Beaucoup Haram

 I heard a news story condemning Beaucoup Haram today. They misspelled it and mispronounced it, the usual Western media demonising those who do not conform to the official Western media definition of conforming properly to the Rules-based Order.

Beaucoup Haram is a name from Francophone Islam, Beaucoup being a French word and Haram an Islamic word (Haram is an Arabic word written in the Latin alphabet). Haram means 'sinful,' and Beaucoup (having too much) is one of Christianity's Seven Deadly Sins, so the concept is fully in line with Christianity. But the Western media are never going to admit any of that.

Instead, the Western media say the name is 'Boko Haram', meaning education is prohibited by Islam and must be eradicated, so male students and staff are all murdered and female student kidnapped for sex slaves. And so they report in all their stories about 'Boko Haram'.

In fact, in countries where many are starving, the obscenely wealthy spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to bring in Western educators to teach British, American, French, and International education to their own children. Beaucoup Haram consider this wrong, for some inexplicable reason, and want to shut down all the International schools, send the foreign teachers and administrators home, and have local teachers teach basic reading, writing, arithmetic, and Islam in the local language using materials available very cheaply, so the money being spent by the very rich on International education for a very tiny minority of children can be better used feeding the poor and educating all the children.

It is easy to see why the Western media must demonise Beaucoup Haram. For one thing, if the demands of Beaucoup Haram were accepted, they'd lose all their paying readers in the Francophone Islamic countries in Africa, as well as their advertising revenue from International educational institutions.

Seymour Hersh In the News???

 Seymour Hersh recently wrote that he heard from a US intelligence official that the Ukraine Spring Offensive was a complete failure and defeat of the Ukraine by Russia is imminent.

I tried to Google the paper, but nothing by Seymour Hersh after about 2008 is in any of the Western media, which all uniformly reiterate that the Ukraine Spring Offensive have broken through the Russian defensive lines and are now, finally, making rapid progress at retaking the Donbass and the Crimea: using the newest NATO weaponry they have just been given, the Ukraine military have destroyed more than 90% of all Russian armour and artillery. More than 600,000 Russians have been killed, so Russia are sending young boys and elderly men with "outmoded and inept" Soviet and Czarist weapons against the most advanced NATO weapons, and Russia have no ammunition so they are begging the DPRK and Iran for anything they can supply.

Fortunately, I found the Seymour Hersh article referenced in The New Indian Express. (I am too kanjus makkhi cus to pay to read Seymour on his paid substack outlet.)

[In another strange twist, the US now have two Indians running for president, one of whom strongly supports the Ukraine War and says the US must give the Ukraine whatever they need to win the war with total defeat of Russia, while the other Indian says the US must pull out of the Ukraine ASAP. So I guess the former only reads the Western media and the latter still reads the Indian media?]

As a Jordanian friend explained, one can easily get the truth out of the Western media: just replace every use of the words 'Ukrainian' and 'Ukraine' with 'Russian' and 'Russia', and replace every use of the words 'Russian' and 'Russia' with 'Ukrainian' and 'Ukraine'. And I guess you also need to change 'DPRK and Iran' to 'more NATO nations'.

Basically, NATO managed to cleanse their storage facilities of all their 'obsolete and inept' weapons and dumped them all on the Ukraine, so all those warehouses are now empty and the big defence contractors have new, $trillion contracts to refill those warehouses. While $billions have been spent on the Ukraine, only $millions went into the pockets of Ukrainians, almost all went to the Western (mostly US) Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think_Tank Complex, which was the plan all along. So Mission Accomplished!!!

There are also written and audio records of Joe demanding his cut of the baksheesh paid to Hunter, so all those Republican claims of bribery and corruption are totally unsupported.

Don't know much about history ...

Sometime in the 1990s, there was a story:

A man said, 'I was born in Austria. I went to school in Poland. I got my first job in the Soviet Union. And I retired in the Ukraine.'

'Wow,' said the boy listening to him. 'You must have done a lot of travelling.'

'I've never been outside the village where I was born,' said the man.

The Nazis said that all of Europe was populated by three ethnic groups: the Aryans, the Slavs, and the Jews. Not much that the Nazis said was right, but one can impose a completely wrong belief on that part of the world that one controls, and so the Nazis did.

The Nazis said they wanted a 'Judenfrei Europe', they wanted to make life in Europe so difficult for Jews that all would emigrate to some other continent. Then they said they wanted to deport all the Jews. But no one would take the Jews. Many tried to emigrate and were sent back to Europe by the countries where they applied for immigration. And the UK said the Royal Navy would block any deportations. So the Nazis ended up with their 'Final Solution', i.e., kill all the Jews to get that Judenfrei Europe. Not their first plan, but that's where they ended up.

And for this obviously heinous crime, many Nazis were executed after they lost WWII. The crime was not killing Jews, but losing unconditionally. The Allies would have found reasons to execute the Nazis with or without the Holocaust. One British hangman said it bothered him to hang young German girls, but they were convicted of killing Jews and sentenced to death, and he had a job to do.

But the Nazis also wanted to kill all Slavs and take their property for Lebensraum. The Russians, evil Empire that they are, consider this a crime, but to every decent Western person, this was just the patriotic duty of the Wehrmacht, and the US did all they could to protect those who had killed Slavs for Lebensraum. And not just protect them, but give them good jobs helping the US develop the technology to kill Slavs for Lebensraum after WWII.

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In 1700, there was a huge country most called 'Poland', but the official name was The Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania. The government was a mess, they couldn't get anything done, and the Russian Empire, the Austrian Empire, and Prussia agreed to annex all of The Commonwealth. Russia got about 60%, the Austrian Empire about 20%, and Prussia about 20%.

After WWI, the US demanded the dissolution of all the European Empires. The UK and France said only losers lose their Empires, so Russia lost the Lithuania part of the Commonwealth that became the three Baltic States, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Russia also lost the Ukraine and more to become part of Poland. Germany and Austria lost the bits of Poland that had been part of Germany and Austria (and all their other colonies).

After WWII, the USSR annexed a huge part of Poland and all the Baltic States. The USSR not only took the parts of Poland that had once been part of the Russian Empire, but also parts that had been part of the Austrian Empire.

It gets even more complicated. The part of Poland reclaimed by the USSR included the Ukraine and Belarus. The Ukraine had a lot of former Austrians who hated everything Slavic, so Lenin, Stalin, and Khrushchev added huge chunks of the Soviet State of Russia to the Soviet State of Ukraine. It was all the USSR, so no one dared complain, and it wasn't really all that big a deal.

Until the Ukraine, with all the formerly Russian bits, broke away from the USSR. They managed to live in peace until 2014 when Victoria Nuland gave the former Austrians lots of money and weapons to take over the Ukraine and say that all ethnic Russians must be removed for Lebensraum. By 2014, Russia were no longer a Third World nation, easily defeated by the Taliban as they were in the 1980s. And the Russian Constitution says Russia must protect ethnic Russians being murdered in the former USSR. The goal was to provoke Russia to attack the Ukraine, and it worked.

The West saw Russia as a cold Saudi Arabia, selling fossil fuels to the West and using the money to buy everything they need from the West, so after Russia attacked the Ukraine to protect the ethnic Russians, the Western media report that the Russian economy was destroyed. Russia had no money for weapons, so they sent everyone they could draft with Soviet and Czarist weapons but very little ammunition to fight the Ukrainians, and more than 600,000 Russians have been killed. Russia now send elderly men and young boys to be slaughtered by the Ukrainians who will soon have their whole country back, while Russia will replace Putin with someone who will let NATO dismantle Russia into about 20 small, unarmed countries, since Russia can easily see that they have no other choice.

As a friend says, to read any Western description of the war in the Ukraine, just replace every 'Ukrainian' with 'Russian' and every 'Russian' with 'Ukrainian'. It is the Ukrainians who have lost most of the forces they sent, more than 300,000 dead, while Russian losses have been far fewer. But the Ukrainian government are bought and paid for by NATO, so they'll do whatever NATO want them to do. And that means lots of dead Ukrainians and a few dead Russians. But NATO figure this will bankrupt Russia and allow NATO to break Russia up into a bunch of small, unarmed countries that can no longer pose the slightest obstacle to NATO.

Most of my life, I saw the US, sometime with and sometimes without NATO, attacking small, third world countries, killing their leadership, and stealing all their natural resources. Didn't always go all that well, but no real danger to any US citizen except those who volunteered to join the US military and kill those foreigners for their natural resources.

But now the US are taking on the world's strongest nuclear power to steal all their natural resources.

Compared with the US leadership, jackasses are geniuses.

TV Free West???

When I was a boy, on TV several times every day I saw ads for Radio Free Europe (which would have been more properly called Radio Free NATO). The USSR, we were told, blocked all Western news and the radio stations in the USSR and the Warsaw Pact broadcast nothing but lies. But Radio Free Europe, if they had enough money, had ways to circumvent the USSR blocking methods and get the TRVTH to all those poor people in Eastern Europe and the USSR with absolutely no other way to get it.

Today, the West insist that every Western media must report the same thing: Putin launched a totally unprovoked and unjustified attack on the Ukraine that was definitely and indisputably a war crime, and his ultimate goal is to first re-create the USSR, so after the Ukraine, the Baltics are next; next he wants to rebuild the Warsaw Pact, so Poland comes either right after or in parallel with the invasion of the Baltics, and then he'll proceed to subjugate Western Europe, the UK, and North America, so Putin must be paralysed in the Ukraine.

Fortunately, all the Western media reiterate that Russia are losing badly, more than 600,000 Russian soldiers dead, more than 90% of all Russian tanks and artillery destroyed, so the Russian remnant just march into undefended villages like Bucha, murder as many civilians as they can, and flee before the police can arrive and arrest them.

The Ukraine counteroffensive started slowly, but they have destroyed the Russian First Line of defence and are now advancing rapidly.

And if the Russians don't want to die from the US-provided radioactive uranium shells, they must leave immediately.

Most of the blogs here agree that the Western media are all lies, that NATO are designed to destroy third-world countries, not peer powers, and Russia are not Iraq nor Afghanistan nor Libya but are more than a match for NATO. If one takes any story in the Western media and switches Russian for Ukrainian and Ukrainian for Russian, one gets a semblance of the truth.

But no one in the West will see that if the Western governments have their way.

Before, I could watch Russian, Chinese, Iranian, and Qatar news from Hotbird. But Russia were banned from February 2022.

Then, in December 2022, the EU and NATO discovered that Hotbird were illegally broadcasting China and Iran (they're not sure whether Qatar is legal or illegal, but they're sure about China and Iran) so Hotbird was shut down.

So can Russia do something like the US did with Radio Free Europe and somehow bring TV Free Russia to the West?