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MH17 engine. All the credible evidence points to Kiev and Washington as the perpetrators, albeit protected by a huge propaganda shield. False flag, anyone?

MH17 engine. All the credible evidence points to Kiev and Washington as the perpetrators of this heinous crime, albeit protected by a huge propaganda shield. False flag, anyone? (Click on image)

The Dutch cover up report on MH17 comes out on Monday. Of course, I have not read the final draft yet, because the contents are secret, but I know bullshit when I smell it, and I can smell it all the way from Amsterdam. I do not have to read it to know it is a lie. But I will, and it will be. How can I be so sure? Because I know what happened, I have been told by an eyewitness. But even before that, all the circumstantial evidence really puts the answer beyond any reasonable doubt. And when the Dutch publish their lies on Monday, I expect the Russians will reply with the truth, and with their proof. In the meantime, let's consider what we already know...

There are already far too many discrepancies for any serious person to give the Dutch "report" any credence, regardless of what it says. If this report was not a cover up, if it actually was concerned with the truth, instead of just being a cover up of an obvious false flag, it would have come out at least a year ago, rather than 16 months after the fact. Why do you think it took so long?

The author on MH17's scared ground.

The author on MH17's now sacred ground.

False flags are used by fascist warmongers the way a carpenter uses a hammer. It is one of their primary tools: Gulf of Tonkin, 9/11, Iraqi WMD's, Syrian sarin, MH17... You don't have to be a genius to see the pattern here. And many people do. Gone are the days when eyewitnesses in Dealy Plaza or Lower Manhattan will say "I thought I knew what I saw, but after reading the government report, I guess I was wrong." The Fascists have learned from their past mistakes. The world is much more informed and aware than it was in November '63 or September 2001. So this time, they take their time to craft their lies carefully, to try and avoid another "magic bullet" or WTC 7. But a lie is still a lie, and the truth will out. Many people around the world are waking up and refusing to believe the lies, and I am sure it will be the same with the MH17 report. But this time, let's do something about it.

Texac (in front) with his comrades in arms in Donetsk.

Texac (in front, dark shades and hat) with his comrades in arms in Donetsk. (Click image)

[dropcap]H[/dropcap]ow can I be sure the report will be a lie if I haven't read it yet? Well, for one thing, the authors of the report have been lying all along, with their leaks and comments and misleading innuendo. This article is an excellent example of what I mean. But even without all these documented falsehoods by the authors, you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to draw an accurate and obvious conclusion from the circumstances. Let's do our own investigation of the publicly acknowledged historical facts...

"If this report was not a cover up, if it actually was concerned with the truth, instead of just being a cover up of an obvious false flag, it would have come out at least a year ago, rather than 16 months after the fact..." 

First, always ask "Cui bono", who benefits?  Certainly not the Russians or the Novorussians. Is it really possible to believe that either would shoot down a civilian airliner on purpose or by accident? On purpose, not possible.It would be suicidal for them, as well as criminally insane to do so. By accident? Do you really think soldiers trained on a sophisticated weapons system like the BUK could not tell the difference between the radar signature of a civilian airliner and a military jet fighter? No, whoever shot MH17 down, knew it was a civilian airliner, and targeted it on purpose, but there are many reasons to doubt it was even shot down by a BUK.

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The photographs of the fuselage of MH17's cockpit are all you really need to see. The perfectly round  30 mm holes can be seen in photos on Google Images. Or listen to what Canadian citizen and OSCE monitor Michael Bociurkiw said, just a few days after the event. Russian military radar detected at least one SU-25 in close proximity to MH17 just before the crash, consistent with eyewitness accounts from people on the ground at the time, including DNP Prime Minister Alexander Zaharshenko (6:14) Interestingly, the Wikipedia and other information sources about SU-25 flight capabilities were edited and changed before July 17th, to reduce the flight ceiling from 10,000 meters to 7,000 meters. The SU-25 CAN fly at 10,000 meters, (10:50) the height that MH17 was at when it was attacked. The SU-25 is armed with two 30 mm cannons. The Ukrainian Air Force has Su-25's. The DNR does not.

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[dropcap]B[/dropcap]ut beyond all the evidence out there for anyone who wants to find it, just ask yourself the obvious questions - why did Yatsenyuk resign less than a week later, only to be ordered to return. Why did it take 16 months for the report to come out, why does the US release meticulous satellite images of Russian forces in Syria, but releases none from Ukraine, when it is a known fact that the US had a satellite over Ukraine when MH17 was shot down? What ever happened to the air traffic control tapes from Kiev ATC, or the air traffic controller Carlos from Spain who tweeted about Ukrainian SBU agents confiscating the tapes minutes after MH17 went down? If the Dutch report does not include US satellite images, info from the Black Boxes (that the DNR turned over to investigators days after they were found), the Kiev ATC tapes, and the info about the metal fragments found in the autopsies of the victims, it is total bullshit. Which is what I expect.

Dead passenger still attached to seat.

Dead passenger still attached to seat.

I went to the MH17 crash site a few days ago. I visited two memorials for the 298 victims who were murdered in the skies above Novorussia. Two places where human bodies fell like rain. Innocent men, women, and 80 innocent children, sacrificed by genuine Evil, to perpetuate a lie. As I stood there, I thought to myself that I had never been to the site of a mass murder before, and then it occurred to me that indeed I had. When I was in the US Army, stationed in Germany over 30 years ago, I went to Dachau concentration camp, outside Munich. I did not want to go, but I felt a moral obligation to do so, to look true Evil in the face, to see its work, and I did the same outside Torrez last week, again. And before I went to Torrez, I wondered what kind of person could pull the trigger, sending 298 innocent human beings to their deaths, and standing there at the memorial in GOLOBO, I knew. Those that did this are the same as those who filled the ovens at Dachau, and who burned men, women and children to death on Odessa. Those that can say killing half a million children was "Worth it", those who can use the words "infinitely easy" and "kill a million people" in the same sentence. Nazis. You know who did this, and so do I. And I understood that those who did this, and those who ordered it to be done, are not human, they are monsters. As are their Dutch lying lackeys who will try to cover up this crime on Monday, October 13th, 2015.

I have been to Amsterdam many times, and have flown out of Schiphol Airport more than once myself. The people who boarded Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 on that terrible day back in 2014 did not think the war in Donbass could ever effect them. It did. Those of us still here must take a lesson from them. Or we too will suffer their fate. There is a war going on, all over the world, right now, today. This war is between Humanity and those who want to exterminate most of us and enslave the rest. Donbass and Syria are the front lines, and what happens in these places will determine the future for us all. Remember that, and think, and engage, with your heart and with your mind. We are all in this together, and the day of reckoning is near. Forego the comforting lie and face the hard truth. The future of Humanity depends upon your doing so.

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Editor's Note: Russell Bentley, American expat and volunteer antifascist soldier in the struggle of Eastern Ukraine's young republics of Donetsk and Lugansk against Kiev's Nazi-infested, NATO-supported regime, has produced a moving video showing the people of Donetsk commemorating Russia's victory in the Great Patriotic War. Simple and eloquent, the images say it all. I believe that decent people everywhere who understand these things, what WW2 meant to so many in terms of losses, pain and sacrifice,  will have a tough time holding back the tears. Paul Robeson's singing is a most felicitous addition.—PG.  

DESCRIPTION: The BEST video of DPR Victory Day parade 2020! Filmed from inside the car. With the Hymn of the Soviet Union, in English, sung by Paul Robeson. Directed by Russell Bentley, Filmed by Red Hampton and Lyudmila Bentley, edited by Red Hampton. Real goosebump material! Subscribe, Like, SHARE!!!

 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
russellBentleyRussell Bonner Bentley, aka "Texac", is an American-born writer and volunteer soldier currently serving with the Novorossiyan Armed Forces (NAF), as the young republics in Eastern Ukraine confront the assault of the US-created and nazi-dominated Kiev regime.  Russell incarnates the spirit of the Lincoln Brigades, and Jack Reed. Besides his duties as a frontline fighter, Russell also works as a war correspondent. His chronicles about the situation in that strategically critical region, featured as "War Diaries" on The Greanville Post, are also distributed to other leading left publications, reaching a global audience. 

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[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he recent big news about Zelensky signing the "Steinmeier Formula" of the Minks II Agreement has raised eyebrows and ruffled feathers on both sides of the conflict, but is it really such a big deal? And haven't we learned a lesson about Russians signing treaties with nazis before?  What are the results and advantages, if any, of this latest development?

 
The Steinmeier Formula is basically a simplified version of the Minsk Agreement, with a timeline for implementing the four major points - 1) elections to be held in the Donbass Republics, 2) confirmation of the results by OSCE, 3) amendment to the Constitution of Ukraine allowing independent self-government of regions, and finally, 4) return of control to Ukraine of L/DPR border crossings with Russia. In that order.
 

Members of the Azov battalion, one of the most rabidly neonazi militia groups in Ukraine, first financed by Jewish-Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, currently integrated into the nation's army.

The first important thing to understand about Ukraine signing this document is that it is only a piece of paper. There is quite a difference between saying you are going to climb a mountain and the actual climbing of it. And there is also a big difference between telling someone you are going to climb a mountain and them actually believing that you will. However, it is noteworthy and precedent setting that Ukraine/Zelensky have defied the orders of their US gauleiters who refuse to recognize the legitimacy of the Republic's leadership by dealing with them directly. Ukraine and Zelensky have now, in fact, dealt directly with the foreign ministers of the DPR and LPR, therefore, recognized them as such. So now, after 5 years, the "so-called", "self-declared" Republics are finally simply and de facto, The Republics.  Score one for the good guys.

BELOW: BBC map of the "rebel republics"

 

Second, the Minsk Agreement and the Steinmeier Formula are the rock and the hard place between which Banderastan finds itself stuck. The goal for Ukrainian nazis and their US/Israeli masters is control of the Russian border crossings currently held by L/DPR authorities. Who controls the border crossings controls the Republics. But what is of the utmost importance in the formula is that the control of the border crossings is the final point, and can only be ceded after all the prior points are implemented. Those prior points include independent elections in the Republics, confirmation and recognition of the results by Europe and The Ukraine, and amending the Constitution of Ukraine. The main thing to understand about all this is that none of it is ever going to actually happen.

 
If elections are held in the Donbass Republics and the results are confirmed and recognized by Ukraine and the OSCE, the Republics are themselves recognized. If the Ukrainian Constitution is amended to allow independent self-government of the Republics, it must also allow other regions of Ukraine the same option, which would be undertaken by many regions immediately. Ukraine as a nation would be "Balkanized" and cease to exist in the same way and to the same extent as the Republic of Yugoslavia did. In order for Ukraine to try to take control of the Donbass Republics, they must relinquish control of the rest of the country. They may talk and sign documents, but they will never actually do it. First, they are not capable, and second it would be national suicide for them.
 
And while the scum who currently control and exploit Ukraine could not care less about the future of Ukraine or its people, they, like all parasites, wish to keep the host alive as long as possible in order to suck every last bit of wealth and worth out of the country before they abandon it.
 
 Furthermore, the people and defenders of the Republics will never, ever, allow the return of Ukraine government or military on our land. Laws and promises and treaties aside, it would be actual suicide for us to do so, on a Rwandan scale, as well as the absolute betrayal of the heroism, sacrifice and suffering we have undertaken and endured for the last five years. So, as I have said before, The Donbass Republics will never return to Ukraine, but there is a possibility that someday Ukraine will return to us, and to Mother Russia. It is literally the Ukraine's only hope.
 

LEFT: Zionist oligarch Kolomoisky: a financial supporter and user of neonazi mlitias. Israeli and Western journos keep surprisingly mum about such grotesque contradictions. 

The once great nation of Ukraine has been raped and robbed and ruined by the most venal scum on this planet. Nuland, Pyatt, the goddamned Bidens, Hillary Clinton, the fucking EU, Poroshenko, Yatsenyuk, Kolomoisky, Monsanto, Burisma, the IMF... These parasites, these vermin, and their Zionist oligarch allies and their nazi henchmen are a fatal disease to the Ukrainian nation and the Ukrainian People.

 
Ukraine is now a satrapy that is controlled by foreign masters for their own benefit, and at the overwhelming expense of the citizens. The people of Donbass saw this trap and recognized it for what it was back in 2014, and we faced all-out war to break free from it. We will never, ever, willingly submit to the exploitation and outrages that Ukraine now suffers. If the ukrop nazis and their western masters could not force us to submit with war and terrorism, do you really think it is possible they will trick us with a treaty, "pencil-whip" us with pen and paper? Do you really think that clowns like Volker, Steinmeier or Zelensky could ever fool Russia or our Republics, could ever beat us at negotiation or diplomacy? These idiots have plenty of weapons and a willingness to use them, but inevitably, over and over again, they shoot themselves in their own two feet.
 
We have seen firsthand the worth of the words of ukrop nazis and their treacherous western masters. They are utterly unworthy of trust or respect, or of being taken seriously. We fully understand that they have exactly zero intention of adhering to any treaty or law, that they will break any promise or guarantee they make at the first instance they see an advantage in doing so. We may bandy about with them, but we are only marking time until Ukraine is finally sucked dry by its parasites and implodes under its own dead weight, or until the people of Ukraine finally stand up and take back their country, their history and their honor, and return to the Russian World of which they have been a part for over 1,000 years.
 
The Republics still stand, so we are winning. Time is on our side. Every year that passes we become stronger and Ukraine becomes weaker. Of course, the war continues, of course they kill more of us than we kill of them, and Donbass remains a potential regional and international flashpoint that can re-ignite at anytime. The rulers of Ukraine remain dangerous criminals, but they are also incompetent buffoons. Nobody here is falling for their lies. If they think they can fool us with tricks and treaties, they are only fooling themselves. 
 

The author guarding outpost in the field.


In the end, the Steinmeier Formula is an unwitting formula for the further deterioration of Ukraine's political stability and future cohesion as a political entity, and above all a wedge between the competing gangster factions that are robbing and misruling the state. It further separates the US and EU, it pits Zelensky directly against the US masters who ordered him not to deal directly with L/DPR reps, and it wreaks havoc on Kolomoisky's political zoo, facing off his neo-nazi attack dogs against his presidential pet monkey. These are dangerous times for Zelensky and Ukraine. There are psychopath gangsters with heavy weapons howling for his blood, and they might just get it sooner than later. Perhaps Zelensky will be compelled to request Russian military assistance to safeguard his existence, quell rebellion and stabilize the situation, as Yanukovich should have done 5 years ago.

The signing of this treaty is a victory for Russia and the People's Republics and another defeat for Ukraine and her exploiters. The criminal clown show of ukrop politics is in no way equal to the diplomats arrayed against them on our side. The signing of the treaty by Zelensky is a move in the right direction, but ultimately, the situation in Ukraine is too far out of hand to have any real chance of a peaceful solution. More blood will be spilled before it is done, the only question is how many innocent lives must be lost in the process. The nazis and war criminals will have to pay for their crimes, there is no chance of peaceful coexistence with murderers and torturers. They know the punishment that awaits them, so will fight to the death rather than face justice. This is reality, and the sooner it is faced and dealt with, the better. There can only be peace after the total de-nazification of Ukraine and the punishment of the criminals, by military force if need be. So, let's get to it!

 
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The following is an excerpt from an attempt at insidious disparagement of Texas' work by the BBC. Note the BBC narrative—by Sam Bright, and published on BBC Trending— seems careful not to go full on with an attack on Bentley, merely suggesting he is misusing funds or contravening donation protocols. At certain points he's borderline admiring.  Bright also describes the pro-separatist activities of two Britons, one of whom, Benjamin Stimson, from Manchester in the UK, was sentenced by Manchester Crown Court to five years and four months in prison for assisting separatist forces in Donbass. Bright does not seem unduly upset by this disgusting ruling, in perfect accordance with the UK's government and establishment's warmongering and russophobic posture. Seeking to find something supposedly alarming to say about these eefforts, and Bentley's in particular, Bright, mirroring the transparent biases and ignorance pervading Western media, declares that Bentley is affiliated with the Essence of Time movement - a Russia-based communist group which seeks to create "USSR 2.0", involving the break-up of Ukraine.

The communist soldier using charity sites to fund his war


Dateline: 24  July 2017
Charity donation websites, often used to support victims of violence, are being employed by a number of Westerners to finance their personal war efforts.

Fighting continues in eastern Ukraine, as pro-Russian separatists battle Ukrainian government forces. More than 10,000 people have died since the conflict erupted in April 2014, and recently a rebel leader declared a state called "Malorossiya" (Little Russia) in Donetsk.

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The author in his own words: "My name is Russell "Texas" Bentley, and this is my blog about the war in the Donbass region of Southeast Ukraine. I am in Donetsk, and I have been here since December 2014. From January to June 2015, I was a soldier in the Essence of Time combat unit of the Novorussian Armed Forces (NAF). I served at the Donetsk airport and Spartak as a rifleman and RPG gunner. I am now doing Information Warfare for the Donetsk People's Republic. The war in Donbass is only one Front in a global war. Fascism has again raised its ugly head, and we are here to fight and defeat it. Truth is one of our most powerful weapons, and my job is to get the truth to the people of the Western world." You can read more details about his work in the Donbass here. 

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OpEds: Is Trump A Fascist? Like Obama & Clinton Before Him – YES

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”Self-indulgence has its limits. There are times when reality cannot be blustered through.”

A rejoinder to Norman Ball’s “Trump Vs. NPC’s: The Prattle-Whinge Of The Republic“

[dropcap]I [/dropcap]can only laugh at anyone who still supports Trump or fails to understand that he is a distraction and a tool of the same evil masters who control Bush, Clinton and Obama, as well as most of the Western governments and institutions in the world today.

Do I despair at the juvenile stupidity of the vast majority of clueless pseudo-“progressives” who call Trump a fascist? Of course I do, but that in no way contradicts the fact that trump is a fascist. Whether by Mussolini’s definition, “corporatist”, or by the 14 Characteristics of Fascism, Trump qualifies as a genuine fascist on every single one. As did Obama before him. As does Clinton. Same shit, different pile.

Some Trumpsters try to excuse Trump’s fascist character and actions by saying he is trapped in a totally corrupt political cage that is designed to prevent any real political progress. Of course they too are also right, (about the cage) but like the pseudo-Left, they are right while still being fundamentally wrong. Because they are using a truth to try to prove a falsehood. They miss the point completely. Trump was a puppet and a clown, an idiot and an asshole, a tool of oligarchy, long before he became President.

Some Trumpsters try to excuse Trump’s fascist character and actions by saying he is trapped in a totally corrupt political cage that is designed to prevent any real political progress. Of course they too are also right, (about the cage) but like the pseudo-Left, they are right while still being fundamentally wrong. Because they are using a truth to try to prove a falsehood. They miss the point completely. Trump was a puppet and a clown, an idiot and an asshole, a tool of oligarchy, long before he became President. The point is that he wouldn’t do shit, even if he could. He can’t. He hasn’t, and he won’t. And he wouldn’t if he could. Only suckers, chumps and idiots still think he will.

The “inconvenient truth”, that the Trump regime “is possibly the most transparent, and potentially the most accountable, in US history”… “who fundamentally changed the framework of accountability and transparency in government” is laughable. That “No President in modern history has put that much accountability into the position of each cabinet member” is impossible to read with a straight face. What kind of idiot could write such drivel? What kind of idiot could believe it? One need only look at those cabinet members and know who they are, to understand this is just another pile of the same old shit. Pence? Bolton? Sessions? Nikki Haley? Pompeo? Mnuchin? Mattis? Betsy DeVos? Kirsten Nielsen? Rick Perry? You gotta be fucking kidding me. These are the fascist minions of oligarchy, as is Trump himself. This is a regime. Just like the one they have in Ukraine.To pretend otherwise is to be as divorced from reality as 47 different gender types.

Does Hitler “warrant more dastardly comparables”? Maybe. Trumpsters should ask the victims of Trump’s wars in Ukraine or Syria, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq or Yemen about that. But if the idiot bastard Trump succeeds in starting World War Three, as he certainly seems intent upon doing, Hitler will pale in comparison. Hitler only started World War Two, he only killed millions. World War Three will kill billions. Think about it. The end of life on Earth, at least for most of us, certainly including you and me. And Trump is playing with it like a monkey with a hand grenade. And no one on Earth today is closer to pulling the pin than the simian fascist Donald Trump.

The “prattle-whinge” of the Trumpsters is as dangerously stupid, as erroneous, and as worthless and contemptible, as that of the so-called “Left” who decry Trump’s genuine fascism while supporting Clinton’s genuine fascism. A mirror image of the same idiocy, the same Pavlovian knee-jerk reaction of noticing the speck in the other’s eye while missing the log in your own. There is a word for people who criticize in others what they themselves do as well. That word is “hypocrite”. There is a word for people who support Clinton, or still support Trump after two years of his pompous and highly dangerous misrule. That word is “idiot”.

The false dichotomy between “Right” and “Left” is what has neutered the political will and the political power of the American People. As long as you fight each other, you are utterly impotent, and your masters, your real enemies, will continue to fuck you, your family, your nation, your future and the world, to death, using tools like Donald Trump. Their impudence is the measure of your impotence. And just look at how impudent they are!

{And speaking of impudence, Ball’s criticism of Chris Hedges and Ralph Nader, while he extols the fake “populism” of Trump, really goes beyond the pale. Hedges and Nader are the titans of US political science in the 21st Century, modern versions of Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, respectively. They have not years, but decades, of real populist activism behind them and remain at the forefront of US political thought. Trump”s “populism” extends to bullshit promises that will never be fulfilled..}

Trump is not anyone’s savior, and those who delude themselves into thinking that there is any difference between him and the scum who came before him are not only wrong by every empirical measure, but they are childish and cowardly as well – they pretend that Trump will do what only they themselves can do, and they abdicate their own responsibility for their lives and futures by pretending he will fix things. He hasn’t, he can’t, and he wouldn’t if he could. HE WON’T. To pretend otherwise not only invites ridicule, it is dangerous to the point of being suicidal.

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There is no “peaceful” political process, no political figure, who can save the people of the West, and especially the USA, from what is clearly coming, and which they will certainly deserve if they let it. Elections and politicians are worse than useless, a distraction, a continuation of the status quo, or worse. They are a huge waste of resources – human, economic, intellectual, chronological. Think hard about that last one – chronological. “So let us not talk falsely now. The hour’s getting late.” Indeed it is.

If you want to know what’s in store for the USA, look at Ukraine. A failed state. Undrinkable water. No heat for millions. Ecological and economic rape six ways from Sunday. Utterly corrupt oligarchs and politicians who loot the nation and the people of every possible resource, who ruin the country and its future, then skedaddle with their billions as Yatsenyuk did, as Poroshenko will, as Tymoshenko will. (As Trump and Clinton will.) And do you really think there will be any difference when ukrops vote between Poroshenko and Tymoshenko? Just as much difference as between Trump and those who came before or whoever comes after.

But I will say what any intelligent person will always say, or at least always consider – “I could be wrong.” And if I am, I will be glad to admit it. So, get back to me, Trumpsters, the day Trump puts Clinton or Obama or Bush or any billionaire in prison, the day Trump orders the withdrawal of all US troops from Syria, the day he cuts off 100% of US support to ISIS terrorists or the nazis in Kiev, the day Trump outlaws paperless voting machines, the day Trump starts a real investigation into 9/11 or the Pentagon’s missing trillions, or cuts one single dollar from the US military budget. Till then, thanks for the laughs, idiots, and STFU.

Everyone has a right to their own opinion, so they say, even idiots. A Kalahari Bushman may have an opinion about rocket science, an eight year old kid may have an opinion about neurosurgery. It’s their right, but they’re always gonna be wrong. Because they may have a right to their opinion, but it doesn’t mean they’re qualified to have it, it doesn’t mean it is anything other than sheer idiocy to utter it, it doesn’t mean that it is not extremely dangerous and stupid for anyone to give it any credence.

Trump is a piece of shit. Clinton is a piece of shit. Anyone who can still support either of them is literally as stupid, as disgusting, as dangerously insane as any other coprophage. And it is better for coprophages to keep their mouths shut.

Trump supporters: following this crude mean-spirited demagog for a load of profoundly misguided reasons. But let us recall that the Democrats—the liberals and their endless treacheries—made Trump inevitable.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Russell "Texas" Bentley is an Information Warrior in Donetsk, DNR. He has been in Donbass since December 2014, as a soldier in the Novorussian Army, serving with the Essence of Time combat unit, and with Vostok and XAH Battalions. Now, as a member of the Essence of Time Information Center, he provides factual news and counter-propaganda about the situation in Ukraine and the war against Donbass. Using cameras and computers, as well as guns, guitars and grenades, he is still fighting against the US installed and backed fascist regime in Kiev.

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By Texas Russell Bonner Bentley, Fort Russ News | OpEds

"No one can earn a billion dollars. That amount can only be stolen or swindled. No one can work so hard or be so brilliant that they could possibly earn such a sum. And it must be understood and remembered that a billion is one thousand million, and most billionaires are multi-billionaires..."

[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen I look back on twenty years of political activism in the USA and more recently in Donbass, I must admit I sometimes wonder if it was worth it. I ask myself if I have actually done any good. “Good”, both in the moral sense and as well as whether I’ve been effective. Whether I’ve done my share, made any actual difference. We all have a part to play, something that we can do. The question is whether we do what we can, or don’t. Einstein said that the answers to all the world’s problems lie in the space between what people do and what they could do, if they chose to, if they made the effort, took action instead of just talking about the world’s problems, or worse, ignoring them.

But of course, if you take the responsibility, the risk, of taking action, you must be sure it is for the right cause. This brings up the question of good and evil. You have to know what they are to know which side you’re on.  So, let’s start by defining both “Good” and “Evil”, as moral, philosophic and materialistic concepts. Should we start with Good or Evil? As Anton Chigurh might say, “Let’s flip for it.”  I did. It came up tails. Evil.

Chigurh (Javier Bardem) offering his lapidary coin toss to a hapless storekeeper.

Many people say that money is the root of all evil. They are ignorant, (and we’ll get to that) aping the words of others, clueless as to the real quote, where it came from, or what it really means. The real quote is from the Bible, First Timothy 6:10, and it says “The love of money is the root of all evil”, and that is what it means. Big difference.  So, how is the love of money expressed? Through greed and selfishness of course, and greed and selfishness are also symptoms of fear

Scott Peck, the brilliant psychiatrist and theologian, wrote a book, People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil, in which he gave several excellent definitions of what evil really is. The first and most concise is simply “militant ignorance”. Think about that for a moment, let it sink in. And ask yourself if there is a better, more all encompassing description than that for the USA in the 21st Century.  It is the definition of evil. There are other definitions and  indices of evil in his book, all of which are instructive. The title itself defines evil – “The People of the Lie”. Is there a representative of the US government over the last 30 years for whom this title does not apply? The Bible, in John 8:44 describes the Devil, saying, “When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar, and the father of lies.” Peck further defines evil as “a willingness to impose suffering on others, in order to avoid one’s own spiritual growth.” Again hauntingly familiar, a definition I am sure that the millions of suffering victims of the USA’s 21st Century wars of aggression would readily agree with.
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The modern history of the USA is one big lie. From the Warren Commission to 9/11, from Iraqi WMD’s to Syrian chemical weapons, lies are the currency of the US government. And the worst kind of lies are self-deceptions, which allow people to continue to do evil, while pretending to themselves that they are good. The murder of Gaddafi and the destruction of Libya, under the excuse of Right-to-Protect (“R2P”) is a perfect example. The “protection” that the US and NATO provided to Libya has led directly to an estimated minimum of 150,000 people in Libya, and a potential maximum of 360,000, with the mean average estimated at 250,000 people “protected” to death in Libya in the last 8 years. Under self righteous but demonstrably false premises. The same false premises have cost the lives of 2.4 million people in Iraq (NOT counting the 500,000 children killed by sanctions before the  2003 invasion, which Madeline Albright said were “worth it”.)  Over a million are estimated to have been killed by US/NATO in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the death toll of the US instigated civil war against the legitimate government of Syria is estimated at 511,000 as of March 2018, and the toll continues to climb. These illegitimate wars of aggression, started by the USA and their lackeys have killed over 4 million human beings in less than a decade, and these wars continue today, based on the same lies with which they were started. The people of the lie, indeed…
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[dropcap]S[/dropcap]o, let’s begin our definition of evil by agreeing that those who commit, facilitate, allow or ignore the murder of millions of human beings [are enabling] genuine evil. They are evil.
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Hannah Arendt’s book, Eichmann in Jerusalem : A Report on the Banality of Evil, also offers useful definitions and insights into what evil really is. She came away from Eichmann’s trial struck by the banality, the stupidity, the utterly unremarkable and unoriginal character of a man who was also a willing functionary in a regime that was guilty in the mass murder of millions of people whose only “crime” was allowing themselves to be victims.  We can see the same banality in Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, in Boris Johnson and Teresa May, in Petro Poroshenko and Benjamin Netanyahu. Their pseudo intellect and their pseudo humanity. Another telltale sign of evil is cowardice – most of the leading German nazis chose suicide, and even murdered their entire families, rather than face justice and try to justify to the world what they were and what they had done. Or perhaps, it would be better to say that evil is a symptom of fear. It is, after all, far more difficult to be good than to be evil, especially in the world today, though perhaps it has always been thus.

Televangelist Joel Oteen—a multimillionaire many times over—preaching at his Lakewood Church, the largest church in Texas. As an exploiter of religiosity and charlatanism, he represents a pernicious social and psychological fungus deeply embedded in America's cultural fabric.

Greed and stinginess are also symptoms of fear, and the ultimate goal of Capitalism can honestly be described in the vile maxim “All for me, and none for anybody else.” In the USA today, the ultimate perversion of true Christianity is practiced by millions of affluent citizens under the contemptible name of “Prosperity Gospel”. They say that they are rich because they are rewarded by God for being good, and poor people are poor because they are punished by God for their evil ways. This, of course, is the exact opposite of the true Gospel of Jesus, such as Matthew 19:24, ” Indeed, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”  And Matthew 1:29, ” “If you want to be perfect, go sell everything you own! Give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven.”   When it comes to riches, it was the Devil who “took Jesus on a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the Earth, and all their riches, and said, “All this I will give to you if you will but fall down and worship me.” Matthew 4:8. Among the venal scum who preach this false religion, giving to the poor is not a priority.

Self-made capitalist and televangelist success Paula White. Trump's favorite pastor.

They live in multi-million dollar mansions, own private jets and luxury cars and build “mega-churches” the size of sports stadiums, as opulent as any Roman colosseum. “Pastrix” Paula White even gave multi-millionaire ($147 million) “Bishop” T. D. Jakes a $200,000 Bentley convertible for his 50th birthday. The top 10 richest “pastors” in the world live in the USA, or Nigeria. These scum spend millions on their own obscenely extravagant lifestyles, while giving a tiny fraction of their proceeds to the poor. They are paid by the Devil that they worship.

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Bono’s ONE Foundation is another glaring example – Though his own net worth is close to $700 million, he started the ONE Foundation to “raise awareness” of extreme poverty in Africa and elsewhere. The foundation raised over $11 million in 2008, and gave less than 2% to actual programs to help the poor. The rest went to the already obscenely rich Bono and his yuppie underlings.  Of course, centi-millionaire Bono’s fraud is chump change compared to the Clinton Foundation, “a charity fraud of epic proportions”.   The Clinton Foundation entities are part of a network that has defrauded donors and created illegal private gains of approximately $100 billion in combined magnitude, and possibly more, since 23 October 1997.”  Remember the quote about the love of money? It is the root of all evil. These phony preachers, these fake progressives, they love their money, are willing to steal food from starving children to buy their mansions and private jets, these паразиты, these parasites, are truly evil.
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There is an old canard, sometimes taught in 3rd rate ethics or philosophy classes that asks, “Is it wrong for a man to steal medicine for his dying wife if he cannot afford to buy it?”  What a ridiculous question. The answer is so obvious to any decent human being – “No, it is wrong for there to be medicine that is unaffordable to people who need it.”

So, what is “good”?

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s a Communist, my interpretation of what is right and good is that which is the greatest good for the greatest number of people, and by “good”, I mean that which promotes the health and happiness, that which ensures the basic necessities of life and the opportunity for each individual to fulfill their human potential to the greatest degree. As I see it, to the extent that someone’s actions diminish or interfere with this, they cannot be good. To the extent that they impose unnecessary suffering on others, they are evil. Every billionaire on this planet is evil. Their love of money has led them to amass unearned and unjustifiable fortunes without any consideration of others. No one can earn a billion dollars. That amount can only be stolen or swindled. No one can work so hard or be so brilliant that they could possibly earn such a sum. And it must be understood and remembered that a billion is one thousand million, and most billionaires are multi-billionaires, they have multi thousand millions. And yet children on this planet still starve, millions live without even the most basic requirements of life. There can be no moral justification for this.

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Other than a belief in God and an afterlife to be determined by what we do in this one, the broader definition of “religion” is a belief in something greater than one’s self, and a moral code that reflects that belief. I am an Orthodox Christian, and I do believe in God and an afterlife, but whether God exists or whether there is life after this one or not, either way, the definition of “good” remains the same. “The greatest good for the greatest number of people.”  Certainly, this would be the right way to earn the approval of God and a good place in the afterlife, but even if this life is all we have, we should still work for the same goal – we must make it as good and fulfilling as possible for ourselves and for all who share this short cosmic miracle of life with us. After all, we are all in this together. So, religion is the moral code by which we judge good and evil, ourselves and others, and politics is the method we use to realize our ideals. Thus politics and religion are inextricably intertwined.
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Von Clauswitz famously said, “War is not an independent phenomenon, it is the continuation of politics carried out by different means.” So, if war is politics carried out by different means, then politics is war carried out by different means. And make no mistake, our world is at war, the final war, Armageddon, the final conflict between good and evil, life and death. This war has the very real potential to annihilate not only all human life but also the very biosphere, all complex life on our planet. We are here, now, to choose our side and do our part in this war. We all have a part to play, and we all choose our side. Neutrality is not an option. Indifference is not an option. Evil is winning, death is winning, and all those who do nothing are on that side.
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The open warfare in Donbass and Syria are only the most obvious flashpoints in this global war between good and evil, life and death. And every choice we make, our every act or failure to act, effects this war and its ultimate outcome. Unless we can drastically change the current trajectory of human activity, we ourselves may not see the end of Humanity, but our children will. Life is what we make it, what all of us together make it for all of us together. Evil is powerful, but it is small, and it is afraid. We can defeat it, if we choose correctly our own moral code and then live by it in real terms, come what may, if we cross that space between what we do and what we could do, we can find the answers to all the world’s problems.

 

Let’s go!

 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  Russell Bonner Bentley ("Texac") was born in the United States and is now an “Information Warrior” for the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), which declared its independence from Ukraine in 2014. This former U.S. soldier went there to fight against fascism in Ukraine and around the world. Back in the 1990s when he was in the states, Bentley spent much of his adult life fighting for justice, including the struggle to free U.S. political prisoners Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal, both of whom he called “great men and true American heroes.” Although he describes himself as a poet by nature, Bentley left the U.S. in 2014 to join the Essence of Time (EOT) unit in the newly independent Donetsk, which was being attacked by the Ukrainian army, including many openly fascist units. Bentley served as a rifleman and RPG gunner on the frontlines at the Donetsk airport and the village of Spartak.

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