Remembering Daniel Ellsberg, call for leaks/truth , his regret...
Also, Andrei Martyanov calls NATO a dead man walking...
Today i wish to honour one of America’s national treasures, our dearly departed Daniel Ellsberg, who on June 16th, 2023 passed on to the beyond.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/daniel-ellsberg-father-legacy-his-son-his-country/5823274
Above, Daniel on left with his son, who gives an interview in the link, transcribed.
i saw Daniel speak at the 1111 Franklin, the UUUU , the Unitarian Universalist i forget what the other two U’s stood for. He looked about in between the photo above (he is the father, on the right, with his son…) and the upper pic, and was in prime shape when he spoke, extensively, without notes , about the leaking of the Pentagon papers, the original movie, not the updated Jack Texiera sequel where it is all used against us while he sits in jail. Daniel was saved from jail after the FBI broke into his shrink’s office and then the judge threw the case out.
One of the lessons of the Pentagon Papers is that you just can’t know what the long-term consequences of your actions will be. It seemed at the time, despite all the publicity, that the release of the Papers had no immediate effect on ending the war. Nixon was reelected in a landslide. And yet it was Nixon’s reaction to my father’s actions that ultimately brought about his downfall.
As I said earlier, Nixon authorized the so-called White House plumbers to burglarize my father’s psychiatrist’s offices. And when the same people, working for his reelection committee, were arrested at the Watergate complex [for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters], he obstructed justice and authorized payoffs to keep them quiet about their actions against my father. This ultimately forced his resignation as president, and in turn brought the war to an end.
The lesson is that you just don’t know what can happen. If we do avoid catastrophe, it may similarly depend on very unlikely and seemingly accidental twists of fate. Which may be another word for grace.
That i pulled from the globalresearch.ca link at the top, worthy to read in full, and shortish….
Ray McGovern on one of these videos i ceaselessly listen to anymore, to try to stay in formed, out of the lame stream main drain media, which holds truth like the Khakhovka damm. ( Now i digress, but spelling out Russian words/names in English is always a guess and transliteration, open to interpretation, please..)
Ray said, i’ll just pick that sentence right back up and pardon my bad English , that he was hanging out with Daniel recently, they were giving him some awards i believe, which i’m sure he deserves, or just reminiscing, and Ray asked Daniel if he had any regrets,
Daniel certainly did not regret putting out the docs that showed the liar ass USG is a liar and lies like a rug on the floor. He wasn’t worried about going to jail, (since he hadn’t already been there…) but he was worried about the bodybags coming home, which he felt bad about for three years before he broke out the Pentagon papers. Daniel told Ray, i heard Ray McGovern say, that his regret was that he hadn’t leaked sooner, to save more lives.
i call for leaks on behalf of Daniel Ellsberg to save lives.
When i heard him speak, i recall this was his ending thought, that there were surely possible leaks right now that can stop whatever wars we are engaged in, not sure which one it was- when he was speaking, America always seems to require some kind of war, on drugs, on terror, on poverty. That means we get stupid high on bad drugs, which has led us to Carlos Fentanyl, the penultimate, followed by the Morphine Marauder, the Percocet Pirate, the Codeine Cowboy, the Xanax Ocycontin Cat, meow. ?After the war on drugs, we get scared shitless, scare the shit out of all those crazed-dopefiend enemies we declared, and then steal all their money, but only end up even more poor as a nation, funny that.
Do you think if Americans knew the real truth about dopey Joe and Hunter, their bribery and warmongering, their influence peddling sale of DemoRats and other deceits, he would still be sitting in that throne he blessed for the Queen, ?
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2023/06/22/new-cold-war-declaration-pushes-the-world-into-a-more-dangerous-situation/
i just had to repost this godawful toilet paper pose of richy rich and dopey Joe.
Toby Rogers says the red thing on Sunak’s wrist is likely a blessing indicator from some church,; he was blessed with a tie that almost matched Joe’s…
Dong Yifan writes in the article cited above the puke your guts out photo,
Sunak, who is known for his so-called “rational and pragmatic attitude towards China”, has also continued to hype up the so-called security issues and insinuated links with China. These duplicitous practices have made most countries in the world doubt the credibility and reliability of the UK and the US. Styling themselves world leaders and waving the banner of maintaining peace and security can no longer cover up their real intentions of creating divisions, confrontations, and conflicts to gain hegemony and self-interest.
Obviously, both British and American leaders are trying to copy the Atlantic Charter signed by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in 1941. However, compared with the Atlantic Charter that promoted the international anti-fascist cause, the Atlantic Declaration is more like a declaration that creates division and turmoil under ideological prejudice and hegemonic thinking.
i cite the two paragraphs above, out of order, as the second came prior in the article, which is a brief discussion of the Atlantic Declaration. The Atlantic is the ocean the subsumes all other oceans in the geopolitical world, why is that?
i heard Andrei Martyanov on RT cross-talk recently, he described NATO as a dead man walking. Not sure if the Nato will invade former UKRaine outright or just proxy proceeding, but this phrase struck me, that we are in for some world re-arrangin changin coming up soon, hang on to your hat.
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2023/06/22/more-weapons-go-to-ukraine-but-what-will-it-do-with-those/
the above link has a video embed of Putin speaking prior to the mutinous coup movie we watched this weekend, of which i swore to myself to have a post now without mentioning the leading actor by name…
so here is the next post…
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2023/06/23/why-the-us-plan-for-localized-russia-ukraine-nuclear-war-is-doomed-to-fail/
i know that despicable Lindsey Graham and the handrubber standing next to him Richard Blumenthal declare the latest lawfare against Russia that , indeed they themselves are guilty of. As Simplicius points out,
Lindsay Graham threatened Russia with massive NATO retaliation should Russia use any type of “nuclear” aggravation:
He even put forth a new resolution which specifically quotes the ‘destruction of a nuclear facility’ and ‘dispersing radioactive contaminants’ as an attack on NATO itself:
Obviously, this is quite ironic and hypocritical given that it was the U.S. and UK that just announced the supply of radioactive DU ammunition, which does exactly what Graham here describes in spreading radioactive contaminants.
The Simplicius also has the C-span snippet that i couldn’t otherwise find and also was unable to copy, just as well if you don’t care to see those ugly turds., Lindsey and Richard the lessers.
So i don’t want to say his name, today, but others do, i’ll just let them speak their thoughts for you to peruse if you so choose…
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2023/06/24/prigozhins-gambit-treason-by-any-other-name/
and another Scott Ritter worthy of citation for you
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2023/06/23/counteroffensive-how-nato-trainers-knowingly-sent-ukrainian-troops-to-their-deaths/
the second piece is about the belief Scott has vocalized that those who sent Ukrainians to their own slaughter are liable for war crimes and murder charges, as i understood. Honestly, the way the SMO proceeds, i don’t really understand how it is even still going, and likely won’t be for too much longer, barring more movies like this past weekend, stealing the spotlight.
Below i shall post the most recent talk from Putin, official English from the site
Address to citizens of Russia
I am addressing citizens of Russia, the personnel of the Armed Forces, law enforcement agencies and security services, and the soldiers and commanders who are now fighting in their combat positions, repulsing enemy attacks and doing it heroically – I know this as I spoke once again with the commanders of all sections of the frontline last night. I am also addressing those who were dragged into this criminal adventure through deceit or threats and pushed onto the path of a grave crime – an armed mutiny.
Today, Russia is waging a tough struggle for its future, repelling the aggression of neo-Nazis and their patrons. The entire military, economic and informational machine of the West is directed against us. We are fighting for the lives and security of our people, for our sovereignty and independence, for the right to be and remain Russia, a state with a thousand-year history.
This battle, when the fate of our nation is being decided, requires consolidation of all forces. It requires unity, consolidation and a sense of responsibility, and everything that weakens us, any strife that our external enemies can use and do so to subvert us from within, must be discarded.
Therefore, any actions that split our nation are essentially a betrayal of our people, of our comrades-in-arms who are now fighting at the frontline. This is a knife in the back of our country and our people.
A blow like this was dealt to Russia in 1917, when the country was fighting in World War I. But the victory was stolen from it: intrigues, squabbles and politicking behind the backs of the army and the nation turned into the greatest turmoil, the destruction of the army and the collapse of the state, and the loss of vast territories, ultimately leading to the tragedy of the civil war.
Russians were killing Russians and brothers were killing brothers, while all sorts of political adventurers and foreign forces profited from the situation by tearing the country apart to divide it.
We will not allow this to happen again. We will protect our people and our statehood from any threats, including from internal betrayal.
What we are facing is essentially a betrayal. Inflated ambitions and personal interests have led to treason – treason against our country, our people and the common cause which Wagner Group soldiers and commanders were fighting and dying for shoulder to shoulder, together with our other units and troops. The heroes who liberated Soledar and Artyomovsk, towns and villages in Donbass, fought and gave their lives for Novorossiya and the unity of the Russian world. Their memory and glory have also been betrayed by those who are attempting to stage a revolt and are pushing the country towards anarchy and fratricide – and ultimately, towards defeat and surrender.
Once again, any internal revolt is a deadly threat to our statehood and our nation. It is a blow to Russia, to our people. Our actions to defend the Fatherland from this threat will be harsh. All those who have consciously chosen the path of betrayal, planned an armed mutiny and taken the path of blackmail and terrorism, will inevitably be punished and will answer before the law and our people.
The Armed Forces and other government agencies have received the necessary orders. Additional counterterrorism measures are now in effect in Moscow, the Moscow Region and several other regions. Resolute action will also be taken to stabilise the situation in Rostov-on-Don. It remains difficult; in effect, the work of civil and military authorities has been blocked.
As the President of Russia and Supreme Commander-in-Chief, and as a citizen of Russia, I will take every effort to defend the country and protect the constitutional order as well as the lives, security and freedom of our citizens.
Those who staged the mutiny and took up arms against their comrades – they have betrayed Russia and will be brought to account. I urge those who are being dragged into this crime not to make a fatal and tragic mistake but make the only right choice: to stop taking part in criminal actions.
I am certain that we will preserve and defend what we hold dear and sacred, and together with our Motherland we will overcome any hardships and become even stronger.
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/71496
Thank you for reading this , please leave a comment, leave any leaks you like, i can repost them if you do, from the comments to my next post. As warranted.
Now i want to conclude with this thought.
with all due respect to those who decry that Ukraine can not win the war, and the battle is hopeless and pointless, i just want to take it a step further. Yes, of course i agree with that assessment, based on the sources i follow, that things are bleak and looking bleaker for the former Ukraine. Anyone with any sense in her/his head is not gonna go fighting Russia, what for? Things were so much better when everyone just got along.
And my comment is, similar to the comment i have about the folks who speak of how many are killed and maimed by the Harmacide scamdemic, the depopulation of Womanity, the ill effect from injextions needlerape, that these things are unsafe and ought not be used thereby, i say, well, look, the issue to me is the loss of personal liberty, of first amend, of fourteenth (sovereign immunities) amendment discard, of violation of all things decent and reasonable, of imposition of fascism, medical fascism, bioterrorism. And who the hell knows what they injexted , i had to stop reading every day about the latest deaths therefrom. But what if no one had died? what if it really were '“safe and effective” public health intervention, no need to smoke fentanyl off tin foil, , just injext our needle for your piece of paper…. all a that is STILL fascism, .
ain’t fascism grand? Ain’t fascism grand.
So my take on this thing of America going to war against Russia. Lindsey is doing something bad to us all. Even if America were winning, and Russia was on its knees about to fall, there is an evil intent of malice in all of this, and it is wrong. Starting a war, as America did, provoking Russia to “invade” former UKraine to preserve life and sanity, these actions America took are just plain wrong. Obammba, er, Obomber, Barry starting wars in Russia is just plain wrong. Syria too. And victoria nuland going to the state dept is just plain wrong, build her a jail fellars, and a feeding trough.
Why did Blinken even go to China, what was the use? America is gonna get knocked off its “Rules based” disORder pedestal and will not find two solid feet to stand upon, we will have to rebuild the country i type in , after the neo$cum finish wrecking it, which it seems they’ve determined to do as fast as they can…
Do you recognize dude ?
and finally, back to…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/16/daniel-ellsberg-pentagon-papers-whistleblower-dies-at-92
dig those funky mics, and the on/off switch, the look of admiration…
Throughout his life, Ellsberg railed against the use of the Espionage Act and remained a fierce advocate for the rights of whistleblowers such as Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, both of whom released classified documents to the public revealing government abuses such as illegal mass surveillance and the killing of civilians in US wars overseas.
Daniel was dubbed by the squirrel Hank Kissinger who hasn’t died yet, to be the Most Dangerous Man in America, on account of his telling the truth!!!
Thank you for reading my ruminations for the memory of a true hero, Daniel Ellsberg, to whom i dedicate this post, Rest in Peace my good man, Go with Goddess, Praise the Lord, follow the light.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/daniel-ellsberg-rip/
I have an Ellsberg mention in here: https://marinfreedomrising.substack.com/p/julian-assange-fake-news