Not all that well. The copy is not always easy to read since it is not written by an English speaking native. And I have to record under time constraints. Not to mention all those Russian names -- which everyone pronounces differently. For paying work, I use American English. Although my Mom was a Brit, she did not speak RP (received pronunciation) which I had to study, as all broadcasters do. Here in Japan, my skills get rusty!
So, I am happy to help out with SF. They have a lot of useful and interesting information, although I often draw different conclusions than they do from that.
I'm a year older than you, Julian, born just days before Schickelgruber (sp?) took up his trusty Walther and saved us all a lot of expensive court costs along with the hangman's fee. You can therefore say that I arrived just in time to give an adios to the Teutonic empire's nightmare and a bienvenido to the bigger American corporate fascist Disneyland version of the same. Since I like to provoke friendly conversation, do you or any readers here know if Wagner men sport specific items of apparel? Patches for hats and shirts, for example? If so, are they available for purchase?
Thanks. I should have known to do a search, but at my age that's just not something that naturally occurs to me! As for the other suggestion, the shillelagh, I have one. (Actually, I have two, one that I use for walking and the other, stouter and free of all adornments like an end-cap, has been in my wife's family for over a 100 years. We know this because we've seen photos of a relative holding it taken just after the turn of the 19th to the 20th century.)
As an old man, and presumably therefore closer to death than you were, your egregious implicit lie about the greatest man of the 20th century needs to be confronted before you finally depart this life.
I suggest that you might begin to rearrange the brainwashing you are clearly a victim of by watching "Adolf Hitler - the Greatest Story Never Told" - or if your eyes are up to it at your advanced age, "Germany's War" by John Wear, available for free download at the Ron Unz w/s.
"Greatest Man of the 20th Century" - Adolf Hitler?
I guess you need to define "great man". "Great" in what way? Because all I can see that was "great" about him, was that he might have been the greatest sociopath of the 20th century. As you may know Tim, sociopaths are notorious for USING other people to get what they want. And because they have no sense of right and wrong, no moral compass, they can be quite successful ... for a time. But ultimately they are self-destructive. And there's nothing "great" about that.
It's a big subject, and I realise that my pov might be somewhat shocking to somebody schooled in and relentlessly brainwashed since birth with the victor's narrative.
Indeed, I was once as you are - but whether slowly or rapidly, I realised that there is a whole other dimension to this subject which is relentlessly suppressed and gaslit by the usual suspects whenever brainwashing and propaganda is utilized.
Have a look at what is probably a multi-part series on YT or elsewhere about this matter, it is called "Adolf Hitler - the Greatest Story Never Told" and it is apocalyptic in its import and relevance in today's world, ruled as it is, and mentally enslaved, by the real perpetrators of those events from 80 years ago.
If you prefer to read, then look at John Wear's tour de force "Germany's War" which is available for free download from the Ron Unz w/s - this explains in the clearest way possible, what was going on at the time openly, but which again, has been massively suppressed so as to mentally enslave the entirety of the so called western world.
If logic and reason is your thing, then you will immediately apprehend that you have been deliberately lied to on an epic scale all these years.
Happy Christmas, anyway, and best wishes for what I hope will be a new year no longer clouded by a generational programme of narcissistic abuse.
But obviously still incapable of rational thought then.
" .... the Teutonic empire's nightmare .... "
The "Teutonic Empire" you seem to think existed - rather than just being a recreation of the Reich inside its original boundaries - was remarkable for, under the direction of the man you wanted to be hanged, getting six million, ( no, not THAT 6 million ) back to work in less than five years, and completely rejuvenating a nation crippled by the evil machinations of the jews who had ruined her in WW1.
As David Lloyd George said, "I have never seen a happier people than the Germans. Hitler is one of the greatest men I have ever met - yes, "Heil Hitler." I too say that, because he is truly a great man."
Or as Churchill later said, "We will force this war on Hitler whether he wants it or not" - and of course he had to say that, as he had just taken £40,000 from the jewish "Focus Group" of "British businessmen" to wage that very war.
Слава России, мой друг...or perhaps in your case I should rephrase that and say "Ehre sei Russland, mein Freund." Oh, and be sure to sit back and enjoy the coming dismantling of the Empire of Lies, something I've waited my whole lifetime (longer than yours, btw) to see. The world will be a better place for it and Vladimir Putin deserves so much of the credit. Idiotic Nazi bum-smoochers like you are in for a very rude but well deserved awakening. As I said, enjoy
If your logical level is estimated by your apparent belief that everybody you meet is younger than you, then this explains your ad hominem approach, instead of intelligent rebuttal.
The former of course, being the last refuge of the scoundrel.
You say all these things about Hitler - implicitly at least - and yet when pressed, you have nothing worthy of mention to say.
Perhaps you spent all those years not actually reading and remembering what you read, but indulging in rather more infantile practices.
Newsflash, Bozo, I save all my ad hominem arguments for goosestepping, siegheiling clowns like you. It's a bit like the trials after WW 2. It was comforting to see the Allies hang the Nazi bastards instead of wasting electricity or lead on them. Same for Eichmann years later.
I work on Twitter and that means working with headlines only, but always with pictures and links to sources about which the headlines in the Tweet speak.
I am ActuallyAutistic (+76 in February and look also much younger) and i am very good in researching and building a non-verbal 3D-map of complex information in my head (I was an IT-nerd for 40 years).
But i am terrible in making a readable story from it. Which you evidently are not.
The sources on which you rely, happen to be mine too. So you must have this Truth-finding ability of mine too.
I will Tweet about your posts from now on with some headlines for my 11.000 followers on twitter.
Thank you so much for this comment. ASD DOES have its benefits. The "longevity" gene, DRD4 R7 alleles . Also known as the Da Vinci Gene (and a few other epithets). IMO, every person "on the spectrum", especially those called "high functioning" is different. But many us have significant non-verbal capabilities, especially in the visual, 3D realm. When I was 17, I was high visual but could barely communicate in an intelligible fashion. A doctor I saw after leaving home (at 17) taught how to make sentences, which was a fascinating new ability, rather like learning to read when I was 8. I would like to know more about your abilities and what you do so I will look on Twitter. In the meantime, thank you for posting, Means a lot.
You are welcome. I refer to you Wikipedia, not exactly a place for criticism of allied forces. Crimes against enemy combatants and civilians
Looting
In violation of the Hague Conventions, British troops conducted small scale looting in Normandy following their liberation.[81] On 21 April 1945, British soldiers randomly selected and burned two cottages in Seedorf, Germany, in reprisal against local civilians who had hidden German soldiers in their cellars.[82] Historian Sean Longden claims that violence against German prisoners and civilians who refused to cooperate with the British army "could be ignored or made light of".[83]
Torture of POWs
An MI19 prisoner of war facility, known as the "London Cage", was utilised during and immediately after the war. This facility has been the subject of allegations of torture.[84] The Bad Nenndorf interrogation centre, in occupied Germany, managed by the Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre, was the subject of an official inquiry in 1947. It found that there was "mental and physical torture during the interrogations".[85]
Rapes
Further information: Rape during the occupation of Germany, Rape during the occupation of Japan, and War rape
Rape took place during the British advance towards Germany.[86] During late 1944, with the army based across Belgium and the Netherlands, soldiers were billeted with local families or befriended them. In December 1944, it came to the attention of the authorities that there was a "rise of indecency with children" where abusers had exploited the "atmosphere of trust" that had been created with local families. While the army "attempted to investigate allegations, and some men were convicted, it was an issue that received little publicity."[83] Rape also occurred once British forces had entered Germany.[86] Many rapes involved alcohol, but there were also instances of premeditated attacks.[83] For example, on a single day in April 1945, three women in Neustadt am Rübenberge were raped.[86] In the village of Oyle, near Nienburg, two soldiers attempted to coerce two girls into a nearby wood. When they refused, one was grabbed and dragged into the woods. When she began to scream, in according to Longden, "one of the soldiers pulled a gun to silence her. Whether intentionally or in error the gun went off hitting her in the throat and killing her."[83]
Sean Longden highlights that "Some officers failed to treat reports of rape with gravity." He provides the example of a medic, who had a rape reported to him. In cooperation with the Royal Military Police, they were able to track down and apprehend the perpetrators who were then identified by the victim. When the two culprits "were taken before their CO. His response was alarming. He insisted since the men were going on leave no action could be taken and that his word was final."[83]
You should have used the word "individual" before your claim about British soldiers.
By not using this word - whereas you did use it when referring to Wagner, you implicitly create the impression that this was systematic abuse being carried on by all British troops.
I have no quarrel about the implication when applied to US troops - but I note your failure to apply the word to Canadian troops, or NZ, or South African, etc.
1. Looting
"Small scale looting."
How is this defined?
Picking cider apples from a Norman orchard?
Who is this person Longden - and why do we accept his "claims"?
His claim about what he is suggesting was army policy do not stand up to any kind of scrutiny.
The story about the cottages does not come under "looting", btw, and it seems to be logically ludicrous.
If the Brits had a beef with somebody hiding German soldiers in their cellars - and why would this be, if they were unarmed and so not dangerous - then they would have burned the cottages belonging to those people, they would NOT have chosen cottages "randomly."
2. Torture of POWs.
I do not dispute the fact that "The Cage" existed, however, it was NOT in Europe where the British soldiers were operating, and it was NOT a place which regular troops had either access or input into what occurred.
This torture was done by intelligence operatives - not soldiers.
In fact, had they been caught doing such things by Monty et al, they would have been court-martialled and shot.
Ditto with Nenndorf.
3.
Rapes.
"Rape took place."
This is like saying that Santa will bring you a present if you have been good.
There is no evidence for the statement, especially as applied to British troops.
Individual cases MAY have occurred, although again, the Laws of War forbid such behaviour, and any soldier caught doing it would have been subjected to immediate military discipline.
If it did occur occasionally, then it would have been on the sort of scale that rape occurs anywhere where social norms have broken down, and it would have resulted from the sort of individuals who would as easily have carried out the crime at home as abroad, and would have included Frenchmen doing it as much as British soldiers did it - again, the numbers are not given, and so the generalized allegation cannot be allowed to stand.
Again, "a rise of indecency" - from what base level to what later level? This is like saying that there was a 100% "rise of indecency" from one example to two. It cannot be used as part of any case against "Brit soldiers."
The fact that this issue "received little publicity" was on prima facie grounds, because it was vanishingly rare; whereas your remark, and the source you quote, falsely suggests the opposite.
Once "British forces entered Germany" they would have found a nation starving and destitute, and so in response to the situation, I can guarantee that multitudes of German women would have seen the troops not as rapists, but as providers of foodstuffs, cigarettes, and coffee, and whether rightly or wrongly, certain arrangements would have been readily entered into by both parties.
I am fairly sure that many of these arrangements would have ended in marriage.
So, "many rapes involved alcohol" suggests once again that two parties drinking alcohol together are happy to be in each other's company - and one is not running away from the other to hide.
"On a single day three women were raped."
The powerful message here is that every day women were raped - and by Brits.
Again, "According to Longden."
Why not "according to military reports"?
What confidence can we have in somebody writing today about events which allegedly occurred decades ago?
Where are his official sources?
"Sean Longden highlights" that "some officers ... "
How many officers?
One? Two? Three?
He seems to provide ONE example, and one is not "some."
This is just basic textual analysis.
Again, the RMP story is anecdotal, and whatever the CO said, it does NOT allow you to write, " ... just as American and Brit soldiers did in WWII .... "
You at the very least should have differentiated between these two armies, as it is certain that many of these rapes and looting events involved US soldiers, who were notorious for stealing watches, etc, from their captives, and murdering them post-surrender on account of stories they had been told about SS "atrocities", which never stand up to analysis anyway.
Julian, I have to say as a new reader, its very concerning to me how much you cite Russian state-owned media like RT or Sputnik, or known Russian propaganda outlets like SouthFront that have ties to Russia's FSB.
In the quest for reliable information, the Russian government has huge incentives as part of its information warfare campaign to push its narratives about the war in Ukraine. Their state-owned media and groups linked to Russian intelligence apparatus are not credible sources whatsoever.
Your partnership with SouthFront, recording for them regularly, is even more concerning. Either you have stumbled unknowingly into a media partnership with them hoping to grow your brand, or you are working for them and being paid to knowingly rebroadcast Kremlin propaganda. I can only hope it is the former, not the latter.
Are you suggesting that western media is not equally "owned"?
Last time I checked, it was almost entirely owned by a few massive corporations - to the extent that it is common knowledge, supported by video clips, that it shows endless arrays of "news anchors" saying exactly the same thing at exactly the same time, to their hopelessly gullible audiences, of which you seem to be a prime example.
And what RT and Sputnik do is less "push a narrative" than to provide an alternative narrative to counter the completely one-sided narrative pushed by all these news corporations I mentioned, who work in lockstep with each other.
If they are so obviously compromised, as you suggest, then why not expose them, rather than banning them, as the west has done?
"Truth does not fear investigation," so if you cannot expose them, then the cowardly thing to do is what is done throughout western media, ( Twitter springs to mind ) and ban them.
This is a sign of systemic deception and extreme weakness on the part of the western narrative.
As to SouthFront. they do the same, and their content is largely in the video format anyway. If the videos they post are made up, as western videos usually are, then please provide evidence, rather than allegation.
So I advise you to save your mealy-mouthed "concern" for yourself - and by golly, you surely need it.
Propaganda is a strong power, that is using narratives as weapons.
I followed the Syrian war, by listening in on the communication of those that were fighting on the ground (it was accessible via Internet and i could translate from + into Arab, Farsi, Russian, Hebrew, Turkish and many other languages using google translate, even Chinese from some Uyghurs fighting in Idlib.).
I learned about checking locations in Photo's en Video's to check whether they were truly made where the narrative said it was and to try to find the first occurrence of that item on Internet, to check the time on which it was told to have happened.
So i could eliminate many of the sources that were producing Fake news. Sometimes they used a source believing it was reliable and i could tell them it was not.
I also used Media to compare them with each other and with the facts i had found.
It appeared that ALL the western Media were producing the same Fake news, most of the time using the same words, which made it easy to see that they were just spreading propaganda from 1 source.
In the time the Turkish & CIA supported (trained, paid, armed) Wahabi extremists (FSA, Nusra Front, al Qaeda, IS, ISIS) were successful, they made propaganda which made it clear which sources were theirs. They even showed video's to prove their crimes, like the Ukraine Nazi's have done for a while until Kiev forbade that.
Next to that i met (on Twitter) Russian, English & Arab accounts that did the same as i did, mostly on a specific area of interest (Air-planes, Air-defence, Navy, shipping, Arms, mercenaries etc.), I still use their accounts when something happens. So i entered a network of searchers for truth.
In that time i concluded, that one of the most reliable media source was South Front. They used info and material from mainly Russian (and Wagner) fighters and geopolitical interested academics from all over the world, from which i never found Fake news.
So i now use Southfront still as reliable source, which is confirmed by the fact that Twitter and Google/YouTube have blocked the website, for which i have a workaround.
So i ask you to check yourself if what you have written is true.
Thanks again for opening up with this question.
Maybe others have an opinion on this too (based on facts, not empty words)
I volunteer my services for SouthFront because I think they do their best to present facts and they actually draw on information from all sides of a conflict. In the process of trying to be objective they DO sometimes get things wrong or the writers generalize without real basis. But I have always found them open to discussion. NOBODY can get it right all the time, which is why diverse points of view are important. .
The claim that "all the western media produces the same fake news" is obviously untrue.
You either have not bothered to look thoroughly enough to find different sources or, more likely, are deliberately misrepresenting American/Western media. In the internet age, there are a vast number of sources with different worldviews on the news. I.e. Vox, WashingtonPost, and CNN say the opposite of DailyWire, Heritage Foundation, WSJ.
It is also untrue that SouthFront is blocked by Google or YouTube. SouthFront content is also all over Twitter, so that's also a lie.
SouthFront's fake news and propaganda stories straight from the FSB and Russian state are obvious. Here are a few examples.
-SouthFront has spent years putting out propaganda saying Russia is innocent in the shooting down of flight MH-17.
For context, Russia supplied the Buk missiles, controlled the Donetsk People's Republic separatist group, and were found guilty by Dutch courts.
-SouthFront propaganda says the Novichok poisoning on the Skripals is a western hoax and that Russia again is innocent.
-SouthFront propaganda falsely blamed Syrian rebels for chemical weapons attacks that the Syrian govenrment (a Russian ally) is proven to have perpetrated.
All of those claims are easily verifiable with a simple Google site search. If I wanted to point out every example of fake news and Russian propaganda coming from SouthFront, I could spend all day doing it.
That brings us to you.
From the fact that your identity is anonymous and that you didn't put your real name (like most other readers in these comments), I think its extremely likely you are either a Julian McFarlane alt account or some other Russian spam account used to spread Russian propaganda.
I doubt your comment is sincere or real. It reads like one of those fake five-star reviews from a fake customer that some businesses pay people to post. Too much detail, too much narrative.
Instead its most probably a manufactured pre-written response that's copy+pasted whenever some commenter questions News Analysis' links to SouthFront and Russian FSB propaganda.
Once you know what to look for, its very easy to sniff you guys out.
What you are sniffing is your own rear end, not the person you are attacking.
My jaw drops when I hear the blatant lies you are propagating wrt MH17, the Syrian gas false flag, the "Novichok" hoax, ( where are the Skripals, btw? The British government is refusing to answer constant Russian FM demands to know where their citizens are - something for MI5 to hide, maybe? )
And a "simple Google site search"?
You have heard about the rankings interference engaged in by that entity, I assume?
I do not like your reply. Since i am #ActuallyAutistic, i may seem rude in my reaction.
On Twitter i would have asked you to provide proof for your accusations and when you didn't produce that and neither apologised, we would have blocked you as a Troll.
So my question is: are you a troll ?
Check my Twitter account @OccupySchagen before you again reply.
We have 11.120 followers all over the world 3.000 Dutch speakers, mostly English but also many Spanish & Portuguese, French, German, Arab, Farsi, Chinese, Hebrew, Hindi. Urdu, Sanskrit & Japanese among others. That is because we have searched for independent new sources over the world.
I show 1 example of a LIE in your reply. Or did you accidentality not check it first ?
You said that SouthFront is all over twitter.
Look at this tweet and see what happens when you try to tweet a link to their website.
I received your comment as a reply to something I had said, so responded to it, but now see that you are talking to somebody else, so I deleted what I said.
FYI, mon ami, I'm Irish and Catholic, practicing, not the Biden/Pelosi variety. I hate Nazism, not Nazis. If the latter are mass murderers, I want them to swing. One need not to be a Jew to know evil. That tells you something about yourself.
To culture, good and bad are some cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, while it nature, it's the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental, the 1/0 of sentience.
That's because it's the function of culture to synchronize the body politic into one larger social organism. Yet organisms exist in ecosystems. The synchronization is balanced by harmonization.
While the West is determined to synchronize the world into one large social organism, it creates the effect of harmonization around the rest of the world, as they see it to their benefit to function as a larger ecosystem, trading value around effectively and not have it spiral into that black hole in the center.
The thought control runs deep. Remember democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The family as godhead. To the Ancients, monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god. Basically tribalism. The Romans adopted a monotheistic sect as state religion around the time the Empire was solidifying out of the ashes of the Republic. Essentially validating The Big Guy rules.
(Though the original strength of Christianity was as a story of renewal. The young god reborn in the spring, as a consequence of the old Greek religions having become set in stone, as Zeus didn't give way to Dionysus. Tradition and authority versus rebirth and renewal. Which was the basis of the Trinity. The young god born of the old sky god and earth mother. Which couldn't be canceled, so had to be obscured, since the Catholic church was the Eternal Institution. At least until Martin Luther tried pushing the rest button again.)
Logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. The light shining through the film, than the images on it.
Ideals are not absolute. A culture founded on the premise is inherently conflicted, as the multitudes of ideologies to rise in the shadow of monotheism all assert their ideals to be supreme and leave no stone unturned to prove it.
Morality is not an absolute. Obviously. It is learned and earned the hard way. Karma. What goes round, comes round. Emergence.
I fail to see how the commandment "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy" "boils down to the Golden Rule - or "karma."
Perhaps you can spend a few more lines enlightening us.
Or how "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me" has anything to do with "karma".
And you should not imagine that all who call themselves Christians are what they say they are - as we are told, "many wolves have come in amongst the flock" - but if you seek to understand the absolute nature of Christian morality, based as it is on the eternal and unchanging Decalogue - then hear the words of the Saviour - "If ye love Me, keep My commandments."
Those who do not keep them therefore, do not love Him, and so are not Christians.
And I don't think anybody has ever suggested that a "culture founded upon the premise" is unchanging - this would be a straw man argument therefore, what is unchanging is the word of God, and His unchanging law, which is beyond the shifting sands of culture.
I'm not going to argue your, obviously deeply held, beliefs.
I'm just pointing out where my journeys have taken me.
Personally I was born Episcopalian, so my particular sect of Christianity grew out of King Henry the 8th not being able to get a divorce. Kind of made me want to look further into the foundations.
"Failures to produce children" - I expect you have forgotten about one of the greatest children ever produced - one Elizabeth his daughter; although he also produced the great heretic "Bloody Mary" as well.
Perhaps history was never your strongest suit.
From WP
" ... Henry VIII of England had several children. The best known children are the three legitimate offspring who survived infancy and would succeed him as monarchs of England successively, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I.
His first two wives, Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn, had several pregnancies that ended in stillbirth, miscarriage, or death in infancy. Henry acknowledged one illegitimate child, Henry FitzRoy, as his own, but is suspected to have fathered several illegitimate children by different mistresses.[1] The number and identity of these is a matter of historical debate.[citation needed] .... "
I'm trying to approach the issue logically, and I see a lot of inconsistencies in your argumentation, although I have to admit, I find it quite difficult to understand what you are saying; but I assume once the layers of verbosity are removed, it will simply "boil down" to a generalized form of humanitarianism, ie placing man above God.
Perhaps I'm wrong; but I'm always prepared to listen.
An absolute is a universal state. Like absolute zero. It has no distinctions, divisions, gradients, relationships, structures. So the premise of an absolute morality, as in what's right and wrong, would seem to be an oxymoron. At least to me.
Religions seem to be a cultural expression of spirituality, necessitating some set of principles, rules, qualifications, as to what is socially and culturally condoned.
So, to me, it would seem a spiritual absolute/universal state, would be that essence of sentience bubbling up through life. Which obviously takes many forms, from biology to the various cultures organisms evolve. So there seems to be a dichotomy here, between that essence driving life and the forms it manifests. Motor and steering.
Much of this goes my to efforts to understand physics. One major issue I have with how it is formulated is the concept of time.
As these mobile organisms, fauna have evolved this sentient interface between the individual organism and its environment, that functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate. So our experience of time is as the point of the present, moving past to future. Codified as measures of duration. Culture is largely a function of social narratives.
The evident reality is that change is turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Duration is the present, as the events form and dissolve.
There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.
Energy is "conserved," because it manifests this presence, creating time, temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.
So the energy/presence, goes past to future, because the patterns it generates coalesce and dissolve, future to past. Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall.
Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Though it is the gut processing the energy and feeding the flame, while the head sorts the forms/information.
So, again, there is this dichotomy, between this conscious element driving us and the decisions it has to make in order to function.
The anarchies of desire, versus the tyrannies of judgement.
Given that galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in, this relationship seems to run pretty deep. We seem to be some complex feedback loop in the middle. What goes round, comes round.
I don't know that I'm much of a humanist. We seem a pretty silly lot.
Quite right about the typos. My dyslexia again. I read this stuff aloud and STILL find typos afterwards. I will go over it once again and look once more. SORRY guys!s
Funny, only the other day I was wondering who was the voice of South Front! You do it very well.
Not all that well. The copy is not always easy to read since it is not written by an English speaking native. And I have to record under time constraints. Not to mention all those Russian names -- which everyone pronounces differently. For paying work, I use American English. Although my Mom was a Brit, she did not speak RP (received pronunciation) which I had to study, as all broadcasters do. Here in Japan, my skills get rusty!
So, I am happy to help out with SF. They have a lot of useful and interesting information, although I often draw different conclusions than they do from that.
I'm a year older than you, Julian, born just days before Schickelgruber (sp?) took up his trusty Walther and saved us all a lot of expensive court costs along with the hangman's fee. You can therefore say that I arrived just in time to give an adios to the Teutonic empire's nightmare and a bienvenido to the bigger American corporate fascist Disneyland version of the same. Since I like to provoke friendly conversation, do you or any readers here know if Wagner men sport specific items of apparel? Patches for hats and shirts, for example? If so, are they available for purchase?
Yes, of course. You can find pretty much anything on the Internet.
https://kula-tactical.com/wagner-group-patch
https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-pmc-wagner-group-patch.html But given the violent responses I get on various media to my posts, I would also get one of these. https://oldeshillelagh.com/fighting-style Here in Japan these are called simply "bo" But the Irish fighting stick doubles as a walking stick but is a highly effectively weapon.
Thanks. I should have known to do a search, but at my age that's just not something that naturally occurs to me! As for the other suggestion, the shillelagh, I have one. (Actually, I have two, one that I use for walking and the other, stouter and free of all adornments like an end-cap, has been in my wife's family for over a 100 years. We know this because we've seen photos of a relative holding it taken just after the turn of the 19th to the 20th century.)
The shillelagh is culture. It is also incredibly useful. Not to mention (IMO) really COOL!
As an old man, and presumably therefore closer to death than you were, your egregious implicit lie about the greatest man of the 20th century needs to be confronted before you finally depart this life.
I suggest that you might begin to rearrange the brainwashing you are clearly a victim of by watching "Adolf Hitler - the Greatest Story Never Told" - or if your eyes are up to it at your advanced age, "Germany's War" by John Wear, available for free download at the Ron Unz w/s.
"Greatest Man of the 20th Century" - Adolf Hitler?
I guess you need to define "great man". "Great" in what way? Because all I can see that was "great" about him, was that he might have been the greatest sociopath of the 20th century. As you may know Tim, sociopaths are notorious for USING other people to get what they want. And because they have no sense of right and wrong, no moral compass, they can be quite successful ... for a time. But ultimately they are self-destructive. And there's nothing "great" about that.
It's a big subject, and I realise that my pov might be somewhat shocking to somebody schooled in and relentlessly brainwashed since birth with the victor's narrative.
Indeed, I was once as you are - but whether slowly or rapidly, I realised that there is a whole other dimension to this subject which is relentlessly suppressed and gaslit by the usual suspects whenever brainwashing and propaganda is utilized.
Have a look at what is probably a multi-part series on YT or elsewhere about this matter, it is called "Adolf Hitler - the Greatest Story Never Told" and it is apocalyptic in its import and relevance in today's world, ruled as it is, and mentally enslaved, by the real perpetrators of those events from 80 years ago.
If you prefer to read, then look at John Wear's tour de force "Germany's War" which is available for free download from the Ron Unz w/s - this explains in the clearest way possible, what was going on at the time openly, but which again, has been massively suppressed so as to mentally enslave the entirety of the so called western world.
If logic and reason is your thing, then you will immediately apprehend that you have been deliberately lied to on an epic scale all these years.
Happy Christmas, anyway, and best wishes for what I hope will be a new year no longer clouded by a generational programme of narcissistic abuse.
Done both and have more experience than you do clearly. Stop swallowing CIA propaganda and wake up.
But obviously still incapable of rational thought then.
" .... the Teutonic empire's nightmare .... "
The "Teutonic Empire" you seem to think existed - rather than just being a recreation of the Reich inside its original boundaries - was remarkable for, under the direction of the man you wanted to be hanged, getting six million, ( no, not THAT 6 million ) back to work in less than five years, and completely rejuvenating a nation crippled by the evil machinations of the jews who had ruined her in WW1.
As David Lloyd George said, "I have never seen a happier people than the Germans. Hitler is one of the greatest men I have ever met - yes, "Heil Hitler." I too say that, because he is truly a great man."
Or as Churchill later said, "We will force this war on Hitler whether he wants it or not" - and of course he had to say that, as he had just taken £40,000 from the jewish "Focus Group" of "British businessmen" to wage that very war.
Слава России, мой друг...or perhaps in your case I should rephrase that and say "Ehre sei Russland, mein Freund." Oh, and be sure to sit back and enjoy the coming dismantling of the Empire of Lies, something I've waited my whole lifetime (longer than yours, btw) to see. The world will be a better place for it and Vladimir Putin deserves so much of the credit. Idiotic Nazi bum-smoochers like you are in for a very rude but well deserved awakening. As I said, enjoy
If your logical level is estimated by your apparent belief that everybody you meet is younger than you, then this explains your ad hominem approach, instead of intelligent rebuttal.
The former of course, being the last refuge of the scoundrel.
You say all these things about Hitler - implicitly at least - and yet when pressed, you have nothing worthy of mention to say.
Perhaps you spent all those years not actually reading and remembering what you read, but indulging in rather more infantile practices.
Newsflash, Bozo, I save all my ad hominem arguments for goosestepping, siegheiling clowns like you. It's a bit like the trials after WW 2. It was comforting to see the Allies hang the Nazi bastards instead of wasting electricity or lead on them. Same for Eichmann years later.
Thank You Julian.
I work on Twitter and that means working with headlines only, but always with pictures and links to sources about which the headlines in the Tweet speak.
I am ActuallyAutistic (+76 in February and look also much younger) and i am very good in researching and building a non-verbal 3D-map of complex information in my head (I was an IT-nerd for 40 years).
But i am terrible in making a readable story from it. Which you evidently are not.
The sources on which you rely, happen to be mine too. So you must have this Truth-finding ability of mine too.
I will Tweet about your posts from now on with some headlines for my 11.000 followers on twitter.
Keep up the good work !
OccupySchagen
From Schagen, (North-)Holland, The Netherlands.
Thank you so much for this comment. ASD DOES have its benefits. The "longevity" gene, DRD4 R7 alleles . Also known as the Da Vinci Gene (and a few other epithets). IMO, every person "on the spectrum", especially those called "high functioning" is different. But many us have significant non-verbal capabilities, especially in the visual, 3D realm. When I was 17, I was high visual but could barely communicate in an intelligible fashion. A doctor I saw after leaving home (at 17) taught how to make sentences, which was a fascinating new ability, rather like learning to read when I was 8. I would like to know more about your abilities and what you do so I will look on Twitter. In the meantime, thank you for posting, Means a lot.
" .... this is not to say that individual Russians or Wagnerites have NOT done some bad stuff— just as American and Brit soldiers did in WWII .... "
Please justify this statement with reference to British soldiers.
Or withdraw the slur.
Thank you.
You are welcome. I refer to you Wikipedia, not exactly a place for criticism of allied forces. Crimes against enemy combatants and civilians
Looting
In violation of the Hague Conventions, British troops conducted small scale looting in Normandy following their liberation.[81] On 21 April 1945, British soldiers randomly selected and burned two cottages in Seedorf, Germany, in reprisal against local civilians who had hidden German soldiers in their cellars.[82] Historian Sean Longden claims that violence against German prisoners and civilians who refused to cooperate with the British army "could be ignored or made light of".[83]
Torture of POWs
An MI19 prisoner of war facility, known as the "London Cage", was utilised during and immediately after the war. This facility has been the subject of allegations of torture.[84] The Bad Nenndorf interrogation centre, in occupied Germany, managed by the Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre, was the subject of an official inquiry in 1947. It found that there was "mental and physical torture during the interrogations".[85]
Rapes
Further information: Rape during the occupation of Germany, Rape during the occupation of Japan, and War rape
Rape took place during the British advance towards Germany.[86] During late 1944, with the army based across Belgium and the Netherlands, soldiers were billeted with local families or befriended them. In December 1944, it came to the attention of the authorities that there was a "rise of indecency with children" where abusers had exploited the "atmosphere of trust" that had been created with local families. While the army "attempted to investigate allegations, and some men were convicted, it was an issue that received little publicity."[83] Rape also occurred once British forces had entered Germany.[86] Many rapes involved alcohol, but there were also instances of premeditated attacks.[83] For example, on a single day in April 1945, three women in Neustadt am Rübenberge were raped.[86] In the village of Oyle, near Nienburg, two soldiers attempted to coerce two girls into a nearby wood. When they refused, one was grabbed and dragged into the woods. When she began to scream, in according to Longden, "one of the soldiers pulled a gun to silence her. Whether intentionally or in error the gun went off hitting her in the throat and killing her."[83]
Sean Longden highlights that "Some officers failed to treat reports of rape with gravity." He provides the example of a medic, who had a rape reported to him. In cooperation with the Royal Military Police, they were able to track down and apprehend the perpetrators who were then identified by the victim. When the two culprits "were taken before their CO. His response was alarming. He insisted since the men were going on leave no action could be taken and that his word was final."[83]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_war_crimes
Your piece was badly written.
You should have used the word "individual" before your claim about British soldiers.
By not using this word - whereas you did use it when referring to Wagner, you implicitly create the impression that this was systematic abuse being carried on by all British troops.
I have no quarrel about the implication when applied to US troops - but I note your failure to apply the word to Canadian troops, or NZ, or South African, etc.
1. Looting
"Small scale looting."
How is this defined?
Picking cider apples from a Norman orchard?
Who is this person Longden - and why do we accept his "claims"?
His claim about what he is suggesting was army policy do not stand up to any kind of scrutiny.
The story about the cottages does not come under "looting", btw, and it seems to be logically ludicrous.
If the Brits had a beef with somebody hiding German soldiers in their cellars - and why would this be, if they were unarmed and so not dangerous - then they would have burned the cottages belonging to those people, they would NOT have chosen cottages "randomly."
2. Torture of POWs.
I do not dispute the fact that "The Cage" existed, however, it was NOT in Europe where the British soldiers were operating, and it was NOT a place which regular troops had either access or input into what occurred.
This torture was done by intelligence operatives - not soldiers.
In fact, had they been caught doing such things by Monty et al, they would have been court-martialled and shot.
Ditto with Nenndorf.
3.
Rapes.
"Rape took place."
This is like saying that Santa will bring you a present if you have been good.
There is no evidence for the statement, especially as applied to British troops.
Individual cases MAY have occurred, although again, the Laws of War forbid such behaviour, and any soldier caught doing it would have been subjected to immediate military discipline.
If it did occur occasionally, then it would have been on the sort of scale that rape occurs anywhere where social norms have broken down, and it would have resulted from the sort of individuals who would as easily have carried out the crime at home as abroad, and would have included Frenchmen doing it as much as British soldiers did it - again, the numbers are not given, and so the generalized allegation cannot be allowed to stand.
Again, "a rise of indecency" - from what base level to what later level? This is like saying that there was a 100% "rise of indecency" from one example to two. It cannot be used as part of any case against "Brit soldiers."
The fact that this issue "received little publicity" was on prima facie grounds, because it was vanishingly rare; whereas your remark, and the source you quote, falsely suggests the opposite.
Once "British forces entered Germany" they would have found a nation starving and destitute, and so in response to the situation, I can guarantee that multitudes of German women would have seen the troops not as rapists, but as providers of foodstuffs, cigarettes, and coffee, and whether rightly or wrongly, certain arrangements would have been readily entered into by both parties.
I am fairly sure that many of these arrangements would have ended in marriage.
So, "many rapes involved alcohol" suggests once again that two parties drinking alcohol together are happy to be in each other's company - and one is not running away from the other to hide.
"On a single day three women were raped."
The powerful message here is that every day women were raped - and by Brits.
Again, "According to Longden."
Why not "according to military reports"?
What confidence can we have in somebody writing today about events which allegedly occurred decades ago?
Where are his official sources?
"Sean Longden highlights" that "some officers ... "
How many officers?
One? Two? Three?
He seems to provide ONE example, and one is not "some."
This is just basic textual analysis.
Again, the RMP story is anecdotal, and whatever the CO said, it does NOT allow you to write, " ... just as American and Brit soldiers did in WWII .... "
You at the very least should have differentiated between these two armies, as it is certain that many of these rapes and looting events involved US soldiers, who were notorious for stealing watches, etc, from their captives, and murdering them post-surrender on account of stories they had been told about SS "atrocities", which never stand up to analysis anyway.
Julian, I have to say as a new reader, its very concerning to me how much you cite Russian state-owned media like RT or Sputnik, or known Russian propaganda outlets like SouthFront that have ties to Russia's FSB.
In the quest for reliable information, the Russian government has huge incentives as part of its information warfare campaign to push its narratives about the war in Ukraine. Their state-owned media and groups linked to Russian intelligence apparatus are not credible sources whatsoever.
Your partnership with SouthFront, recording for them regularly, is even more concerning. Either you have stumbled unknowingly into a media partnership with them hoping to grow your brand, or you are working for them and being paid to knowingly rebroadcast Kremlin propaganda. I can only hope it is the former, not the latter.
What a silly comment.
Are you suggesting that western media is not equally "owned"?
Last time I checked, it was almost entirely owned by a few massive corporations - to the extent that it is common knowledge, supported by video clips, that it shows endless arrays of "news anchors" saying exactly the same thing at exactly the same time, to their hopelessly gullible audiences, of which you seem to be a prime example.
And what RT and Sputnik do is less "push a narrative" than to provide an alternative narrative to counter the completely one-sided narrative pushed by all these news corporations I mentioned, who work in lockstep with each other.
If they are so obviously compromised, as you suggest, then why not expose them, rather than banning them, as the west has done?
"Truth does not fear investigation," so if you cannot expose them, then the cowardly thing to do is what is done throughout western media, ( Twitter springs to mind ) and ban them.
This is a sign of systemic deception and extreme weakness on the part of the western narrative.
As to SouthFront. they do the same, and their content is largely in the video format anyway. If the videos they post are made up, as western videos usually are, then please provide evidence, rather than allegation.
So I advise you to save your mealy-mouthed "concern" for yourself - and by golly, you surely need it.
Thank you Alex.
Propaganda is a strong power, that is using narratives as weapons.
I followed the Syrian war, by listening in on the communication of those that were fighting on the ground (it was accessible via Internet and i could translate from + into Arab, Farsi, Russian, Hebrew, Turkish and many other languages using google translate, even Chinese from some Uyghurs fighting in Idlib.).
I learned about checking locations in Photo's en Video's to check whether they were truly made where the narrative said it was and to try to find the first occurrence of that item on Internet, to check the time on which it was told to have happened.
So i could eliminate many of the sources that were producing Fake news. Sometimes they used a source believing it was reliable and i could tell them it was not.
I also used Media to compare them with each other and with the facts i had found.
It appeared that ALL the western Media were producing the same Fake news, most of the time using the same words, which made it easy to see that they were just spreading propaganda from 1 source.
In the time the Turkish & CIA supported (trained, paid, armed) Wahabi extremists (FSA, Nusra Front, al Qaeda, IS, ISIS) were successful, they made propaganda which made it clear which sources were theirs. They even showed video's to prove their crimes, like the Ukraine Nazi's have done for a while until Kiev forbade that.
Next to that i met (on Twitter) Russian, English & Arab accounts that did the same as i did, mostly on a specific area of interest (Air-planes, Air-defence, Navy, shipping, Arms, mercenaries etc.), I still use their accounts when something happens. So i entered a network of searchers for truth.
In that time i concluded, that one of the most reliable media source was South Front. They used info and material from mainly Russian (and Wagner) fighters and geopolitical interested academics from all over the world, from which i never found Fake news.
So i now use Southfront still as reliable source, which is confirmed by the fact that Twitter and Google/YouTube have blocked the website, for which i have a workaround.
So i ask you to check yourself if what you have written is true.
Thanks again for opening up with this question.
Maybe others have an opinion on this too (based on facts, not empty words)
I volunteer my services for SouthFront because I think they do their best to present facts and they actually draw on information from all sides of a conflict. In the process of trying to be objective they DO sometimes get things wrong or the writers generalize without real basis. But I have always found them open to discussion. NOBODY can get it right all the time, which is why diverse points of view are important. .
The claim that "all the western media produces the same fake news" is obviously untrue.
You either have not bothered to look thoroughly enough to find different sources or, more likely, are deliberately misrepresenting American/Western media. In the internet age, there are a vast number of sources with different worldviews on the news. I.e. Vox, WashingtonPost, and CNN say the opposite of DailyWire, Heritage Foundation, WSJ.
It is also untrue that SouthFront is blocked by Google or YouTube. SouthFront content is also all over Twitter, so that's also a lie.
SouthFront's fake news and propaganda stories straight from the FSB and Russian state are obvious. Here are a few examples.
-SouthFront has spent years putting out propaganda saying Russia is innocent in the shooting down of flight MH-17.
For context, Russia supplied the Buk missiles, controlled the Donetsk People's Republic separatist group, and were found guilty by Dutch courts.
-SouthFront propaganda says the Novichok poisoning on the Skripals is a western hoax and that Russia again is innocent.
-SouthFront propaganda falsely blamed Syrian rebels for chemical weapons attacks that the Syrian govenrment (a Russian ally) is proven to have perpetrated.
All of those claims are easily verifiable with a simple Google site search. If I wanted to point out every example of fake news and Russian propaganda coming from SouthFront, I could spend all day doing it.
That brings us to you.
From the fact that your identity is anonymous and that you didn't put your real name (like most other readers in these comments), I think its extremely likely you are either a Julian McFarlane alt account or some other Russian spam account used to spread Russian propaganda.
I doubt your comment is sincere or real. It reads like one of those fake five-star reviews from a fake customer that some businesses pay people to post. Too much detail, too much narrative.
Instead its most probably a manufactured pre-written response that's copy+pasted whenever some commenter questions News Analysis' links to SouthFront and Russian FSB propaganda.
Once you know what to look for, its very easy to sniff you guys out.
What you are sniffing is your own rear end, not the person you are attacking.
My jaw drops when I hear the blatant lies you are propagating wrt MH17, the Syrian gas false flag, the "Novichok" hoax, ( where are the Skripals, btw? The British government is refusing to answer constant Russian FM demands to know where their citizens are - something for MI5 to hide, maybe? )
And a "simple Google site search"?
You have heard about the rankings interference engaged in by that entity, I assume?
I do not like your reply. Since i am #ActuallyAutistic, i may seem rude in my reaction.
On Twitter i would have asked you to provide proof for your accusations and when you didn't produce that and neither apologised, we would have blocked you as a Troll.
So my question is: are you a troll ?
Check my Twitter account @OccupySchagen before you again reply.
We have 11.120 followers all over the world 3.000 Dutch speakers, mostly English but also many Spanish & Portuguese, French, German, Arab, Farsi, Chinese, Hebrew, Hindi. Urdu, Sanskrit & Japanese among others. That is because we have searched for independent new sources over the world.
I show 1 example of a LIE in your reply. Or did you accidentality not check it first ?
You said that SouthFront is all over twitter.
Look at this tweet and see what happens when you try to tweet a link to their website.
[ https://twitter.com/OccupySchagen/status/1609824318585716737 ]
I wait for your reply.
I received your comment as a reply to something I had said, so responded to it, but now see that you are talking to somebody else, so I deleted what I said.
I will make it a habit to name the one i address. Thank you.
Update: I checked Southfront on YouTube.
They do NOT use YouTube any more from their website, since they were blocked some years ago.
They now have their own Video database.
The problem is, that we use Archive to circumvent the blockage, but Video's cannot be viewed that way. So we stopped using Southfront video's.
But i did find a YouTube channel that shows many Southfront video's:
I Stand With Russia / @istandwithrussiaZ / 3,15K abonnees
We will use this source for video news from now on.
FYI, mon ami, I'm Irish and Catholic, practicing, not the Biden/Pelosi variety. I hate Nazism, not Nazis. If the latter are mass murderers, I want them to swing. One need not to be a Jew to know evil. That tells you something about yourself.
"I am "multipolar". "
To culture, good and bad are some cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, while it nature, it's the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental, the 1/0 of sentience.
That's because it's the function of culture to synchronize the body politic into one larger social organism. Yet organisms exist in ecosystems. The synchronization is balanced by harmonization.
While the West is determined to synchronize the world into one large social organism, it creates the effect of harmonization around the rest of the world, as they see it to their benefit to function as a larger ecosystem, trading value around effectively and not have it spiral into that black hole in the center.
The thought control runs deep. Remember democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The family as godhead. To the Ancients, monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god. Basically tribalism. The Romans adopted a monotheistic sect as state religion around the time the Empire was solidifying out of the ashes of the Republic. Essentially validating The Big Guy rules.
(Though the original strength of Christianity was as a story of renewal. The young god reborn in the spring, as a consequence of the old Greek religions having become set in stone, as Zeus didn't give way to Dionysus. Tradition and authority versus rebirth and renewal. Which was the basis of the Trinity. The young god born of the old sky god and earth mother. Which couldn't be canceled, so had to be obscured, since the Catholic church was the Eternal Institution. At least until Martin Luther tried pushing the rest button again.)
Logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. The light shining through the film, than the images on it.
Ideals are not absolute. A culture founded on the premise is inherently conflicted, as the multitudes of ideologies to rise in the shadow of monotheism all assert their ideals to be supreme and leave no stone unturned to prove it.
Morality is not an absolute. Obviously. It is learned and earned the hard way. Karma. What goes round, comes round. Emergence.
"Morality is not an absolute."
Morality is an absolute, by denying this, you become one with antichrist.
The absolute morality was given by God in the Decalogue, and remains, unchanged and unchanging, for all eternity.
And of course, the trinity is not a Biblical doctrine, as many scholars have noted - it is an interpolation.
In the Bible, morality boils down to the Golden Rule. Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you.
Karma. What goes round, comes round.
Of course, there are the Ten Commandments, but since they don't seem to apply to what Christians do to non-Christians, obviously are not absolute.
I fail to see how the commandment "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy" "boils down to the Golden Rule - or "karma."
Perhaps you can spend a few more lines enlightening us.
Or how "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me" has anything to do with "karma".
And you should not imagine that all who call themselves Christians are what they say they are - as we are told, "many wolves have come in amongst the flock" - but if you seek to understand the absolute nature of Christian morality, based as it is on the eternal and unchanging Decalogue - then hear the words of the Saviour - "If ye love Me, keep My commandments."
Those who do not keep them therefore, do not love Him, and so are not Christians.
And I don't think anybody has ever suggested that a "culture founded upon the premise" is unchanging - this would be a straw man argument therefore, what is unchanging is the word of God, and His unchanging law, which is beyond the shifting sands of culture.
I'm not going to argue your, obviously deeply held, beliefs.
I'm just pointing out where my journeys have taken me.
Personally I was born Episcopalian, so my particular sect of Christianity grew out of King Henry the 8th not being able to get a divorce. Kind of made me want to look further into the foundations.
Henry was raised with a religious education, his elder brother was born to be king.
So H8 had a very stunted sexual outlook, his multiple failed marriages and failures to produce children show this big time.
"Failures to produce children" - I expect you have forgotten about one of the greatest children ever produced - one Elizabeth his daughter; although he also produced the great heretic "Bloody Mary" as well.
Perhaps history was never your strongest suit.
From WP
" ... Henry VIII of England had several children. The best known children are the three legitimate offspring who survived infancy and would succeed him as monarchs of England successively, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I.
His first two wives, Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn, had several pregnancies that ended in stillbirth, miscarriage, or death in infancy. Henry acknowledged one illegitimate child, Henry FitzRoy, as his own, but is suspected to have fathered several illegitimate children by different mistresses.[1] The number and identity of these is a matter of historical debate.[citation needed] .... "
I'm trying to approach the issue logically, and I see a lot of inconsistencies in your argumentation, although I have to admit, I find it quite difficult to understand what you are saying; but I assume once the layers of verbosity are removed, it will simply "boil down" to a generalized form of humanitarianism, ie placing man above God.
Perhaps I'm wrong; but I'm always prepared to listen.
An absolute is a universal state. Like absolute zero. It has no distinctions, divisions, gradients, relationships, structures. So the premise of an absolute morality, as in what's right and wrong, would seem to be an oxymoron. At least to me.
Religions seem to be a cultural expression of spirituality, necessitating some set of principles, rules, qualifications, as to what is socially and culturally condoned.
So, to me, it would seem a spiritual absolute/universal state, would be that essence of sentience bubbling up through life. Which obviously takes many forms, from biology to the various cultures organisms evolve. So there seems to be a dichotomy here, between that essence driving life and the forms it manifests. Motor and steering.
Much of this goes my to efforts to understand physics. One major issue I have with how it is formulated is the concept of time.
As these mobile organisms, fauna have evolved this sentient interface between the individual organism and its environment, that functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate. So our experience of time is as the point of the present, moving past to future. Codified as measures of duration. Culture is largely a function of social narratives.
The evident reality is that change is turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Duration is the present, as the events form and dissolve.
There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.
Energy is "conserved," because it manifests this presence, creating time, temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.
So the energy/presence, goes past to future, because the patterns it generates coalesce and dissolve, future to past. Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall.
Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Though it is the gut processing the energy and feeding the flame, while the head sorts the forms/information.
So, again, there is this dichotomy, between this conscious element driving us and the decisions it has to make in order to function.
The anarchies of desire, versus the tyrannies of judgement.
Given that galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in, this relationship seems to run pretty deep. We seem to be some complex feedback loop in the middle. What goes round, comes round.
I don't know that I'm much of a humanist. We seem a pretty silly lot.
Good article, Julian but would be even better without the typos.
I went over it just now and fixed what I could find . Embarrassing. Thank you so much for noticing. It's great help!
Quite right about the typos. My dyslexia again. I read this stuff aloud and STILL find typos afterwards. I will go over it once again and look once more. SORRY guys!s