On a winter day in 1945, Saudi King Abdulaziz and President Roosevelt met on the Great Bitter Lake, on a ship sailing the Suez Canal.
The two men came to an agreement: In exchange for US access to Saudi oil, a commodity crucial to the security of the planned development of his country, Roosevelt agreed that the US would not interfere in the Wahhabist theocratic governance of the Saudi monarchy.
‘Bitter Lake’ is the story of how their meeting and the profound ideological compromises it imposed on both sides set off a chain of events that came to define the second half of the 20th century, the reverberations of which continue to affect all of us, every day.
Among the developments which grew out of this agreement was the rise of major banks and corporations as an alternative to the power of sovereign states. In addition, the world saw the Saudi-financed export of an extremist, pessimistic practice of Islam and the longest war in the history of the US, Operation Enduring Freedom, an incredibly perverse name for an incredibly evil undertaking.
In the centuries following the initial spread of Islam via conquest from the Arabian Peninsula in the 8th century through South, Central, Southeast Asia and North Africa.
Between 750-1258 AD, Islam had a Golden Age, marked by great scientific achievements in medicine, mathematics, astronomy, physics, economics, engineering, optics and agriculture. The practice of Islam adapted regionally and it became more moderate throughout the Islamic world.
This was before the 1980s, when the Saudis exported, armed and financed a revival of Wahhabism to places like Afghanistan with the support of the US, starting with the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan.
‘Bitter Lake’ is the must-see modern classic documentary film by Adam Curtis, made in 2015, that takes us from the absurd, to the horrific, to the existential. It shows us how Afghanistan, after millennia of conquest by countless invaders triggered the same mystical unraveling of the US that had occurred with the Soviets and with the 19th century British “Men Who Would Be Kings” before them.
The previous two empires crumbled after tangling with Afghanistan and we are now witnessing the end of the US-led Postwar Era, as we have known it all our lives.
Curtis likens this “Afghanistan Effect” to the plot of ‘Solaris’, the Soviet cult science-fiction 1972 film, in which a psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
‘Solaris’ is like the Russian answer to ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ – but with even more beautiful cinematography!
As Curtis narrates, “Afghanistan has a way of throwing a mirror up at its invaders, making them doubt their own most-cherished beliefs and intentions, reflecting back at them a disquieting image of their own abject hollowness.”
It is wild to take a look at these films today and to fully appreciate the artistic degradation that has occurred throughout the West and in much of the world since the 1980s.
Germany hasn’t had any good music since its Synth-pop heydey in the 1980s. Check out this 2007 mashup of Peter Schilling’s 1983 hit single, “Major Tom”, cut to scenes from ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, that make the futuristic sets and amazing cinematography all the more fun and oddly humorous to me.
For reasons of greed, power and control, we’ve been technologically held back, in what Dr Steven Greer calls ‘The Lost Century’.
We were hit with the genocidal cult of the Globalists and its attendant Woke Mind Virus. Much of the world has been hit by Communism. The Middle East was hit by Wahhabism. All of these PSYOPS and kinetic wars are elaborate human control mechanisms.
It’s time to grow up and be free.
A reasonably accurate review of recent history.
Masses of people have been stripped of their knowledge of history by TRIBAL central governments world wide and moderized Americans are little different. Nearly everyone I know has disdain for real history and as a lifetime student and lover of history it kinda makes me a freak in their eyes. They don’t do due diligence because cares of this present world eats up all their time. It’s a matter of priorities, decisions and love.
I know how “they” did it. It’s been a multigenerational psy-op. My generation was deliberately taught history so that we would forget it by squeezing it down into a truncated intellectual exercize apart from all the rest, teaching a sort of mechanical memorization of names, places and dates making it irrelevant in our lives. We were removed from history as extensions of it and compartmentalized! Nobody liked history and forgot it as soon as exams were over. Central government did that to us and it’s far worse today!
At the same time venal print publishers were busy “liberating” American’s morals because they were too Puritanical. Well they were too Puritan for rebels who wished to do as they pleased with, for or to their neighbors! They convinced readers that freedom means self indulgence, especially liberation from America’s Christian heritage which they routinely devalued. It limited their exceses and they resented it. This attitude spilled over into Hollywood which made recently arrived Eastern European tribes very rich, then radio, next television, now the internet which is being consumed by them in the same way they consumed the aforementioned medias. I’ve read their stuff! I also know something about the founders of the modern institutional publishers and media owners and its generally rotten. Its been called the spirit of anti-Christ for two millennia and it means unrestricted libertarianism ever enlarging lawless boundaries and their bank accounts! They are evangelists of mischief with a warped retail commercial view of people and government, beginning with family government! Their gospel teaches that their neighbors are commodities. You see it playing out in this docudrama.
Do not doubt me! When I first attended public schools, every school day began with the pledge of allegiance, prayer and the reading of a few Christian Bible verses. In public schools where the Decalogue was yet to be dishonored and disconnected by SCOTUS!
Not exposed in this BBC flick is the reason why Roosevelt and the Saudis made an alliance, so I will do it. The British had double crossed the Saudis! This is quite an intricate political Swiss watch and I can’t disassemble it and really do it justice here, but in a nut shell, the British government promised the Saudis all of Palestine if they helped the Brits rout the Turks in WWI. They did, and got double crossed by the Brits who themselves alone held onto Palestine until European Jewish tribes began pouring in, buying out natives and eventually violently routing natives and becoming ungovernable. That is the treachery which is still reverberating in Palestine today!
Biblically impoverished and history ignorant “Christians” astonishlingly have been convinced that violent mistreatment of Palestinian neighbors is the manifest hand of God behind his genetically exclusive chosen tribe. Many who call themselves Christians now seem completly oblivious to the fact that the man-God they claim, put an end to that tribal bloodline system in the first century. In its begiining it was a faithline system, but it became corrupted by political strategists who swung away from the faith of Abraham to the genes of Abraham which Christ clearly identified, condemned in c. AD30 and physically ended AD70. It’s in the Book!
This flick is on the money, Wahabbism blossomed in Arabia as a reactionary response to the treachery of the British government! My observation of Arabs has been at least on a personal one to one level that they are very friendly, welcoming and considerate, but the Quran is clearly a tribal warrior manual when accepted literally and Wahabbism exploits that like the other side which exploits the bronze age Hebrew tribal scriptures as a call to war against all their 21st century neighbors. What is transpiring in Palestine is a tribal war, but it’s fronts are all over the mid east. The arrogant and disrespectful Anglophiles are a party to it and I wish to not be a party to it through one kind of artificial construct or another.
Modern political Zionism as a tribal philosophy was first manifested in England, before it manifested here, and Theodor Herzel is a convenient fake founder of it. I have elsewhere cited chapter and verse of it’s development long before Herzel or even Marx for that matter. Both are rooted in the same philosophic tribal soil of conquest disguised as frontier developement and both play a role in this BBC docudrama which sadly adopts the politically correct but totally illogical conclusion that Osama and his band of Arabs are soley responsible for 911.
One scene, a little past the top of the first hour that will break your heart. If it doesnt cause you to weep and realize there is something terribly wrong with the USG, then something is terribly wrong with your rudder.
Only fools imagine that should this tribal war succeed in capturing all the spoils they are lusting for, that it’s successors in kind will not turn on their allies with the same determined ferocity because they are taught hate them too!
What has Christ to do with any of this?