'Gram the Grownup #4 Alexander Mercouris

[Vincent]

So from his fb page here's an article he wrote.

Good. I'm still not quite ready to hear him talk about the breakdown or meet his wife.

I just took a look at her blog so far. I didn't keep the links but it confirms that he is indeed Melina Mercouri nephew Vincent put under nouns, possessives and Theodore Stephanides' grandson.

edit : posts crossed reading up

[Roshan]

I mean these are the ones they accuse of being horseshoe people, Vincent. Aaron Mate and Max Blumenthal follow the Duran. Mercouris and I have mutual facebook friends with CJ Hopkins. They have videos with Viva and Barnes. On the other hand, yes, the Duran symbol appears to be a distillation of a symbol for Russia, but it signified looking westward and eastward, and without the crown could likewise be a symbol of the Nazis or the Bundesrepublik. And in their shop you can have it with many different flags. Pretty sure they're both Orthodox (him and the other Alex) and that has a lot to do with this...

I won't go on, it's too complicated, picture's too big. I hope your response will clarify what I'm even asking, Vincent.

[Roshan]

Whatever's going on here, this dream weaving needs a shower.

[Vincent]

That was an excellent article. Actually I read it some time ago when I was curious about the allegations against Corbyn. Which brings me to another question. Vincent, when you say you fact-checked him, is not the whole larger point (I mean really big picture) that that's often not possible?

I just skimmed over that article, and it does seem very good to me too. And i really don't get the same impression i got from the first video.
My issue with it wasn't so much the fact checking itself (even if i still wonder when the Soviets used their own civilians as human shields during Operation Barbarossa). It was also the accumulation of "i can't corrobate this BUT i'll insinuate it anyway" and the tendency to overcollapse everytime it serves the russian narratives.
That and some pieces of what appears to me to be twisted logic. For example, unlike him i do see quite a few reasons for the Russians to not want to open humanitarian corridors too early when they are fighting against guerilla-ready paramilitary groups and negotiating with the ukrainian government. And i suspect there is a LOT of wishful thinking in his take on the rupia thing.
But yes i certainly agree that a LOT of this we can't know and check at all,
Even more so in the second video btw. I have absolutely no idea if he is right or wrong about that. If i trust my Te polr canary in the coal mine, i would guess he is probably right actually.

Now, if you look up the Duran on quasi-wikis you will find they are far right. That article wasn't written by anyone even remotely far right. Isn't that the whole point of the info wars that there's so much we can't know the more we become infomatons?

Well, even from the first two videos, he didn't seem far right to me. I felt there was quite a lot of deceit, but not that kind of crypsis. And actually, he reminds me quite a bit of a leftist i met years ago who was going crazy about "world affairs" at a time when most people only accessed the internet from cybercafes.

[Roshan]

it confirms that he is indeed Melina Mercouri nephew and Theodore Stephanides' grandson.

"Theodore Philip Stephanides (Greek: Θεόδωρος Φίλιππος Στεφανίδης; 21 January 1896 – 13 April 1983) was a Greek-British doctor and polymath, best remembered as the friend and mentor of Gerald Durrell. He was also known as a naturalist, biologist, astronomer, poet, writer and translator.

Stephanides' autobiographical account of the Battle of Crete, Climax in Crete (1946), is still cited by military historians and his 1948 A Survey of the Freshwater Biology of Corfu and of Certain Other Regions of Greece is a definitive biological treatise on the freshwater life in Corfu.

He was portrayed in a number of books, including My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell, Prospero's Cell by Lawrence Durrell, The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller as well as in several movies and TV productions, and has four biological species named after him."--wiki

So it seems to be a family tradition that if you're not in politics, you go into the traditional professions and cultivate the arts and what all else is cultivatable....or in the case of the aunt go into the arts before becoming a politican.

well well well lawrence durell
there is a lot more here than meets the eye

[Vincent]

I mean these are the ones they accuse of being horseshoe people, Vincent. Aaron Mate and Max Blumenthal follow the Duran. Mercouris and I have mutual facebook friends with CJ Hopkins. They have videos with Viva and Barnes.

Horseshoe sounds pretty right to me yes.
His older facebook posts have quite a few pro-syriza articles btw.
And before youtube and facebook he had a now abandoned blog here
His oldest posts there, which might be from before the breakdown, were about Emily Bronte and Metropolis.

On the other hand, yes, the Duran symbol appears to be a distillation of a symbol for Russia, but it signified looking westward and eastward, and without the crown could likewise be a symbol of the Nazis or the Bundesrepublik.. And in their shop you can have it with many different flags. Pretty sure they're both Orthodox (him and the not unlikely semi-dual) and that has a lot to do with this...

He is, but got married in a german protestant church, according to the wife's blog.

[Roshan]

I mean these are the ones they accuse of being horseshoe people, Vincent. Aaron Mate and Max Blumenthal follow the Duran. Mercouris and I have mutual facebook friends with CJ Hopkins. They have videos with Viva and Barnes.

Horseshoe sounds pretty right to me yes.
His older facebook posts have quite a few pro-syriza articles btw.

Of course they do. HIs aunt was in Parliament as a Socialist.

And before youtube and facebook he had a now abandoned blog here
His oldest posts there, which might be from before the breakdown, were about Emily Bronte and Metropolis.

Yup. 4w5.

On the other hand, yes, the Duran symbol appears to be a distillation of a symbol for Russia, but it signified looking westward and eastward, and without the crown could likewise be a symbol of the Nazis or the Bundesrepublik.. And in their shop you can have it with many different flags. Pretty sure they're both Orthodox (him and the not unlikely semi-dual) and that has a lot to do with this...

He is, but got married in a german protestant church, according to the wife's blog.

Good info but not dealing with the essential, which is the symbol.

[Roshan]

Oh my. Flo-jo is a two headed bird, hat is crown.

With that symbol hystorically sometimes there is sometimes there isn't a crown.

Okay.

btw except in bottles subtly there's no water in that video.

Except oc it's everywhere.

[Roshan]

So he's got quite the lineage.

He really is 'fin de la race'.

[Vincent]

On the other hand, yes, the Duran symbol appears to be a distillation of a symbol for Russia, but it signified looking westward and eastward, and without the crown could likewise be a symbol of the Nazis or the Bundesrepublik.. And in their shop you can have it with many different flags. Pretty sure they're both Orthodox (him and the not unlikely semi-dual) and that has a lot to do with this...

He is, but got married in a german protestant church, according to the wife's blog.

Good info but not dealing with the essential, which is the symbol.

Was still reading about it. Seems to be even older and more widespread than i thought it was.

I guess they might be more "imperialists" and conservatives than i thought, but i still don't get the feeling they are "crypto".

Anyway, i'll have to go to sleep soon. I'll look into this again tomorrow.