"They're here..."
Posted on 10/27/2014 1:45:25 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
The Psychopath Under the Bed - PART ONE
Thoughts inspired by Karen Dawisha’s book, Russia’s kleptocracy, in the light of Golitsyn’s methodoloy
By J.R. Nyquist
Because we can see that there is a complex and clever system in Russia, quite opaque and full of interesting details and inner rules, we should conclude that the system came about by intelligent design. But how? The evidence strongly suggests that it did not come about by chance. This book firmly rejects the ideas often promulgated in Western academic circles that Putin is an ‘accidental autocrat’ or a ‘good tsar surrounded by bad boyars.’”
- Karen Dawisha, Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?
The elite [are] the ultimate authority [in Russia]: it provides the collective leadership of which [the president] is a member and which decides, among other things, how long he should serve as President. The elite has to have some mechanism at its disposal through which such decisions can be reached and through which controlled political events can be coordinated. It is essential to the success of the strategy that this mechanism should be well concealed from the West. I lack the facilities to study how it might be operating. The likelihood is, however, that it functions under cover of some openly acknowledged body. The National Security Council might be a candidate for investigation as a possible front for this secret mechanism.
- Anatoliy Golitsyn, Memorandum to the CIA: 1 October 1993
I want to warn Americans. As a people, you are very naïve about Russia and its intentions. You believe because the Soviet Union no longer exists, Russia now is your friend. It isn’t, and I can show you how the SVR [Russian Foreign Intelligence Service] is trying to destroy the U.S. even today and even more than the KGB did during the Cold War.
- Sergei Tretyakov, as quoted by Pete Early in Comrade J, 2007
America’s old enemy is still there, plotting the overthrow of capitalism. But this is a paradox because communism supposedly died 23 years ago. What died, of course, was something different. What actually died was the practice of admitting to communist beliefs. That is what died! The fashion today – in Russia and China, the U.S. and Europe, Latin America and Africa – is to deny that one is a communist. Thus, Nelson Mandela was not a communist, but a “democrat.” Hugo Chavez was not a communist but a “populist.” President Xi Jinping is not a communist, but a “pragmatist.” Vladimir Putin is not a communist but a “Christian.” And so the game is played, around the world, so that nobody is a communist except those who wear a red beanie, or have a hammer and sickle emblazoned on their forehead.
And who would be such an idiot and wear such a beanie? Only a fool would say that he is coming to tear down capitalism; for the capitalists have money and power, and they will resist any open or direct assault on their position. Therefore the communist label interferes with the accomplishment of the communist goal because even a relatively clueless businessmen instinctively fears expropriation. Therefore, the advance of communism must be a dissimulative process in which the communists take over under a “progressive” banner, promising better medical care and better living conditions. Or as Lenin promised the Russian people in 1917, “Our policy is bread and peace!” Their campaign gives itself away, however, by its envious telltale, and by the husbanding of destructive forces and impulses – especially by keeping alive the memory of past injustices and those tragedies of history which can be credibly blamed on “greed,” or on the “rich.” But in truth it is not the “rich” we have to fear. For wealth is not the same as evil. The criminal and the psychopath are not so much motivated by greed as they are motivated by the hatred of normal society. “A man is not a socialist,” wrote Gustave le Bon, “without hating some person or thing….” The background of the great socialist leaders, from Mao and Castro, to Stalin and Lenin, was a background of psychopathology. Totalitarian socialism, in fact, has always been government by psychopaths. The final giveaway is the presence of ordinary criminal types within the leadership of the Communist Party and its revolutionary cadre. Here we find the sadists, the robbers, the killers, and the misfits. Revolution is alluring to them, because it gives them permission to do their thing under cover of an ideal. As Sam Vaknin has pointed out, “The suppression of envy is at the core of the narcissist’s being. If he fails to convince his self that he is the only good object in the universe, he is bound to be exposed to his own murderous envy. If there are others out there who are better than him, he envies them, he lashes out at them ferociously, uncontrollably, madly, hatefully, he tries to eliminate them.”
If one is pathological, then one belongs to a pathological tribe. And yes, they can recognize each other. It is this subset which works to destroy Western civilization and eliminate what is best in the world. The psychopath, energized by politics, realizes himself in a new way. One is not destined to commit mere petty crimes if one has sufficient grandiosity. One can commit crimes on an undreamt of scale, against millions of defenseless people. The scheme is given an idealistic coloring. The perpetrator is presented as a champion of the downtrodden. And that’s how the whole enterprise is sold to the feeble-minded, the naïve, and the half-baked. Here is the subset which presently lures our businessmen into a massive trade relationship with China. Here is the subset responsible for changing the school curriculum in the various jurisdictions of the United States. They have taken over the major unions. They have a surprising degree of influence over the media and Hollywood. They have a major hand in designing America’s environmental policies, with a special view to crippling the capitalist economy and making it impossible for America to compete economically. And as Trevor Loudon has shown in his latest book, The Enemies Within: Communists, Socialists and Progressives in the U.S. Congress, these “enemies” even write our laws – in the state houses and in Congress.
Today we are supposed to believe that the communist world movement no longer exists. It no longer has its capital in Russia. We are supposed to believe that the Chinese communists are communists in name only. Is it wise to believe that communism died because the psychopaths behind it were cured? Or would it be wiser, overall, to assume that the psychopaths who composed the core of a criminal system remain as they were? Why would it be any different now? Today they fool us with the pretense that they have turned over a new leaf. But there is no leaf, and there is nothing to turn over. Psychopaths are not cured by becoming capitalists.
Tens of millions were murdered by the Communist Party system between 1917 and 1991. Who stood trial for these murders? Was property restored to the families of the victims? Was restitution given? No. Lenin was not even buried, but remains on display in Moscow, as fresh as a daisy. His statues remain standing throughout Russia. It may be argued that in 1991 the Communist Party Soviet Union changed its formation, going partly underground. If the system in Russia is opaque, as Russia expert Karen Dawisha shows, then it is by careful design. Why should Russia’s political reality be so murky except that Russia has been organized with a deception in mind – with a dark veil drawn over key events and personalities? We need to look closer at the work of Anatoliy Golitsyn, who successfully predicted the entire course of Russian policy from 1985 to the present. He predicted perestroika and glasnost. He predicted the Communist Party giving up its monopoly of power. He predicted the establishment of checks and balances in the Russian political system. And he predicted these checks and balances would be a swindle; perhaps the greatest swindle of all history, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.
Many researchers strongly suspect the apartment bombings that struck Russia in 1999 were staged by the FSB so that Muslims would be blamed and a war could begin against Chechnya. Some researchers suspect this was done as an opening move to consolidate a new type of regime in Russia. Yet it was not merely a new type of criminal regime, but a reconfiguration of the Soviet regime (same criminals, different label). As outgoing head of the FSB prior to the bombings, Vladimir Putin must have been involved in the planning, and he was certainly the political beneficiary of the outcome. The subsequent resumption of the war in Chechnya, which was then dubbed “Operation Anti-Terror,” was not merely the Kremlin’s alibi in advance of 9/11. It set up Putin to play the role of faithful ally to the United States (which he never was). That this alibi was a fake was even acknowledged by Putin’s handpicked Gauleiter in Chechnya, Akhmad Kadyrov, who gave an interview for the 7 January 2000 edition of the London Arab language newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat in which he obliquely suggested that Russian generals controlled both sides of the Chechen conflict. How very intriguing indeed! “This is not jihad,” Kadyrov explained, “it is rather deception.” He had personally confronted Putin about this fact, and Putin had supposedly admitted that “mistakes were made.” According to Kadyrov, “I told Putin that if Russia really wanted to, not a single foreigner [i.e., al Qaeda terrorist] could have infiltrated into Chechnya or extended a single dollar to it, which means that this whole thing was deliberately planned.”
Oh yes, and it was planned for a number of carefully thought-out reasons. As Anatoliy Golitsyn later argued, the war in Chechnya proved to everyone that Russia was militarily weak and incapable. It could no longer be a threat to the West. This further reinforced the shift of the West’s intelligence assets away from Russia toward the new Islamic threat. As Golitsyn suggested, the policies and actions taken by the Communist Party Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1985-1991 had this outcome in mind from the start.
More at link
Can ya ping some more folks to this thread? Important article discussing Russia.
From Alexander Litvinenko, FSB defector who was poisoned with Polonium 210 awhile back in London. His poisoner is still at large. The Russians refuse to extradite the only suspect. He talks about international terrorism, including the claim that Al-Qaeda's number 2 (now number 1, with Osama's death) is an agent of the FSB:
A. Litvinenko: The bloodiest terrorists in the world were or are agents of the KGB-FSB. These are well-known, like Carlos Ilyich Ramiros, nicknamed "the Jackal," the late Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, Adjalan (he is condemned in Turkey), Wadi Haddad, the head of the service of external operations of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Hauyi, the head of the communist party of Lebanon, Mr. Papaionnu from the Cyprus, Sean Garland from Ireland and many others. All of them were trained by the KGB, received money from there, weapons and explosives, counterfeit documents and a communication equipment for carrying out of acts of terrorism worldwide.
FAKT: Some may object that each of the listed figures, and the forces supporting them, were engaged in solving their own political problems.
A. Litvinenko: Certainly, all these figures and movements operated under their own slogans; however, none of them especially hid their "intimate" ... relationship with the Kremlin and Lubyanka. There is a simple question: whether the Russian special services would train and finance people and groups that were not supervised by Lubyanka and did not serve the interests of the Kremlin? You understand perfectly, they would not. Each act of terrorism made by these people was carried out as an assignment and under the rigid control of the KGB of the USSR. And [the terrorism] ... is not casual after the disintegration of the USSR and [reform of the KGB]....
FAKT: Every terrorist you have named is from 'the old staff' of the KGB. Could you name someone from recent history?
A. Litvinenko: Certainly, here it is. The number two person in the terrorist organization al Qaeda, who they are crediting with the series of explosions in London, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is an old agent of the FSB. Being sentenced to death in Egypt for terrorism and hunted by Interpol, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in 1998, was in the territory of Dagestan, where for half a year he received special training at one of the educational bases of the FSB. After this training he was transferred to Afghanistan, where he had never been before and where, following the recommendation of his Lubyanka chiefs, he at once ... penetrated the milieu of bin Laden and soon became his assistant in al Qaeda.
FAKT: Could you hint at least, where this data comes from?
A. Litvinenko: I can. During my service in one of the most secret departments of the FSB, top officials from the UFSB of Dagestan, who had directly worked with Ayman al-Zawahiri ... were called to Moscow and received high posts."
http://www.jrnyquist.com/nyquist_2005_0813.htm
From Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, highest ranking defector to ever come over to the west. Confirms Russia's role in world wide Islamic terrorism. Click link to know more:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/a-brand-new-cold-war/#xlJa1vQ9XhuPd84d.99
More from Pacepa:
http://pamelageller.com/2007/08/how-the-kgb-cre.html/#sthash.NYLkqtDR.dpuf
From KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn and an anecdote from General Alexander Sakharovsky, same topic as the previous. See link:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/13069-russian-red-jihad
Finally, modern use of terrorism in Russia against Russian citizens. The apartment bombings mentioned in Nyquist's article:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/nov/22/finally-we-know-about-moscow-bombings/
“Also points out Russia’s continuing support of Communist dictatorships across the world.”
Do we qualify yet?
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Wait...
WHAT????
THIS SIMPLY CANNOT BE TRUE!!
Remember the movie, “Lord of War”?
Nicholas Cage told us that Viktor Bout and Leonid Minin were AMERICANS FROM TEXAS, working for the CIA!!
The KGB was never mentioned.
(Yet another example of how Americans have become dumbed-down. It just wasn’t “dramatic enough” to play them as Russians and the KGB.
I have actually had libs tell me that this movie is a TRUE STORY!!)
Governors Palin and Romney were right about Vlad,Obola was wrong.
Are you trying to recover your lost honor? You're a notorious bootlicking Putinista. Maybe your handler, the guy who runs the local bar in Sevestopol, has recommended you try to worm your way back in with Anti-Russkie sentiments.
Save your meaningless insults, creep.
Also see my other post and the links therein on Litvinenko and others on the KGB’s role with Islamic terrorism.
"They're here..."
Excellent read, thanks.
“even a relatively clueless businessmen instinctively fears expropriation”
Obama’s explanation of redistribution to joe the plumber did not disqualify him. His ‘you did not build that speech’ did not hurt his reelection.
Why? Did the business community not believe his threats or are they the supporters he rewards?
My German mother said no one believed Hitler was any danger because he had little support. She describes the process of ‘change’ as slowly at first then all at once.
Inasmuch as I have no trust in the Russian government (any more than our own) the existence of a premise based upon a projected motive does not constitute establishment of culpability. Mr. Nyquist knows better than this.
There is more to it than just motive. Read up on Ryazan incident.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_apartment_bombings#Ryazan_incident
I posted an article on that topic in one of my follow-up posts in this thread. It is the post where I quote Litvinenko, the very last link in it.
I have a lot on my plate. Unless a guy like Nyquist makes an explicit and clear case for a specific conclusion, this kind of information goes under "file it," as but a potential data point. It certainly isn't enough to form an opinion. Insofar as whether Russia has taken action to support Islamic terrorist actions specifically against American interests as opposed to (for example) making a mess of over a billion violent eschatological idiots on their borders, well, I don't seen enough evidence of that here to make a conclusion given the strong potential for agitprop from a "former" Russian agent. He might be, he might not.
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