Guest post by bionic mosquito. An excellent illustration of how the world media kowtows to our owner’s owners.
“One sided questions; unable or unwilling to see things from the other side; accepting government statements as fact; ignoring well-reasoned responses; inability to think logically or critically. It isn’t just the American mainstream media….
Consider the words of Assad and consider the reaction of the interviewer; taken from an Interview of President al-Assad to Denmark’s TV 2:
President Assad: … actually, when you want to talk about the dire situation in eastern Aleppo, it’s not because of the government; it’s because of the terrorists. They’ve been in that area for years now, but we only heard about that “dire situation” in the media recently, in the Western media, because the situation of the terrorists is very bad.
The interviewer follows-up with a question that completely ignores this reality – the situation in eastern Aleppo has been hell for civilians for many years – it has become news only recently because the best publicity that the terrorists’ sponsors’ money can buy has been brought into play.
Question 5: So, if the Syrian Army didn’t attack hospitals, or maybe they did by mistake, you say, are you sure it’s not the Russian air force who are targeting hospitals?
President Assad: The question that you should ask when you have a crime: who is the beneficiary of that crime?
Does this response from Assad prompt any curiosity in the interviewer? Does the interviewer pull on the string: who gains from such attacks? No. He continues to lay blame on Russia and the Syrian government.
President Assad: …the terrorists according to what you are saying, terrorists are not responsible, they are very peaceful people. The money of Qatar and Saudi Arabia and Turkey are something legal and natural, let’s say, and the agenda of the United States fulfilled the needs of the Syrian people, which is not realistic.
The response from the interviewer? Crickets.
Forgive the lengthy cite, but this next portion is rather valuable:
Question 17: The United States, they stopped all bilateral talks with Russia about any kind of peace agreement, and the Russians they said that they actually regret this. Do you regret it as well?
President Assad: We regret it, but we knew in advance that it wouldn’t work…we had already known that the Americans didn’t have the will to reach any agreement, because the main part of that agreement is to attack al-Nusra which is, according to the American list and to the United Nations list, is a terrorist group, but in the Syrian conflict, it’s an American card.
Question 18: But isn’t it very difficult for the United States to separate the so-called “moderate rebels” and some of the more radical ones? This is very difficult, when you are attacking the moderate rebels all the time.
President Assad: You are right, do you know why you are right? Do you know the unicorn, the animal that’s like a horse, has a long horn? It’s a myth. And the moderate opposition is a myth. That’s why you cannot separate something that doesn’t exist from something that exists.
Does Assad fear further escalation between Russia and the United States as a result of these failed efforts?
President Assad: …actually that escalation has been happening for a while now. I mean, before that agreement, let’s say, failed, the Americans attacked our forces in Deir Ezzor…
… for the Americans, a hundred percent, they did it intentionally, because ISIS gathered their militants in the same place before the attack, and when the attack started, it took about one hour, and in the next hour ISIS attacked and took control of those hills. How could ISIS knew about this raid before it happened?
Keep in mind, this attack came shortly after the American military said they were not sure if they would support the deal reached between Kerry and Lavrov.
Regarding the puppet states of Europe:
President Assad: I’m sure not the Danish, not the British, decided which target they should attack. I’m sure the Americans said “this is our target, and this is where ISIS is.” …is it acceptable for the Danish people that your army is fulfilling military missions of other countries without verifying the target and knowing where is it heading? Do you take a bus without knowing where the bus is going to? You don’t.
…the Europeans implement and fulfill what the Americans want in every field without asking and without discussing…
…whole Europe now being absent from the political map at least since 2003 after the invasion of Iraq, just because they had to follow the Americans, and they don’t dare to take their independent, let’s say, path in politics.
Regarding the violation of international law:
President Assad: …the intervention in Syria, as part of the international coalition which is actually an American coalition, this is against the international law, this is against the sovereignty of Syria because this is not in coordination with the Syrian government, while the Russian came to Syria…after having an invitation from the Syrian government to support us in our fight against the terror.
An example of the futility of expecting someone from the western media or political establishment to consider how he might feel if the shoe was on the other foot:
Question 25: But what else should [the coalition] do? I mean, they are very much against what’s going on in Syria right now.
President Assad: The question is would you as a Danish citizen accept me as a foreigner to support opposition in your country with money and to tell them “go and kill, and that’s how you achieve your political goals?”
Nothing.
Regarding the diplomacy of the United States:
President Assad: [as opposed to the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis] …in the United States you don’t have superior statecraft. When you don’t have superior statecraft, you should expect anything, and you should always expect the worse.
This is the danger. It is a danger either because someone in the US is in charge or because no one in the US is in charge. Either way, the situation regarding two nuclear-armed powers is dangerous.
There is much more to the interview. It is worth reading.”
Assad is exactly right about Aleppo. I know the terrorists (USA) have been in Aleppo for years because that is where my soap is made. Aleppo has been famous for making soap for the 2000+ years. They use four simple ingredients and after discovering and preferring it to most anything made by ‘Murican companies I bought several hundred pounds of the stuff off eBay. That was just months before it became unobtanium. Since then, the price has tripled for Aleppo soap.
I/S- What are the four ingredients? Goat’s milk base ?
Olive oil, bay laurel oil, sodium hydroxide and water.
Master soap makers direct a team of apprentices in cooking the stuff then it is poured onto large, flat stone floors, cut into bars, stamped with the master soap makers mark the stacked and cured for a year or more.
It starts out green due to the olive oil but turns a nice golden brown while curing but the interior remains green. Each bar even has a few grains of sand in it.
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But does it have a pleasing fragrance? Looks interesting and it has to be good with the olive oil.
Supposedly the fragrance comes from the bay laurel oil. To be honest I don’t notice much fragrance to it at all except for an earthy aroma. My wife doesn’t care for the fragrance but neither of us can smell any hint of it once it has been rinsed and we are dried off. You can get another flavor made with argan oil but I don’t care for it. You can also get varieties made with higher percentages of bay laurel oil.
Check eBay. Be sure to compare weights when buying. A traditional bar of “soap” in ‘Murica is about 4oz. A regular Aleppo bar is almost nine ounces although you can buy half sized bars wrapped in cellophane. The traditional bars have no wrapping unless intended for an upscale market.
The fact that the US is trying to overthrow the legitimate government of Syria isnt even open to debate in the US. Not even Trump made this point in the debate. He talks about how its a disaster, but the word “disaster” has already been mocked and ignored by the left. This is how the media contains and isolates all discussions of our imperial foreign policy. It is Trump’s job to remind voters that this country is ruled by a criminal cabal that is constantly trying to overthrow sovereign regimes using any and all means necessary. Because nobody in the media is going to do it.
Hopefully, come next January, it will be his job to put an end to it as well.
Which I think he will do, or at least hope he will do.
We have far too many problems here at home to be worrying about someone else’s problems when they’re the ones that need to find a solution for them, not us.
Assad has so far staved off Saddam and Gaddafi’s fate. His calm assurance is remarkable given what has been done to his country for these long years and what is coming to the world if he starts to wobble and Russia has to be more aggressive. My hat is off to Assad and Putin for the extreme patience and care they’ve taken in managing this awful mess as US crosses every line, trying to induce any overreaction. They do the world a favor. For the sake of all of us, may God bless them in their efforts to hold the line until US breaks itself.
In the life of the individual, the best lessons God teaches are in humility: you are not the center of the world and you do not make the laws of the universe. Strong people do not always learn these lessons early, and often enough they leave a trail of wreckage until they eventually crash over their own hubris. The life of the state is not different, but a superpower state like US has no equal or higher authority to restrain it. There’s no surprise if it goes to its death in defiant arrogance. We all know the fall will come, sooner or later. It will be financial, or a war that gets out of hand, or it will be a civil war or racial conflict, or it will be all of the above, or something else.
I watched Samantha Power last week in a news conference on Aleppo. She was stern and exasperated. She was animated in her anger at the humanitarian problems due to Russia and Syria’s attacks on Aleppo. I wondered… does she really believe what she is saying? Is she not capable of self-reflection? Is there no trace of irony anywhere in her soul? She is one of an uncountable mass of people who go to washington to be sucked into its disturbing inversion of reality.
Compare Power to Maria Zakharova, who in her own press conference expressed helpless wonder at the stupidity of western media for believing the narrative of western political leaders. It’s hard to put your contempt for this intentional idiocy into words no matter who you are, but a russian spokesperson has to be careful when dealing with US… still, she could simply not contain her incredulous exasperation at the insulting stupidity of the questions she was being asked.
So I don’t know what else to say. I could go down a variety of other tangents and hash out the same disgust we all do… but what’s the point. Maybe I’ll go read Murray Rothbard and dream of an impossible future.