What you have not understood, Mister Snowden...

 In FRENCH

Mister Snowden, what did you seek to prove through your deeds?
Mister Snowden, what did you think your “disclosures” would provoke among the people who enjoy the marvellous benefits of being spied by institutions globally now?

Mister Snowden, did you really believe that “disclosing” the NSA spying activities could change something and that the Earth’s populations would force their beloved governments to stop their illegal activities?

Mister Snowden, it seems that, after spending one week in the transit area of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, legally outside of Russia, the situation is blocked and nobody is willing to host you. Or, to say the least, the alternatives can be counted on no more than one hand’s fingers.

Judging by this yardstick, aren’t you astonished that nobody in the so-called “free” world hurried to grant you the political asylum you deserve, that the global populations did not stand up like a single herd to support you against the nomenklatura whose henchmen are spying us night and day?

Aren’t you surprised that the Western flocks of devotees to demokracy, human rights, women’s rights, red fish and blablabla, all of the gaggles mobilized for the femen, the ‘same-sex marriage’ or the ‘solar power panels’, that nobody hustled to support you? Not to mention our cherished “intellectuals” in France who engage in sophisticated and misleading media campaigns to “liberate” certain countries from genuine or fake dictators after executing the appropriate humanitarian bombings. We haven’t seen anyone of the above activists stand up and fight for you, although they never miss an opportunity - usually the worst one - to show off in Pig on Earth’s misinformation media. 

Mister Snowden, we wish to reveal a sad reality to you: Nobody will help you because nobody gives a damn for what you have disclosed.

Nobody will stand up for you, Mister Snowden, because nobody wants to be disturbed by your activities or those of your colleagues in the future, if any, which is far from certain. There will be no uprising to support you, Mister Snowden, because nobody wants to lose his red fish blissfulness with his daily bird’s nest food and to stop turning freely inside of the fishbowls that our beloved governments have created for the well-being of us all watching television through the distorting glass of the said fishbowls.

Mister Snowden, you are not a hero, contrary to what is pretended by some excited people in blogs that no one reads. You are a “spoilsport”, that’s how the people you wanted to warn see you. And that’s precisely why nobody will help you, and the “free” and demokratic crowds of the so-called Western world will not lift a finger to help you. Because you are threatening them, those “free” and “demokracy”-loving crowds, through you pretended “disclosures”. You are prompting their meanness and cowardice right under their noses.

They will not forgive you.

As indicated in the latest CNN/ORC International Survey poll (here), 52% of the interrogated (North-American) persons wish to see you extradited and dragged to court for “treason”, without realizing that by doing so they are betraying themselves. Anyway, they can’t be asked too much.

In short, Mister Snowden, what you have done is useless, it will not change the situation. On the contrary, the system will become stronger again thanks to the general inertia of populations that are lobotomized and anaesthetized by the propaganda and petty-bourgeois comfort in which they have to survive day by day while they are promised immortality (thanks to biotechnology advances) to benefit forever from this exalting survival that is our daily bread now.

Mister Snowden, you are alone.
Well, almost alone, but that will not make a difference to save your own life.
You live in the wrong century. You have been caught by the system’s propaganda that constantly repeats us how much we all aspire to freedom, demokracy and blablabla… while we all survive in an increasingly totalitarian and collectivist universe where true freedom is on the point to disappear completely.

You have believed in it.
You have been wrong.

But it was all natural, because you are yourself a product of the system against which you have stood up so courageously. You have been abused by the use of fabricated words and expressions that have lost their original meanings for their exact reverse:
Freedom = coercion ; individuality = collectivism ; demokracy = tyranny, etc.

You thought that you were rebelling against the system without realizing the mystification in which we all survive. We have lost touch with reality to such an extent that we imagine that it is in what we survive.

Hence, the fundamental issue of words with reversed meanings as stated above, which is the source of your contemporaries’ misunderstandings. That is how your rebellion will strengthen the system that benefits from the general inertia. In the beginning anyway. On the other hand, the measures taken to avoid the repetition of situations like the one you have created will strengthen the fragility of the system; in the long run, they will contribute to its breakdown by eroding its efficiency, which is already problematic.

Dear Mister Snowden, you have not realized that the populations that you intended to warn of the danger that threatens them are not ready to listen to what you have to say. They are not ready because they believe in the system’s propaganda. They believe willingly that the system “exaggerates” a little bit, surely, but they believe more that they are actually facing a danger that threatens their comfort and survival, hence their request to be protected. That’s how they are delighted to discharge their responsibilities to the Leviathan state; they are relieved to abdicate their independence, either to earn their living or avoid thinking by themselves. Not to mention the supposed danger that threatens the so-called “civilization” (again a semantic inversion, one of the most serious ones by the way) that is ours.

You have made two misjudgements:
- You have overestimated the thirst of our populations for freedom.
- You have underestimated the fear that plagues them.

That’s why they have abdicated all freedom for a supposed security.

The President of the United States of America, a Nobel Peace Price (is there a nicer inversion of word meaning?), has put it in a remarkable summary:

“I think it’s important to recognize that you can’t have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience”.

As far as we are concerned, we have sacrificed almost 100% of our freedom for uncertain security, because 100% security cannot be obtained reasonably. That explains the ever increasing extension of general spying activities and the loss of freedom that follows like a shadow. How bad can it get? To the collapse of the system under its own weight.

Freedom is a burden, Mister Snowden. It is a heavy weight to lift and the shoulders of most of our contemporaries are not strong enough to support its charge and constraints. Self-responsibility, which is the fundament of all freedom, is now a grinning mask that frightens most of our contemporaries.

Do you think that we are exaggerating?
Let us see.

Did the Wikileaks exposures change anything?
Was soldier Bradley Manning freed?
Did frenzied crowds rally for his release? No, quite the contrary.
Did the wars waged in the name of Good in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and now Syria, result in massive protest demonstrations?
Have the unbelievable lies we were told shamelessly to justify these wars been denunciated and their authors prosecuted?
Has the population demonstrated to oppose these lies? Not to our knowledge.

As we wrote above, you live in the wrong century, Mister Snowden.
Undeniably, we no longer live in the Vietnam War era when the population in USA opposed strong resistance, pushing President Nixon to withdraw from Vietnam.

Who demonstrates today? Nobody.

In your interview with the Guardian on the 9th of June, you stated:

“I don’t want to live in a society that does this sort of things (general spying, etc.).
I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded.
That is not something I am willing to support or live under”.
 
And that is the problem, Mister Snowden, you are one of the few people who are still annoyed by the obligation to survive in a world like this one. 

Because, as has already been said, the majority of populations nowadays are not upset by the future Brave New World, but they also demand the advent of a general panopticon.

For their security and well-being.
Because they don’t care about their freedom.

John Stuart-Mill understood well the mechanism that provokes the man’s dwarfing:

“A state that dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands, even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great things can really be accomplished”.
 
That’s what you haven’t understood, Mister Snowden: you are too great for them.

But in the meantime, everybody is happy in Pig on Earth, the Brave New World.

Egypt back to the wall : a choice must be made ... quickly !

Two years ago, on the 5th of February 2011, we wrote the following in these pages:

Well, dear readers, we might disappoint you once again, but we owe to tell you the truth: people do not go to the streets because they love liberty.

In fact, why yesterday and not three or ten years ago when the situation was so unbearable?

We are not telling you that these regimes were examples in political decency; we are not saying that these regimes did not have secret police organizations that tortured the people routed by the Americans who did not want to do that job by themselves; No, not at all, the point is to avoid falling into the trap of believing all what our parlour intellectuals are telling us that this is only a matter of political regime.

No, the nature of the political regime is not the cause of the current mass uprisings, is not the first factor that triggered the unrest, even if it was underlying for a long time. This is only one factor among other ones, but certainly not the first one or the major.

So, the main reason of all this massive unrest is not freedom or the politicalregime, but something much more basic, which is, yes, sadly, much less poetic, much less ideologically correct, and even somewhat dull - with all due respect to our lounge revolutionaries - it is nonetheless a vital issue, in every sense of theword, which lit the fuse.

In fact, it is money.

Yes, dear readers, we know, that this is unfortunate, and awfully materialistic for the selfless pure minds of our bourgeois bohemians of Paris or New York, but, nevertheless that’s how the situation is.

Most of the Egyptians live on 2 dollars a day, crammed in the shanty towns of themajor cities; 20% of this population is workless and 20% of them only have part-time jobs that hardly help them to survive. We can easily imagine the catastrophic consequences for all of these people when the cost of living rises, even a little bit.

To be specific, we want to speak here of the consequences of inflation in food and energy prices with a $ 2 day budget.

Because, it is the inflation that actually sent the Egyptians or the Tunisians to the streets, without speaking of those in other countries who will follow.

Of course, this is less “glamour” than liberty, democracy and more, above all when those beautiful concepts have been created through the golden glasses of the Faubourg Saint Germain in Paris or New York Village…

That’s it (the article continues here).

Today, two years later, we are still at the same point. Even worse. Worse as the situation has deteriorated for two years because of the political unrest and - it has to be said - the incompetence of the Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi.

That said, to disclaim his responsibility, Morsi could not do much to improve acatastrophic economy, in addition to a political situation beyond control and fragile.

In fact, the political instability has just made the economic disaster worse.

Now, Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood must respond to the anger of the 14 million Egyptians who ran to the streets yesterday calling for resignation and new elections.

But the Army has issued an ultimatum to the politicians for an agreement restoring calm within 48 hours, threatening to intervene and avoid that the situation becomes out of control.

The situation is already out of control.

“If the demands of the people are not realized within the defined period, it will be incumbent upon (the armed forces) to announce a road map for the future,” said the statement by General Adbel Fattah al-Sisi the Commander-In-Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces.

The Muslim Brotherhood has unanimously rejected this ultimatum...

There are four opposing forces:

- The Army

- The Muslim Brotherhood

- The bourgeois and the divided urban opposition who want “demokracy”

- The hungry population in shanty towns, suburbs and the countryside who hate the Muslim Brotherhood and the bourgeois urban demokrats of the cities.

The time is running out dangerously to this outcome, Egypt may now fall into chaos and / or civil war, because there is no viable solution to the economic crisis.

Moreover, as we have already observed two years ago, the Salafists are gettingprepared behind the scene of the Muslim Brotherhood who have been discredited on their one-year administration tenure when the situation could only become worse.

It should also be noted that circumstances are not helping much, the fall of Gaddafi, which was intelligently claimed and acclaimed by our brilliant intellectuals and politicians, has freed an uncontrolled flow of arms to both the Salafists in Egypt and the Islamists (Al Qaeda) who are more or less controlling the no man’s land in the Sinai desert. For all the reasons in the world, this situation is indeed worrying for the Israelis.

So, all the conditions are met for an explosion in Egypt. Should this occur, you can bet that the repercussions will extend far beyond the borders.

First, Israel will be the victim, but also our demokrat allies in the Gulf who havebeen generously financing the Salafists for decades, in the hope to remove that threatfrom their soils. A serious mistake for which they, with us as well, might pay a heavy price. By now, we may only watch and get worried for the evolution of the situation in Egypt without being able to do anything but pray that the whole Middle-East does not go off on Egypt. It would be astonishing that such outcome would not happen.

But for now, everybody is happy in Pig on Earth, the Brave New World.

Syria: the “rebels” used sarin gas... So what?

Crash! Bang! Dear readers, what a hangover!

After spending months and months of outstanding and humanistic efforts seeking to convince us of the use of sarin gas by the Syrian government against its own population, it is now most probable that, on the contrary, our “terrorist” allies would be committed to this type of expedients.

And, believe me, this is not a whim of your Pig-on-Earth’s Chronicle.

Carla del Ponte stated herself in an interview last Sunday:

"There are strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas, from the way the victims were treated".

“This was use on the part of the opposition, the rebels, not by the government authorities," she added.

Ouch, ouch, Fathead!

Unbelievable, our martyred allies, our persecuted allies, our so deserving allies who are so demokrats, and everything… All the same, we have been told each and every ways for months, for years (already two years), that the government forces were the “bad” ones and that the “rebels” were the good ones… And that the latter were so kind that they had to be armed urgently to avoid being gassed by the forces of the bad President Assad, the new Hitler (to say the least !) of the Middle-East, like before him Saddam who was our great ally against Iran and really used sarin gas against his Shiite population later. But the fact is that we, apostles doing good on earth, had our minds on other matters while Saddam was committing his atrocities, otherwise we would have intervened immediately to stop that scandal. Except when the cheap lecturing of our leaders authorizes to direct gases towards, naturally, Shiites, Alawites...

We will see very shortly how it goes at the humanist reactions of our beloved leaders. And then we will also see that the famous “red line” is just smoke and mirrors and… sarin gases of course. In particular when our dear allies use it.

Let’s assume that we will soon deserve a flood of apologies for the non-intervention and non-condemnation of this bullshit by the great souls who are leading us to the … abyss.

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Did our allies use sarin gas against the government forces and the population?

So what?

Mind your own business and don’t surf the internet reading blogs that should be shut down and their authors dispatched to re-education camps urgently for disturbance of law and order.

But for now everybody is happy in Peag on Earth, the Brave New World.

Is the Arab League dropping the Palestinians ?

French version

Doubts and interrogations have been knocking on our door for a long time. For decades, all of the events related to Palestine and the fate of the Palestinians have indicated a single direction: the general indifference of the Arab States towards the Palestinians.

Today, we may have seen the official acknowledgement by the Arab states of their disinterest for the Palestine question.

As a matter of fact:

A senior Qatari official has said Israel and the Palestinians could trade land rather than conform exactly to their 1967 borders in what appears to be a softening of Arab states' stance on the 2002 peace plan.

Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, Qatar's prime minister and foreign minister, made the comment on Monday after he and a group of Arab officials met US Secretary of State John Kerry to discuss how to promote Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Speaking on behalf of an Arab League delegation, Sheikh Hamad appeared to make a concession to Israel by explicitly raising the possibility of land swaps.

(Sources : Al Jazeera - 30 April 2013)

We understand now the consequences of the Hamas leadership base move: by leaving Damas for Doha (Qatar), the Hamas leadership might have thrown itself into the lion’s jaws. Today, their Qatari benefactors, the hands that feed them, while imposing upon them their view of the Palestine people’s destiny, reveal in daylight the trap in which Hamas has been caught. On behalf of the Arab League, the Qataris approve the possibility of land swaps against the 1967 UN resolution that imposed a return of the occupied territories. This stance amounts to accepting the Israeli settlements and the impossibility to create a viable Palestinian State.

There may be multiple consequences:

1) In the eyes of the Palestinians, beyond the nice words of their Arab “brothers”, this stance may increase again the prestige of Iran, Syria and Hezbollah who have been and remain the only genuine support of the Palestinians.

2) Also, a split may arise within Hamas itself, between their exiled and comfortably installed leaders in Doha and the remaining members in Gaza, with a radicalization of the latter turned to Teheran and Damas for an increased support that has never been denied to them.

3) A further hardening of the population in Gaza as its fate appears more than ever hopeless and, precisely, without future. Towards a new Intifada?

In any case, we have obtained the official acknowledgement that the champions of the Palestinian cause are Iran, Syria and the Hezbollah.

And in the meantime everybody is happy in Pig on Earth, the brave new world.

Syria : chemical and military disinformation running high...

French version

Much is said these days on chemical weapon attacks, sarin gas, etc. attributed, of course, to the Syrian government forces.

Therefore, our devoted Humanitarian apostles & Co, the same people who requested in their prayers the overthrow of our old ally Gaddafi on behalf of suffering humanity, those very people, indeed, who are yelping to their great indignation (it goes without saying) at the thought of President Assad’s regime using chemical weapons against our terrorist allies. As well as claiming immediate military intervention by the West.

As far as the so-called chemical weapon uses are concerned, two observations must be made: first, a technical observation and, second, a political one.

1) Technically, the facts are far from being established and remain extremely vague, are based on highly suspicious videos calling for circumspection and doubt instead of any other sentiment. On the other hand, the opposition’s assertions are mere and unconfirmed allegations that remain to be proved.
To our knowledge, it is not the first time that the West has been pushed to intervene following false and forged pretexts.

So, the famous video (here) with a guy lying in bed with foaming at his mouth makes smile everyone who knows that the results of sarin gas attacks do not involve this kind of symptom. Once again, this video circulated on the internet is pure disinformation.

"There are clearly some chemicals being used in Syria, but footage of victims raise more questions than they answer. After the 23 December attack on Homs, doctors described symptoms that included pin-point pupils and convulsions – signs of sarin – but also lethal fluid in the lungs, which is not.
US officials declared in January that the incident involved CS gas, a tear gas used as a riot-control agent. The international convention banning chemical weapons prohibits the use of CS in war, but allows it for riot control; the dividing line is not clear.
Jean-Pascal Zanders of the European Institute of Security Studies in Paris maintains that images circulated on the internet of the alleged attacks do not suggest a nerve gas like sarin. "There are no convulsions or dead bodies," he says, "only single patients being treated in crowded emergency rooms. I'd expect clusters of casualties, and deaths." Moreover, no one seems to have been exposed to nerve agents due to handling victims.
Only one in a series of four such videos "shows any real poisoning symptoms", says Richard Guthrie, an independent CW expert, formally at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
These symptoms appear to be fluid in the lungs and foaming at the mouth. While sarin causes drooling, among other symptoms, it does not cause fluid in the lungs or foaming at the mouth. Many industrial chemicals do and are commonly released when industrial areas are bombed."

You might also want to read the excellent article by Alex Thompson about the overall lack of evidence on, first, a simple chemical attack and, second, its execution by the Syrian Army (article here).

2) Politically, what would be the interest of the Syrian government in using chemical weapons, whereas such action would infringe Obama’s famous “red line” for a US intervention in Syria? Is the regime’s military situation desperate? It seems to be the opposite, in particular for two weeks. This seems so true that certain analysts consider that the interest of the Syrian government is not to overexploit its successes to avoid a Western intervention - an analysis that we do not agree with at all, because we do not believe that the Western countries will intervene in Syria, simply because they cannot afford it and don’t even have the will to do so, as was confirmed by David Cameron himself two days ago.

“In my view what we need to do – and we're doing some of this already – is shape that opposition, work with them, train them, mentor them, help them so we put the pressure on the regime and so we can bring this to an end".

Asked whether that would mean putting British troops on the ground in Syria, Cameron said: "I don't want to see that and I don't think that is likely to happen”.

A word to the wise is enough !

Should our valorous terrorist allies be given a good hiding by the Syrian Army, as seems to be the case, they will only have to take to their heels to save their lives.

Towns near Damascus such as Otaibah were seized by government forces this week, blocking the arms supply for the opposition from Jordan. Another front on the Lebanese border, Qusayir, was recaptured by the regime forces. The Syrian army was also successful in breaking the months-long siege in Homs and Idlib, making it easier to resupply arms to its forces stationed in these areas. If this pace of military advances by the regime forces continues, the opposition will be greatly weakened in a matter of weeks. Washington doubled its aid to the Syrian opposition last week, but the situation on the ground will change by the time the aid package is approved in Congress and reaches the fighters on the ground.
(Sources : 27.04.2013 - Sunday Zaman - Mahir Zeynalov)

Once again, it seems that we are facing a disinformation campaign with an attempt to push the West to intervene in Syria when the terrorists seemed to be pulling back before the offensive of the Syrian government forces which have already retaken multiple vital and strategic points.

From a military point of view, the current situation on the ground may still evolve, but a Western intervention is certainly not in the air. And even less on the ground.

But for now, everybody is happy in Pig on Earth, the brave new world.