This piece does a rigorous job of demolishing ‘Saker’:
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Saker is clearly up the creek with his hysterical response to the covid scam. bMoA too. Should we be surprised? It’s happened to the unlikeliest people. Irrational terror-response will do that to those who happen to be suggestible enough; it has nothing to do with intelligence or integrity; it just floors you.
Nevertheless, that one glaring feck-up doesn’t condemn to be viciously, adhominously trashed everything that Andrei or Bernhard do and stand for. Most of their output doesn’t suffer from the glaring error they made over the scamdemic. Dmitry O is getting the same vicious adhominous attack too, without even falling for the covid scam. And he too can’t just be comprehensively trashed because of his particular take on the situation in his home country. Even if he has it wrong about covid-oppression in Russia, that in no way disables the bulk of his insights. Treat case by case.
And can I underline again: we should expect this same confusion to be rampant in Russia: some buying into the con and attempting to enforce it - as the vids demonstrate, perhaps - others not so much. Confusion and loggerheads everywhere. I even suspect that there’s a similar, but very muted faction war in the CCP.
I guess I’m suggesting that we shouldn’t be surprised if the covid terror-porn scam has had this weird effect, that tips people into confused internecine quarrelling.
And we’re to throw out all the good stuff that we find in places like Saker, MoA, Orlov, Russia because they too are in the grip of the confusion? I don’t think so. Judge each matter on its merits, and on the understanding that all humans feck up occasionally. Odd feck ups are to be expected, and allowed for. My previous conclusions still stands, I think: everywhere is in the grip of the covid scam confusion; and no-one at all is fully in charge, anywhere.
The criticism is quite simple. These ‘intellectuals’ have all failed miserably by their own standards.
They have rightly gained people’s attention and admiration for the methods and integrity of rigorous analysis that they have applied in the past.
They have chosen not to apply their own standards when considering covid. There is no excuse for that.
It may be that you have not had time to properly consider any issue, e.g. Ukraine, Syria, covid, so that any comment you make is likely to be misconceived.
In that case, then, the decent thing to do is keep your f*cking mouth shut. The last thing you should do (as they have all done) is pronounce your definitive judgements, e.g. ‘unjabbed deserve their lives to be made more difficult.’
That may be the decent honourable choice that John Pilger, for example, has made. I don’t think Pilger has said anything about covid. Although, by now, even that (saying nothing) is morally deficient - when your journalism is all about human rights and the covid crime is the biggest ever crime against humanity.
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Once you’re on the hook with a readership, R, you can’t just keep your effing mouth shut: they clamour for your comments. That’s happened to all the names we’re discussing. Chomsky, Raevski, Bernhard and others fecked up spectacularly; Orlov? Don’t see that. Pilger - and btw JMGreer mostly - have said little, because, as John Michael says, clarity isn’t available yet. So: good, wise silence.
Certainly, though it’s coming pretty clear now, to the point that we can’t honestly keep silent, that a great crime is in progress, its perpetrators have already committed a palpable multiple-disaster crime against humanity, and are attempting worse yet. Evidence-wise, it’s time to start proclaiming that emerging reality.
I’m firmly with @rippon on this one. The Anti Empire piece is foul-mouthed ad hominem but strikes the bull’s-eye dead centre. Being sucked into the madness is no excuse, and doing so from the comfort of your Safe European (or North American) Home is doubly unacceptable.
None of this invalidates the good stuff on the site, a recent example being the ongoing series on menticide by Thorsten J. Pattberg e.g.
Receipts have been kept.
Raevski? Who?
“Raevski who?” - ? Didn’t you know that that’s Saker, K?
We’ll just have to trust our separate instincts about this, K, and agree to differ. In a choice between Waggaman, and Orlov and Andrei - warts and all - I’d trust them over him any time.
I wonder if Riley is having a projection fit, do you think? A rather profitable one, perhaps…? Just a thought. As a matter of fact, I have no utterly conclusive evidence about any of them. Do we ever? Ultimately, I fly on instinct. I think we all do, but it’s always tempting to think we have conclusive intellectual proofs, though we rarely do, if ever.
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I did like this one from earlier this week…
Please note that there was no violence here.
Members of the public just refused to comply.
It’s really very easy.
How do you know? The video stopped before we could see how things further panned out. Violence-wise, seemed people were on the verge of jostling against each other.
Also, looked like the c*nt cop was calling for more troops. What would happen then? Would all the civilian men allow themselves to be man-handled without any physical resistance, out of some faith in the Gandhian philosophy?
No I have never been sufficiently interested in Saker to find out their name. To clarify: I offer the Riley links not because I think they are qualitatively “better” or more trustworthy, but to suggest there is an alternative to Punch And Judy theatrics with war drum accompaniment.
Deep rooted scepticism would be my default setting also. It helps one to appreciate the wonders of life. ““Beliefs””? Not so much.
In every cry of every Man,
In every Infants cry of fear,
In every voice: in every ban,
The mind-forg’d manacles I hear
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