The Saker – The Unz Review June 4, 2020
Cops in DC. Click to enlarge
I have lived in the United States for a total of 24 years and I have witnessed many crises over this long period, but what is taking place today is truly unique and much more serious than any previous crisis I can recall. And to explain my point, I would like to begin by saying what I believe the riots we are seeing taking place in hundreds of US cities are not about. They are not about:
1. Racism or “White privilege”
2. Police violence
3. Social alienation and despair
4. Poverty
5. Trump
6. The liberals pouring fuel on social fires
7. The infighting of the US elites/deep state
They are not about any of these because they encompass all of these issues, and more.
It is important to always keep in mind the distinction between the concepts of “cause” and “pretext”. And while it is true that all the factors listed above are real (at least to some degree, and without looking at the distinction between cause and effect), none of them are the true cause of what we are witnessing. At most, the above are pretexts, triggers if you want, but the real cause of what is taking place today is the systemic collapse of the US society.
The next thing which we must also keep in mind is that evidence of correlation is not evidence of causality. Take, for example, this article from CNN entitled “US black-white inequality in 6 stark charts” which completely conflates the two concepts and which includes the following sentence (stress added) “Those disparities exist because of a long history of policies that excluded and exploited black Americans, said Valerie Wilson, director of the program on race, ethnicity and the economy at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning group.” The word “because” clearly point to a causality, yet absolutely nothing in the article or data support this. The US media is chock-full of such conflations of correlation and causality, yet it is rarely denounced.
For a society, any society, to function a number of factors that make up the social contract need to be present. The exact list that make up these factors will depend on each individual country, but they would typically include some kind of social consensus, the acceptance by most people of the legitimacy of the government and its institutions, often a unifying ideology or, at least, common values, the presence of a stable middle-class, the reasonable hope for a functioning “social life”, educational institutions etc. Finally, and cynically, it always helps the ruling elites if they can provide enough circuses (TV) and bread (food) to most citizens. This is even true of so-called authoritarian/totalitarian societies which, contrary to the liberal myth, typically do enjoy the support of a large segment of the population (if only because these regimes are often more capable of providing for the basic needs of society).
Right now, I would argue that the US government has almost completely lost its ability to deliver any of those factors, or act to repair the broken social contract. In fact, what we can observe is the exact opposite: the US society is highly divided, as is the US ruling class (which is even more important). Not only that, but ever since the election of Trump, all the vociferous Trump-haters have been undermining the legitimacy not only of Trump himself, but of the political system which made his election possible. I have been saying that for years: by saying “not my President” the Trump-haters have de-legitimized not only Trump personally, but also de-legitimized the Executive branch as such.
SIDEBAR: This is an absolutely amazing phenomenon: while for almost four years Trump has been destroying the US Empire externally, Trump-haters spent the same four years destroying the US from the inside! If we look past the (largely fictional) differences between the Republicrats and the Demolicans we can see that they operate like a demolition tag-team of sorts and while they hate each other with a passion, they both contribute to bringing down both the Empire and the United States. For anybody who has studied dialectics this would be very predictable but, alas, dialectics are not taught anymore, hence the stunned “deer in the headlights” look on the faces of most people today.
Finally, it is pretty clear that for all its disclaimers about supporting only the “peaceful protestors” and its condemnation of the “out of town looters”, most of the US media (as well as the alt media) is completely unable to give a moral/ethical evaluation of what is taking place. What I mean by this is the following:
By repeating mantras about how “Black anger is legitimate” the US liberal media is basically placing a seal of approval on the violence and looting. After all, if Black “anger” is legitimate, and if “White privilege” is real, then it is quite “understandable” that this “anger” “sometimes” “boils over” and leads to “regrettable” “excesses”. Just take a look at this image of Biden kneeling down before a Black demonstrator:
Of course, Biden and his supporters will claim that Biden was only kneeling before a cute little girl and her peacefully protesting father, but when combined with the attacks against Trump’s “law and order” rhetoric by Biden and his supporters (including four former US Presidents!), I believe that these kinds of photo-ops are sending a very different message: keep “protesting” as we are on your side which, coming from a guy like Biden, the ultimate symbol of the 1%er elites and a perfect example of “White privilege”, just goes to show that the hypocrisy of US politicians really knows no bounds or limits.
SIDEBAR: I have to note here that these riots also represent a potential danger for both factions of the Uniparty in power: for the Demolicans the riots probably represent the very last chance to prevent a Trump-reelection, but if the Demolicans are too obvious in support of the riots, then it could backfire against them and turn all the frightened “law and order” types against them. But if they do not support the riots, then the Demolicans will alienate their core constituency (a hodgepodge of various “minorities” pushing their narrow identity-politics agenda). Likewise, for Trump this is an opportunity to show his “law and order” credentials and promise the White people and the relatively fewer Blacks of his base that he will protect them. However, if he is too direct about this and if Trump orders what might be seen by many as unfair or excessive force (of which there has been a lot almost everywhere), then he risks pushing many moderate Republicrats over the edge and side with the Demolicans (or, at least, withhold their vote). In other words, both factions of the Uniparty feel that the riots are both an opportunity and a threat and this is why neither faction can come out and speak truthfully about the real causes of the riots.
The exact same message of weakness and even submissive impotence is, I believe, sent every time a cop kneels when confronting even peaceful demonstrators like on this photo. While this might be intended as a message of compassion, and maybe even an apology, the only thing the rioters will see here is a powerful sign of surrender of the local authorities and I find that extremely dangerous.
Yes, there are plenty of racist, violent and otherwise incompetent cops in the USA. And yes, many of my Black friends reported feeling singled out and treated rudely by cops. But having extensively traveled the world, I want to assure you that the US most definitely does not have the worst cops out there. In fact, I believe that most US cops are decent people. Much more importantly, these cops are the “thin blue line” which protects society against criminals. And while I do believe that US policemen ought to be better educated, better trained, better led and better supervised, I also realize that there is also no short term alternative to them. It is all very fine to dream about educated, peaceful and non-racist cops, but if you remove the existing police force from the equation, there are no other alternatives (the national guard or the regular armed forces do not qualify and don’t have the correct training to deal with civilians anyway), especially in those states which have successfully killed the 2nd Amendment by means of what I call “death by a thousand regulatory cuts” (including NY and NJ).
Then there is what Solzhenitsyn called the “decline of courage” in the West: the vast majority US politicians have basically lost the ability to criticize Blacks, even when it is quite obvious that many of the current problems of the Black population of the US are created by Blacks themselves: I think of the truly vulgar, obscene and overall disgusting “rap culture” with which most Black youth are now “educated” in since early childhood or how many Black youth have been brainwashed into considering gang members and street prostitutes as the measure of what “looking cool” looks like in terms of clothes, language and overall behavior. I believe that it is pretty obvious to any person who lived in the US that Blacks are very often (mostly?) the cause of their own misery: I can tell you that my Jamaican and Sub-Saharan African friends (who live in the USA) have told me many times that a) they think that US Blacks have opportunities which they would never have in Africa or Jamaica and that b) local Blacks often resent Africans and Jamaican Blacks because the latter do so much better in the US society. I can also testify to the fact that I have seen a lot of anti-Latino feelings from US Blacks. As for how Blacks often feel about Asians, all we need to do is remember the LA riots in 1992. Finally, I do believe that many (most?) people in the US know that the strongest and most frequent form of racism in the US will be anti-White, especially from politically engaged Blacks.
I can personally attest that there is plenty of anti-White racism in the USA. Not only did I experience it myself (I lived in Washington, DC from 1986-1991), but it has been amply documented by people like Colin Flaherty whose books “White Girl Bleed A Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It” and “Knockout Game a Lie?: Awww, Hell No!” are excellent primers on Black on White violence and racism. Yet, anybody daring to suggest that US Blacks themselves are at least partially responsible for their own plight will immediately be labeled a “racist”.
To those of you who live outside the USA, I would recommend this simple thought experiment: just take 20-30 minutes and watch the footage of BOTH the “peaceful protests” AND “the violent riots” and look carefully not only at what the folks you see in the footage are wearing, but also how they speak, how they act, what they say and how they say it and ask yourself a simple question: would you want to hire any of these guys and pay them a decent salary? I very much doubt that many of you would. Frankly, most of these rioters are unhirable, and “racism” has nothing to do with this.
The fact is that what is sometimes called the “MTV culture” is, in reality, nothing else than a systematic glorification of criminal mayhem. Forget about rap hits like the famous “Fuk Da Police” or “Kill d’White People“, I would argue that 99% of rap is a glorification of all the worst problems of Black communities in the US (drugs, violence, promiscuous sex, objectification of women, alcoholism, glorification of criminal behavior in the streets and in prisons, etc.). Yet most US politicians seem to be paralyzed and feel the need to pretend like they are absolutely charmed by this so-called “Black culture”. But it is even worse than that.
Combine an emasculated ruling polity which does not dare to call a stone a stone and which promotes a (pretend) “culture” which glorifies violence and hatred against all non-criminals, including law abiding Black who are called “Toms” and who are also singled out as in this “beautiful” rap which includes the following “verses”: “Then you got niggas that’s blacker then the night, Running around town saying their best friends are white, Niggas like that are gonna hang up from a tree, And burn them up alive and let everybody see” (check out this “beautiful” rap here and for the full lyrics, a truly fascinating read, here). Next, throw in a completely dysfunctional state which is owned and operated by a tiny gang of obscenely rich narcissistic bastards (of all races, very much including Blacks), add to it a total absence of any real social opportunities, then toss in the COVID pandemic and the worst recession in US history with record high levels of unemployment even among those who would be employable (folks with dropped down pants, excessive tattoos, past felony convictions and a comprehensively non-professional attitude would not even get a job even if the economy was booming). Then, you get a relatively localized “spark” (like the murder of George Floyd by a gang of arrogant imbeciles in uniform) to start a fire which will instantly spread throughout the entire country, especially since there are so many other groups besides Blacks who want to “piggyback” their personal agenda on top of the one of Black Lives Matter or Antifa (I am, of course, referring to the real cornucopia of Trump-haters which never accepted his election).
Conclusion 1: this is not the US version of the Gilets Jaunes!
Some might be tempted to say that what we are seeing in the US is a US version of the French Gilets Jaunes. I assure you that it is not. For one thing, the Gilets Jaunes had a pretty clear political program. US rioters do not. Next, the Gilets Jaunes were mostly peaceful and much of the violence was instigated by the French police forces (including the use of fake rioters). While there are definitely peaceful protesters in the USA, neither BLM or AntiFa have truly denounced the riots (and why should they when the US media and politicians don’t have the courage to do that either?). Finally, the French ruling classes and media did not show the kind of “understanding” of the riots which did take place although Macron did pose with two “gangstas” in an effort to look “cool” (which failed):
Not only Biden, in Europe too…
Conclusion 2: this is not a revolution or a civil war
Some are now fantasizing that what we are witnessing today is either a revolution or a civil war. I believe that this is neither.
For a revolution to take place there must be a force capable of changing not the person(s) in power, but fundamentally change the regime, the polity, itself and replacing it with another one. Declaring that “Black lives matter” or looting stores or even demanding that the police be defunded, does not have this kind of potential capability.
For a civil war to take place you need at least two sides, each with a clearly identifiable political agenda. Since the real power in the US is hidden from the public awareness, there is no potential for a “the people vs the rulers” kind of civil war in the US. A “Right/Conservative vs Left/Liberal” civil war is also not possible, because both the US Right and the US Left are, in reality controlled by a deep state which is neither liberal nor conservative. Finally, a “rematch” between North and South is not possible either because the modern US is not really split along North/South lines anymore. In terms of geography, there is somewhat of a “Big cities vs rural USA” split, but it takes place in both the north and the south of the country. Instead, what we do observe is a social breakup of the US into “zones” some of which will be doing much better than others (big cities with a strong Black population fare the worst, mostly White small towns fare best; that is even true within the same state). In some of these zones, we will see more of this kind of acts of self-protection:
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A lot of this is true, but the language is too colourful and tracks the fake news, so this article is kind of on the right route but on a parallel road.
Let’s start with our own Tory party which holds an unofficial belief that it is normal, even societally healthy to have a good-sized portion of the sheeple in abject poverty. This used to be black and ethnic minorities with a smattering of white trailer trash. Since the 1070s, more and more whites stand with our darker brothers. There are millions of white people living on the street in tents, in the woods, alongside mega drains, living in cars, vans, & dilapidated RVs, some which can’t even be driven. Where I live in Lambeth, there is plenty of dog shit, but you also come across piles of sheeple shit. They have a massive urban human shit problem in the US. On top (not literally) of this, you have tens of millions working 2, 3 & 4 jobs just to pay the rent. OAPs making tough decisions, eat cat food and buy some meds, or eat and no meds? The biggest cause of personal bankruptcy in Amerika is ill health and medical bills… none of this is new.
In the early naughties, the US required $3 billion in inward investment PER DAY just to pay the interest on the official government debts. This factoid was leaked by people attending a High Fidelity briefing given by a senior Morgan Stanley economist who was nicknamed Dr Doom (you can google him). He went on to say this situation is unsustainable & that he didn’t give the US much chance of surviving, but we’ll come to that later.
So this $3 billion per day came from willing nations, you know who they are, but many countries are victim to a massive global extortion racket. The US strides the globe carrying a massive baseball bat and behind the scenes, they use the most horrendous tactics to get the savings of sovereign states to buy worthless US paper.
Here is the problem; as stated, this was unsustainable in the early naughties. As US debt continued to grow with the budget deficit, the global savings simply wasn’t enough to match the growth in debt, so this is one reason why we had 2008 and even with $75 trillion washed into the financial system and other forms of QE like green grants, funding SpaceX, Tesla, Help2Buy (UK), this simply wasn’t enough to keep the Ponzi going.
Remember that I was talking about the Tory belief system? Well, they do this in the US, even the Dems are (were) more right-wing than the Tories. So the US poverty system is much bigger than the UK and it’s just the standard system…
… so the decline started in the 1970s, but there was no elite panic to change anything and in fact, they decided to destroy the manufacturing base just so the elite could increase profits. All the time, US and UK real terms buying power declined. This was offset with cheaper and cheaper imports, tax cuts (remember them?) & DEBTS, personal debts, and public debts AND later they socialised the financial system’s debts. This is when they flushed $75 billion into the elites pockets.
So, since the designed 2007/8 collapse, nothing was fixed and the bubbles increased. Compounding the City and Wall Street’s problems was that China outdid the US and UK.
Debt is an asset, so the Chinese were actually protecting themselves. The US and UK does this, they use debt as a weapon. It’s a bit like: “The banks are toooo big to fail.” So the designed financial collapse didn’t work as intended, China matched them & some.
So after 2008, we had the currency wars, then we had and still do have illegal sanctions, and then we have the trade wars. Now I know many on here are very pro-Brexit, but you’ve been sold a pup, Brexit is a trade war with the EU and this policy is in step with the US… or to be more precise, the UK politically is the 51st state. The City of London is a different matter.
Now we are in an MI6 covid ruse where some parts of the world have a serious bioweapon to contend with and we have key front line Western states who are faking the data and they have majorly prepared populations who had a weaker bioweapon that gave them some sort of protection.
You lose the plot when you see humanity in factions, like blacks, like gays or whatever. Earlier, I did say that more & more whites were falling into the black and ethnic poverty trap, but that is an observation that explains the current situation.
The social crisis in the US and UK has been compounded by the City and Wall Streets war against rising nations who seek valid trade & you must understand that the US is not a trading nation, it is an extortion nation, just as the UK used to be and seeks to be again. There are two ways to look at the plight of poorer Amerikans and Brits. One, the elite simply don’t care and the other is one of control. Currently, it looks like the angry sheeple are out of control, but they are not, they are behaving as expected, they are venting. No one is saying: “No one vote in November.” We can see how the police state is aiding this venting by kneeling, anyone who sucks this up is an idiot.
Nearly fifty years since globalisation peaked for Western sheeple. Societal dysfunction never had a start point, it has always been with us. The fake news goes on about Black Lives Matter, so do White Lives, when Black slavery was in its pomp, whiite slavery had been around for eons. Most white people were slaves before they started shipping Africans to the UK and US.
The social unrest in the US is an elite ruse to play off various social factions. They are real, but they are created by the elite and deep state so they can be activated to vent sheeple anger. It is just another control system.
I have used this before as an example. If the Church of England attendances are 1.5 million per week and over a 6 month period, those attendances rose to 4 million per week, the elite and deep state would be crapping themselves, assuming they played no role in the increased attendance. They would be trying to ascertain what was going on. There is no real panic over the US riots. The US deep state knows that while they started the demonstrations/riots, as the US summer moves into super-heat, they know the sheeple will seek out aircon and Netfucks & then bitter winter descends.
I’ve not prepared this, just swiped the keys, but I think it offers a bit of balance to the featured article and we shouldn’t be taken in by the fake news. Sure, the US is VERY unstable, but will the sheeple use their guns and take control? Very doubtful.
Insightful analysis of the current situation in America today.
Those who have “eyes to see and ears to hear” are witnessing the destruction of the
American Culture. What once was will never be the same. Count on it.
Most American people will never see the “forest for the trees” , to focus on the events of
today to comprehend that they are but a ruse to create the “synthesis.”
Unfortunately, we Americans will live in the new culture of America what ever the “synthesis” provides.
Those in power will create it out of the chaos that is occurring and will be occurring in
America in the days to come.
You may not like it, but it has been programed to be implemented by those who rule the whole.
Speak for yourself Carl Jones you ANTI WHITE anti British piece of British hating Communist SCUM!! Read your post out loud to yourself you complete and utter FAR LEFT BIGOT!! YOU are accusing the tories of instigating EVERYTHING you far Left COMMIES have desired for the entirity of your NON LIFE!! Piss of and do one loser I want MY country back from you lobotomised at birth Commies and am prepared to fight to ther death for it unlike keyboard cowards like YOU!
American society has been hi jacked by a Sinister cult that is Ruthless, secretive, evil and very very destructive.
Porn, same sex marriage, abortion, transgenderism, Patriot act. It would seem No matter how much pandering to the left whom wants Open society, drug affected, mentally ill, confused society. No moral boundaries, The Motto if it feels good do it.
America is in for a rough ride, When the nation basically Said FUCK YOU to God, Good orderally direction. The rejection of life kibrrty and happiness has been hi jacked by a Large group of people that WORSHIP THE DEVIL.
In my opinion, The Saker ranks among the most gifted, and maybe one of the better funded “disinfo artists” on the Web. In my judgment, the “systematic collapse” of AMERICA seems more akin the the CON-TROLLED demolition of WTC buildings. Certainly no less spectacilar!
Perhaps “The Saker” should read Solzhenitsyn’s “200 Years Together” and revisit his analysis in that light. History rhymes, especially with the same poet writes the lines.
Carl Jones fails to mention the Jews role in all this.
The senseless wars for Israel in the Middle East for example……costing literally trillions of dollars not to mention lives.
The senseless shifting of American industries to China and elsewhere.
The senseless mass flooding of Western countries with millions of third world immigrants promoted by the Jewish controlled media.
The hijack of America from within by crypto Jews…so that most every city in America is run by a Jewish elite.
The labelling of Jews as “white”….so that whites carry the blame for policies implemented by Jews.
The total capture of Hollywood by Jews which necessarily involves racist employment policies favouring Jews….with jewish celebrities like Lady Gaga and Pink promoting behaviour which negatively effects society.Jewish record producers facilitating nihilistic rap music.
Jewish award ceremonies attended by hugely rich Jews promoting themes concerning “white racism” while not a stones throw from the theatre are legions of poor predominantly black people living in tents.
….and now like communist/fascist countries the historical statues are being pulled down.
In Washingstein the Jews are permitted to erect a giant symbol of Judaism….a Menorah every year while symbols of Christianity are forbidden…the Christmas tree doesnt count.
Government offices in Washingstein empty out on Jewish religious holidays further indicating the depth of Jewish power in the USA.
As for Biden and Trump…..BOTH OF THEM are crypto Jews….both of them’.The utterly corrupt Hillary Clinton is also a crypto jew….thus it comes as no surprise to find that her daughter married a jew,just like Trumps.
Trump,Macron,Johnson and Merkel….ALL JEWS….like Trudeau.
So they’ll be wanting another global war….soon enough…..if you allow you relatives to sign up you would have to be a fool.
You cannot be serious about this stuff if you make no mention concerning Jewish power…..BILLIONS of dollars of American taxpayers money is pumped into Tel Aviv banks every year…..while MILLIONS of Americans live in poverty…..many hooked on drugs….strangely no progress is ever made on the “war on drugs”…..
Crypto jew BORIS JOHNSON continues to allow illegal immigrants to land in Britain…………
Okay…step back and consider this…..WHAT ABOUT THE THREAT OF DISEASE CARRIED BY THESE INVADERS……People in Britain are having their freedoms taken away WHILE JOHNSON DOES NOTHING TO SECURE BRITAINS BORDERS.
Now either Johnson the jew is incompetent OR there is another agenda at work……..
WHATEVER…..Johnson is NOT ACTING RATIONALLY.
Didn’t Jesse Ventura say that they had no police academy in that city that was the excuse for this ‘riot’? No training… and the rest is obviously manipulated, from the ‘deep state’… which is ruled by the Secret Govt… the same crew that brings you nearly every war….. careful planning for years…. and now the script is ‘out with their OWO, in with their NWO’… global police state… add more dumbing down and doping up of the masses as they get culled by vaccines and their own ignorance.
Meanwhile, Mother Nature is starting to swing into our neighborhood to ‘clean house’… which fits in with the culling anyway… isn’t it already being called the 6th Extinction? We are a reflection of our environment… which is a reflection of ourselves…. and so it goes until this ‘purgatory’ phase ends… the clock is ticking… by the end of ’27 it is said…. meanwhile, we get these distractions to keep our eyes off the prize… Isn’t it always like this?
the (c*ck) saker taking forever to state the bleedin obvious…
Lord Victor Rothschild said by the year 2000 Britain would be communist he said it may not be called that but thats what it would be
He told his apostles that it would be subtle and peaceful or it could come with much violence and destruction but it woud come and this is what we have now
we are not allowed by law to dfend ourselves, the criminls have guns, but we must not have them
we have ben led by traitor politicians starting with that drunken pervert churchill
wake up englishmen and join th english reistance to the NWO
British and PROUD: I just want to thank you for making my point. I did speak the truth and I did speak for myself and your funny rant is there for the world to see. I also want to point out that I post under my REAL name, not like the majority on here who hide their identities.
Come to London if you fancy your chances, personally, I think you are all mouth. You are the “Keyboard coward” hiding your identity.
Vespasian: does it need saying in every comment? It’s a given, Zionists are a given.
The Saker doesn’t seem to get it. The Jew World Order banker cartel is inciting riots, fake racism, anarchy, misery, to make people hate their governments and politicians so people will want to replace their governments.
The JWO wants to subvert goy governments under their UN to replace the old Christian order with the Jew World Order. Getting Christians and Christianity out of schools, government, and society is an important part of their plans.
The JWO bankers documented their plans for all of this in their Protocols of Zion over 120 years ago.
As plan after plan after plan in the POZ became reality after reality, the POZ has been proven to be just what it appears to be, Zionist banker plans to destroy Christianity and rule the world –
Protocols of the Elders of Zion
http://www.whale.to/b/protocols.html
Kudos to you Carl for calling out the troll and posting an informed mini-essay under your real name, unlike myself and many others.
The role of the British deep state and the establishment (not the government, they’re just puppets) cannot be underestimated in the present state of world affairs.
The UK’s image abroad as one of a former colonial superpower but now merely an irrelevant little island to the northwest of Europe, and America’s lapdog to boot, is probably a well crafted one.
Putting someone, like Doris, with his shambolic bumbling facade, in charge to lead the country and gaining an 80 seat majority just before coronabollox hit the world, is similarly well crafted.
The government, never has and never will actually ‘run’ the country, otherwise, they would never let you vote.
Brit & Proud
If your English comprehension is that bad that you thought Mr Jones was denigrating native Brits, then I suggest you stick to reading comics – you soft twat!