Kremlin Poison

It appears that the Kremlin has attempted to assassinate Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko, whose warnings to the West have been repeatedly cited in this column.

A former lieutenant colonel of the KGB/FSB, Litvinenko wrote a book titled Blowing Up Russia: Terror From Within. During an interview with Rzeczpospolita in July 2005 he explained that al Qaeda’s number two man, Ayman al-Zawahiri was trained by the FSB (KGB) in Russia along with other al Qaeda leaders. According to Litvinenko, “[there is] only one organization which has made terrorism the main tool of solving political problems.” And that organization, he said, “is the Russian special services.” The KGB trained terrorists all over the world. “The specially trained and prepared agents of the KGB,” said Litvinenko, “have organized murders and explosions, including explosions on tankers, the hijacking of passenger jets, attacks on diplomats, as well as state and commercial organizations worldwide.” Litvinenko added: “The bloodiest terrorists of the world were or are agents of the KGB-FSB. They are well known [like] Carlos Ilyich Ramiros, nicknamed ‘the Jackal,’ the late Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein … [and others].” According to Litvinenko, “All of them were trained by the KGB, received money from there, weapons and explosives….”

It is being reported that Litvinenko was poisoned with thallium, described by the Telegraph (UK) as a colorless and odorless liquid “that is often used to kill rats.” The poisoning occurred in London while Litvinenko was gathering information on the assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Litvinenko has argued that Chechen terrorism is a KGB-inspired provocation used to legitimize Putin’s dictatorship, and that Russia is pretending to fight terrorism with one hand while guiding it with the other. A man brave enough to risk his life to warn others, to lay an accusation against the most dangerous criminals in the world, deserves to be taken seriously. But the fact that his message has been systematically ignored, that no newspaper or politician will discuss his testimony concerning Ayman al-Zawahiri, is a sociological artifact of great significance. The Kremlin’s grand deception strategy has been effective, and there is no danger that the West will figure it out, because the truth is economically inconvenient for politicians and businessmen alike. Things have advanced so far that the Kremlin sees no danger in murdering people outright, as in the days of Stalin. In this way a message is sent to all writers, and all those with bits and pieces of the great puzzle.

The Russian strategy should be obvious by now. We know that China and Iran are being armed with Russian weapons – including Russian nuclear technology. Such moves deserve an explanation, but nobody wants an honest discussion of the problem. Given the economic logic of U.S. statesmanship, a confrontation with Russia is to be avoided. The Left/Right political divide paralyzes any and all realistic analysis because one side of this political divide is incapable of acknowledging a Russian threat while the other has attached itself to claims of victory and the prospect of “open” markets in “former” communist lands. We know that Russia is working to form various alliances with countries like Brazil, India, Venezuela, etc. We know that Russia and China have formed an intimate partnership, that they have conducted joint military exercises, and that China has been cultivating Mexico as a strategic partner. The balance of power is shifting, perhaps decisively, and the results of that shift may soon become apparent to everyone. The Iranian nuclear crisis serves to dramatize this shift. Three years ago President Bush would have bombed Iran. Today he is timid, hesitant and beleaguered. Many of the president’s supporters have turned against him. Perhaps President Bush realizes that a preemptive attack on Iran will divide the United States politically, with further consequences to the Republican Party.

Looking back at the long row of fallen dominoes, from South Africa and the Congo to Venezuela and Germany, the fall of the Israeli domino stands in prospect. The Israelis believe the neutralization of Iran’s nuclear project is essential to Israel’s security. Israeli analysts are already warning that Iran could destroy Israel without launching a single nuclear weapon, because many Israelis will leave Israel if Iran becomes a nuclear power. The morale of the Jewish state would suffer a crippling blow. But the plight of Israel does not move the American public. Just as the American consumer abandoned Vietnam to the Communists, some believe that Israel will be abandoned to the Islamists. Many observers expect that the Americans will not remain loyal to their allies, choosing instead to “cut and run” when things become difficult. After all, it was the Americans who abandoned Southeast Asia. It was the Americans who pushed for the Communist takeover of Rhodesia, and the Communist-ANC takeover of South Africa; and who allowed the Communist victories in Angola and Congo. The African Communists have won the long war for the mineral rich sub-Saharan region. And the Americans don’t care in the least. In fact, we are about to watch the United States Congress cut the legs out from under the government of Colombia as it struggles to contain a growing Communist insurgency.

The suicide of the West is happening before our eyes. From the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya to the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, from the fall of South Africa to the electoral victory of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, the same old Communists continue to kill their enemies as they advance from victory to victory. The KGB rules Russia openly, flooding China with weapons, encouraging Iran’s nuclear ambitions, arming Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, subverting the Western alliance through economics, neutralizing Germany by way of German unification, undermining NATO as one Warsaw Pact country after another joins under false democratic colors. Do the Americans have eyes? Do they have sense?

Yesterday American strategy was based on a false victory. Today the logic of retreat takes hold as the party of retreat takes Congress. In terms of Iran’s WMDs, American politicians see no other choice than to sacrifice Israel to the “peace process.” It will prove to be a slow and grinding death, similar to that of white South Africa. The grim prospect is so real that former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already compared his country’s fate to that of Czechoslovakia (sold out to appease Hitler). The West will do nothing to punish Vladimir Putin for assassinating and intimidating journalists, for poisoning Alexander Litvinenko. The West will do nothing about the Iranian bomb. The Americans will eventually leave Iraq, and America’s cities will be attacked by nuclear weapons. In this sequence one failure leads to another. Weakness, lack of resolve, stupidity and incompetence add up to defeat.

From outward appearances it would seem that the old Soviet Union has returned. A thing crucified, dead and buried has been resurrected. Four weeks after Vladimir Putin’s re-election, a procession led by the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church arrived at the Church of Christ the Redeemer in Moscow. In keeping with ancient tradition the doors of the church were shut, symbolizing the sealed cave where Christ’s body was placed following crucifixion. “After midnight,” noted Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, “the Orthodox faithful taking part in the procession await the opening of the church doors. The patriarch stands on the steps at their head and is the first to enter the empty temple where the Resurrection of Christ has already occurred.” In due course the Patriarch offered up a prayer, the doors of the Church of Christ the Redeemer were opened and out stepped President Vladimir Putin. If any Christians were present for this ceremony they offered no protest to this blatant sacrilege. The woman who reported this event for the benefit of Western readers has since been assassinated. The KGB defector who was investigating the circumstances of her death has been poisoned (i.e., Litvinenko). The West thinks it an amusing spy story, something out of fiction. But the situation is hardly amusing. As Russian dissident Yuri Yarim-Agaev recently explained to Jamie Glazov of Frontpagemag.com, “That in foreign policy, the U.S. remains for them [Russia] enemy number one, and that they would support anyone who tries to undermine American power whether it be North Korea, Iran, you name it. That in domestic policy they consider their major enemies democracy, human rights, and the free market, and they will try to suppress them by all means, and the bring back under their control most parts of the former Soviet Union.”

Russia is a big player, despite what we’ve been told about “the fall of communism.” The Kremlin now acts boldly, in the open, so that every Russian understands. It is a case of terrorism. It is a case of instilling fear. Writers are being killed, and now intelligence defectors have been targeted. Decisive cards are being played, and the international press, the public and many politicians are clueless.

Don't stand for the Kremlin lies - They still deny the Ukrainian Holocaust despite the 20 year old US Congressional Report - over 800 pages of proof.

http://genocidecurriculum.org/curriculum-resources/general-archive/united-states-congressional-commission-on-the-ukrainian-famine/1report-to-congress/cover-page-3/

Lets start prosecuting some of these scum.

" Litvinenko has argued that Chechen terrorism is a KGB-inspired provocation used to legitimize Putin’s dictatorship, and that Russia is pretending to fight terrorism with one hand while guiding it with the other."

Makes perfect sense to me. I never fell for the bs that Communism fell in Russia. Their grasp on their former satellite countries was torn away because the Pope emboldened various Catholic 'satellite' nations to stand up and declare their independence, but the spirit and power of Communism never abated inside Russia. And no matter how many time Bush has 'looked into Putin's soul' and been duped by this KGB thug, there are many of us who have been just shaking our heads at the political fantasy that Russia has been 'converted' to democracy and have become our friend and ally.

When you look at how hard the U.S. had worked over the decades to bring down the Soviet Union, and then realize that Putin was a high ranking official in that old Communist guard, it isn't too difficult to imagine that Russia is now, and has been, actively engaged in bringing down the United States of America, and has been using "terrorism" as one of their tools. We have trained, armed and supplied their enemies in the past, and the only absurdity IMHO would be the naive position that Russia isn't doing the same thing to us right now.

Don't stand for the Kremlin lies - They still deny the Ukrainian Holocaust despite the 20 year old US Congressional Report - over 800 pages of proof. ==

I thought that "holocaust" happened lot later in 1939-45. It is jewish word. It means that people was exterminated by gas in concentration camps. You state that ukranians was exterminated by gas in concetrations camps before jews?

Those "800 pages of proof" prove that?

I have not been following this story closely and I've never read Nyquest before. I followed some of the links in his article and on his site and found this (written back in October).

In this essay he talks about the political killing of an author and names Alexander Litvinenko as another similar author. He doesn't come out and predict AL's assasination, but considering what he was poisened with, I am now very intrigued:

The Assassination of Anna Politkovskaya

http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2006/1020.html

The Assassination of Anna Politkovskaya

KGB-directed false flag terrorism in Chechnya has justified the re-establishment of dictatorship in Russia (see the work of former KGB/FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, author of Blowing Up Russia)....

...The death of Politkovskaya is openly acknowledged in Russia as a political assassination. As such, it sends a chill through those who know the truth. Who will dare to warn the West in yet another book? Who would give their life in an appeal to the apathetic sneers of the indifferent?

"I thought that "holocaust" happened lot later in 1939-45. It is jewish word. It means that people was exterminated by gas in concentration camps."

Sorry BUT I cannot let this stand. HOLOCAUST is NOT a Jewish word. The "Holocaust" as capitalized does refer to the extermination of 6,000,000+ Jews as an organized policy by Nazi Germany before and during WWII.

Per Merriam-Webster...

Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin holocaustum, from Greek holokauston, from neuter of holokaustos burnt whole, from hol- + kaustos burnt, from kaiein to burn -- more at CAUSTIC

1 : a sacrifice consumed by fire

2 : a thorough destruction involving extensive loss of life especially through fire ("a nuclear holocaust")

3 a often capitalized : the mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II -- usually used with the b : a mass slaughter of people; especially : GENOCIDE

It is important that we know what we are talking about... INHO

On the Ukranian business. It was indeed a holocaust. While millions starved to death, grain was being exported by the Soviet Union. As I recall, some 4/5 of the population was disposessed of their land to create the "collectives" by Stalin's remaking of the country. And I also seem to recall that during one of the yearly meetings of the Soviet (or whatever it is called), virtually all those in attendence were later murdered by Stalin's hand and of course no one could directly trace those back to Stalin. He just used up his KGB(NKVD) bosses and then proceeded to murder them when they lost their usefulness. He intended to do this to Beria as well but Stalin inconveniently died before he could carry out this final act. Putin is just using Stalin's playbook. We've seen this act before. It is deja vu all over again.

"neutralizing Germany by way of German unification, undermining NATO as one Warsaw Pact country after another joins under false democratic colors."

Putin is indeed a murdering thug, but NyQuist takes the whole thing to the new heights of paranoia. Quotes like this, wonder how they make pro-American Polish freepers here feel for instance? Its ridiculous to suggest that Eastern Europe or the Baltics are somehow false-flag "democratic". NyQuist always bends the stick of reason until it breaks.

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