WESTERN MASS MEDIA REPORTING

I would like to link to three videos of an event which took place in Lugansk on the second of June 2014 and discuss what happened on that day, how it was reported or not reported and what this means for western mainstream reporting of events within western regime change targets.

WARNING:

The amateur video, the second below is shocking and extremely hard to watch in full... however, even more shocking was the lack of coverage in the West that followed it.

It is my firm conviction that we will see increasingly more of this approach where only events which support the framing of regime change targets as evil, sub-human and in need of being eliminated while no reference is made to crimes against humanity by western elites or their allies.

In my example event below eight people died, five women and three men. They were civilians who happened to be in the street in front of an administrative building when the attack took place.

The event took place in the town of Lugansk in eastern Ukraine on June the second 2014.

I searched globally the day after the event for reports. In the end I found only three. One was a tiny mention in a French publication that was very brief. The second was on the BBC’s News Online where all that was said was that there had been a “blast” within an article about other events in Ukraine that day. The third was the best report of the three and came from CNN who happened to have a reporter nearby who sent back an on-the-ground, albeit a heavily-edited, sanitized video of the loss of life and devastation caused.

Please read the information below before watching the three videos below which will reveal the true state of affairs regarding what happened in Lugansk that day and how almost non-existent and highly partial the reporting of what occurred.

The responses below give an indication of what we can expect from western news agencies of the mainstream when they are embedded with allies of western states.

These were the responses that were fed to western foreign correspondents:

A government source in Kiev initially told enquirers that an air conditioning unit had exploded.

Later they said that the rebels had been experimenting with some new type of missile and it was this that caused what happened.

Finally, after the CNN report they admitted that their jet(s) had hit the administrative building and killed the five women and three men who had been in the street outside. I believe they eventually said they were rather proud of the attack, saying that more aircraft took part in the attack than had been reported.

No additional reports appeared anywhere across western mainstream media after those initial three.

First the CNN report which contains no gory images of any kind but which refutes the stories emerging from Kiev:

Next is is an amateur video which remains on YouTube unsanitized. I should warn you it spares no feelings and is not for the squeamish. One of the victims of the attack Ms Kukuruza was still alive and able to communicate to the man taking the video even though her legs were shattered. She died soon after.

There was confirmation by the OSCE that the attack was from the air:

 Some final thoughts:

This event took place approximately two weeks before the first presidential election in Ukraine after the Maidan events caused the previous, democratically elected president to flee. I suspect this, among other reasons, was the primary cause for the almost complete lack of reporting on this event apart from those mentioned above.

The BBC eventually emailed me to say they would no longer accept my complaints through their online complaints process as I had filed too many.

This is how it has been for some time now regarding western mainstream media whether corporate or state owned. And this is the way it will be from now on as far as I can see. There are stipulations against objective reporting in the mainstream and have been there especially since 9/11 and I see no sign that they will ever be revoked.

False flag events can be expected such as those seen in recent years in Syria and debunked by independent journalists such as Aaron Mate.

This is why it is so vital that we be able to access independent journalists worthy of the name who are not bought and paid for by corporate mainstream media titles and channels, those such as Jimmy Dore, Kim Iversen, Chris Hedges, John Pilger, George Galloway and others. They are our lifeline to objective facts, access to nuanced reality, and reaching some approximation to truth in detailed form. Without such people who have maintained their integrity despite every sanction against them and effort to silence them we would be virtually blind.

If they are disappeared from our screens and newsprint sources then we will be left totally submerged within the propaganda soup of western mass media reporting lie after lie after lie.

THE PERMANENT STATE OF THE USA

The permanent state of the USA constitutes all those who pass on from one administration to another all the while maintaining the same group-thought outlook regarding the exceptional nature of the USA.

There are of course a great many individuals involved and they cover many disciplines from the military field to that of intelligence to the purely administrative, to many serried ranks of analyst wonks and CIA staffers, many think-tank influencers of policy, the donors who expect to be kept informed and to have some input regarding policy and various other powerful elites from the media sphere.

They work in coordination with whatever politicians arrive as the next incumbents of the White House and its attendant corridors of power. They all have the same exceptionalist mentality where all not within their circle of allies are regarded as adversaries if not outright enemies.

These elites are all bound within the same belief bubble that no contrary data permeates. The only data to freely enter is that which supports their fixed concepts which they regularly reinforce with each other. All involved know that to voice any contrary view will be duly noted and that although they may never be officially notified of it, it will count against them and be seen as an indicator that they are suspect and worth monitoring as a potential agent of an adversarial power.

Within the permanent state there can only be agreement at almost every level. If you have seen Oliver Stone’s wonderful film, 'JFK’ about The Cuban Missile Crisis and the response by the two Kennedy brothers to it along with the Joint Chiefs of Staff you will know how this works at the everyday level. The general thrust of advice was to attack then invade Cuba potentially sparking a world war between the USA and the then Soviet Union. A single advisor spoke up in opposition to this policy offering a peaceful alternative. He prefaces his suggestion with a remark to the effect of, “I know I am ending my career by saying so, but this is my suggestion how we might best resolve this peacefully...”

I am sure you can intuit how even this situation of virtual gags on everyone offering a non-jingoistic, peace-preserving idea became even more of an issue after 9/11. Only warriors need apply at that point. And any suggestion that any moral, ethical or judicial barriers of any kind should be set that hindered U.S. freedom of action in any way in response to 9/11 were automatically a signal for an exit of whoever even broached the subject. There were to be no restrictions of ANY kind in the defense of America. No matter the consequences for others of of those actions wherever those effects were felt at home or abroad. The imperative was to do EVERYTHING and without limits of any kind that hit targets hard. Anyone not on board with that was out.

The problem with this gag of silence on anyone not on board and with of course the weeding out of all not totally and enthusiastically on board along with the way the post-9/11 protocols were set up to be incontrovertible and permanent until global control was asserted... is that this whole milieu and ethos is still with us today 19 years later.

The permanent state of the USA continued right through the Trump administration also. This can be seen in the type of people Trump put in positions of most power. People like Bolton, Pompeo, Haley and Haspel. Neocons to the core. Exceptionalists without exception. The most warmongeringly aggressive dogmatists to be found.

Trump was clever in that he echoed what the American public by majority wanted. They were and still are sick of war. America has been at war for decade after decade and the vast majority of Americans have consequently suffered while the elites who profit from war and its related industries did extremely well. While the 1% prospered and Washington’s elites and wonks did also the infrastructure of the USA was steadily crumbling, prices were rising while wages remained virtually static. The famous ‘American Dream’ became steadily less attainable. Both parents now had to work just to keep standing still, surviving from pay check to pay check forever unable to move upwards to the beautiful white picket-fenced home the American Dream promised. They were hit by bankruptcies and foreclosures through job loss and destitution due to ill-health and the unaffordable cost of health care. They saw conditions worsening around them with drug crime, murders and other crimes soaring, suicides rising, opioid deaths also and less and less options to escape the increasing hell they lived within. In recent times a militarized police force arrived on the streets and the killings of people of color by them rose while incarceration of those same people of color rose exponentially.

Two of the leading causes of this final circumstance are now president and vice-president. Biden, the author of the 1994 Crime Bill which resulted in a massive increase in the jailing of primarily men of color. As a self-proclaimed ‘Top Cop’ Kamala Harris worked hard to keep a clearly innocent man in jail and then on multiple occasions worked to reverse decisions that would have freed him as it was completely obvious that he was innocent. She then worked hard and succeeded in denying him any compensation for all the years he had been unjustly imprisoned. Industrialists in the state where Harris presided over the police department were using the cheap labor provided by the prison population. Harris was loath to release anyone due to a dedication to making the prisons under jurisdiction pay.

This is how the permanent state works. It does not work for the 99%. It works for the 1%. Always. No matter how it may protest about human rights of those in other nations or how they wish to bring everyone the benefits of freedom and democracy it is always a crock of shit, a devious ploy to simply increase the dominating effect of elite political power and the wealth of their elite donors. They care nothing for the people involved and have proven this by slaughtering hundreds of thousands in regime change wars of choice in recent years leaving the nations targeted devastated and impoverished.

These permanent and semi-permanent elites perform various tasks leading to the repeating final outcome of their group-thought mania and lies, increased division in our world, ever more efforts to create discord, warmongering designed to destabilize, undermine and fracture nations always bringing chaos in their wake using all the ultra-violent responses the CIA and U.S. military are capable of.

When convenient for political reasons to differentiate between particular politicians and a hidden ‘deep state’ this is only cosmetic at its heart. The deeper truth is that politicians of every persuasion know and follow what is best for them. idealist politicians are as rare as hen’s teeth. No one can navigate the channel to the White House without negotiating with those who hold the reigns of power and agreeing to their strictures regarding the division of those powers and the limits on individual power that are set.
Trump had choices he could have made that matched his rhetoric of seeking harmony with other nations, choices that reflected his statement that lessons had been learned from previous regime change wars and that this policy would end. But he chose rabid warmongers like Bolton and Pompeo, two men utterly opposed to all of these concepts that most Americans hungered for. That he chose such neocons tells you all you need to know about Trump in relation to the permanent state.

Trump saw where his best advantage lay of maintaining personal power and he was merely the latest to join the endlessly divisive, ultra-violent and endlessly warmongering permanent state.

Just as his rival, Biden and his neocon crew are likewise deep within that same insane state of mind that constitutes the greatest threat to stability and world peace, the permanent state of the USA.

 

BIDEN, BLINKEN AND WAR

Anthony Blinken, Joe Biden’s Secretary of State has signaled that China and Venezuela remain in the firing line for regime change. Biden has himself stated that Russia remains a target. These two warmongers are set to continue the regime change policy of the USA that has so far caused the deaths of upward of half a million deaths in the last several decades.

War is what we can all expect from these two and the rest of Joe Biden’s cabinet of neocons.

There will be no true diplomacy, dialogue or detente. There is only the fixed intent to weaken, destabilize or, if possible, destroy all rivals... what they will call adversaries or enemies.

They will try to dupe us all into believing that the western world, its democracy and values are all in mortal danger from people we will be told are sub-human and evil, deserving everything that’s coming to them.

Biden and his mobsters will use every lie and dirty trick in the CIA’s manual of evil plus all other similar manuals across the western world within its noxious orbit to brainwash us with a perpetual diet of propaganda. You are going to hear a single version of reality cooked from carefully constructed bullshit stories some of which will emanate from false flag events. Every mass media title and television channel across the western world is going to mirror their narratives until every gullible brain is infested with an incessant stream of conditioning.

The White Helmets and their particular form of evil but believable, bullshit will be one of the standard formats they will play to. You can expect “atrocities”, “chemical weapon attacks”, human rights “abuses” and “genocide”. You can expect narratives including every buzz word available to the lie factory known as the CIA apart from those already stated. “Torture”, “Murder”, “Corruption”, “Criminality”, “Electoral Fraud”, “Money Laundering”, “Graft”, “Kidnap”, “Extortion”, etc. Anything that can be understood as being negative in any form whatsoever will be disseminated into each western population like an injection of poison into a living organism that heads straight for the brain and destroys its ability to engage in rational thought.

Emotions will be played with mercilessly. Children will be a prime button as they were in Syria by the White Helmets. Hospitals and schools also. Anything that helps demonize the “enemy” will be used to render them sub-human to western onlookers who will have their lips curled for them in the desired response. The subsequent nodding dogs within western public opinion will then acquiesce to the preplanned violent acts that needed this insurance response before they could be “safely" initiated. The subsequent information will be manipulated to the nth degree via the same mass media that assisted in the green-lighting of the entire operation.

Biden and Blinken will stand proud, pretending to be innocents defending every human right you could name. Not a chink of revealing light will sully their obnoxious facade. The entire elite circus of CNN, BBC, MSNBC and all the others will applaud and provide perfect cover for these two murderous thugs, carefully avoiding any sight of the blood dripping from their well-cleaned hands.

This is just the next in a multi-part series interrupted temporarily by a four year detour into death by other means, sanctions instead of missile strikes. Now normal service will be resumed.

Welcome to the continuing saga of America’s quest for full spectrum dominance courtesy of Biden, Blinken and war.

THE TRUST DEFICIT

At the end of World War II the western powers had established a certain reputation for unity and dependability. Along with the forces of the Soviet Union Hitler’s Nazis had been defeated.
The level of trust the world’s population had for the forces for good was the highest it would ever be.

Trust levels remained high for a year or two before the erosion of that trust began.

With the start of the Cold War and the formation of the CIA from the Office of Strategic Services in the USA a coordinated propaganda campaign began, incorporating Britain’s MI6 and the intelligence agencies of other allied western nations.

No matter how subtle a propaganda campaign is the bald fact of the matter is that it incorporates lies disseminated into the life blood of the societies into which it flows.

The infusion of fake news and skewed reporting into the public sphere by the CIA was exposed by several journalists before an investigation was carried out by a committee led by Idaho Senator Frank Church which fully exposed the procedures, intent and mind set behind the CIA’s 'Operation Mockingbird’ to manipulate the news stream.

‘In the early years of the Cold War, efforts were made by the United States Government to use mass media to influence public opinion internationally. Published in 1976, the (Church) Committee's report confirmed that the CIA had cultivated relationships with private institutions, including the press. Without identifying individuals by name, the Church Committee stated that it found fifty journalists who had official, but secret, relationships with the CIA. In a 1977 Rolling Stone magazine article, "The CIA and the Media," reporter Carl Bernstein expanded upon the Church Committee's report and said that around 400 press members were considered assets by the CIA.’ (Wikipedia)

In general western populations were so infused with misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and continually skewed, one-sided reporting on the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies that they fell almost entirely under its spell. That is not to say there were not deep flaws within their systems of government or that there were not policies designed to stabilize the power that resulted in oppression but that is a discussion for another time. The main point is that news, such as it was, became significantly degraded by outside influences at this time.

As the above was occurring Senator Joe McCarthy began his witch hunt against everyone that could remotely be connected with a belief in or support for communism. This was preceded by President Harry S. Truman signing an executive order in 1947 to screen federal employees for association with organizations deemed "totalitarian, fascist, communist, or subversive".  There were two bouts of ‘The Red Scare’ at this time and McCarthy took full advantage to  make accusations of subversion or treason against those brought before his committee without any recourse to evidence, only hearsay. Many careers were ruined and lives devastated in the process.

With the onset of the Korean War and later the war against North Vietnam Cold War rhetoric, propaganda, misinformation, disinformation and the general permeating of western populations with generally state-framed geopolitical “news” continued. Toward the end of the Vietnam War however real news began to leak out and this transformed the previously docile U.S. public to an entirely different frame of mind, one increasingly opposed to the war. This was arguably the time when public trust in news broadcasting institutions faltered most seriously and broadly.

Coming closer to present time, the most significant breakdown in trust between western populations and their governments and media occurred when a plethora of claims concerning Iraq and weapons of mass destruction proved to be false. The response to 9/11 by both western states and their mainstream media news outlets was to maintain a strict line whereby no doubts were expressed regarding the claims that underpinned the regime change policy that had been set and agreed upon after 9/11. More than ever before state and mass media were in lockstep. This ultimately brought both into a high degree of disrepute.

However, some memories are conveniently short in this respect.

Several more regime change operations were conducted and in general received support from the western general public. A new aspect had been found to generate support and consent, the use of humanitarian concern. This entailed the pressing of emotional buttons across both political and media elites. In the cases of both Libya and Syria this received maximum coverage and in general proved a successful tactic to manipulate public opinion.

During this period from the first attack on Iraq to the later Afghanistan to Syria campaigns a new discipline was forced on observers, they were embedded with the U.S. military and fed the information for publishing in nightly briefings. Very few actual journalists reported on any of the wars of choice of the USA and its allies from the first Iraq campaign onward. These included luminaries Robert Fisk, Robert Parry, Sy Hersh, Chris Hedges and John Pilger who gave independent commentary that largely contradicted the so-called news eminating from state or corporate “journalists”.

These few true journalists inspired others who were determined to maintain an independent and objective stance.

In recent times those funded by a crowd-funded or other process independent of corporate money have risen to provide the objective insight and views that those skeptical of mainstream news have always sought out. Those such as Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton, Aaron Mate and others within the YouTube/RT nexus of Jimmy Dore, Kim Iversen, Josh Rogan and many others who have nought been bought by those who look to their elite peers, advertisers, donors, politicians or the CIA for their talking points and state-compatible viewpoints.

In the most recent times we have seen the most outrageous liar assume the presidency of the USA whose every pronouncement almost was an obvious lie. Within this overall description of a sociopath’s mentality he did pick on one target that resonated above all others, that mainstream media was corrupted to an extent that it had become an enemy of the people. This struck a chord with many, even those who despised everything else about Trump and his divisive and destructive policies. The deceiving edifice of corporate and state “news” entities was known in widespread, almost global uniformity to be as untrustworthy as it could possibly be in political and geopolitical terms.  

In this relatively short period in geopolitical terms since the end of World War II we can see how trust has decayed to an enormous extent and subsequent to this many are now wholly skeptical of establishment narratives to the point that that even instructions given during a pandemic are greeted by massive mistrust.

All this is bad enough. But the consequences for the future are even more dire. The current pandemic is proving more virulent and long-lasting than presumed by the majority of laymen and women, politicians and experts alike. It appears to be here to stay in some form or another. In addition we have the imminent prospect of climate change catastrophes. Without unity built on trust we will render ourselves incredibly vulnerable just when we desperately need to be strong and united.

We stand here at a moment when the threat of catastrophe is all around us. We have been mortally weakened by the irresponsible acts and policies of western elites in particular.

If we are to survive trust must be rebuilt. Somehow we must come together in recognition that no fantasies cooked up to serve political or geopolitical purposes will save us now. e need to stand together somehow, not making plans to damage so-called enemies but making plans to build desperately needed bridges between us.

All to undo if we can, the trust deficit that is hollowing out every hope we have at this point.

THE INFORMATION LOCKDOWN

“Did you hear the latest?”

“No, what?”

“They took out Kim Iversen now. She’s gone too.”

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After the double dramas involving Russia and China that occurred in quick succession in the Spring of 2022 the information lockdown began in earnest.

One of the first to go was Jimmy Dore.

It was clearly a warning to everyone else dealing in the free expression of opinions that things had changed so significantly that such activity helped our enemies and could no longer be tolerated.

There had been rumblings in the house and senate for months following the election of Joe Biden as president voicing concern about those spreading misinformation. Misinformation was increasingly defined as anything that did not conform to the official narrative on certain defined issues.

It had begun earlier as a social media owner initiative. In mid-2020 they had begun to tune out voices that in any way contradicted the official narrative on the response to Covid-19. Platforms we de-monitized and many of the less popular platforms were de-platformed entirely, their voices effectively silenced across Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

As time went on these three major platforms could quite appropriately have been given the communal name of OurTribe. If you did not belong to their tribe you were first effectively ostracized and then exiled.

But even in 2022 there still remained a number of prominent free voices, that of Jimmy Dore included.

Then The Trump Party began to attract major followers and many of those began using massive financial backing to create channels that attracted millions. The diversity of viewpoints started to resemble a veritable Tower of Babel and much of it rang to the sound of vitriol against the Biden-Harris administration.

By the end of 2022 the draconian hammer of OurTribe was coming down multiple times daily.

Still they refrained from pulling the rug out from under the longest-lived and most popular people still surviving across their three networks, Jimmy Dore and Kim Iversen among them.

It seems to have been the incidents in the South China Seas and Moscow that put them over the edge.

Jimmy Dore was cancelled. The uproar on Twitter was enormous and didn’t seem destined ever to end despite cleverly worded statements by Jack backed up by several prominent figures in the house and senate. Demonstrations of support for Jimmy hit the streets and a new movement arose, ‘Save Our Voices’. Kim Iversen spoke eloquently and angrily in several editions of her show daily. Kim had been warning about the trend she had clearly seen from the very first days of the Biden presidency and her back catalog of shows was in high demand. Kim left YouTube after receiving final warnings from YouTube management that her shows contravened their standards and if she continued there would be consequences.

Kim’s final show on YouTube was a straight fifteen minute diatribe directed full blast at YouTube management specifically and the dictatorial cabal that had criminally decided they would be the arbiters of what was allowed in terms of free speech and what was not. Her parting shot received a record fifteen million views. From the final moments of her last show Kim was available only on Rokfin, through her podcasts and privately through her email service.

Things proceeded to worsen. The president responded to the continuing chaos on the streets, much but by no means all, helped along, promoted and fomented by the most fervent members of The Trump Party, through a broadcast on the subject to the nation. He spoke of the need for national unity in a time of crisis. He evoked the spirit shown by the American people during the Second World War when everyone pulled together for the good of the nation. He alluded to the succor America’s enemies received whenever critics attacked his democratically elected presidency and administration and how there was no certainty America could win out and did they really want to be ruled by Russians or Chinese. He made the case for a temporary period of silence where the inalienable rights of dissent, protest and freedom of speech be suspended for the national good.

As the broadcast neared its end he hesitated, looked directly into the camera lens in silence for a few moments then delivered the statement that was to make headlines across the USA that evening and the following day.

“I am announcing with immediate effect that due to the urgent need for absolute unity in this our hour of greatest national threat and where we must be at our absolute strongest to fight against the powerful enemies that threaten us, certain emergency measure MUST be taken.

There will therefore be a moratorium on the right to protest, to criticize national policy, to contradict any aspect of policy by government, military and all those who assist in the project to save America from harm.

This measure is taken with a heavy heart, it is not taken at all lightly and will, as I say, be a purely temporary circumstance lasting no more than six months in the first instance. At the end of this period the situation will be looked at once more comparing the international situation and its compatibility with the norms of America as guaranteed by the first amendment.

I am fully aware of the gravity of what this signifies in respect of the first amendment and I assure you we would not be taking this step unless it was totally necessary for the sake of our nation.

God Bless America.”

Of course most of us knew the eruption of protest that would ensue and knew also that the attendance would be huge and composed of individuals from every strata of society.

What we did not know, indeed could not bring ourselves to contemplate, was the extent, violence and methods which were used to crush the protests.

Twenty nine people lost their lives on the first night alone. However, the resulting even larger protests in response saw no backing down from the White House. CNN and mainstream media as a whole were put in a quandary. They had fulsomely welcomed this administration after the Trump heretic was finally removed from power. They had invested heavily in reporting any successes they could and gushed continually in praise of every one they found or could conjure into existence. But how to deal with this?

The boardroom and editorial suite meetings were fractious affairs where all gave vent to their feelings and inevitably the requirements of their owners and advertisers. Ultimately they came down in favor of constructing a narrative which favored both corporate and political imperatives over those of freedom of speech. This didn’t come easy and some few resigned unable to stomach this decision... but ultimately such men and women of integrity came to a very few indeed.

And so the corporate mass media of America fell into line behind the president, the administration, the military and inevitably they feel in line also behind the entire U.S. military industrial complex.

The final indignity for the 99% had arrived. And the 1% remained entirely unaffected, in fact their fortunes were much enhanced. All elites except for those working for entities such as The New York Times whose editorial task became much more laborious as they sought to eliminate anything looking like a criticism of any government policy and had to search around for other acceptable content to fill the gap. CNN, MSNBC and their fellow channels of a liberal mentality changed little. Fox News however went through a virtual revolution... finally resolved through the use of heavily coded references such as those which had been used by various outlets in the Soviet Union at the height of Cold War censorship.

Wall Street soared and soared and soared. Especially Raytheon, Boeing and every corporate entity even peripherally associated with the M.I.C.

In those first few days Twitter follower counts began dropping like a stone as a whole new batch of contractors were hired to pore through every tweet posted in the last twelve months with instructions to “execute” anyone who had delivered an unacceptable opinion during this time period. This exceeded the policy Biden had laid out in his broadcast but OurTribe owners were taking no chances and were thinking ahead anticipating what may be still to come.

Then many Twitterati who had built sizeable followings through criticisms of establishment narratives and figures began to disappear without a trace joining Jimmy Dore on the streets rather than on personal computer and cell phone screens. Of course they did not remain long on those streets. All their faces were known, their personal details long-logged and held ready for the day. That day came very quickly after their being excised from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and elsewhere. New jails were required very soon after the ‘Clean Up’ began, as it was called by those to whom critical free speech had been branded ‘Dirt’.

So it was that the final sweep included Kim who had been railing longest and warning loudest about what was now a living nightmare. She was shut down.

But Kim saw what had happened to her colleagues and knew she was needed elsewhere than on the streets if she was to stay free and begin the fightback to regain what was lost, the right to live free and speak free.

The fightback would go underground and though they knew Kim’s views well they also knew she had become the main figurehead as her prediction of this very situation had born out precisely as she had said. Millions now looked to her and they could not touch her or risk a conflagration which they were simply not geared up to handle. It had been bloody so far... but adding this new situation could potentially be much worse. Kim was therefore immune but closely monitored.

No monitoring system is foolproof however. No such system can cover every single base.

Free speech went underground.

The ‘New Samizdat’ revolution began. 'The Weekly Samizdat’ swept the nation moving from hand to hand, each edition read hundreds, perhaps thousands of times till its surface was tinted, tainted, black, creased, crumpled, tattered and torn but crucially still legible.

What would be a new America began in those moments.

And with it the one all owed for the possibility of future real freedom to come... the heroine of Free Speech, Kim Iversen.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Biden just started escalating in Syria again. His people are talking tough on Russia. Why?

The reason is simple.

The goals agreed immediately after 9/11 are inviolate, non-negotiable, set in stone and never to be rescinded. They require full compliance. In totality. The goal demands a 100% success rate. 99.99% will not be considered good enough.

You might think 99.99% would satisfy most requirements, wouldn’t you? Not this time.

That 0.01% represents risk. Risk to the United States, something completely intolerable on the day after 9/11 and equally intolerable now. That 0.01% represents threat. The threat of a repeat event, whether to the same extent or smaller is not the point, as long as that threat, no matter how small exists the goal has not been achieved therefore risk... and threat exist.

The goal is 'FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE’, not ‘99.99% DOMINANCE’, total, 100%, undoubted certainty that all bases are covered, consistently monitored, fully predicted, closely manipulated, controlled and 100% known, in advance and in real time... GLOBALLY.

Every individual that represents any negative view of the USA, any individual that displays even a potential lack of compliance with U.S. interests, each leader not within the U.S. network of close allies, every nation outwith the NSA’s scope of operations and each location hidden from satellite view, every diplomat evincing anything other than straight down the line alliance with U.S. goals, each military unit unavailable to U.S. high command... in short everyone, anything and anyplace not working to U.S. command is a target for replacement.

These are the sub-goals for completion that as a whole completely delivered to the very last entity deliver ‘FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE’ for the USA and there can be no reduction in effort at any time to the effort to deliver at the earliest possible date.

No ethical, moral or humane law or stricture can ever limit the primary goal and the sub-goals required to achieve the primary goal are to be minimized, reduced, given lower priority or changed for any other purpose except to speed the delivery of the primary goal at the level required, 100%.

This is why there ought to be no expectation that anything whatsoever will impede, slow or halt to regime change, covert, psychological, black and any and other operations that have been initiated and will continue to be operated in perpetuity until and only until the primary goal is fulfilled.

No human misery, destroyed nation, fractured region or continent reduced to ashes will stop its forward movement. No ethical or moral concerns will affect the maximum possible performance of each and every sub-goal and project steps to accomplish them.

No statute, entity or any body of law of any kind will limit any required operation in any way whatsoever.

Decisions will be taken quite irrespective of International Law, The Geneva Convention, The Ban on Torture, Statutes on Inhumane Treatment, Strictures against assassination, common murder, terrorist proxies, the use of plague, chemical, biological, electronic, cyber, economic, mercenary, guerrilla, proxy, propaganda, standard military and nuclear warfare on land, sea, air and space will not play any part in minimizing the theater of operations. In short there will no barriers whatsoever to the USA exerting its supreme will in defense of itself.

Syria is unfinished business. Russia is unfinished business. Iran is unfinished business. Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua are all unfinished business. Yemen is unfinished business as are the Palestinians. When these and all other elements are moved from red to blue, neutralized, totally neutralized or rendered fully compliant then the final target, also being softened up in tandem will receive total concentration. That target is the most important of them all, the biggest, strongest and most difficult target by far. That target is of course China.

While completion of the 100% nullification process takes place, quite possibly requiring a nuclear strike element, mop-up, enforcement, control and monitoring procedures will be ongoing to firm up all  aspects to render defeated elements null and void in perpetuity. No stone will be left unturned. All will be in hand. The planet will finally be made safe for the USA and the goal set in the days immediately after 9/11 will have been accomplished to 100%.

No unfinished business will remain.

OUR NEW WORLD, 2030

(A speculative fiction based on present geopolitical realities.)

It is December 31st 2029. Tonight we celebrate the beginning of not only a new decade... but a new world. Two new worlds to be absolutely precise. We are full of trepidation, anxiety and some dread, but also some hope for a better future than our recent past.

The seemingly endless wars are over, at least for our sector, our Eurasia.

We hear little of the Americas now... less and less since the final conflagration.

Tonight there will be two separate celebrations though we know for our cousins in the southern American hemisphere they will certainly be muted. Geography finally defeated both them and us for it was clear in negotiations that the final agreement could not work as a patchwork of nations with no clear dividing line. A clear dividing line was ultimately seen to be the only viable option.

The USA along with the UK had pushed and pushed as our decade had worn on. After the infamous heretic president had been all but erased from our minds and virtually all history books except for a brief, apologetic paragraph, the USA begin to rebuild and restrengthen its alliances ready for the Ice Cold War that followed.

NATO pushed ever forward creating a path of fear for itself. It added to its forces within all its member states, providing them with the latest technology, all urged on by Biden, then later Harris. Russia pushed back diplomatically criticizing each new threat, but it could do nothing but protest and ready her military forces for every eventuality. That was until the Crimea attack which took place in the early hours of the morning of the 3rd of November 2023.

The multiple explosions taking out complete sections of the Kerch Bridge were said to be the work of Ukrainian special forces, but very few believed this. Everyone suspected it was in fact a U.S. task force, long in preparation, that had carried out this covert operation. Only satellite data or high-altitude surveillance could have provided the required data on the specific areas of weakness that had been hit. This could of course have been passed on to the Ukrainians but the general consensus was that this was a special op by U.S. forces from beginning to end.

Within minutes this attack was followed by multiple strikes on strategic targets in Sevastopol including a number of military craft.

An ultimatum from Kiev was transferred simultaneously by diplomatic cable to Moscow to coincide with the very first strikes. Surrender Crimea to Ukraine or this would only be the start of a much longer campaign. Moscow responded with a surgical strike on the Ukrainian Duma three minutes later. A secondary strike hit military targets near Lviv two minutes subsequently.

An ultimatum from Moscow was then fired back to Kiev. Crimea, as an integral part of  Russian Federation territory being under attack meant a state of war existed between the two nations. Kiev was to desist all belligerence immediately or many more Russian strikes would follow.

At this point Washington became directly involved with a cabled threat to Moscow to desist in its aggression immediately. (At this point news was relayed of the Russian strikes across western mass media but nothing of the Ukrainian/U.S. strikes which had preceded them.
There was a pause at this point while Moscow debated possible strategies for the best way to proceed.

Meanwhile, several small flotillas of Ukrainian battle craft had eluded radar stations by extreme stealth in the Perekops'ka gulf region and were dispersing black-clad saboteurs to locations in Armiansk, Krasnoperekopsk and several small towns further south readying explosives for detonation. Other craft were attempting to breach the Russian border at several other points along the coast with varying degrees of success.

Moscow had ordered full alert as soon as the first attack upon the Kerch Bridge had taken place but at 03:45 a.m. this had taken some time to become fully operational.

Five minutes passed during which deliberations were held in Moscow, Kiev and Washington. Only two of the three had a fully mapped plan shared between them.

Now five units of Ukrainian saboteurs were in place and ordered to stand by. At 04:10 they were authorized to initiate the next stage of localized explosions.

A second ultimatum arrived in Moscow this time also from Washington. Give up Crimea or multiple strikes will be authorized on your bridge.

As this was received reports came in of explosions in and around infrastructure in the north west of the peninsula. Moscow’s attention was being stretched and pressurized from multiple points. Several further targets with Ukraine were immediately reduced to rubble.

A strategic decision was then made. Some U.S. sensitive target MUST be hit in response to these threats. Surrender of Crimea and the base of the Black Sea Fleet at Sevastopol would not and could not be contemplated.

Šiauliai Air Base, Šiauliai 77103, Lithuania was chosen along with NATO AWACS airbase at Geilenkirchen, Germany. Both were hit hard using upgraded Iskander M missiles launched from Kalingrad.

Public reaction was building fast in areas hit within the Crimean peninsula and from vehicles trapped on the Kerch Bridge and from the motorway access roads.

New targets were listed for targeting depending on eventualities.

President Putin had immediately attempted to call President Harris as soon as hostilities began.
barely twenty minutes had passed in a flurry of activity on both sides before the hotline functioned.

The heated discussion is not known in verbatim form however, it came down to a stalemate where neither side could agree a path forward after Harris demanded Russia release Crimea back to Ukrainian control. Putin point blank refused.

Finally a halt was called to all hostilities for two hours for the tenuous, fraught dialogue to resume after more strategic personnel were called in on the Russian side. The demand from the U.S. side remained as an ultimatum that would not be withdrawn.

Lavrov arrived just in time from Turkey where he had been in talks with the new government on its purchase of several upgraded defense systems. Hurriedly he was briefed and forward tactics intently discussed before the deadline for the renewed call.

Ukraine was to be given greater access to the peninsula under a new agreement which proposed certain undertakings which would allow Donetsk and Lugansk regions with Ukraine’s Donbass to have full autonomy. Under these circumstances, also including guarantees of security for the mutual security of those on Crimea through a co-governance agreement with Kiev. All of this to be thrashed out at a specially convened conference in Minsk.

The second hotline conversation became a conference call which eventuated in a begrudging acceptance of the proposed conference with major caveats regarding the use of further force at any time if deemed necessary by either U.S. or Ukrainian forces. Russia reserved the right to respond with equal or greater force if deemed necessary.

This then is how it all began.

(Though of course preceding events led up to these, but those are well known.)

The conference failed to reach agreement and talks dragged on interminably for many months thereafter. The three sides, plus input from France, Germany and Italy simply could not find common ground enough to link all expectations, demands, safeguards and treaties required to make peace either stable or long-lasting.

The perpetration by both sides of such violence, death and destruction that had occurred shocked all sides and all nations to the core. No nation felt safe. The genie had been let out of the bottle. How could anyone be assured now that anything approaching peace could ever be found and maintained? The situation was intolerable.

The next steps led us here and our long anticipated end-of-decade moment at midnight which had gripped us all for months. We had this one last chance in a world now terminally broken between sides where no stable agreement had been possible and was seen clearly to be never possible at any future time.

China had stepped in early on in the ‘Final Settlement’. In a mirror image of the Berlin settlement at the end of The Great Patriotic War the world would be permanently divided into the Americas and western Europe and our Eurasia. The negotiations naturally were extremely prolonged, myriad details had to be discussed, national interests argued for and often given up and replaced by other concessions from the other side. The process took seven long years.
Seven years to divide a planet in two. To preserve the future peace and stability of one half as the U.S. zone of control (with European nations and Latin America in subservient roles) and the other, our Eurasia with China and Russia holding positions that in theory demarcated a partnership but with Chinese economic dominance a primary factor.

At the end of a bitter and violent struggle from the earliest days of humankind it appeared a final fix where geopolitical ambitions could be nullified and violent instincts inclined toward conquer, could be quarantined, had finally been arrived at.

It is 23:59 on the 31st of December 2029. I am standing in Red Square Moscow with my family around me and twenty five thousand or so others also. Our hearts are pounding. We dare to hope through myriad emotions from fear to joy to grief and back again, our bodies shake involuntarily, the moment is too much for us with all its significance. Tears begin to well in our eyes then and roll down our cheeks as the first toll from the mighty Spasskaya Tower bell booms out from far above us.

The last chime tolls and it is finally midnight. Everyone is shouting and kissing one another, drinks in hand. It’s a new time, a new world and we have new hope in our hearts.

Above, the fireworks begin, rockets burst above us raining down showers of multicolored light. It looks and feels a little like a battlefield as we shake with emotion again, hot tears of joy and pain fall uncontrollably as we exchange smiles, hugs and kisses with all around us... knowing with some good will and good fortune will there will be no more battlefields, ever again.