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Trust in God and keep your powder dry
Arlie J. Hoover
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Remember when the Cold War ended just a few years ago?
There was great rejoicing in most of the world and especially in the United States of America. I watched with great satisfaction the Berlin Wall come down and the Warsaw Pact disintegrate. I watched the Soviet Union fall apart and chuckled to myself, "Reagan was right -- into the dustbin of history with your accursed communism!"
Pundits of all kinds issued shrewd philosophical observations on the occasion. The most famous came from the pen of Francis Fukuyama who opined that, "At the end of history, there are no serious ideological competitors left to liberal democracy."
Boy, was he wrong! History is back, folks, and with a vengeance. The Russians have invaded the tiny state of Georgia, and it looks like they are prepared to stay there for a long time. The Bear is on the move again. He looks like he wants to get back his empire. And people told me that there was a "new world order" just around the corner.
The more things change, the more they remain the same. Where did we go wrong? We made some naive assumptions.
First, we assumed that with the fall of communism, there was no more cause for war in the world. We were wrong. We forgot about that ancient phenomenon called nationalism -- "ethnocentrism" if you want to show off your vocabulary -- which has caused wars since humans invented politics.
Second, we wagered that since Russia and China were getting rich experimenting with capitalism and free enterprise, they would slowly turn democratic. We hoped that rising prosperity would very likely produce political liberalism in those former communist nations. We hoped that those folks would become nice progressives, at home and abroad.
We were wrong again. The growth of the Russian and Chinese economies has not produced the political liberalization we expected. It was rather naive of us to believe that rising prosperity inevitably produces political liberalism. The autocratic regimes of Russia and China have discovered the secret of allowing free enterprise while suppressing political activity. Enrich yourselves, but don't join the Falun Gong, and by all means don't flaunt your Christianity! You are free to get rich, up to a point, but don't demand any other freedoms. The government controls all newspapers, TV programs, movies, books, journals and the Internet.
There are certain times in history when a nation decides that democracy is not the main thing it wants. National pride is more important. Vladimir Putin is popular in Russia for handling the problem of Chechnya. Now he is reaching for a greater prize: the restoration of the Soviet Union. How convenient that some Russian nationals were left in Georgia, so that Putin could complain about their mistreatment by the Georgians and have a pretext for invasion. We recall that Adolf Hitler used the same tactic in 1938 just before he took over the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told news sources that he was tired of being "bullied" by Washington. "We know there is only one superpower," he said, "but we don't need to be hit over the head with it every day." National pride.
So what can we do? Not much right now. We are tied down in Iraq and Afghanistan. The European Union, the body that should have the greatest interest in Georgian independence, is poorly equipped to respond to a problem such as this. The Europeans never expected to face this kind of challenge at the "end of history." But something must be done. We can orchestrate a lot of noise in the U.N. We can work to get Russia expelled from the G8 group and to prevent them from joining the World Trade Organization.
In the meantime, as Oliver Cromwell advised: "Trust in God, and keep your powder dry!"
Arlie J. Hoover is a professor of history at Abilene Christian University.
Posted by cadechar on September 7, 2008 at 11:34 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Right on, Mr. Hoover, from an old Cold Warrior.
As a paid ACU employee, you're the 'anti-sadler.' To keep the ARN balanced, Sadler needs to write a few guest columns rather than just reply to these threads like the rest of us anonymous bottom dwellers.
Posted by whiteflash on September 7, 2008 at 1:47 p.m. (Suggest removal)
In Revelation 13:2 states,the Beast that rises up out of the sea has the feet of the bear.
http://www.endtime.com
Posted by knutten on September 8, 2008 at 5:51 a.m. (Suggest removal)
This is mostly bs ;-)
Alex Jones in Russian TV:
America has been hijacked
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziAkHO...
A 12 year old girl tells the truth in a FOX broadcast - they don't want it... so they take a break...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9aMgF...
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This is a set up trap to push Russia closer to China- for what the evil elit wants is a new cold war, and a third world war.
David Icke:
'Eurasian Balkans', the region around the Caspian Sea with its fantastic reserves of oil and gas. Brzezinski wrote in his book, The Grand Chessboard:
'... how America "manages" Eurasia is critical. A power that dominates Eurasia would control two of the world's three most advanced and economically productive regions. A mere glance at the map also suggests that control over Eurasia would almost automatically entail Africa's subordination, rendering the Western Hemisphere and Oceania geopolitically peripheral to the world's central continent. About 75 per cent of the world's people live in Eurasia, and most of the world's physical wealth is there as well, both in its enterprises and underneath its soil. Eurasia accounts for about three-fourths of the world's known energy resources.'
Brzezinski said that for the US to retain its power in the Middle and Near East and the Caspian region they had to stop countries coming together under central control or agreed alliances that could unite to drive America out. His strategy to stop this was simple - divide and rule. Or, in his own words ...:
'... To put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.'
The control and manipulation of Georgia is part of this strategy and so you won't be surprised at all to know that the Georgian President, Mikhail Saakashvili, who ordered the attack on South Ossetia, is a glove puppet of ... Zbigniew Brzezinski and his Illuminati associates.
And Brzezinski is the power behind ... Barack Obama, the likely next President of the United States. The moves on the chessboard are now becoming a blur, so fast are they happening.
Mikhail Saakashvili was brought to power in Georgia by a CIA-engineered 'Peoples' Revolution', or the 'Revolution of Roses', brought about by mass public demonstrations against the sitting President, Eduard Shevardnadze. It came to a head when Shevardnadze fled the parliament building after demonstrators holding roses, including Saakashvili, took it over.
More will follow...
Posted by knutten on September 8, 2008 at 5:53 a.m. (Suggest removal)
continue...:
The red rose is a major Illuminati symbol and one of their elite secret societies is called the Order of the Rose.
The Georgian flag, the symbol of the Knights Templar secret society and also known as the flag of St George, flies over a mass demonstration that brought Brzezinski's man, Saakashvili, to power. The sitting president, Eduard Shevardnadze, resigned on Georgia's St George's Day in 2003.
One of the major funders behind the Rose Revolution was the Jewish Illuminati financier, George Soros. He has a complex network of foundations and organisations through which he manipulates countries across the world in league with the Elite groupings in the United States and Israel. It was this Soros network, especially his Open Society Institute, that trained and funded Georgian students in the art of mass protest and funded the opposition TV station that mobilized the demonstrations.
George Soros
As Zaza Gachechiladze, editor-in-chief of The Georgian Messenger, said: 'It's generally accepted public opinion here that Mr. Soros is the person who planned Shevardnadze's overthrow.'
Soros was also, like Brzezinski, a close 'associate' of Mikhail Saakashvili, the man they installed as Georgian President, (in the master-slave definition of 'associate'). Saakashvili is a graduate of George Washington University in Washington DC and Columbia University Law School in New York (the university of Brzezinski and Obama). He was one of a number of American-trained agents controlled by the Brzezinski-Soros network who were prepared and developed to serve them in the new Georgian government after the 'Rose Revolution'.
By the way, Brzezinski is Barack Obama's 'Foreign Policy Advisor' (in truth his mentor and controller) and guess who is one of Obama's major sources of funding? Yes, George Soros.
So, of course, Obama sang from their song-sheet this week when he blamed Russia for everything that went on in Georgia and South Ossetia.
The 'Rose Revolution' was not a revolution by the people at all. The 'people' were played like a violin. It was a coup on Georgia by the Illuminati networks in America and Israel and it was achieved courtesy of the Georgian people they now control and manipulate. It has happened so many times in so many countries.
More will follow...
Posted by knutten on September 8, 2008 at 5:54 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Mikeil Saakashvili
Saakashvili sent Georgian troops to Iraq to support the American and British occupation (the Americans flew them back after Russia invaded) and he has pressed for membership of NATO. Whether this fool tool of Washington and Tel Aviv fully knows or not, he is simply being used in a much bigger game called 'bait the Russians'.
When Saakashvili's military attack on South Ossetia backfired (at least from the Georgian peoples' point of view) as the Russians retaliated, it was America who led the protests on Georgia's behalf and sold the lie about Russia being 100% to blame for what has happened. Brzezinski was out of the traps immediately as he compared Putin to Hitler and Stalin.
And it was America's associates, Israel, who trained Georgian forces that carried out the attack in South Ossetia. The Georgian Minister, Temur Yakobashvili, who is Jewish, praised Israel for its role in training Georgian troops. Speaking in Hebrew, he told Israel Army Radio.: 'Israel should be proud of its military, which trained Georgian soldiers'.
One report claims that some 1,500 'advisors' from Blackwater, the infamous US 'private military/security' operation, have been on the ground in Georgia and massive shipments of arms and ammunition have been supplied by the United States in the last 18 months.
There is no way that Saakashvili ordered his troops to attack South Ossetia to spark this crisis without getting support and approval, maybe even direct instruction, from the United States and Israel. He is their man and he does what they say.
The US-Israel cabal is doing the same throughout the world to achieve its end of global domination for the Illuminati agenda and wars galore would not have happened without them and their controllers, the Rothschild dynasty.
You'll hear people like Brzezinski criticise Israel to publicly distance himself from his Israel connection, but the Rothschilds control Israel as they control the Round Table organisations like the Trilateral Commission that Brzezinski founded on their behalf.
All pawns together.
More will follow...
Posted by knutten on September 8, 2008 at 5:56 a.m. (Suggest removal)
continued...
It's all smoke and mirrors and while the Georgia attacks on South Ossetia are being seen as a disaster for the Georgian people because of the Russian response, and a disaster for America and its ambitions around the Caspian Sea, there is another way to look at this.
Firstly, it doesn't matter to the forces that control Brzezinski and Soros if what they do makes the Georgian people suffer. That doesn't register with them when they are planning their dastardly deeds. It's simply not a factor that's ever considered.
And second, if you look beyond 'America' to the forces that control America and Russia and China and the European Union and Israel it has all worked out rather well. They have now triggered more hostility, unrest, fear and mistrust in this, to them, crucial part of the world. In short, they have divided and ruled yet again.
They also have American troops and ships arriving in Georgia for 'humanitarian' reasons in the wake of the conflict and this is another step towards the Third World War that all this global manoeuvring is eventually leading to - the war to destroy America as a 'superpower' and bring in the world government dictatorship.
The agreement announced amid the Georgian conflict on Thursday that the United States is to locate a missile 'defence shield' in Poland was designed to increase tension and hostility with Russia. It's called a 'defence shield', but the Russians know it will be able to fire missiles at them, just as they know that the United States and Israel were behind the actions of Georgia.
Brzezinski's stated plan for Eurasia is only one level of the game as it relates to the United States. At higher levels, indeed to Brzezinski in private, the United States is nothing more than another pawn to be played off against Russia, China, Iran and whoever else, to install the goal of a world fascist tyranny.
The ultimate force of control and manipulation is not even on this planet or in this reality, so no matter what level the game is played in the 'physical world' it is still not the top of the pyramid and thus does not have the full picture.
What we see in this 'world' in terms of manipulators and manipulated are only different levels of pawns manipulating other pawns to advance the will of the other-dimensional kings and queens that most of them don't even know exist.
As Manly P. Hall, the 33rd Degree Freemason and 'Masonry's Greatest Philosopher', said:
'... it is so difficult to determine the position of the ancient initiates ... They are the invisible powers behind the thrones of earth, and men are but marionettes, dancing while the invisible ones pull the strings. We see the dancer, but the master mind that does the work remains concealed by the cloak of silence.'
More will follow...
Posted by knutten on September 8, 2008 at 6 a.m. (Suggest removal)
continued...:
Nothing is what it seems and that is certainly the case with what has happened in Georgia. It needs to be seen on so many levels, including where Georgia is located in historical terms. The Illuminati families are obsessed with their genetics, their symbolism and with the lands important to their history and so the game plays out on those levels, also.
Many of the major Illuminati bloodlines, the ones behind the occupation of Iraq, came out of ancient Sumer and Babylon - the land we now call Iraq.
Sumerians settled in the Caucasus Mountains region and became known as the Khazars before moving northwards through the centuries to become the East and West European Ashkenazi Jews, including the Rothschilds. Their land of ancient Khazaria is in part now called ... Georgia.
Those Khazars went on to people and control another land closely connected to what happened in Georgia this week ... Israel.
And the elite of the former Khazars have massive influence in the government of ... the United States.
There are so many aspects to this, but the most important is the plan for another world war and in that context the 'Brzezinski doctrine' for Eurasia and the region around the Caspian Sea can be seen in another light. He says in The Grand Chessboard:
'Potentially, the most dangerous scenario would be a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran, an `anti-hegemonic' coalition united not by ideology but by complementary grievances. It would be reminiscent in scale and scope of the challenge posed by the Sino-Soviet bloc, though this time China would likely be the leader and Russia the follower. Averting this contingency, however remote it may be, will require a display of U.S. geostrategic skill on the western, eastern, and southern perimeters of Eurasia simultaneously.'
Brzezinski appears to be describing the possibilities here with regard to America's best interests, but if you look behind the appearance of him being an 'American' (he's not, he's from Poland) and understand that he represents a force that spans national borders and has no allegiance to America, what he is describing is the perfect trigger for the Third World War that is designed to destroy America as we know it.
This week's events in Georgia have taken that outcome another major step closer and when you appreciate that if 'Obama' is elected in November then America is actually putting Brzezinski and Soros in the White House, you can see the potential for global mayhem.
Will it be the Flyswatter or the Blunderbuss?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.i...
More will follow...
Posted by knutten on September 8, 2008 at 6:01 a.m. (Suggest removal)
continued..._
The US-backed regime in Georgia disregarded the principle of self-determination and invaded
the Russian population of So. Ossetia using Israeli arms.
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2...
Russia Proposes Plan to Counter NATO as EU Considers Sanctions
Source: Bloomberg
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev proposed expanding a security alliance with China and Central Asia to counter NATO, as the...
... The alliance, known as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-1...
Russia wins backing from China
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,...
CNN:
ANTI-AMERICAN ALLIANCE! RUSSIA & CHINA DEEPEN TIES
2 min
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcWE6r...
Vake up friends.
Posted by Shootstir on September 8, 2008 at 11:21 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Dang, Nute- you just hijacked the freakin' paper!
Posted by newguy062 on September 8, 2008 at 11:43 a.m. (Suggest removal)
And I thought this might degrade into some grand conspiracy concerning the acpocalypse or super-intelligent lizard men.
Posted by bigalluvsu on September 8, 2008 at 3:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Knutten should write a guest editorial. It would have more readership than posting on this blog.
How about it knutten and mr. cromeens?
Posted by come_and_take_it on September 8, 2008 at 9:30 p.m. (Suggest removal)
knutten,
Thanks for the thesis.
Posted by Gus on September 8, 2008 at 10:16 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Did y'all actually read all that??
Posted by newguy062 on September 8, 2008 at 11:47 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I think they missed part about the evil international bankers hell bent on world domination; that and the above-mentioned super-intelligent lizard men.
Posted by dr__dawggy on September 9, 2008 at 7:06 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Nicely played, Newguy! I am LOL.
Posted by accessdenied on September 9, 2008 at 7:28 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I saw the russian girl's appearance.
funny how the media didn't like her story and covered it up....
kill your tee vee.
Posted by robertwp on September 9, 2008 at 9:33 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I'll read it the next time I get the flu.
Posted by HoursAway on September 9, 2008 at 12:49 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Both article and comment were nicely written. It makes sense, then again you can read a lot into the situation in Georgia. But let's face it, how long can we be the "superpower" and how will it occur? It doesn't seem we can shift our weight anymore, other countries are getting stronger and we aren't. Instead of always investing in other countries that could easily turn on us, why not invest in us for once?
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