Hello. I’m a Russian occupier. It is my profession. Historically, it just happened. I once occupied Siberia… I once occupied the Baltic States … I once occupied Central Asia … I once occupied Ukraine … Yes, I’m an occupier, and I’m tired of apologizing for it! I’m an occupier by birthright, an aggressor and a bloodthirsty monster. Be afraid. … All and sundry came to my house: the Turks, the British, the Poles, the Germans, the French — we’ve got enough land, two and a half meters for each and every one of them! Please, understand. I don’t need your hypocritical “freedom.” I don’t need your rotten “democracy.” Everything that you call “Western values” is alien to me. I have other interests. I politely warn you for the last time: don’t mess with me. I build peace, I love peace, but I know how to fight better than anyone else… Sincerely, your Russian occupier.

You can watch the video for yourself. More than 2.3 million views so far. In Russian. Quite a ride.

Can you imagine the American version?

Hello. I’m an American settler. It is my profession. Historically, it just happened. I once occupied North America… I once occupied Alaska … I once occupied Hawaii … I once occupied Cuba … Yes, I’m an occupier, and I’m tired of apologizing for it! I’m an occupier by birthright, an aggressor and a bloodthirsty monster. Be afraid. … All and sundry came to my house: the Redskins, the British, the Mexicans, the Japanese — we’ve got enough land, two and a half meters for each and every one of them!

Mighty racist, innit?

Hello. I’m a British colonizer. It is my profession. Historically, it just happened. I once occupied India… I once occupied Australia … I once occupied Africa … I once occupied Ireland … Yes, I’m an occupier, and I’m tired of apologizing for it! I’m an occupier by birthright, an aggressor and a bloodthirsty monster. Be afraid. … All and sundry came to my house: the Romans, the Normans, the Vikings, the French, the Germans — we’ve got enough land, two and a half meters for each and every one of them!

I can hear Labour-voters crying in agony.

How did it come to this? Why do Russians celebrate their old conquests and justify them with talk of civilization and glory, but Britons and Americans couldn’t even begin to do the same without being denounced as racists, imperialists, etc.? Come to think of it, why did the latter two stop doing what the first is still doing?

Henry Dampier has commented on the differences between [Novo-] Russian and American propaganda before. Limitless American budgets can nevertheless only focus on the “you-you-you.” Join the American army — you’ll benefit. The closest to an organizing principle they can reach is “diversity.” Token black marine. Token female soldier. Token Asian paratrooper. And so forth. White males with hokey ideas about brothers-in-arms dying for the Honor of the Fatherland need not apply. It’ll be more like gender-non-conforming-individuals-in-arms twisting drone-joysticks for the Justice of the Trayvon. Not so in Russia.

Russian diversity.

Russian propaganda for the fighters in Donbass is focused on Donbass and the people protecting it — grizzly white males who like to shoot, smoke and beseech the Lord Jesus Christ. That typically Western, narcissistic, and solipsistic propaganda trend, where a cast of soft-spoken, diverse characters stand and alternately plead with and browbeat the viewer about this-or-that cause they totally stand united for but are nevertheless hopeless about solving without you, before ending with a hashtag — this particular style of propaganda has been found somewhat wanting by the Russians.

One of these Russian occupiers is worth a hundred thousand teary-eyed liberal actors with hashtags.

It goes without saying that a rejection of narcissistic slave-morality propaganda didn’t arise out of nothing. Judging by the video, the Russian view of the West is markedly dim (and rightly so). Western “democracy” means NATO interventions and Guantanamo Bay. Western “freedom” means rule by the vulgar dykes of Pussy Riot and sermons from the fatuous scatologists of Charlie Hebdo. Western “values” mean “Daddy, Papa, and Me.” Enthusiasm for this societal program is not exactly sky-high. You can tell a lot about a people by their propaganda. Russia and the West may look suspiciously similar at times, were one to take just a surface glance at something like fertility rates. And yet the trend lines couldn’t be farther apart.

It’s worth watching this video about Alexei Mozgovoy, separatist leader in Lugansk, ruling his area like a “fiefdom.” (In the West, apparently, we prefer our lawless chieftains to have titles like “Administrative Chief of the ABCDEFG” instead of “Commander.” So long as it’s a bureaucracy committing the barbarism we can call ourselves civilized, I guess.) Vice is not any less biased than any other Western media outlet, and there is a wrenching juxtaposition between how hard the video-creators want you to hate Mr. Mozgovoy and how much perfect sense he is making. Mozgovoy suggests banning women from nightclubs and cafes, and continues:

Despite their behavior, women remain women and you are not allowed to rape them. At the same time, it’s not a bad idea for a society, and for women in particular, to take some steps to raise their morals.

Simon Ostrovsky asks him what problems they have with morality. The same as you have, he responds.

For instance, those young ladies who are in their childbearing age and need to give birth, so that there is no demographic crisis and so on, instead they are ruining their bodies. What kind of mother can she be after she has ruined her body with alcohol and drugs?

Ostrovsky asks some leading questions, trying to establish Mozgovoy’s “people’s courts” as Medieval barbarisms. Ostrovsky, liberal hipster douche, scarf, glasses and all, apparently doesn’t like democracy when the Russians do it. He apparently also forgot that Mozgovoy’s “people’s courts” are the ones replacing the awful “corrupt Russian courts” Westerners wail about, which Mozgovoy points out immediately. You see, America needs to invade Ukraine (and especially Donbass) to get rid of that corrupt Russian system and replace it with a good American system, for the people! Wait, what’s happening? No, don’t let the people! organize their own courts. Stop it! Democracy is bad! I mean–wait, what?

So did uneducated sexist redneck barbarian bigot on the wrong side of history Mr. Mozgovoy execute the poor man unfairly tried by the Putin’s people’s court? Yes! Bomb Russia now! Nope. What happened to your victim, Mr. Mozgovoy?

Nothing. He is alive, but in prison. […] Even though he was sentenced to death, that does not mean that he will be executed the next day. It’s necessary to allow time for an appeal, isn’t it?

Remember that in the Land of the Free, self-defense against a protected minority will get you publicly tarred and feathered like George Zimmerman or Darren Wilson before a trial has even begun. This will put your family in danger, put a price on your head, alienate you from the ruling powers of your homeland and devastate your livelihood. Even suggesting a protected minority might not be all it’s cracked up to be will turn you into a non-person, everything but flatly murdered. People’s courts come in all shapes and sizes. At least the Russian-run ones are concerned with crime and punishment instead of social justice.

Chalk it up to different mentalities.

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“Today, project neurologists confirm this research project’s earlier hypothesis that very early in life perhaps, even in utero, Putin suffered a huge hemispheric event to the left temporal lobe of the prefrontal cortex, which involves both central and peripheral nervous systems, gross motor functioning on his right side (head, rib cage, arm and leg) and his micro facial expression, eye gaze, hearing and voice and general affect,” the report said.

Work by “autism specialists,” apparently, backs up the report’s findings. The news article takes the time to (rightly) dryly note that “researchers can’t prove their theory about Putin and Asperger’s, the report said, because they were not able to perform a brain scan on the Russian president.”

Now, dear readers, I am no psychologist. I am no psychiatrist. I do not fund Pentagon think-tanks, and I can’t say I’ve spent much time studying neurological or developmental disorders, let alone patterns of behavioral tics and their relations to psychological traits. I am, however, a currently still bipedal homo sapiens with an intelligence quotient North of 70 and useful pairs of both functioning hands and functioning testicles, so I think I am qualified to decide whether or not a major world leader who is:

1. “The Most Badass Leader in the World” according to Business Insider.

2. “The World’s Craziest Badass” according to Cracked.com.

3. “Terrific, Triumphant, All Good, Totally Badass” according to Foreign Policy magazine.

4. “The Richest Man On Earth” according to Bloomberg.

5. “The Most Powerful Man in the World” according to Forbes.

…is also in possession of any deep-rooted anti-social mental disorders.

Here are the official United States government National Institutes of Health factsheets on autism and Asperger’s syndrome, which you may peruse to your heart’s content. Let’s take a look at the factsheets and see how they compare to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin’s very public behavior and history.

Autistic children have difficulties with social interaction, display problems with verbal and nonverbal communication, and exhibit repetitive behaviors or narrow, obsessive interests.

Asperger syndrome (AS) is a developmental disorder.  It is an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), one of a distinct group of neurological conditions characterized by a greater or lesser degree of impairment in language and communication skills, as well as repetitive or restrictive patterns of thought and behavior. 

You can click on Link #1 above for 39 photos of Vladimir Putin displaying highly un-obsessive and un-narrow interests, ranging from motorbiking to piano. The same set of pictures makes me doubt whether President Putin has any inherent difficulties with communication or social interaction, considering he can be seen successfully interacting with little boys in martial arts costume, little girls in tea-party costume, other world leaders in very serious grown-up costume, Russian outlaw biker gang leaders, sleeping tigers, horses, baby birds, giant fish and polar bears. In fact, judging by the amount of wild animals Putin is seen hunting, comforting, riding, putting down or knowingly glaring at, it might be inferred that he actually possesses better social skills than the rest of us, confined as we are to mere human-to-human social interactions. By the way, for reference, here’s a picture of the Russian outlaw biker gang leader smiling at Putin like a virginal maiden might smile at her deflowerer:

Wonder what Heartiste would have to say about this.

Speaking of deflowering, Vladimir Putin also happens to be the father of two daughters with his ex-wife, who has by now long ceded the spotlight to Putin’s rumored younger conquests. I will spare the details, since you can easily Google “putin luv life.” Putin also happens to be — as if it actually bears repeating — the three-term President and (by progressive standards) tyrannical dictator of the biggest country and largest nuclear power on the planet. This power, by the way, is currently flouting the established unipolar geopolitical world order with the United States government at the helm, to the great chagrin of pale bespectacled hermaphrodites all over the West. To add insult to injury, this power is succeeding at it too, in no small part thanks to President Putin’s wily statesmanship. I am doubtful that it is possible to reach and maintain this position of Putin’s, especially after surviving a career in the brutal Soviet security services (the KGB), without possessing social skills that are — at a minimum — not fundamentally crippled.

Here’s a video of that old dog Vladimir singing ‘Blueberry Hill’ to a live television audience. I would question deeply how many of the researchers mysteriously discovering new mental disorders in Putin would be able to imitate Putin’s performance, from the singing-in-a-foreign-language part to the singing-publicly-on-television-in-front-of-millions-of-judging-people part.

But of course, the point was never about whether or not Vladimir Putin is actually mentally disordered or not. Taken at face value, it would be a damning fact that the defense apparatus of the United States government doled out money to hucksters claiming that the most ruthless, calculating, successful and powerful men on the planet are in fact secretly shivering nerds incapable of communicating with other human beings. The characterization of President Putin as a sufferer of Asperger’s syndrome is the final proof yours truly needs that the Western government-psychiatric complex — and I include the government- part because the institutions have become practically inseparable at this point — is full of charlatans spewing complete and utter hogwash for easy government grants. If their mad prescriptions will result in a populace addicted to anti-depressant chemicals, blatantly false assessments of dangerous foreign leaders, and self-mutilating leftists standing as examples of health and normalcy to the populace at large — so be it! So much the worse for society: the God of Science(tm) has spoken, through his archangel Psychology(tm). The joke, in the end, is that the real mentally disordered are not in the Kremlin, but in the Pentagon and its think-tanks itself.

Gary Brecher, the War Nerd, writes an excruciating column on the American defense industry’s transparent focus on expensive power fantasies to the detriment of actual national defense. His examples primarily stem from the air defense industry, but the situation in intelligence and psychological warfare is undoubtedly similar. There is little incentive for cosmopolitan psychologists and psychiatrists receiving multi-million dollar grants from cosmopolitan careerists at the Pentagon to study foreign leaders to actually develop truthful and applicable recommendations and conclusions — this would just reduce the need for more “studies,” for more multi-million dollar grants. Because, you see, “…this is all about money, and [has] nothing to do with defense.” To the undoubted eventual horror of the cosmopolitans, the same just might not be true for the Autist in the Kremlin.

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Rising #inequality & climate change are defining challenges of our time. You can help: http://t.co/ONSAl4jeRJ #wef15 pic.twitter.com/B4ee6BVYvf

— Oxfam International (@Oxfam) January 16, 2015

Yes, it seems to be true: RT reports that by 2016, the richest 1% of the global human population will control more wealth than the other 99% of the human population combined. Through Oxfam, an “anti-poverty charity,” we learn that:

Last year, Oxfam reported that the world’s 85 richest people have the same wealth as the poorest 50 percent (3.5 billion people). This year, Oxfam said the reality has become more worrisome, with just 80 people owning the same amount of wealth as more than 3.5 billion people.

We are alerted to a “dark portrait” of the state of affairs. This news proves we face “challenges [of] severe wealth concentration.”

However, despite constant warnings that the upward curve in wealth concentration will only lead to disaster, the rich continue to gobble up a bigger and bigger share of the global wealth pie.

“Gobble up.” RT’s gratuitous baiting of low-brow egalitarian Western leftists is transparent, but rather amusing. Right-wing opponents of Putin’s Russia would do well to remember that RT is not aimed at Russians, but at English-speaking Western leftists. RT will run pieces on the evils of rising income inequality more fervently than an Occupy Wall Street hippie (along with pieces on racism in America, the surveillance state, etc.) because the Kremlin implicitly recognizes that egging on these kinds of leftists in the West is beneficial for Russia. Better to keep the non-profit mafia whining about Ferguson than Sochi — if you think Putin is crying into his fair-trade coffee about the treatment of African-American brothas by white 1%ers, you are sorely mistaken. Speaking of the non-profit mafia:

Oxfam executive director Winnie Byanyima, who will co-chair the Davos symposium, said she will draw attention to the grim fact that “one in nine people do not have enough to eat and more than a billion people still live on less than $1.25 a day,” she told The Guardian.

“Do we really want to live in a world where the 1 percent own more than the rest of us combined? The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering and despite the issues shooting up the global agenda, the gap between the richest and the rest is widening fast.”

A cursory Google search reveals that Mrs. Byanyima is a Ugandan aeronautical engineer, politician and diplomat. Apparently, she was Uganda’s first female aeronautical engineer. Like all heartfelt tinkerers, Mrs. Byanyima quit her engineering job with the now-defunct Uganda Airlines as soon as she got it to help start the Ugandan Bush War. (Mrs. Byanyima, who was born in 1959, and received both a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. from British universities, would have graduated high school in 1977, just four years before the Bush War began in 1981, and would have required between four and eight years to receive her degrees.) Apparently, Mrs. Byanyima found fomenting political unrest to be more conducive to her skillset than engineering, and she later served in various Ugandan governmental posts (under the watch of now long-time Ugandan President/Instigator of Bush Wars Museveni, who she grew up with), and then later United Nations posts (hmm…). As a one-time “Director of the Gender Team in the Bureau for Development Policy” at the UNDP, I am sure Mrs. Byanyima is extremely qualified for her new executive directorship.

To channel Mr. Moldbug, Byanyima’s real education was not in engineering, but in progressive-leftist demotism, and her first big break was not at Uganda Airlines but in an African bush war, and her real career wasn’t in “helping women get a leg up,” but “fomenting political unrest” — only later at the United Nations — all for a good cause, of course! It should go without saying Oxfam believes that “rising inequality and climate change are defining challenges of our time.” Wait, climate change? I thought this was an anti-poverty organization? Silly me, I forgot about the Cathedral again.

The image attached to the Oxfam tweet at the top of this article is emblematic of Western liberal delusions about reality concerning wealth and income. A rough-around-the-edges South Asian man (let’s call him Pakistani Abdul), pushing watermelons hanging off his old bike, presumably to market, with a huge poster of a clean-cut Westerner (read: dirty white devil) sitting in an airplane reading from some new gizmo — the massive hashtag reads “#INEQUALITY.” We are exhorted: “Join the debate!” What do liberals see in this image that we normal people do not? Like all good leftists, they psychologically project. Where we see Pakistani Abdul pushing his wares to the market, presumably pondering this year’s harvest, the leftist liberal sees a potential college student, a potential high-achiever, academician, bureaucrat, hoop-jumper, future lawyer/doctor/consultant (and future progressive) denied a chance for the good and holy life by privileged, rich white racists — if only Abdul could have applied to cawww-lidge! That Abdul couldn’t care less for these bourgeois Western pretensions does not even occur to them. That Abdul is mentally incapable of achieving them is beyond unthinkable.

But no matter — we will continue the “debate” about “income inequality” across “the global community” under the assumption that everyone on the planet has the ability, willpower, desire, necessity and urgency to seek out an upper-middle class Western existence of paper-pushing and platitude-mouthing. It’s a “severe challenge,” after all. Right next to climate change. Hopefully Abdul will get educated and donate some money to those climate change groups. Just check out Oxfam’s seven-point plan to alleviate income inequality:

Oxfam said it was calling on governments to adopt a seven-point plan to alleviate global inequality:

• Clamp down on tax dodging by corporations and rich individuals.

Rebuild that Berlin Wall, boys, these rich nancies aren’t going anywhere until we’ve got their monies!

• Invest in universal, free public services such as health and education.

Spread the wealth around, boys, free stuff for everyone! Paid for with our “clamping down” on “tax dodgers.” Wink wink, elbow elbow.

• Share the tax burden fairly, shifting taxation from labour and consumption towards capital and wealth.

Taxes are only a burden when the State is upwards of 40% of the economy, such as in modern times. This was not the case in the past.

• Introduce minimum wages and move toward a living wage for all workers.

When “minimum wage,” lost its luster, the leftists moved onto “living wage.” Next it’ll be a “happy wage.” Because if gays deserve “gay marriage” because they “love,” each other, why shouldn’t the poor deserve “happy wages” if they want? Don’t they deserve to be happy? Why do you hate poor people maaan?

• Introduce equal pay legislation and promote economic policies to give women a fair deal.

Destroy patriarchy and abolish the family so that the State can step in and expand its power over people’s lives. Because for the leftist, if the solution isn’t the State — is it really a solution? (No! Off with their heads!)

• Ensure adequate safety nets for the poorest, including a minimum income guarantee.

Repetition, because propaganda doesn’t work if it’s only repeated once.

• Agree a global goal to tackle inequality.

Identify the ones who disagree i.e. the ones who won’t let you rent-seek, and immediately begin slandering them as poor-haters, rich gobblers, and what-not. Maybe instigate a class revolution. Bring out the guillotines. You know how it goes with the Left. “Executive” director indeed.

Income inequality is a farce directed by the same leftists responsible for the globe’s social ills, masquerading as righteous crusaders while doing nothing but ruining the value built up by highly non-leftist people. They are rabble-rousers and demagogues of the worst kind. Remember Mrs. Byanyima: the upstart revolutionary guerilla becomes a politically correct United Nations functionary. This is not a coincidence, and it is not an isolated incident. Bernardine Dohrn bombed the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, and just a couple police stations. She is now a professor at Northwestern University School of Law. Her terrorist husband has a dormitory named after him at the same university, and is himself still a “Distinguished Professor” at the University of Illinois in Chicago.

If this article was rambling, it’s because the gravity of the situation confuses the author’s attempts to make sense of a course of action. When did avowed terrorists become mentors of youth? When did jungle guerillas become internationally-approved moral guides? Then again, the most recognizable faces of the previous century all belonged to murderous maniacs and their differently-sizes mustaches. I suppose we’re still defined by murderous maniacs in the 21st century — the mustaches just seem to be missing, replaced with pasty clean-shaven faces or (increasingly) Islamic beards. Such a shame. The mustaches were the only good thing left.

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