palatable to non-brain-damaged people than that of any Western politician. But the conclusion that I have come to is that Mayer Amschel Rothschild was onto something when he said: “GIVE me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws.” If the Rothschilds control the central bank of Russia, then how much does it really matter when Putin says? It took me a long time to come to the conclusion that I´ve come to... because it´s a very hard pill to swallow... but it now appears to me that West-East divide is at least partly stage-managed by European bankers. To what extent is the question that Im currently chewing on... I´ll let you know where I land!
Fair enough. Saying Putin is more credible than Biden doesn't go far if both are pawns in a banker's Armageddon. Euro crown power has always been suspect, whether of the gold or bugs variety.
I´m glad to hear that I´m not the only one! It seems that people seem to be in general agreement... not one person has come to their defence, and many people have been in touch to express their support.
This was great. When COVID started, I saw that they were judging Chinese and Russian lockdowns differently or ignoring them along with local mandates they had.
It reminded me of a method of finding spooks... Just like you did, picking an issue to test whether they are genuine in their ideals. They fail miserably!
With COVID, how does a guy like this who reads everything and knows the politics not see that everyone is taking this narrative in the ass?
Matt once wrote that it was something about how they think the han Chinese lineage was targeted by a bioweapon.. ok but didn't you also say that they had good and safe vaccines, not made by crooked big pharma?
I'm rambling, probably because it feels nice to out a scam.
Here's another guy that saw through Ehret and others who push the same "dream" of a "multi-polar" world. I posted your article in a thread there.
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com
Do you have a link that describes the technique you referred to when you said:
It reminded me of a method of finding spooks... Just like you did, picking an issue to test whether they are genuine in their ideals. They fail miserably!
That technique seems very sensible to me.... Put peoples feet to the fire! I hate it when people pretend like the problem of controlled opposition is unsolveable, or that it doesnt matter when people are flooding the zone with shit, because its the responsibility of every news reader to think critically about what they read... of course thats true, but it becomes much harder when the zone is full of shit!
If we want the flowers of truth to grow, we need to weed the garden. And its not that complicated, IMHO, all we would need to do is look to the Web of Trust and cryptographic PGP public-key signing. Academics use citations, and professionals use credentials, but now that the system of ranking credibility has become hopelessly corrupted, we need to create a P2P equivalent. And one look further than the Web of Trust for a very workable model of how that might operate. It used to be that one way of gaging status in the anarchist movement was by checking how many people had signed a given persons public PGP key, and who they were, and who had signed their keys, etc. What you end up with is basically a system where peoples trustworthiness is ranked and scored, which arguably is hierarchical and akin to a social credit system, which is maybe why people dont like the idea. Or maybe they just havent thought of it. But if people do decide to get serious about combatting controlled opposition, Ive got a proposal.
It's the Sherlock Holmes technique. While super educated Watson got hung up on details, Sherlock saw that some evidence seemed off. Turns out that evidence was and it helped him find the real story.
Your p2p idea is awesome. We sort of have that with product reviews. But of course there are fake reviews so the Sherlock technique helps there, lol.
The p2p system is how we could basically block psychopaths, not by the law but by people refusing to do business with someone who has no real empathy.
But, if people started judging on incorrect metrics, that could backfire.
For example, a woke person considers you unempathetic because you don't sacrifice for the better good. There's too many things that are subjective.
Thanks! Im glad you like the idea! To me, the truth movement´s approach to controlled opposition reminds me of Ned Flander´s parents - ¨We´ve tried nothing and we´re all out of ideas!¨ Obviously, it would take coordination and a systematic approach, and no system will ever be foolproof (or genius-proof), but it would absolutely be possible to weed the garden and out the worst offenders.
Interesting! Could you please link to the article where Waggaman talks about Ehret?
The term ¨multipolar world order¨ is hilarious to me... It´s not the New World Order, it´s the Multipolar World Order! Which is to be different from the old world order... Umm... doesn´t that make it a New World Order? But dont worry, its multipolar! Like the Earth, which has two poles, and which the global technate will rule over, if the techno-fascists have their way. (Which they won´t, by the way... if you live in a country like Canada or England it might seem like these psychopaths have humanity by the balls, but I live in Mexico, and its evident to me that such is not the case. Case in point: Afghanistan. If you haven´t taken over Afghanistan, you haven´t taken over the world. And somehow I doubt the Taliban will be amenable to the ¨New Silk Road¨ when the CCP is exterminating their Muslim brethren.
Not much specific stuff. He's mainly writing articles and making fun of the guys like Ehret and others who think that even though Russia or China did so and so, they're working in 5d chess. Lol I used the same with coworkers who supported Trump.
Notice how much these people excuse bad behavior, like the pipeline you mentioned!
https://off-guardian.org/2022/04/02/debate-russia-and-the-great-reset-resistance-or-complicity/
You'll enjoy this video where "slavsquat" aka Riley Waggaman talks about the con-vid nonsense and Matt and Tom Luongo act like they didn't know.
You would think they would be first to know about mandates in their "hero" countries.
The BRICS system sounded interesting, especially to one who questions the dollar hegemony. But yeah, it's just a "nicer" centralized system which like you state, won't work out especially because they can't even dominate the area with weapons and drones, lol!
This article had me laughing out loud. It speaks to the saying, "to be well adjusted in an insane world, is no sign of mental health." We need more diagnosed schizophrenics on the case calling a spade a spade obviously.
Great article...For some of your substacks it would be nice if you had a short video introducing people to your topic and drawing them in to your article. I try to post many of your articles but many people just have time to watch videos or habitually do so. Many thanks. Kman, editor, Digileak News Not Noise
Thanks for the suggestion, but I don´t own a phone, computer, or camera, so that won´t be possible. (I do my writing at internet cafes). Furthermore, my nickname used to be Mumbly Joe, and I have a strong Ottawa accent. I hate hearing my own voice most of the time. I do not speak well. I wish I did!
No problem...just a thought...Enjoy your output and share what I can...Kman_Ken
Thank you for sharing! I actually have put out a lot of video content on Youtube (search Nevermore Zine), on what I think are some very interesting subjects, but they really havent gotten much traction... Im guessing that most people find my voice as unpleasant to listen to as I do!
I realise that I am very late to this particular party and I apologise but I had not heard of you before today. I am a Brit and I had a bit of a run-in with Matt Ehret which shocked me a few months ago.
Basically, I had asked his opinion (bad move, I know) of a very unusual document I had mirrored on my Substack. Eventually, after being nudged a few times for a response he deigned to give it the once-over and came back with a scathing almost hostile appraisal which shook me.
You can find the article and his comment here:
https://francesleader.substack.com/p/what-does-the-rule-of-law-mean
I responded but he did not pursue the argument further. I was entirely surprised because the document I had discovered was revealing some dire facts about the governance of USA and all 5-Eyes countries by inference. I pointed out that he was defending establishment academic narratives because to do otherwise would undermine the entire history as we have been led to know it.
I would love to hear what you think of the document and Matt Ehret's knee-jerky reply.
Hey! Thanks for taking the time to comment. I read your piece and I must confess that I lack the historical knowledge to know whether you´re on to something or not. No obvious errors or faulty logic jumped out at me, but you are making a very extraordinary claim, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof... that said, proving anything when it comes to secret societies is very hard. You´ll notice that I pretty much never talk about secret societies.
Personally, I would not have been offended by Ehret´s response, but I guess everyone is different. I like being challenged because I love to debate and argue, personally, and I don´t think that his response what rude to the point of disrespect. He was disagreeing with you and raising some valid points. I´d be a hypocrite if I condemned him for being rude. Have you read my posts about him?
As to whether the Knights Templar secretly rule the world, I have no idea. That seems like a rabbit hole thats very booby-trapped. I assume thats theres something to it, but I also assume that it would be very easy to come to the wrong conclusion... and spend a lot of time in the process.
The burden of proof is on you, though. You are making a very big claim and so it´s on you to prove it, if it can be proven...
Thanks for commenting! I´m glad you found your way here.
Happy to have found you! Yes, of course the burden of proof lies with me and yes, the terrain is booby trapped but it brings other threads I have pulled together, so it lurks in a corner of my mind whenever geo-political shifts are impacting us.
Thanks for checking it over! xx
Honestly, I´m careful what rabbit holes I go down, because once my curiosity get piqued, I can spend a lot of time without anything to show for it... plus Im not a history. My job is understanding things relevant to the current moment. Who rules the world is no one near as important as what we are going to do to resist them...
Iain Davis claims that the Black Nobility rules the world and is a level above the Rothschilds, but I have only seem him touch on the subject...
I don´t really get all the stuff with the Jesuits to be honest. I´ve got a lot to catch up on....
Iain Davis has read all my research on the Black Nobs.... he keeps promising me that he will do a deep dive soon.... 4 years or so now!
I guess he is bogged down with the present issues like many people seem to be.
But I contend that we cannot understand the present unless we know the past and therefore are able to detect the direction and the end game.
https://francesleader.substack.com/p/who-rules-the-world
Thanks for sharing! I actually had already that article of yours... You´ve definitely piqued my interest! I´m going to have to resist the temptation to go down this rabbit hole because I have a book to finish and I can´t afford to spend the time researching this right now! But I think I´ll come back to it at some point...
Are you familiar with Robert Anton Wilson´s idea about fungible vs. non-fungible conspiracy theories? Basically anytime someone suggests that all members of a group are part of One Big Cosnspiracy, you can throw that theory in the trash and go back to the drawing board. This is easy enough to see with jews (neo-nazis want to blame everything on jews so they´ll play a game of pin the blame on the jew, whether or not that makes sense.
I think most people in the truth movement get this when it comes to jews but not when it comes to masons, jesuits, etc...
Cynthia Chung seems to think someone being associated with the Theosophical Society is enough to prove that they are in league with the Devil or whatever... But the fact of the matter is that you can probably associate just about any countercultural figure with either Madame Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley or Gurdjieff. All three of them really got around!
This guilt-by-association stuff is dumb... Two people knowing each other collaborating on a project does not mean that they had identical politics.
Let me take a non-magical example, because it´s clear that some folks (like Chung) want people to associate unconventional spiritual practices with evil.
Let´s take Marx. Okay, I´ve accepted that he was probably an agent of international bankers... does that mean that nothing that he said is valid or worthy of consideration?
Apparently Bakunin translated Das Kapital into Russian, so clearly he thought it was an important work. I haven´t read Marx in years, but back when I was hanging out with Marxists I tended to agree with his diagnosis of the problem of capitalism while disagreeing with his prognosis (dictatorship of the proletariat, abolition of the family, etc).
I think that we need to judge ideas on their own merit, regardless of where they come from...
I agree entirely. I have known the daughters of bloodline families who were completely oblivious of their parents' business affairs. They were more interested in drinking a lot of alcohol, riding long-suffering ponies at gymkhanas and getting to Oxford or Cambridge purely to bag a rich husband!
M.Ehret came into question after his first GTW appearance because he subsequently went on another podcast and shit on James Corbett because of James’ claims that Putin is a puppet of the NWO.
GTW (Grand Theft World) members like myself are huge corbett fans and Richard and him have been colleagues for many years. There were talks about having him on the show again and an lengthy ensuing town hall meeting to discuss what the group knows of him. My big take away was Matt has a great historical knowledge but portrays it in a story-fied way to suit his ends. He is also on the payroll of a Russian university a fact which he doesn’t hide. (His rantings about a multi-polar world order makes me think of Oceanian always being at war with Eurasia.)
I have two of his books which he spends many pages talking about the historical attempts to bridge North America to Asia by train. He also tells of Russias role in the American civil war. He rallies against the Anglo establishment as the failings of that rail project and also names figures responsible for canada never being able to shake itself from the empire and our ensuing place on that chess board.
As far as I’ve looked into the historical claims he makes they seem factual, but as your piece points out it’s for a reason (which I don’t agree with)
He was eventually brought back on to GTW and also took part in one of the town hall sessions. And both were quite good.
He is very knowledgeable but super sus and I’m stoked you took time to call him out!
Thanks for the tip! I wrote a piece calling for him to explain his relationship with that university, and he has yet to reply. I know for a fact that he is aware of the letter (thanks to Cynthia Chung), but apparently he doesnt think its in his best interest to answer.
They are traitors if they promote in any way China's "new silk road" plans. China is raping lands across the globe as well as murdering and enslaving peoples of those lands. There is only one objective behind the CCP, and that is to take all that it wants. A good book to read on government traitors is Red Handed by Peter Schweizer. Maybe Matthew's wife is a Chinese asset.
Well, they´re clearly on the same page. Someone sent me an email to inform me that Ehret is on the payroll of a Russian university (which apparently he doesnt hide). Id be curious what work he does for them, since CPR seems like it would be a full time job. He´s very prolific.
Hi MJ,
First time to your substack - was directed here by the excellent Iain Davis.
Interesting read, and drew my attention for a number of reasons. Not read any of Ehret's stuff, but heard him a few times on different TNT Radio shows. He immediately got my back up, and my Spidey senses went into overdrive. Can't put my finger on exactly why, was just a gut feeling, which, historically, have proven right more often than not. He also wound up Joe Olson, whom I have a lot of time for, and dissing Corbett is a no-no in my book.
A few uninformed observations from my cosy corner in SW old Scotia;
The BRI scares the bejesus out of me, and looks like a plan for global domination - https://odysee.com/@Macroaggressions:6/The-New-Silk-Road-Final:0
'Canadian Patriot' comes across as Orwellian doublespeak to me
That 'MegaCityOne' bubble dome city plan for Alaska looked like an early incarnation of a 15 minute prison city
Just my two pennies worth...
I really think that it is worth listening to the gut feelings that we have about people... Like you, I feel that my gut is right more often than not. However, I wonder whether that is the case for everyone... or whether I should encourage people in general to trust their gut.
Let me give an example... Okay, so for as much as we´re all sick of hearing about racism, the fact is that racism is very real, and it is a matter of great political importance. So let´s imagine a racist who instantly assumes black people, or jews, or whatever, are a certain way... Would they feel like they had ¨a gut feeling¨ if they instantly distrusted a given person who happened to belong to a racial group that they mistrusted?
I´m guessing that they would. This makes me a little hesitant to encourage people to ¨trust their gut¨ or whatever... We all need to correct for various cognitive biases, and racism is one of them. Sometimes your first thought is your best thought, but not always. Sometimes your first thought is your worst thought.
Curious as what other people think!
It kills me when people act like the BRI is benevolent because they´ve built some hospitals in Africa or whatever. How stupid are people? Do they not understand the concept of a charm offensive? Do they really think that the CCP is motivated by a desire to ¨lift people out of poverty¨. Give me a fucking break! Makes me think of the Peanuts comics when Lucy holds the football and always pulls it away and Linus keeps falling for it. Yeah fucking right the CCP cares about Africans. Sometimes I feel like I came from another planet or something because I have no idea how anyone believes this shit.
Here is what Edward Slavsquat had to say, or rather responded to Ehret's accusation..
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/rts-sneaky-plot-to-topple-putin
BTW, Cynthia Chung & Matt Ehret are not "lonely" "dissidents" who are CCP apologist. There is a whole bunch of so-called "western intelligentsia" doing this China/dictatorship defense and advocacy in the name of anti-imperialism. You can find this bunch of useful statist idiots in https://www.globalresearch.ca/
Appreciate the article. I also came to Ehret through Whitney Webb, whom I also hold in the highest regard. And, like you, I was totally impressed with the same Ehret articles you cite. I totally believe journalists (even real ones) are and have been "infiltrated." That's basically been proven and documented. For myself, I'm fairly quick to wonder about it but cautious in making accusations. I've always felt removed, lukewarm at best, at all the talk about the Silk Road initiative, BRI. Pepe Escobar, another writer/journalist I used to follow regularly (and he's excellent) also seems emotionally vested in the phenomenon. And there are others. Interestingly, I think both Escobar and Ehret (and perhaps Chung) are/were affiliated with the Strategic Culture Foundation, for what that's worth. Short of EVERYONE into this being "an agent of the CCP," perhaps this indicates some underlying and overriding desperate hope for an alternative to what probably most of us agree is the abominable degeneration of the "Western Anglo American Empire." This is not to say there aren't any shady players or that the proposed alternative is an answer, let alone THE answer. Guess it's a never ending challenge of separating the wheat from the chaff.
It honestly seems like a pretty shoddy propaganda effort, if you ask me. I mean, theyre blatantly shilling for the CCP... A more sophisticated effort would find things to criticize about the CCP and Putin in order to seem more credible.
This is some fucking amateur hour shit. Id be embarrassed if I was their employer.
Go back to propaganda school, you fucking hacks!
I always took Ehret and wife to be connected to the Larouchies, though the don't appear to have any official connection (they seem to push the same talking points).
Yes, I can understand that perception. I recently saw a conference put on by Larouche people. Actually, I found it to be good quality overall. This is another "sect" that I was trained to automatically dismiss and/or denigrate; I now find things are a little more complicated than the snap black and white judgments.
Oh, I actually agree with you--there's a lot of good from the Larouchies, it's just that sometimes they can be a bit cult-like, with all their people sounding like an echo chamber. But they are good on a lot of topics. And their intelligence gathering is very good (you can dig up some interesting info on the Executive Intelligence Review publication). So, yes, I actually always like to get their opinions on things (worth considering), it's just that I don't always agree.
It is more likely throttling by Youtube. They basically control what people can see.
I had about 60 videos on Youtube. Took most of them down and left a few to keep an account for my own favourites.
Have videos on Bitchute (social justice) and Vimeo (Food Sovereignty and Health) and the story of Dr Shiv Chopra, author of the book, Corrupt to the Core - Memoirs of a Health Canada Whistle Blower.
Cheers, Ken
oh wow, Shiv Chopra! Havent heard that name for awhile... I take it youre from Canada?
My post on Bitchute...
Video: Bg on Wet’suwet’en Pipeline Issue starting in 2012
https://www.bitchute.com/video/gYsGnVwLCYXA/
Why are Matthew Ehret and Cynthia Chung shilling for the CCP? 2023
Digileak News Not Noise - Jan 23, 2023 - Patriots or Traitors? A critical look at the Canadian Patriot Review
CANADA JAN - Slide 94 - 2023 Article - NEVERMORE Media Substack Article
WOW
Pretty shocking, right?
Yes!
Now that I´ve written 3 articles about them and received no response, I´m pretty much thinking ¨was everyone else asleep at the wheel? This shit is obvious!¨
They are all well written. I would enjoy seeing your work distributed "out there!"
Matthew Ehret publishes on https://risingtidefoundation.net/ I really enjoyed his articles about Aristotle and Plato. Yet there is a sub current in his writings, and you may have hit on the source of it.
Your point about the Uyghurs seems outdated. The Uyghur narrative is now well known to be Western propaganda. "In reality, China protects Uyghur culture, and tolerates Muslim religion" from "The CIA and Uyghur Jihadists" at https://www.voltairenet.org/article208556.html
At the end of the day, what's wrong with paying people to counter Western propaganda?
Really? This doesnt seem believable to me. If anything, the Uyghur genocide seems to be played down in the western MSM. Could you link me to a thinker that you think that I would be familiar with who supports the position that the Uyghur genocide is exaggerated?
Man, i appreciate all that you do, but you need to be better informed about this uyghur propaganda garbage, produced by lunatic evangelical nationalists and US govt NeoConservatives (which run both oligarchal parties in the US). It seems you fallen hook line and sinker for the massive disinformation campaign on this, which is produced jointly by vile christian evangelical nationaliats and the US gov't agency called NED (which does legally in the open what the CIA used to do secretly for decades - funds regime change operations all across the planet with a budget of billions of dollars, and part of this is the training and acting lessons they provide to paid "dissidents" in tne countries that the american capitalists (that run the US govt) target for take down and plunder, for disobeying their orders for privatization of their economy, resources, industry and services from tbe public domain into the private hands of american capitalists).
The entire fake 'uygur genocide' propaganda disingormation campaign a d regime-change operation rests on the BS "research" of a single lunatic evangelical funtamentalist from Germany who claims that his "god" appeared to him in a dream and told him to take down china because it is satan. I kid you not, the so-called "researvh" of this evangelical maniac is the only source of all the bogus insane claims and "data" that the MSM and US govt (not to mention christian-conservative nationalists) use as "evidence" and "proof" for their campaign to destroy their target country, who just happens to be the greateat challenger to the american capitalists hegemony over the entire planet's resources.
And then the "research" of this ideologically-motivated evangelical lunatic is picked up by NED who ran with it and trained and paid numerous uyghur immigrants on how to act what to say in press conferences, all of it proven to be ridiculously idiotic and false if you actually take the time to scrutinize their claims a d don't just blindly believe and buy into the scripts the NED hands them out to read.
Go to grayzone website and do a search for 'uyghur' and you'll see numerous in-depth investigations they did (much MUCH more in-depth than the shallow caricature you presented here) which reveals all the endless lies that this evangelical lunatic came up with in his "research" (which, i remind you, is the sole source of all the so-called "proof" that the capitalists' mainstream propaganda media is reporting on as "evidence" of "uyghur genocide" and is the source of all US govt claims).
Read all their in-depth investigations which blow all this disinformation propaganda regime-change operation right out of the water (disinformation campaign thatt is pushed and promoted jointly by capitalist billionaires' media, by US govt NeoCons and by hate-driven christian fundamentalists)
PS. I also saw the videos of the british cyclist (that thinking-turtle mentioned above) who cycled the length and bredth of xinjiang (yes, any westerner can go and walk or cycle or drive freely all across xinjiang, and check for oneself the claims made by the lunatic evangical and the capitalists' regime-change operation). He cycled all across xinjiang armed with the maps that the the German christian lunatic provided as "evidence" of "concetration camps" in xinjiang. He was literally standing 20 feet away from where the map of the evangelical and US govt claims is a location of a "concentration camp" and all he saw was an abandoned and dilipitated old factory that was clearly not in use for decades, with no one around for miles and miles..)
But anyway, this is just one tiny example of the many lies pushed out by the hate-filled christian nationalists and the US govt. Read the grayzone's numerous in-depth investigations that blow the lid rignt off this whole insane disinformation campaign, campaign for yet another vile regime-change operation that american NeoCon capitalists (and chrisitian nationalists) are running.
PPS. And i won't even start going here into the obviously ridiculous absurdity of evangelical christian fundamentalists and american govt NeoConservatives who murder millions in muslim countries in cold blood for their narrow sectarian nationalist & capitalist interests and poisonous right-wing ideology, and who now suddenly pretend to really really care about the lives of muslims in china. Yes honestly, swear to god, these murderers really really do care about the lives and rights of muslims..(especially when muslim lives can be used as a weapon to attack their hated target country, the country that threatens their hegemony over the planet).
I mean, man, if you don't see through this obvious BS then i really don't know what to say..
The only time that I have written about the Uyghur genocide is in passing... I did write something back in May 2021 about concentration camps in China... Just wondering... are you saying that there arent concentration camps in China, or that there arent concentration camps in Xinjiang province? Here, Ill post that article, and maybe you can point me to whatever specific factual errors I made. I like to be able to stand by everything I write, so if I am mistaken here, I will consider posting a correction...
Honestly I do rely on irrational mental shortcuts sometimes... I mean, Australia definitely built concentration camps during COVID, so I wouldnt really be surprised in China did too... But thats the kind of mental jump that can make you make mistakes. Id honestly be amazed if there werent huge concentration camps in China, given that it is a hyper-authoritarian state.
Anyway, here´s what I wrote back in May 2021. Link below for pics.
China has moved at least 20 000 thousand people into concentration camps, but don’t worry, they’ve got WiFi.
This is an aerial view of the construction site of the quarantine camp in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China.
Not only is China engaged in a massive program of genocide against its Uyghur population, it is also building massive concentration camps – ahem – quarantine centres. Chinese authorities have been moving entire villages into centralized quarantine facilities. But don’t worry, it’s all being done to save lives!
“The new quarantine camp will house close contacts of confirmed COVID-19 patients, as authorities continue an extensive contact tracing and testing program.”
Each prefabricated room is expected to measure 18 square meters (around 194 square feet), and will come with an en-suite bathroom and shower, desks, chairs, beds, Wi-Fi, and a television set, according to the state-owned broadcaster CCTV.
It was originally planned to house 3,000 people, but has since been expanded to a capacity of 4,160. More than 4,000 construction workers performed “six days’ and nights’ work” to complete the first phase, said Shijiazhuang Deputy Mayor Meng Xianghong on Tuesday.
Authorities began construction on Jan. 13 and the first section of the camp is now complete and ready for use, while construction continues on the second phase, according to state-owned broadcaster CCTV.
The ambitious task is reminiscent of earlier efforts during the initial stages of the pandemic, during which authorities built several medical facilities from scratch, including a 1,000-bed hospital in just 10 days.
More than 20,000 citizens from 12 villages in Shijiangzhuang have since been relocated to other quarantine sites as a preventative measure, Chinese state media outlet CGTN reported last week.
Hebei authorities are now urging residents to stay at home, with officials sent to urban and rural areas to enforce measures and ensure people aren’t traveling across the province and into Beijing.
It should be remembered that the term lock-down comes from the prison system. Inmates are put on lock-down when there is perceived to be a greater risk of revolt. If China is building concentration camps outside its capital, it obviously does not bode well for the future if the ascendant world power shares two of the worst features of the Nazi regime – genocide and concentration camps.
There really is no question that totalitarianism is here, and is expanding. The question is rather one of how long it will take before such tactics are taken up in the West.
Is it perhaps childish or morbid to terrify ourselves with visions of a totalitarian future? Before writing this off as a nightmare that can’t come true, just remember that in 2019 the world of today would’ve seemed a nightmare that couldn’t come true.
https://nevermore.media/2021/05/17/are-you-in-denial/
Hey, thank you for bringing my awareness to this... I honestly havent delved too deep into it, to be honest, and I am willing to change my mind... I have other rabbit holes to explore right now, but Ill keep this subject in my peripheral awareness for now... also chance you could send me some links to articles that you think are especially convincing?
To everyone else that might be reading this, please tell me if you think that Im wrong! I like being right, and so you´re doing me a favour if you let me know when Im wrong.
I´ll also point out that I dont necessarily put a ton of thought into things I write in the comments here... If I put something in an article, it means I know what Im talking about and Im prepared to defend my assertions, but in the comments, I consider the standard to be lower... like, just imagine we´re just two people having a conversation... idk if this is how other Substackers think of things, but its how I think of it...
I remember a video of a guy who cycled through North-West China where the Uyghurs live. Then there is a BBC documentary about Uyghurs that consisted of Chinese government videos edited to look bad. There was a report from a group of Islamic nations who backed China's policy. Sadly I can find none of them on any search engine.
There is this other article from Voltairenet: https://www.voltairenet.org/article205244.html
Matthew Ehret takes a strong stance against the people who are against the CCP´s alleged genocide-in-progress, btw... see: https://canadianpatriot.org/2021/03/05/canadian-hypocrisy-shines-embarrassingly-with-new-accusations-of-chinas-muslim-genocide/
Man, calling this guy a greasy weasel would be an insult to greasy weasels.
Pardon my frankness, but the evidence you present is not at all convincing...
Here´s a website called Sputnik international interviewing Max Blumenthal of the Greyzone about the situation in Xinjiang: https://sputniknews.com/20200430/grayzone-founder-unpacking-lies-that-aim-to-deceive-us-into-war-with-china-1079145703.html
Honestly, a quick look-see makes me trust Blumenthal less... like listen to this:
One of the sources about [the claim] was a Chinese dissident organisation and a group of Chinese activists who are opposed to the Chinese Communist Party and who are based here in Washington. They're called Chinese human rights defenders, and they are funded by the NED, the US government's regime change arm. They produced a study that claimed that there were 600,000 and a million Uygurs in “concentration camps”.
But the study only interviewed a few Uygurs, and then from those interviews, they calculated the population of the villages from where those Uygurs came from and then extrapolated from the population, the total number. It's a completely phony methodology from a partisan US-backed group.
uggghhh... not impressed, Mr. Blumenthal. Quibbling about statisticaly methodology and using the guilt-by-association trick? Were about genocide here. Are they trying to beat a charge on genocide on technicalities? That dont fly in my book.
Im willing to be convinced, but as of the current moment I believe that the images that I have seen, and accounts that I have seen from members of the Uyghur diaspora living in exile, are genuine.
Id be curious as to what other people think though.
It's good to exchange opinions, I hardly expect to convince anyone on the internet.
The US government funded Uyghurs may be the same as the "Afghan Terrorists" Chinese embassy communications talk about.
For myself, I find it hard to believe that the same Chinese I meet as expats would tolerate "concentration camps" for anyone.
Yes, I agree it is good to exchange opinions. Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with me, and please feel free to share more information if you come across anything that you think is particularly worthy of attention.
fwiw, I listened to the Redacted youtube channel, Natali and Clayton Morris and they both called BS on the whole Uyghut thing.
Great exposure!
I knew this couple were a statist slime when I first read their not so-hidden message!
Thank you my friend!
My pleasure! I´m glad that my words are resonating with someone out there...
BTW, there's no doubt that Whitney Webb is one of the great indy investigative journalists these days... but she is a statist at heart!
As a non-native English speaker, I do have a bad habit of "always reading between the lines" so to speak!
Well, she clearly has a good moral compass, so if she is a statist, I´m going to guess that she is for the same reasons that Orwell was.
Orwell´s justification for statism is that the weak need to be protected from the strong. I don´t have a good reply for this, because I agree with the main thrust of the argument... I do believe that the weak do need to be protected... but the problem is that the only ones who can protect them are the strong, and guess what? That brings us right back to square one. Six thousand years of civilization and we have yet to solve this problem. I´m honestly not sure that there is a solution...
Well, it is the misunderstanding or rather NOT properly understanding of the system of government authority.
How can you define "the weak" and the "strong” in statist society?
Under statist system of power, the so-called “strong/powerful” becomes strong/powerful because the State/Government makes them strong/powerful by supporting and protecting them!
Étienne de La Boétie “Discours de la servitude volontaire” dissects and explains this “misunderstanding” very clearly.
https://thetaoofanarchy.substack.com/p/the-structure-of-government-system?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
How many times have you witnessed Government protecting the “weak” against the “strong? Even in the so-called “court of law?”
How many times have you witnessed Government protecting the “strong” against the “weak?”
(Do I need to cite the plights of Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, victims of government thugs’ brutality… and the case of Jeffery Epstein and his fly-list and his young victims?)
The fact is that the 1% is just a bunch of weak individuals (the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, the Bushs, the Clintons, Jeffery Epstein Bill Gates, Elan Musk and their ilk become “powerful” and controls almost all resources and dictate almost all aspects of the 99%… all because THEY are operating hand in hand with the State power/ government authority and are supported and protected by State power/ government authority.
Without Government, you and I, the weaks, can freely fight back individually or band together to fight back any bullying from such (perceived) “strong”. You can see that without the support and protection from State power and government authority, there is no such “strong” in society!
It’s the Government that protects the “strong” against the weak by holding back, oppressing, and suppressing the weak, who are the majority of society, from rising up against the minority “strong”!
It’s truly mind boggling that many “supposed to know better” dissidents (e.g Orwell, Webb) still hold the false belief / make believe that “GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE” and that “government is there to protect the “weak” against the “strong,” despite all the evidences to the contrary, which not only are ample in the whole history of mankind but right in front of their own eyes and in their own daily life.
You have raised some big and important issues here, ones with too much nuance to settle with fundamentalist politics (or a brief comment thread!). I have respected Ehret's work and also share some of your misgivings about the CCP-worship. It seems we have a few candidates for the "Great Satan" in the world. Clearly Ehret makes a strong case that it's what he calls the Anglo-American axis. Instead, he champions the CCP and its Belt-Road and BRICS multipolar model. On the surface, I have to agree with that preference. It gets more problematic if we impute more imperial motives to the CCP, or delve into its social-credit philosophy. Then of course there are the mother-WEFer globalists, who are opposed to any national power whether from West or East. This model is again unipolar in effect, only vertical/pyramidal, instead of horizontal (West or East hegemony). Then there's the additional critique that all the above is technocratic, authoritarian, materialistic, corporatist, and ecocidal, and that it denies and destroys individual rights, ancient values and cultures, and ecosystems. This is where the insidious genius of Agenda 2030 comes in, which co-opts those "natural" values in its global service. Caught in the middle is the Indigenous interest, itself divided and conquered, between survival for industrial crumbs, or holding out for ancient claims on territory. Bottom line, it's important to unpack all this right now; but it's tough to pick sides with any clarity or consistency as a political stance. Rather, an insistence on core values and principles, and remaining leery of any grand project seeking to impose itself in the name of those ideals.
This is all made more complicated, of course, by the fact that each indigenous nation is, to a significant degree, at war with itself... In each community there is a pro-development element which is happy to accept money for nothing, and an anti-development element, which is motivated by something other than self-interest.
Right-wingers like to accuse anarchists of being outside agitators, and pretend that anarchists are maniupulating indigenous land defenders, but really what anarchist have been doing for years is supporting the indigenous factions whose politics are resonant with theirs. And I will defend this practice up and down. What else are you going to do? Ally yourself with a group because of their ethnicity irrespective of their political goal? How does that make any sense? Collaboration between anarchists and indigenous sovereigntists makes sense between our goals overlap in important ways.
So... Three or four months ago, I think I was where you are now. Let´s face it - Putin makes some good points, if you listen to what he has to say. He certainly presents a version of reality which is much more palatable to non-brain-damaged people than that of any Western politician. But the conclusion that I have come to is that Mayer Amschel Rothschild was onto something when he said: “GIVE me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws.” If the Rothschilds control the central bank of Russia, then how much does it really matter when Putin says? It took me a long time to come to the conclusion that I´ve come to... because it´s a very hard pill to swallow... but it now appears to me that West-East divide is at least partly stage-managed by European bankers. To what extent is the question that Im currently chewing on... I´ll let you know where I land!
Fair enough. Saying Putin is more credible than Biden doesn't go far if both are pawns in a banker's Armageddon. Euro crown power has always been suspect, whether of the gold or bugs variety.
I´m glad to hear that I´m not the only one! It seems that people seem to be in general agreement... not one person has come to their defence, and many people have been in touch to express their support.