Took us long enough to finally acknowledge it!
Posted on 03/09/2024 2:32:31 PM PST by CFW
I began studying in Leningrad, in the waning days of the Soviet Union, beginning in the fall of 1989. I was 19 years old, more interested in girls than politics, and thought of life behind the Iron Curtain as more novelty than terror. There was little visible suffering or hardship. * * * *
Not until much later, after I’d heard years of stories from Russians who’d lived through harder times, did I start to understand the brutal system whose end I got to witness. Parents of friends talked about going on vacations and trying to guess who was the snitch on the “Intourist” bus (the ratio was one party snoop for every four or five travelers), or making sure to be out of earshot of the old lady sitting na lavochke (on the bench outside the apartment building) before sharing a dangerous opinion, or the stress of sharing a kommunalka, or communal apartment, with a politically orthodox family. .....
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Meanwhile, when Dr. Bhattacharya conducted an experiment on his own initiative proving that the WHO had massively overstated the infection mortality rate of Covid-19, and later organized against lockdown policies he and many others felt were both ineffective and dangerous, the result was digital suppression — not because he was incorrect, but because his message was politically undesirable. Along with Bari Weiss, one of the first things I saw when Elon Musk opened Twitter’s internal files was a page showing Jay had been placed on a “trends blacklist.” This was just before we discovered that the platforms were in regular contact about content with agents of the American versions of the KGB or NKVD in the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, State, and Defense, among others.
(Excerpt) Read more at racket.news ...
This guy is a great author, thinker, investigator, researcher.
What a rare find to see an actually great journalist
EXCERPTS:
Soviet Policy:
(a) Everything must be done to advance relative strength of USSR as factor in international society. Conversely, no opportunity must be missed to reduce strength and influence, collectively as well as individually, of capitalist powers.
(b) Soviet efforts, and those of Russia's friends abroad, must be directed toward deepening and exploiting of differences and conflicts between capitalist powers. If these eventually deepen into an "imperialist" war, this war must be turned into revolutionary upheavals within the various capitalist countries.
(c) "Democratic-progressive" elements abroad are to be utilized to maximum to bring pressure to bear on capitalist governments along lines agreeable to Soviet interests.
(d) Relentless battle must be waged against socialist and social-democratic leaders abroad.
Soviet party line is not based on any objective analysis of situation beyond Russia's borders; that it has, indeed, little to do with conditions outside of Russia; that it arises mainly from basic inner-Russian necessities which existed before recent war and exist today.
At bottom of Kremlin's neurotic view of world affairs is traditional and instinctive Russian sense of insecurity. Originally, this was insecurity of a peaceful agricultural people trying to live on vast exposed plain in neighborhood of fierce nomadic peoples.
To this was added, as Russia came into contact with economically advanced West, fear of more competent, more powerful, more highly organized societies in that area. But this latter type of insecurity was one which afflicted rather Russian rulers than Russian people; for Russian rulers have invariably sensed that their rule was relatively archaic in form fragile and artificial in its psychological foundation, unable to stand comparison or contact with political systems of Western countries.
For this reason they have always feared foreign penetration, feared direct contact between Western world and their own, feared what would happen if Russians learned truth about world without or if foreigners learned truth about world within. And they have learned to seek security only in patient but deadly struggle for total destruction of rival power, never in compacts and compromises with it.
- From approx. pp. 3 - 4 of the telegram.
We, the former USA, are the bad guys.
What is amazing and great is he was an über lib lefty.
But he saw what is happening and was intellectually honest.
He is right in finding old terms from the Soviet and communists to be very applicable to what’s happening now.
It is amazing the number of people who previously were firmly on the left who have now abandoned the Democrat party and moved to the right. Of course, it can be reasonably argued they they didn’t move to the right, but instead the democrat party moved several steps to the left. Taibbi’s opinions are much as they ever were it’s just that the Republicans now more closely represent his opinions than those of the Democrat party.
Elon Musk used to be considered a Democrat. And, there are so many more. Bari Weiss’s “The Free Press” is an example. The writers there still have a lot of articles of liberals and support many opinions and policies of the left, but the GOP is closer to their political positions than the Democrat party of today. And if you read the comments at that site, there are hundreds of people who have abandoned the Democrat party.
Those numbers SHOULD show up at the results in elections this year, but the cheating is so embedded who knows if it will. The key will be when the formerly loyal precinct workers quit doing the fraud for the left during elections.
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Like Reagan said “I did not leave the Democrat party. The Democrat party left me”. I doubt he moved much to the right. It’s just that the left moved much farther away from the center, making many on the left appear farther to the right. Taibbi is one of the few who has principles and doesn’t waver from them for political expedience or profit. He calls the cards as they fall based on his beliefs and experience. He is a man anyone can respect even if you disagree because you can tell he doesn’t blow with the winds. He knows how investigative journalism should be and sticks to it. Thats deserving of respect.
And fwiw I am not a fan of these left/right labels. I am a fan of wrong/right labels. You need a self assured moral and ethical compass to navigate that terrain, and a vision for where right and wrong policies will lead.
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The globalist lose power with every bit of truth that is revealed about them.
Took us long enough to finally acknowledge it!
I believe that the people like Taibbi ar not in line with the republican party. They are more in line with the populist views.
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