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It is becoming increasingly clear that we live in a world defined by systemic hypocrisy. This hypocrisy is far more insidious than we might think. Hypocrisy claims to be noble when it is base.

Yesterday I reposted an article written by Sharon Tennison who told of hers and others experiences of dealing with Vladimir Putin and that the commonality of those experiences was that Putin was not only competent but honest. He remained uncorrupted in an environment that supported corruption. These testimonies exposed the western media's derogatory descriptions of Putin as lies and propaganda.

Today we'll look at an example of those lies and propaganda. Mark from The Kremlin Stooge takes apart an article written by David Rothkopf, the editor of the establishment's Foreign Policy Magazine. Mark deftly exposes the lies and false assertions one by one and illustrates the deep hypocrisy that exists in our elite class and how it affects the unaware in our society.

Stanisalv Belkovsky is identified as the source of the false charges of Putin being corrupt and squirreling away billions of dollars. It is truly amazing how this bull is repeated around the net. Well, now we know where it all came from.

Mark also points out in some detail that it is the economy of the USA that is tanking and not Russia's as the establishment is forever proclaiming through the major media organs. But then, after a while, this comes as no surprise as you start to expect the very opposite to be true from what you are told. Everything is back-to-front. This will be the subject of tomorrow's article. But in the meantime, please read and enjoy Mark's well researched and entertaining article.

In the last couple of days, I have come across three very good articles which cast light on the overall picture we are facing in the world. The bankers are pushing the US into a confrontation with Russia and are reversing the truth through their owned media saying that Russia is the aggressor and that Putin is corrupt and power mad. So while we are waiting with baited breath on which way the situation in Ukraine will twist, I will post these articles together with a fourth one from Saker who published it a week or two ago. Many will have read it already but it will make a nice finale to the other three. I will endeavour to put one up each day.

Here is the first one from Sharon Tennison who has worked in Russia for over thirty years. She relates her own personal encounter with Vladimir Putin over twenty years ago and tells of others first hand experiences with him in the following years. Her article can be found here and I encourage you to go there and explore her site.

I will repost the article in full as I think it is worth recording it in its entirety. Plus, she asks a question in her article which I would like to answer. Further notes from me after Sharon Tennison's valuable article.

RUSSIA REPORT: PUTIN by Sharon Tennison Friends and colleagues, As the Ukraine situation has worsened, unconscionable misinformation and hype is being poured on Russia and Vladimir Putin. Journalists and pundits must scour the Internet and thesauruses to come up with fiendish new epithets to describe both. Wherever I make presentations across America, the first question ominously asked during Q&A is always, "What about Putin?" It's time to share my thoughts which follow:

Below is a 70min lecture from Russian historian and sociologist, Andrei Furzov. I found the link in a comment left by New Insight at Vineyard of the Saker.

New Insight left the following summary of the lecture-

I found the lecture to be very enlightening and with lots of solid information.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXLUJpqaQpY

Below is the latest Crosstalk from RT. It discusses the now obvious policy of the US to reconstitute (if it ever lapsed) the Containment Doctrine of the Cold War towards Russia.

It is a very good show and a complete contrast to the immediately previous episode featuring a neocon idiot. I find myself wondering why Peter Lavelle invites these poorly socialised ignorant loud mouths on his show. I mean, we know where to find these morons if we should ever want to hear them. The Crosstalk shows that featuring psychopathic banker mouthpieces from time to time are way too long and shows like the latest featuring Professors Stephen Cohen and John Mearsheimer (embedded below) are way too short.

As I said, the latest episode is well worth watching. There are a lot of good points made. However, there is an important aspect of the reincarnated Containment of Russia Policy that was not discussed. And that is the economic containment of Russia and why it is necessary for the powers that run the West.

As I've mentioned in previous essays, the private banker control of central banking version of capitalism requires the national economies to be held in check to a degree (and periodically sabotaged) that ensures a level of unemployment and social insecurity to maintain the power and privileges of the elite bankers and their inner circle. The resulting hobbled Western economies cannot compete fairly and win against nations such as Russia or China who have state owned and controlled central banks and use them to benefit their economies (and citizens) overall. These countries have no incentive to choke or sabotage their economies. Quite the opposite.

So we've seen Russia come back from the dead under Vladimir Putin in a mere dozen or so years. We've seen China rise from one of the poorest nations on earth to the point where it is about to eclipse the largest economy the world has ever seen, the United States, in less than forty years. We have seen Libya go from the poorest nation in Africa, if not the world, to the richest in Africa in the same time span. Then the world watched as the bankers bombed Libya back to their impoverished past in a matter of weeks. Libya, of course, also had a government owned and operated central bank.

The elite of the United States could not afford to give Ukraine the chance to enter into the Eurasian economy sponsored by Russia. In fact, the more economic concessions Russia granted Ukraine during negotiations, the more distressed and panicked the neocon run US State Dept became. They couldn't afford to wait for the promised elections a year away because even by then it would have become clear which economic system was the only one to pick (if it wasn't already) – the state run and owned central bank version of China and Russia.

Putin came to power in Russia and promptly took back the oil and gas assets that had been looted by the Jewish oligarchs working on behalf of the Jewish international bankers. He initiated capital from an invigorated state development bank and used it for infrastructure development. Russia escaped the bankers' grip and was set on the course of rapidly increasing prosperity. Crimea escaped too and Ukraine would have followed if the neocons had not intervened. Which they did very clumsily and we all know how deliberate it was thanks to some strategically leaked phone calls.

It hasn't gone well, though. The problem now for the bankers is not only Ukraine but also the countries of Europe that might follow Ukraine into the Eurasian block of countries. The difference is going to be hard to ignore. Unless . . .

Unless Russia can be cut off diplomatically and economically from Europe (to Europe's great cost, of course). The horse has bolted as far as Russia is concerned. The rush is now on to slam closed the stable doors to stop the European countries (and especially Germany) from following Russia.

So that is what the Containment 2.0 (of Russia) is all about - cutting off the economic escape route for European countries under the guise of a new Cold War. Following that will be the media cut-off or containment so that the suffering European citizenry will not readily understand that their more eastern brothers are prospering while they are contemplating the reality of starving in the not too distant future. So, folks, enjoy reading and watching RT while you stll can.

It can be said that the original containment policy exercised against Russia was as much a political containment policy of Europe as it was of the Soviet Union. Germany, in particular, suffered under an army of occupation from the US after WW11 and still does. The US Army is there to make sure Germany (Japan, too) behaves itself and offers not only allegiance but servility to the US and their international banker controllers. If this was not so, then the US could have left Germany after Yeltsin came to power in Russia.

After Gorbachev and then Yeltsin, the enemy had evaporated and along with it so did the stated reason for NATO's existence and the US Army's occupation. The fact that the the US military did not budge one inch from their entrenched occupation shows that there was another agenda in play all along.

So after all that, here is Crosstalk with Stephen Cohen and John Mearsheimer-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9674pRBm6g&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Here is a very good summary of the meaning of the recent agreed statement between the US and Russia on the situation in Ukraine. It is from Dmitry Orlov's blog and seems to be a translation of a Russian piece found here. Some comments from me at the foot of Dmitry Orlov's post.

Below is an article by Mike Whitney published in Counterpunch. Whitney sums up very well the geostrategic considerations involved in the Ukraine situation. However, in my opinion, he drastically underestimates Vladimir Putin. I will add some comments at the foot of the Mike Whitney's article. (thanks to McJ for the link and insights)