30-12-2015, 09:58 AM
I agree that Putin is as smart as a whip. I watched part of his recent 3 hour pre-Christmas Q & A and found him impressive. No speaking notes or talking points, no vacuous or deflecting answers -- just a case of ask a question and get an answer. Simples. Did he have people in the audience with prepared questions? Maybe. But frankly, I don't have the impression that he needs props like that. He has clarity.
Is Russia an honest country? No. Is there an established Oligarchy and thieves world? Obviously. Has Putin stashed fabulous sums of money away in offshore banks? Probably.
In the last analysis, I'm with Peter Dale Scott in always looking for the government within a government and the deep state involvement in all nations and in most nations foreign policies.
But compared to the United State of America, and the British poodle that supports it in every act of buggery that is committed on the world, Russia is relatively more honest and more democratic. What an amazing turn around from just a few decades ago. Or maybe, not at all?
We in the west have become so thoroughly corrupted and so scared of losing our selfish grip on the world, that we no longer dare harbour truth or honestly, but cull it ruthlessly.
Is Russia an honest country? No. Is there an established Oligarchy and thieves world? Obviously. Has Putin stashed fabulous sums of money away in offshore banks? Probably.
In the last analysis, I'm with Peter Dale Scott in always looking for the government within a government and the deep state involvement in all nations and in most nations foreign policies.
But compared to the United State of America, and the British poodle that supports it in every act of buggery that is committed on the world, Russia is relatively more honest and more democratic. What an amazing turn around from just a few decades ago. Or maybe, not at all?
We in the west have become so thoroughly corrupted and so scared of losing our selfish grip on the world, that we no longer dare harbour truth or honestly, but cull it ruthlessly.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14