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Join Millennials In Fighting The Void

2021-11-10T16:34:00.003+00:00

This is the most worrying article I've encountered, and it's simply the findings of the Israeli psychologist Professor Sam Vaknin. [1]

He's a teacher, a researcher and a clinical psychologist and he decided that he needed to dig deeper to understand what's going on with the population’s “young-to-middle”.

I wrote this as a transcript a year ago. Now I see that its lessons apply to all of us: younger and older — and Millennials, too.

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On one level it's nothing new. Millennials have long known something does not feel right and they've filled acres of newsprint reaching for the words to make others hear.

Headlines are like: 10 Reasons Why This Generation Is Losing The Ability To Be In Love [2[ Or: Why Dating As A Millennial Is So Screwed Up [3]

These and many similar articles might seem to be the same self-conscious reflections of a passing phase. Something is different, however, because this is no flush of embarrassed youth. It persists and haunts a generation. And now we are faced with the imposition of The Great Reset. Perhaps we should seize the initiative.

Professor Vaknin knew from talking to his students that something's gone very wrong and he determined to dig out the problem. I think we all need to hear this.

Vaknin and his researchers interviewed two cohorts, of under 25s and under 35s. What he discovered left him disturbed.

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The problem

"Either everything we think in psychology is wrong or there is a new sub-species in humanity that has nothing to do with all previous generations.

It is a psychopathic landscape. Devoid of empathy, connectiveness, emotions, meaningful sex, devoid of meaning at all. Rates of anxiety and depression in these age groups have quintupled and this was three years before the pandemic. And we know the pandemic has tripled the rate. Forty million people in the U.S. alone are constantly drunk. More than half of young people binge drink to blackout every week. None of them is excited by the future. They are walking dead.

The great recession didn't help, nor did the pandemic. Previous generations had “minor” events like WW2 and the Holocaust so I don't buy this. We've all gone through things. These people are atomized completely. Their main sexual activity is masturbation. Their main communication is online.

Textual analysis revealed that 90 per cent of chats are comprised of one-liners and emojis and the average length of the one-liner is three words. They have lost the capacity of language which had distinguished us as a species from animals. Luckily they still walk erect on two legs.

Reset ready

Dystopia is here. It's the reality of these young people. This is not a value judgement. It's not what they do, it's how they do it. They are sleep walking, sedated. They participate in all the right victimhood movements and they spew out the slogans and they march but even this feels very fake, narcissistic, imitative: it’s mimicry. It's a spectacle, made for the media. It's like Game of Thrones.

I can't find a single point of light in this picture. Even the levels of literacy have collapsed. About 40 per cent of this generation cannot read a label on a bottle. About 50 per cent have never read a book. Forget books, what do they do? They play video games for five hours. Rest. Surf the internet. Do they educate themselves? No. Their head is filled with trash. It's terrifying. If this is the custodian of the future of the human species, it is terrifying.

In terms of measures of critical thinking, they have no idea how to think analytically. They don't know the most basic syllogism. Thinking is beyond them. They regurgitate, they emulate, they imitate, they follow gurus, business cultures, dating cultures, mystics but they don't do it in an active way, like adding to it or writing books. They do it as a drug-induced thing like they're stoned all the time.

What is the problem: why do these young people have no higher functions, no intellectual life, no interests? They have flat speech, dismissive one-liners with no depth... and I think the reason is they are action figures, action oriented.

In the fifties or sixties we made the transition from thinking to emotion. There was the period of 500 years from the Enlightenment when thinking got us nowhere: to the atomic bomb, to Adolf Hitler. So for a few decades we tried emotions and feelings and it got us nowhere. So we settled on distractions, entertainment, leisure and action.

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All our theories in psychology are dying, slaughtered by the young generations. Their psychology has yet to be captured. I see my young students staring back at me with derision. They laugh at me when I say sex always has an emotional aspect because of hormones. Or when I say relationships are important — they say relationships always end badly; better not to have them. Or when I say read, they ask, why? Everything we thought before, is now obsolete because of this transition to action.

Action is always goal-oriented, however unimportant the goal. Action rarely involves overt emotions or empathy. It is very self-centered. When you act, you act and then you act upon someone else. You objectify the other person. In an age where only action matters, where feelings are a threat because they always result in pain, where communication has been rendered virtual, where other people are avatars on Tinder, the basic components of the mind — cognition, emotion, empathy, object relations — are inactivated.

We would have to reboot humanity, to go back in time, to render our textbooks accurate again.

The fact is, actions don't matter. The heart matters, motivations matter. If your motivations are negative you are negative, even if you act positively. The majority of actions take you away from life, from people and separate you from reality... When the action ends you are stuck with yourself.

Action takes you nowhere. It's circular. Action may give you pleasure but one third of young people are anhedonic: incapable of pleasure in anything. Even if action gives you pleasure it ends. Where did you begin: with yourself. That is one thing you can't ever escape.

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Face yourself

Working on yourself is a good project if it is not tinged with negative emotions like pain avoidance, envy, the wish to show off, grandiosity or fear... but not if you start from negative territory. We know social media is constructed on negative emotions: competition, envy, comparison, negative news, negative platforms, negative technologies, negative human relationships, whatever is left of them. We think negative motivations can lead us to a positive territory: never. They lead only to negative territory.

Out of love you should act, out of pleasure, out of curiosity, out of wonder, the miracle that is reality. You should never act with a gun to your head. The same action is experienced very differently if you do it for a loved one or if you do it for your boss whom you fear.

Most of the actions we undertake today resonate with the negative inside us and consequently they cause trauma in a rejection of life and reality and we end up as loners. We don't have society any more. We don't have community. Most of us don't have families. We have no institution, fabric or network. No one to look to for empathy, sympathy, compassion or comfort: least of all to ourselves.

How do the younger generation survive — do they survive? They ask what is wrong with me because they keep failing. The programming is wrong. We've taken the wrong fork in the road not because of the hardware but because of the software. Instead of acting, focus on getting the right motivations. Focus on feeling not on acting. Focus on positivity not on action. If it does not resonate with emotion, action is meaningless.

We are badly-designed, inefficient animals. The only thing that keeps us alive is the meaning, the narratives that unite us. We need emotion and cognition to motivate our actions because we need a story to glue us together. The moment we lose this glue we're doomed as a species. We are very weak animals. Our action should be predicated on emotion and cognition, or two prefrontal cortex advantages.

AI illusion

Don't follow algorithms, don't automate, don't obey commands, don't adhere to recipes. Human beings are not dishes. Young people put the cart before the horse. Emotions come first... actions do lead to the emotions that perpetuate long term action. That is why most young people don't finish their studies or have long term relationships — because they can't get to the finish line.

Feel anything positive: love if you are lucky enough. Reach out to friends and family, to life, to reality, yes, with pain, hurt, blood and body parts. Reach out, touch. Let it touch you.

I don't recall any system which rejected life, not even Nazism. Yet here we are. The ideology of unbeing, of emptiness is upon us. The ideology of the spectacle, simulacrum and simulation, the ideology of why do I need to be if instead I can act. It's not going to end well and we are halfway there. Armageddon is not a battle; it is silence when we are all gone."

Those are the words of Professor Sam Vaknin. I think we can all learn from them.

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[1] Prof Sam Vaknin, Bitchute: Warning Young Folks: Silence When We Are All Gone: Silence When We Are All Gone

[2] Paul Hudson, Elite Daily, 2015 — 10 Reasons Why This Generation Is Losing The Ability To Be In Love

[3] Drea Rose, Bolde — Why Dating As A Millennial Is So Screwed Up

A Plan or Just Incompetence — Who Promoted Boris Johnson?

2021-04-21T08:50:00.023+00:00

It's been more than a year since "two weeks to flatten the curve", the fortnight of shelter-in-place that we were assured would contain the spread of Coroni. Yet the mantra continues, with tweaks like 0.3%-different variants creating excuses for new bans on travel.

YouTubers and bloggers point out the inconsistencies but an army of behavioral psychologists goes to work on the fear porn through the state-corporatist media and the majority, it seems, comply.

How long will it take for momentum to build to the point where the public hold politicians and bureaucrats to account? Polly St George has a clue: this could go on forever because we're reinventing the wheel.

She was part of a group of alt-media researchers that was recently banned. New researchers popped up in their place... but they've gone back to the beginning.

This has gone on for decades. Researchers collect the best evidence, refine their arguments, build on each other's work, develop networks and support each other. They exist as a deeply researched repository of information supporting lawyers and activists.

Then, every so often, the powers that be (TPTB) sweep those researchers off the board and a new crowd of faces emerges.... and begins the long task of educating themselves and the public.

"We're in this constant cycle where so long as we are chasing the laser pointers and asking the same old questions that's fine. It even serves TPTB because the truth confuses and terrifies some people. The moment you get too much momentum, however, TPTB wipe the slate clean, do their smear campaigns or impose strict censorship.

It's really frustrating to see the new crop starting out again at square 1, 2 or 3. You get the sense that this cycle will never end. Many people are willing to accept a few fundamental truths: that this is not incompetence. Yet they can't see this is a long-term, predatory way of operating that has been going on since before WW1."

This raises the question: who is behind it.

Recently I watched an analysis of the origins of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, focusing on his childhood, including the beatings he says he received at school and separate, perhaps unconnected, evidence of sexual predation of children which led to one of his masters being imprisoned.

The analysis is partly the work of two videographers who call themselves Sheep Farm Studios and it's an attempt to examine the inner workings of BoJo. He is undoubtedly a troubled man who has caused, and is causing, a lot of trouble to others. It cites the blatant bigotry of Johnson's writing, his frequent sacking, the verdict of former bosses that he lies and is unreliable and it concludes that Johnson regards himself above the law. The question is the origin of this psychology.

The video makes clear that if Boris Johnson was facing death on the scaffold, by axe or guillotine, he'd escape. Not only that but you’d blink and he’d have snagged the job of executioner, his straw chaff hair poking out beneath the black hood, his droopy features grinning.

Every time he screws up there is always someone ready to rescue "Boris" (real name Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson) from his mistakes and to give him another job at an even higher salary. Is that because someone is guiding him as a golden boy, someone who is using him to advance their own plans or — seemingly just as convoluted — do psychopaths look out for each other?

This article will go on to explore how psychopaths do indeed recognize each other and work together. It's not simply them against us. Psychopaths are aware they are damaged and they try to reorder the world so that it gives them the 'justice' they deserve in their own minds.

Compared with that explanation, the 'golden boy' theory is quite simple, isn't it? Occam's razor might say that given Johnson's wild ways, someone is probably promoting him for their own purposes.

It seems clear that Johnson is what the mafia call a made man, "an associate first must be Italian or of Italian descent and sponsored by another made man. An inductee will be required to take the oath of omertà, the Mafia code of silence and code of honor" (Wikipedia). When we look at his father Stanley Johnson, he seems to have the same strange coincidence of a wayward character and ever-upwards career trajectory.

He had six children, while writing books about population control, had jobs with the World Bank and the European Commission, and worked closely with Rockefeller representatives like Maurice Strong on environmental issues. His grandfather was an Ottoman radical journalist, Ali Kemal, (son of Haci Ahmet Riza Efendi of Kalfat, near Ankara) and his great-great-grandfather, the founder of the YMCA, George Williams.

Given the Rockefeller connection, that points to a level of consistency that is thinly-disguised by a change of nationality and name: a YO! Sushi conveyor belt of macaroons… any colour you like, same ubiquitous aroma of bitter almonds.

You can see the Sheep Farm Studios video series here: Sheep Farm 10 | Meet The Flockers | PM Boris Johnson Ep.1/3

and here Sheep Farm 11 | Meet The Flockers | The Johnson Gang Ep.2/3 and here Sheep Farm 12 | Meet The Flockers | Boris’s Ex-Wives & Girlfriends 2.5/3.

PONEROLOGY — STUDYING THE ORIGINS OF EVIL

Polly looks at evil and power, as researched by Andrzej Łobaczewski (1921-2008). In Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes (1998) he says that early brain injuries or abnormalities can lead people to behave in a pathologically evil manner.

This made me think of Sheep Farm Studio's video of Boris Johnson's early life. Whatever defects he may have inherited there was enough abuse in British boarding school life to warp his mind.

Psychopaths work as a group because they know they are outsiders. They are aware of their differences and resent them. On the other hand their sense of honour bids them to cheat and undermine the broader world. They feel and act distinctly and recognize this in their own kind. They develop their own laws and customs and they try to impose these on the world.

They regard other people as weaker than themselves because we are burdened with a conscience and because we make excuses for their behaviour. They know their personalities traumatize others and they learn very early how to use this.

In the psychopath, a dream emerges like some Utopia of a “happy” world and a social system which does not reject them or force them to submit to laws and customs whose meaning is incomprehensible to them. They dream of a world in which their simple and radical way of experiencing and perceiving reality would dominate; where they would, of course, be assured safety and prosperity.

In this Utopian dream, they imagine that those “others”, different, but also more technically skillful than they are, should be put to work to achieve this goal for the psychopaths and others of their kin. “We”, they say, “after all, will create a new government, one of justice”

They are prepared to fight and to suffer for the sake of such a brave new world, and also, of course, to inflict suffering upon others. Such a vision justifies killing people, whose suffering does not move them to compassion because “they” are not quite con- specific. They do not realize that they will consequently meet with opposition which can last for generations.
Subordinating a normal person to psychologically abnormal individuals has severe and deforming effects on his or her personality: it engenders trauma and neurosis. This is accomplished in a manner which generally evades conscious controls. Such a situation deprives the person of his natural rights: to practice his own mental hygiene, develop a sufficiently autonomous personality, and utilize his common sense. In the light of natural law, it thus constitutes a kind of crime – which can appear at any social scale, in any context – although it is not mentioned in any code of law.
Essential psychopathy has exceptionally intense effects in this manner. Something mysterious gnaws into the personality of an individual at the mercy of the psychopath and is then fought like a demon. His emotions become chilled, his sense of psychological reality is stifled. This leads to de-criterialization of thought and a feeling of helplessness, culminating in depressive reactions which can be so severe that psychiatrists sometimes misdiagnose them as a manic-depressive psychosis.
Many people rebel against a psychopathic domination much earlier than such a crisis point and start searching for some way of liberating themselves from such an influence.

They gain control says Łobaczewski through a form of natural selection. The good people suddenly realize the environment is toxic and they leave. The psychopaths impose new hiring practices until it becomes a complete takeover. Entire institutions come under their control in government and civil society, charities and NGOs.

"Oxfam and Amnesty, human rights bodies, anti-corruption campaigns, the media, the economy, even the justice system, are Potemkin institutions at this point. The facade is there. Anyone who doesn't look closely will be fooled by the buzzwords, pretty web sites and the spokespeople repeating their mantras.

Now they say look at all these corrupt organizations... we must replace them with The Great Reset and social justice and equity! And look at all the corporations: they're all on board.

Any time people a group of people get close to pushing down the cardboard cutouts and the facade, we get wiped off the map. Then the whole process of discovery begins again."

Polly's video, A Small Number of Psychopaths Control Society, starts @09:00 minutes

http://thephaser.com/2021/04/a-small-number-of-psychopaths-control-society/

Forget Mars: It's Our Planet They're Taking

2021-04-12T07:32:00.027+00:00

Thomas Harrington has written a must-read article, “You are Damaged and Only We Can Repair You” in which he looks from a literary angle at the end of our era.

This is an agonizingly true take, from a bookish perspective, on something that has been clear from an industrial and economic angle: that society has come to the end of a wave and there is no sign of the next one. We are beached, and for the first time there is no industrial or cultural revolution on the horizon.

Despite the hype there was no Age of the Internet. There was only the continuation of data over wires, that began with the telegraph two centuries ago, but which now flowed in greater volume, becoming an tsunami of bits that no-one really knew what to do with. Instead of revealing new industries, the most powerful impact of the Internet was to kill price discovery and arbitrage by destroying the fine mesh of business that interweaves society, thus unleashing a penny-pinching race to the bottom.

In place of the architect of the universe we got the infernal accountant, ever slicing and dicing the numbers, driving forward at full tilt with his eyes glued to the rear-view mirror.

Harrington’s article shows how this was no mere economic phenomena. It destroyed the balance of our market economy — which was more vulnerable than we thought — when it broke the connection between production and consumption. It trashed the relationship between time, experience, labour and care, and the value that society put on that investment of effort. The work ethic being the last leg that provided support to culture and society, the latter soon collapsed.

Indeed we can also lay the blame on the Enlightenment which was far less enlightened than popularly imagined. The canon of liberty and human rights that we celebrate was the work, as ever, of dissidents. The fetishization of science led people out of the dark only to lock them in a cupboard — bereft of their spirituality, of any responsibility to heal themselves, of any understanding as to why they were conscious and, therefore, what they should do. Whatever the reader’s religion or philosophy, it is clear that “as much as you can afford” was a very poor answer.

What about the Fourth Industrial Revolution, you might cry. Look closely and you will see it is about resisting revolution. It is an attempt by bankers and billionaires to lock in their current advantage by seizing assets and utilities: from water and farmland to energy and living space. This is accomplished by the mass generating of money under the excuse of Covid stimulus, most of which is going to the billionaires, their corporations and foundations. Inflation will soon render this money worthless, but not before they've bought out Main Street and the locked down middle class.

Real industrial upheaval, like political revolution, is a time of tumult in which the leaders of the existing order risk their wealth and their heads. Look again at the Fourth Industrial Revolution and The Great Reset and you will see a kleptocracy desperately trying to turn their monetary gains into control of the physical world, while dispossessing the rest of us.

This small mindedness is the opposite of the grand vision of revolution, political, industrial or otherwise. That is why, spiritually and culturally it is, in the phrase I used earlier, a race to the bottom.

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Through the ages people have fought to impose their world view: bishops clashed with monarchs, popes with emperors, philosophers with the bureaucrats policing the thought of the day. There was deception aplenty. Bankers cloaked themselves as pontiffs, high officials served one monarch with an eye to the next, university prelates rewrote religious texts to the regime's order and the new profession of mass media propagandist spread like ink from the playwright's pen.

Blood flowed freely. Deceptions rarely stayed hidden for long — being not the object but a means to an end. They were resolved in assassinations or, if the playwrights had done their work, in mass hangings, drawings and quarterings, to rally a righteous public. The rulers require drama!

Those who molded the Earth did not hide; on the contrary they brandished their accomplishments. Architects built cathedrals into the skies. Engineers shackled the elements to the Age of Steam. When challenged to prove their inventions they publicly demonstrated their claim to industrial leadership, unleashing the hissing and spitting propulsive power of fire and vapour.

Today it seems that deception is the object. We are urged to stare at computer animations that promise a grand future, but always around the corner. This will happen, that will happen. Yet the advances are absent from the here and now. You cannot touch them or use them. In our daily experience we know that services have declined and civilization is a shadow of even the recent past, and that there is no technology that can take its place.

Reputable analysts of a dissident streak point to the missing millions and insist that "they" must be doing something: assembling a secret space force, populating a planet, building a networked, resilient, interdependent, sustainable, ecosystem of aliens and billionaires. This is no future world as dreamt by Jules Verne or Fritz Lang. This is desperation clinging to hope, wishfully thinking that "they" must be doing something with all that money we pay in taxes. That as the living standards of ordinary people hang by a thread, there must be salvation on the way. Look up at the stars: we're going to Mars.

Well, I suggest "they've" done nothing of the kind. They are building bigger yachts and hillside bunkers, buying up works of art and stashing them away behind private armies and airlocked doors. Giant commodity trading companies have moved from storing grain to hoarding the land, seeds and water itself. The only thing that is becoming ever more interdependent, networked and interlocked is the ownership, hidden behind Swiss banks.

And the freshly-polished Tesla car beaming dash-cam footage from space? Images clearer than anyone has ever sent from the Moon, now including helicopters in the spartan air of Mars? Is that where you are looking?

Orson Welles, arms upraised, directing a rehearsal of CBS Radio's The Mercury Theatre on the Air (1938) - Public Domain

These are the time-tested legends of aliens "out there". Friendly for now but always threatening wanton destruction in the dome above us. Zeus hurling thunderbolts. Chicken Little in a space suit. Archetypes that send us scuttling into the arms of our earthly protectors seeking protection from divine wrath.

These tales are our version of H.G. Wells and Orson Welles'. Both men worked closely with the richest financial powers on the planet; the former with the Fabians, the latter with Rockefeller* very probably with a mandate to manipulate the people. Each was in his way a propagandist, a playwright, bleeding his ink blot in our consciousness.

And the purpose? It's not in the stars. It's not even in the skies. It is about who we answer to in the here and now.

From the Rockefeller Archive Center: Did you know that Orson Welles broadcast “The War of the Worlds” on October 31, 1938? The General Education Board, a Rockefeller-funded philanthropy, supported the Princeton Radio Project, a study of the hysteria created by the broadcast. For more information, check out the Rockefeller Archive Center’s lesson plan on the project: “Understanding Mass Media News – The 1938 ‘War of the Worlds’ Broadcast and the Power of Radio in the 1930s.”

Afghanistan's Rare Earths and Opium lock in U.S. Troops

2021-03-09T13:55:00.017+00:00

Joe Biden is under growing pressure to answer questions about the future of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. He's under pressure to answer any questions at all, nearing 50 days since his installation without fending inquiries from the press corps. Even his fan club at CNN has noticed.

The State Corporatist media presents the Afghan options within the narrow sliver of acceptable opinion -- in other words the view of the corporate-funded, tax-exempt foundations such as the Council on Foreign Relations and Chatham House that tell journalists what to think. Writing in Off-Guardian, Binoy Kampmark illustrates just how narrow this range of opinion is:

The Guardian claims that he is “trapped and has no good choices”. The Wall Street Journal opines that he is being “tested in Afghanistan” with his opposition to “forever wars”. The Washington Post more sensibly suggests that Biden take the loss and “add it to George W. Bush’s record.”

On the surface that sounds like the big issue: "should I stay or should I go, now". Yet to talk only of terrorism, refugees and displaced persons is to adopt the paradigm of the NGO and UN institutions that are the handmaidens of interventionism. It misses a much bigger picture, summed up in one word: resources. And that is why the U.S. and its British and corporate allies are unlikely to leave any time soon.

Iraq was invaded in 2003 on the basis of a lie, not a misunderstanding. The parallels go back decades. Even before the CIA, in the 1950s, entered South East Asia covertly, which in turn predated the overt Vietnam War, teams of U.S. geologists were mapping Indochina, knowing how highly the French valued it. Afghanistan's just the same.

Afghan resources are far more interesting than oil. In fact, the country suffers a variant of the oil curse (oil riches tend to hurt diversification, crowding out other businesses, creating over-dependence on one raw material). Afghanistan makes so much money from opium that hydrocarbons can't compete (see below). In addition, rare earths are what makes the corporate mouth water nowadays anyway.

Mining in Afghanistan has much bigger prospects. Photograph Jerome Starkey/ CC BY-SA 2.0

Smart cities and 'electric everything' demand a exponential increase in mineral mining over the next few decades. If the UN is serious, Western countries will abandon petroleum-fueled cars within a decade and Afghan deposits of copper, neodymium and lithium will be vital.

If the UN were serious in its promotion of "free trade", Afghanistan would be left free to profit from its own mineral resources but that's not how things work. The U.S. and British conspired, over the Afghan border back in 1953, to oust Iran's prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh because they were not prepared to let Iran sell its oil for its own profit.

These two references to the 1950s shows how little has changed. In November 2019, having just won re-election, Bolivia's president Evo Morales was ousted in a US-backed coup. International corporate interests objected to his renationalization of utilities and mining industries. They also had their eye on Bolivia's lithium deposits, essential to the batteries of electric vehicles.

"We will coup whoever we want" — manufacturer of Tesla electric vehicles, Elon Musk.

Afghanistan has found itself with a weak and divided government, through no particular fault of its own. The reach of central government is limited. Many basic social services are provided by the Taliban. Regional governors are not allowed to challenge the externally-backed central government. If they do, they bump up against the realities of ethnic loyalities and Western interests, as the northern governor and Tajik Atta Mohammad Noor found when he was dismissed in 2017 by Pashtun president, Ashraf Ghani, who leads the Western-propped central government.

It's hard not to imagine that Western intriguing also prevents the emergence of a unifying force in Afghan politics. Corporations like it better this way. The resource-rich countries of Central Asia and the Near East are littered with failed and faction-ridden governments that are easily compromised, from Libya to Iraq.

RARE EARTHS, RICH EARTH

For reasons of self interest, if nothing else, the senior cadres of military and intelligence would be reluctant to leave. In fact, they wouldn't. They'd just jump into corporate uniforms and stay.

Call it venality, corruption or empire, the generals expect to profit from the countries they invade. Four-star general David Petraeus, who from September 2011 to November 2012 was the director of CIA, and worked in the Balkans for several years, becoming one of the major owners of Balkans telecom sector. He also sits on the board of investors Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR).

Whom do we find in Afghanistan but the same man: "It has some of the world's remaining unexploited world class deposits of copper, iron ore and some other fairly exotic minerals. And it has some limited natural gas. The estimates of the worth of these deposits are quite substantial," Petraeus told ABC.

U.S. Geologists Discover $1 Trillion in Mineral Deposits in Afghanistan - ABC News, 2010

Opium, too, figures in the calculation of resources. Not mentioned in the pages of the Financial Times or the Wall Street Journal, the biggest money spinners are not the ones you read about in the Fortune 500.

A U.S. marine in Helmand province, 2013, photograph by Sgt Pete Thibodeau (public domain).

Follow the money was never more true and leads you to weapons manufacture, the business of war, the eternal business of slavery and sex trafficking, the centuries-long narcotics industry made famous by the Opium Wars, the crossover between the business of licit and illicit drugs, and the oil and gas fields of the hydrocarbon energy business. These are joined by two new sectors: biofuels which require the depopulation of unimaginable hectares of land, as does the mining of rare earth minerals for smart cities.

Opium accounts for more than half Afghan GDP, far outstripping oil. The drugs industry, legal and covert, operates as one big unhappy family.

Again, you won't read about it in the mainstream press, in fact, you'll encounter disinformation such as this article from The Guardian in 2016, Mexican farmers turn to opium poppies to meet surge in US heroin demand encouraging the questionable idea that Mexico is the main source of illicit opium to the U.S. This is a deliberate sleight of hand that distracts the uninformed from the booming production of opium in Afghanistan under the protection of U.S. and British soldiers.

Here's another example from the BBC, Apr 2019: How the US military's opium war in Afghanistan was lost.

"[Afghan heroin] makes up 95% of the market in Europe; 90% of the Canadian market. Perhaps surprisingly, Afghan heroin is reckoned to make up only a tiny fraction of the US market. The US Drug Enforcement Agency claims as little as one per cent of US supply is from Afghanistan. It says virtually all the heroin used in America comes from Mexico and South American countries."

This propaganda tells people what they wish to believe: that the U.S. military would not allow Afghan heroin to poison the American well but sadly, that's now what the record shows. As Gary Webb exposed in his Dark Alliance series, the CIA colluded with mafia drug traffickers who flooded cities with cocaine, while financing its black ops in Central America and Iran. See the late LAPD detective Michael Ruppert confront CIA director John Deutsch.

Mexico is not the natural habitat for the opium poppy and anyway is the location of military action and the War on Drugs, most recently described by the U.S.-Mexican academic Oswaldo Zavala in Los Cárteles No Existen.

The American academic Alfred McCoy illustrated back in 1972 the correlation between the black market in opiates and the location of U.S. covert paramilitary and overt military operations internationally in his book, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade.

In reality, the opium is coming from where it grows in abundance. Even if it wasn't reaching the U.S. that would hardly undermine the business rationale: a drugs business that contributes much of the 1.5 million inmates of the U.S. for-profit prison system; a banking business that props up the U.S. financial system.

One reason HSBC and Deutsche Bank took much of the heat from U.S. prosecutors after the 2008 banking crisis was to give the home team time to rebuild their business, and that includes profiting from criminal money flows. The U.S. banks openly admit they fail to stop money laundering. Analysis of bank flows would reveal the extent of the illicit opium trade in the U.S. and the departments of Treasury, Justice and Commerce, as well as the Securities and Exchange Commission likely have this information. See also Bank Shares Slide on Report of Rampant Money Laundering -- US News & World Report, Sep 2020

FOLLOW THE TRAIL

As to the other players on Team America, the infrastructure to control the trade sits slap bang in the middle of the main trade routes, such as Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo.

Other obvious places to look are the known trafficking routes for people, which pass through the Balkans which is also under heavy U.S. commercial influence. See the comment above about who owns the Balkan telecoms network. The tail numbers of planes used by the State Department and the CIA out of the Balkans for purposes believed to include rendition matched with those used on occasion by Jeffrey Epstein who we know was involved in people trafficking.

One might wonder why, if the heroin is getting through, the people who operate the toll booth and the schlagbaum prefer to regulate the flows rather than to stop them.

As to the people, the architect of the U.S. strategy in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Pakistan was the late Richard Holbrooke. More than anyone he knew the whys and wherefores whereby Congress put its support behind a policy built around the expansion of the opium sector.

Fascinatingly, Holbrooke wore another hat in the legal drugs sector, as a mover and shaker in the world of HIV relief, which channels billions of dollars of taxpayers money through private, tax-exempt foundations like those of the Clintons and Bill Gates. The research site Corey's Digs estimates the value of cash flows under the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) at $90 Billion.

At the center of this, until his untimely death in 2010, stood the architect of the Afghan policy. In 2006, he was reported by the Wall Street Journal as saying:

“I think what you’re seeing is the beginning of what you might call the first super NGO…with overlapping interests and a great deal of resources,” said former UN ambassador Richard Holbrooke, now president and CEO of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS in New York City.”

In the strange world of the United Nations and Non-Governmental Organizations, donations pledged by nation states end up in the hands of "philanthropists" whose own foundations invest in for-profit research by scientists and often hold the resulting patents.

Somehow the World Health Organization — which is not a government body but an agency whose biggest private funder is Bill Gates — has a chief, Tedros, installed by the Clintons and Rockefellers, who in turn wields the power to influence governments to open the sluice gates. On the WHO’s say-so, governments release a flood of taxpayer cash to corporations (big pharma) or to charities (run by foundations linked to those corporations).

These bodies are the same interests driving the Great Reset and the resilient, Smart Cities programme: the interdependent, surveilled domains of technocracy, occupied by a residual population of digitally-looped residents. This high tech Utopia will only viable thorough an imperial-colonial relationship with countries like Afghanistan that will supply the metals and minerals to make the dream "sustainable".

Artificial Intelligence and Schmidt's Law

2021-03-02T08:33:00.054+00:00

The Eric Schmidt phenomenon represents the melding of the military-tech-political machine in pursuit of permanent power.

As Binoy Kampmark notes in Off-Guardian, War Mongering for Artificial Intelligence, the testimony of Schmidt to the Senate Armed Services Committee was "generously spiked with the China threat thesis". This is the familiar dialectic: we arm China and point to it as a threat, while demanding more money to arm ourselves.

No one has been more central to the technological weaponizing of China that Eric Schmidt's Alphabet, the inside-joke-of-a-company-name that in turn runs Google.

The essence of power is do what I say, not what I do. Schmidt once said: "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place." He didn't agree when CNET researched Schmidt's own salary, neighborhood, hobbies and political donations.

It all comes down to power, which is the primary issue with AI: whose power it serves. As a system for real-time, communal decision making of the People, by the People, for the People, AI could make possible a harmonious future, resolving competing wants with minimal conflict. So why is the debate around AI so often confined to surveillance drones, predictive policing, threatening robots and war machines?

The problem of AI lies in saying, 'no'. In order for the machines to know what to do, the humans who program them must first also say, 'no'. Eric Schmidt is the poster child for the boy who can't say, 'no'.

That's been his strength and weakness in his personal life, business relationships and his approach to the boundaries of what is acceptable in technology and politics. If his judgement has sometimes been questionable -- and it may seem unfair to single him out — he has put himself in the limelight. Indeed, he has done society a service by his plain speaking, will to act and open pursuit of power and wealth.

Take Schmidt's quote: "Here is what I call the creepy line. The Google policy on a lot of things is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it."

Photo source: Pixabay. Creative Commons.

Aficionados of horror movies have a good grasp of creepy: an unpleasant, even repulsive, sense of unease. The problem with the creepy line is its other meaning: the line creeps. There are no fixed limits. It creeps as in mission creep. Several times Google employees have protested at the company's involvement in building military drones, China's social credit system and tailoring of the Dragonfly search engine to the CCP's need for censorship. Google's AI work for the Pentagon has attracted particular protest. A dozen employees resigned form Project Maven in 2018. Post-Schmidt, Google fired two scientists from its AI ethics team, one in Dec 2020, the other in January 2021.

MANAGED OUTCOMES

Modern government faces a huge ethical challenge once you move from minimal to total control. Presenting humans with free will, subject to firm boundaries, is one thing. The concept of equity, in which you handicap particular humans in the race for academic, sporting, material or political success, and pick the winner, is quite another.

You have changed the algorithm from freedom:responsibilities to interests:outcomes. There is no room for moral decision in such a system because the moral correctness of the outcome was decided a priori. The only correct behaviour is not moral but political, which is to say you acquiesce in the rules even though they may prompt you to indulge in contradictory, irrational behaviour from one day to the next.

Guides to life like the Ten Commandments provide a poor metric once you are in the business not of governing humans but manipulating them.

Schmidt himself moved into the territory of managed outcomes during the 2016 election campaign. He might argue that for all his efforts, his favoured candidate Hillary Clinton did not win. I would counter that perhaps that was considered part of the risk: it was the dry run for the manipulation of elections whose stakes were much higher than the political career of one Clinton.

It is no secret that the Democratic Party has become the party of the CIA. By transforming into the natural home of the politicised bureaucrat and the secret policeman, electoral politics confronts the reality of the Democratic Deep State — constitutional in that bureaucrats take control through elections; unconstitutional in that it folds the executive, judicial and legislative branches of government into one party of permanent rule. Parallels with technocratic regimes like China are obvious.

In the run up to the 2016 election, Eric Schmidt created the Fake News mantra, according to journalist and ethical researcher Sharyl Attkisson, while he was helping to manage Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. Schmidt weaponized Fake News through a non-profit called First Draft.

The phrase soon backfired, becoming Trump's daily coin. Within months the Washington Post was writing, "it's time to retire the tainted term, fake news." From the perspective of big tech and social media, however, it set the ground for an assault on the First Amendment. Google would soon be coordinating with Amazon, Facebook and Twitter to declare certain topics off limits. It was a short leap to ban individuals, notably the President of the United States, from public discourse.

According to Quartz magazine Schmidt recognized "how modern political campaigns are run, with data analytics and digital outreach as vital ingredients that allow candidates to find, court, and turn out critical voter blocs."

He donated $1.5 billion to create for Hillary the U.S. Digital Service which tried to control the 2016 presidential election results. Schmidt also created The Groundwork, "according to Democratic campaign operatives and technologists... part of efforts by Schmidt to ensure that Clinton has the engineering talent needed to win the election."

Election studies became a bit of a family business. In an article for The Canary, 13th May, 2017, Serious money is buying and selling our votes, and democracy is the loser, Tom Coburg wrote:

Previously The Canary reported the links between Britain’s pro-Brexit campaigns and associates of US President Donald Trump. As well as the subsequent investigations by statutory bodies into those links and possible undeclared spends. The Canary also alleged that US-based technology agencies used or advised on behavioural management technologies to ensure a Brexit win.

Reportedly, Sophie Schmidt advised SCL head Alexander Nix to check out the work of US data intelligence agency Palantir Technologies. Schmidt, the daughter of Google chairman Eric Schmidt, used to work for SCL Elections (which was later renamed Cambridge Analytica).

Robert Epstein, a psychology professor, for several years had been alleging that Google had the ability to swing U.S. election results [American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, PDF]. The allegations appear to have stung Schmidt deeply. If so, his problem with boundaries cropped up again. Google attacked Epstein in the media and even prompted a mock news report in the Huffington Post: "Google Critic Killed in “Ironic” Car Accident: Struck by Google Street View Vehicle.

In July 2019, Epstein gave testimony to a Senate Judiciary Committee that Google would be able to swing the 2020 presidential election. Five months later, two days before Christmas, Epstein's wife was killed when her car spun out of control across several lanes, as it came off the ramp to join a highway. An unfortunate accident perhaps.

In 2020 it was Facebook's turn to "fortify" the election, as Time magazine put it. Mark Zuckerberg and Chinese-American spouse Priscilla Chan invested $400 million to ensure that swing states used the Dominion machines, providing funding if they could not afford to buy them. They also prepared polling stations and counting centres for the dramatic increase in mail-in ballots, including the poll workers who would count them.

After the 2020 elections it became clear that Georgia's Secretary of State had unilaterally and illegally changed the ballot procedures. On Dec 4th, Governor Brian Kemp called on Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to conduct an audit of votes. Simply overturning the Georgia vote could deliver victory to Donald Trump.

On Dec 8th, Governor Kemp's daughter's boyfriend died in an explosion that observers said was more like a car bomb than a gas tank, the engine block was ejected almost 60 yards away after colliding with a truck. Voters heard no more from Governor Kemp.

If these deaths were even construed as threats, there are clearly much bigger forces than the Schmidts or Zuckerbergs at play.

THE OCTOPUS TURNS CANNIBAL

We may be witnessing what happens when the state eats itself — or to put it another way, when the rival imperatives of "national security," which in plain English is simply state security, combine with the interest of corporations and come into conflict with the other legs of the octopus.

There is a reason for the separation of powers that has nothing to do with democracy. As Alexis de Tocqueville noted 200 years ago, the voice of the people in the United States is strangely subdued. His enthusiasm for the still-young nation prevented him following his observation to its conclusion: the U.S. is not a democracy; it is a republic and, an oligarchic one at that, as several academic studies have asserted recently.

Even an oligarchic republic needs the separation of powers in order to save it from itself. A nation is not an operating system and neither is AI. They are protocols governed by a Constitution. In place of 'if this, then that', the Constitution pauses one leg of the octopus and gives priority to another: 'if this perhaps not that, at least, not yet'. The legislature is supposed to provide updates to the Constitution while the judiciary advises the executive on how to interpret them.

Such a system is already way ahead of AI, and yet even the political system is still only a poor simulacrum of the human mind in the presence of other competing minds, under the system of a shared moral code reflected, imperfectly, in written laws.

BENT TO THE WILL

And here we find Eric, toiling away to replicate the human mind but to whose interests? To perfect the republic? To create a working democracy with modern networks that could go some way to replace the clunky political system and balance the popular will in real time?

No, sadly not. While AI is put to work in elections, it is not to create a new participatory systems but to game the existing one. It is the mutual interest of big tech and the military that provides the impetus and the ethical framework to AI — and both are constantly shifting. What's acceptable is what "we" want: more military contracts, more power and the global reach to seize the minerals and raw materials essential to feed those resource-hungry tech and defence projects. "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law," or a version thereof.

There are many tangents worth exploring. The reason why Google recently fired two scientist-ethics specialists from its AI team, for example. The impact of monopoly on the shape of the big tech, big data, social media sector— and its impact on the political system in return. The trend towards censorship and its effect on science, which is especially topical while YouTube imposes limits to the discussion of vaccines as Google and associated companies invest in vaccines, health care and DNA research.

Google's famous culture of unleashing beta products on the public not only makes the public the guinea pig but also changes the contractual and moral relationship with the end user: you accept the product in an unfinished state with no guarantees (on the customer side) as to performance, while the purposes for which we (Google) offer the product can be changed or withdrawn at any moment. Today my gun shoots a blank, tomorrow a bullet. It's not a different product, just a different iteration.

Schmidt is working within a nest of interest groups that have evolved from the Military Industrial Complex that President Dwight Eisenhower described in 1961. It is now a military-tech-media-petro-pharma complex that manipulates the political system by military and commercial means. If that requires arming the police, bringing the craft of war to the shores of America, imposing military censors in the press, instigating Color Revolutions at home [sorry, "fortifying" elections] or at the very least influencing search results so that they favour an outcome, social, political or commercial, so be it: success is defined by achieving the outcome. In military-commercial logic, might makes right.

If the creepy line exists at all, it is set by those same State Corporatists: or to put it another way, the end justifies the means.

What Mr Schmidt represents is not a geek turned activist with budding political ambitions but someone birthed by the military-technocrat complex. With so much at stake, they take no risks with meritocracy. Like the rest of the big tech overlords he is put in a role to do a job. Any system with which he is involved — building Google's data-gathering empire, its Nest surveillance, the Pentagon's AI or the Democrats' election preparations — is bent towards the same aim.

The State Corporatists know what they want and it is not a system emerging ad hoc from scientific debate or political negotiation. As James Corbett reminds us, in this video, the NWO-technocracy-global governance agenda is at least a century in the making.

The Great Reset: Do You Really Want To Go There?

2021-02-09T08:04:00.023+00:00

Time to make an educated, perspicacious estimation of where this is heading. The following applies to most countries:

The pretext (problem):

Scientific data is being manipulated to drive public fear, out of all proportion to medical and health norms or recent hospital, infection or mortality rates.
Mask and social distancing rules have a clearly negative impact on social health.
Corporate interests are ‘informing’ government policy: from jabs to ‘immunity’ passports; facial recognition and software that tracks location and distance from other people; to paying hospitals for ‘finding’ Covid and intubating patients.
Corporate interests linked to the above censor social media for the ‘public good’.
Military and ad hoc bureaucratic committees censor information to encourage ‘consent’. The press is used to deliver wartime blanket propaganda.
Lockdowns are extended on numerous pretexts.

The process (reaction):

Rules are tweaked constantly, maximizing disruption and uncertainty perhaps with the intention of disguising the objective of preventing resistance.
Masks, distancing, gathering limits and even attempts to ban singing or speaking loudly, directly curb fundamental liberties.
Economic life is sharply curtailed, killing small and mid-size businesses and rendering the population dependent on government and corporations for support.
Military have been put on standby to assist police in maintaining order, to vaccinate the population forcibly (why else would the military be needed), and to isolate politicians from the public.
Concentration camps for vaccine resisters have been publicly discussed in countries like Germany, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The silence of other countries like Britain speaks volumes (on the other hand Britain is rather small and previously used Australia as its holding pen for deplorables).
The Executive operates by diktat, rules, ‘mandates’ and the misuse of earlier laws. Only sometimes through legislation, often submitted to lawmakers retrospectively or at short notice.

The outcome (solution):

Several front organizations, mainly bankers and tech companies drive this part but the ideology is technocracy, as promoted by Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission (see second part of this article, Origins of Technocracy):

Food and farming is already disrupted, particularly meat but also soy and other forms of protein. Inevitable impact on diet. Some positive outcome likely, such as reduction in obesity, but may also impact brain health and intelligence.
Energy: Considerable shortfall if politicians implement plans to end use of hydrocarbons. Bio-fuel, solar and wind will make up a fraction of the difference, while plans for smart cities and 5G, electric cars and electric heating will massively increase demand.
Energy-based accounting could make many products uneconomic or expensive. Hard to estimate as governments may subsidize some items.
Innovation to suffer from move to a recycling-based economy where repurposing replaces manufacturing.
Service based economy will replace consumption. Personal ownership of cars may cease. Air travel may become a rarity.
Rationing and waiting lists are likely, as in the Soviet Union where people waited years to acquire a car (this time you may even wait to borrow a car). No private deals, all transactions to be public, not only tracked and surveilled but regulated. Those raised with electronic gadgets and battery-driven everything may experience material privation.
Regulation will see the biggest lifestyle changes. Residence permits will decide where you life. You will need a reason to travel. Social credit scores will determine your access to services.
Economic dependence, from income to spending. Jobs may be allocated, with limited choice of location, as in the former USSR.
Public services may be interrupted as government transition from tax-based system to energy credits and carbon offsets. Massive decline in wealth. Stuff not made is never regained.
Monetary system: Plan to replace money with energy-based credits.
Pensions, savings and assets may be lost, seized by government or compulsorily purchased and exchanged at a rate favourable to the authorities.

It seems clear to me where this is intended to lead. Those who willfully ignore reality will not be persuaded by words and we need to stop focusing on the small data. Yes is a fraud but perhaps it is intended to distract us. After all, it is only a pretext.

Do you want to go to this outcome? If not, now is the time to turn away.

One must always identify and name one's enemy. In this case he has hidden for years. Authors like Carroll Quigley were censored, the books pulped, the printing plates smashed. Those like Antony Sutton lost their jobs, too. Thanks, however, to those who knew them, such as Patrick M Wood who collaborated with Sutton, we know where their efforts were directed and some inkling of their intention. In recent years, the mask of secrecy has slipped somewhat. The State Corporatist Media has conceded that the Trilateral Commission is not a conspiracy theory; that front organizations like the Bilderberg Group do in fact exist.

The press still refuses to interrogate the work of these groups, instead mentioning them only in hushed, reverential tones. This does not mean the press ignores them, it simply refuses to acknowledge that it acts on their behalf. It has for years conveyed the message and prepared public opinion clandestinely. We had to wait for David Rockefeller himself to draw aside the curtain in 1991.

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years......It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.” ― David Rockefeller

So what's the plan?

The following is a summary and potted history courtesy of Patrick Wood and his interlocutor Richard Grove of Tragedy & Hope.

ORIGINS OF TECHNOCRACY
Utopian movement seeking to abandon the use of money to price goods, instead judging value purely by energy inputs. Technocracy is a method of governance that has no political ideology. Plato’s Republic has a chapter on cybernetics and social control.

Utopians took many forms — communism, socialism, fascism — and some came close to religion, like scientism and humanism.

Henri Saint-Simon stated, “A scientist, my dear friends, is a man who foresees; it is because science provides the means to predict that it is useful, and the scientists are superior to all other men.”

Saint-Simon’s disciple was Auguste Comte, the father of sociology. They developed Positivism, the concept that truth can only be determined through rationalism or science. Positivism in turn gave birth to Scientism, which says that only science can discover truth about humans and reality and there is no other truth. As it does not explain the soul, emotion, caring or jealousy, it does not acknowledge these truths. The Prussian physiologist and psychologist Wilhelm Wundt took this further, insisting humans have no soul and so can be manipulated like a clockwork orange and this gives rise to outcomes-based education, focused on standardization as an end in itself.

Born in the white heat of industrial expansion. Gained attention from the apparent failure of capitalism during the Great Depression. Boosted when taken up by Columbia University in 1932. Technocracy Inc formed as an ideological movement in 1933.

FOCUS ON DATA PROCESSING, LINKS TO IBM
Shared basement in Hamilton Hall, Columbia U, with the early IBM which was then developing the tabulators which they would lease to the German government for social profiling in the 1930s and 40s. No further information exists as IBM historical documents have been lost.

Brzezinski in his book Political Power: USA/USSR (1964) writes that the DDR Stasi was gathering huge amounts of data on people but lacked the technical power to put it to use.

LINKS TO HITLER’S GERMANY
Technocracy and technocrats don’t care what political system they operate under. It is concerned with the correct scientific methodology rather than the political ends.

German technocracy movement was not connected to the U.S. counterpart but shared and reprinted articles. Hitler saw technocrats as a rival and outlawed the organisation. However, technocrats had a profound influence on Hitler’s Germany and continued to communicate. The Third Reich could not have happeed without technocrats and the Technocracy movement. Ironically, Canada temporarily outlawed Technocracy Inc fearing it had fascists links.

Technocracy started at Columbia U, jumped over to Germany. The experiments in the concentration camps created a body of science that they brought back to the U.S. After WW2, Operation Paperclip transfered thousands of German technocrats to the U.S. where the German scientific experiments were continued under MK-Ultra by the CIA.

TECHNOCRACY IS NOT FASCISM OR SOCIALISM
Mistaken association with Communism. Members of Technocracy Inc would have bridled at association with Communists, who still used money and priced goods in money. However Brzezinski proposed that Marxism could be a stepping stone, destroy capitalism prior to installing the technotronic era. This will not be a personal dictator but a system of control, technology enforcing laws that keep you in line.

As for Fabian socialism, which aimed to merge the corporate and government world but still envisaged private property and a price based system. In short, all former systems have supply and demand, resolved by prices, and technocracy has an energy or resource-based economy. Technocracy is not proposed as a political form of government.

OVERLAP WITH EUGENICS
Eugenics was mostly based in California rather than Columbia but the peak of eugenics coincided with that of technocracy. There was no organizational link between Technocracy and the Eugenics movement, however they shared a common approach. From a scientists’ perspective managing society is similar to livestock.
Eugenics was a response to the challenge of Darwin and Marx and the fascists, challenging people to think of ways to change society in previously unthinkable ways. These were radicals of their time: not of a left-wing radicalism but utopians in a race to the future. The Eugenics Record Office, of Cold Spring Harbor, New York, inspired many of Hitler’s speeches.

ELITES AND TECHNOCRACY
There was no backing from the tax-exempt foundations in the beginning. Technocracy was a grass roots movement and its founders were relatively poor.
In the 1960s Brzezinski taught at Columbia U and many of his books mirror Technocracy.

The Journal on Race Development (1910) became the Journal of International Relations, which in turn was merged with Foreign Affairs in 1922. It was founded by Yale alumnus Stanley Hall who was a student of Wilhelm Wundt and a member of Skull and Bones. This shows the link between the Council on Foreign Relations, the elite secret societies dedicated to “thinking the unthinkable” or shaking up society, as well as the sending of American academics to Europe for indoctrination before returning them to shape U.S. universities, future graduates and social institutions.

THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION
At the 1972 Bilderberg meeting, Rockefeller and Brzezinski went to sell the TC. They likely invited the Europeans of the Bilderbergers to join, such as Kissinger. They invite members, like any fraternity.
Brzezinski picked Jimmy Carter as presidential candidate, to whom he became National Security Adviser, gatekeeper to the President (10/17 have been members of the Trilateral Commission). Brzezinski bragged about educating Carter on foreign affairs and economics. At one point Carter had one third of the U.S. membership of the Trilateral Commission to his administration. Of his Cabinet, all were TCs bar one.
The Trilateral Commission decides policy in advance and implements it without reference to Congress through control of the Executive. What’s more, this was not political control. They only wanted the executive branch in order to use the influence of the U.S. presidency to create their new world economic order. Of U.S. Trade Representatives, the first was appointed by Jimmy Carter. Of 12, nine have been members of the TC.
In addition to the U.S. Executive, the Trilateral Commission influences the World Bank. Of WB presidents, 6/8 have been members of the Trilateral Commission.

David Rockefeller in April 1967 as he spearheaded construction of the new World Trade Center, eight months after breaking ground.

ROCKEFELLER LOCK ON POLICY
Involved in Council on Foreign Relations, Columbia U, and United Nations. It is surprising that they did not fund Technocracy at the start, given that it was housed in Columbia. It’s competitor was the even more radical New School. Until the 1970s, these families never funded Technocracy.

The payback for the Rockefeller influence to the UN was the use of the UN as a contagion mechanism to spread Agenda 21 around the world. The UN makes an ugly project look pretty. It is the user interface that makes evil look friendly. Slogans like interdependence,

Jay Rockefeller is one of the few family members to be elected, in W. Virginia. Nelson had to be appointed as Vice President but as head of the Senate he pushed through the fast-track mechanism for trade treaties. It was used to push through trade deals with minimal oversight, including NAFTA, CAFTA, TIP and TPP. The Senate knew how dangerous this legislation is, by delegating to the executive branch the ability to negotiate treaties. They should be passed with a two-thirds vote but the president can now present a treaty for approval, that has 20 hours of floor debate, no amendments allowed and reduces the floor vote to 50 per cent. In the case of NAFTA, the Trilateral Commission pulled out all the big guns including Henry Kissinger to browbeat Congressmen to pass it. And it only just passed.

NAFTA was written by Carla Hills, member of the Trilateral Commission, signed by George HW Bush a member of the TC, pushed into law by Bill Clinton, a member of the TC, and lobbied by numerous members of the TC like Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger…
Nelson Rockefeller ensured through the fast-track mechanism could force through these changes.

FAMILY TAX-EXEMPT FOUNDATIONS
NGOs, Trust Funds, Foundations have been the engine of social change for 100 years, as exposed by the Reece committee and the testimony of Norman Dodd.
These have reshaped universities, grade school and common core, business regulation, and then they for the United Nations, International Monetary Fund, World Bank. Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies was closely associated with the Trilateral Commission at board of directors level.
Beneath this like a submarine is Technocracy, now surfacing.

AGENDA 21, AKA TECHNOCRACY
1930s Technocracy proposed “functional sequences” or common functions that need to be managed by a central authority: health, manufacturing… Their view of the “service sequence” of education is “conditioning”.
Smart Grid is an original specification of Technocracy — the idea of controlling the energy that is consumed.
Total Awareness Surveillance is an original specification of Technocracy — you cannot manage what you cannot monitor. That is an engineer’s mindset.
For an economic system: financial records, people’s purchase intentions and desires, health records, education records like Common Core collects 400 data points on students now. Public Private Partnership with flavors of partenrship.

All of these are in the Rio 1992 conference which was preceded by the Gro Harlem Brundtland Commission which convened 1982-87 producing a report, Our Common Future, popularising the phrase, sustainable development. Brundtland was a member of the Trilateral Commission, whose stated purpose is to create a new international economic order.

Was Agenda 21 an organic United Nations creation or was it produced by the Trilateral Commission, just like NAFTA? It completely reflects the new international economic order. The UN picks it up, the Rio Conference follows, Agenda 21 is published, book on biodiversity is published… Today Earth Charter and Sustainable Development has spread to every country right dnown to county and district level.

ROTHSCHILD EMPIRE
This overlaps with Agenda 21, as espoused in the UNCED (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development) promoted by Edmond de Rothschild in 1987 with Maurice Strong: they were participating in a United Nations project but if you see where their interests lay, they were gaining authority to pursue personal financial interests.
David de Rothschild wrote the comic book to spread the gospel to young people.

DISARMING THE PEOPLE
How do the Rockefellers and Rothschilds benefit from people not being able to defend themselves.
Why would Rockefeller try to end capitalism?
Bankers’ expertise is money. They don’t make anything. Perhaps it was never meant to be permanent and there is an end to money.
Their view of wealth is different. They don’t see thousands in the bank as security. There is no value in money. It can be declared obsolete tomorrow.
Wealth lies in resources of the Earth that support all life.
These will be licensed to people as the feudal barons let you survive in return for 80 per cent of your produce.
Sustainable development is twisting the resources out of the people and transfering it to a global trust (they never say who are the trustees: they will be those who set up the system).

WHITHER LIBERTY
It took 300-500 years to develop the principles of liberty.
They culminated in the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
If Technocracy wins it could take hundreds of years, perhaps even longer, for liberty to surface again.
Once they get control of the economic mechanims, they will control life itself.

THE CASTE SYSTEM
The system will manage your carbon footprint. If you use too much electricity at home you may be denied a flight to a funeral. The elite will face no such restrictions.

THE CRISIS IN DEMOCRACY
This paper was issued in 1975 by the Trilateral Commission. The republic and democracy was outmoded for the coming technotronic era.
This suggested democracy is out of date… Brzezinski argued in his book Between Two Ages that bankers and multinational corporations already control countries, rendering the nation state a plaything. People who support nation states are derided as nativists.

THE MEDIA

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.” — David Rockefeller, 1991

Antony Sutton meanwhile was fired and censored for reporting on the Trilateral Commission. Sutton exposed how Wall Street had enabled the revolutions to take place in Russia and Germany and continued to finance and support the fascists and communists. Sutton saw the stacking of the Carter administration and recognized the patterns.

Before he even published anything David Packard, of Hewlett Packard, a member of the Trilateral Commission and trustee of the Hoover Institution had Sutton fired.

THE CHURCH
Steven Clark Rockefeller put together the Earth Charter. A theologian, Rockefeller is an instigator of the interfaith movement and all the major faiths have gone Green, with encyclicals from the Pope on climate change. Global stewardship, sustainable planning and development are the common buzzwords indicating their complete co-option. This goes back to the World Council of Churches and the Dulles brothers.

Nazi Oaks, by Mark Musser, explores the first Green movement to become state policy, which was that of the NAZI movement. Now there are books with titles like, Green Faith. Yet the new priesthood are the scientists who go up the mountain to listen to the volcano and come down and say the god of science says, ‘you must do x or y.’ No one is allowed to go to the volcano themselves, or to question what the scienpriests say they know, otherwise you are punished as a denier and excommunicated as a heathen.

TRANSHUMANISM AND THE DENIAL OF DEATH
Death is central to life. Transhumanism excludes god without being atheistic: they believe that they will become immortal.
In religion, the fall of man prescribes that death will be a feature until god wraps things up in the future. The transhumanists are making an end run around what religion says.
The mass surveillance society competes with god in another way, seeking to be the overseer of humanity and the recording of all your life’s deeds, good and bad. You will pay for your sins through your social credit score.

SURVEILLANCE STATE AS TECHNOCRACY.
In 2005 the intelligence system in the U.S. was completely overhauled with the creation of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, lording it over 17 national intelligence agencies, including the National Security Agency.
The legislation to Congress to authorize the ODNI was sponsored by Jay Rockefeller and Dianne Feinstein, both members of the Trilateral Commission. George Bush created the ODNI and appointed John Negroponte as the first director: member of the Trilateral Commission.
So the TC proposed the law, filled the position and has taken control of the reorganisation of all intelligence gathering.

We know they want a new international economic order. Now the ODNI takes full control of data gathering, under which the NSA is merely an agent. This is the monitoring network for the whole Technocracy system.

They have all the phone calls and emails, all the health records through Obamacare, all the education data through Common Core, all financial and business data. The collection has grown but the ability to analyse the data has not kept up: moving the data from the storage devices into the CPUs to process, that’s the bottleneck, and putting it back again if necessary. They estimate they will solve that problem in three to five years. Then we’ll be in big trouble (date of interview, 2015).

This alone shows how close we are to the launch of Technocracy. This is an expression of the Trilateral Commission’s dominance over policy for the past 40 years. The odds of this small group having this much influence are, according to mathematicians, infinitesimal.

THE FIGHT NOW
Two economic systems are fighting for control. They cannot co-exist. Technocracy and Capitalism are matter and anti-matter. One will die, one will live.

If the Technocracy system is set up properly, the system does the controlling. It monitors you and self corrects. This allows it to manage populations of billions without many people being involved. That is the idea of a scientific dictatorship.

The global elite are pedestrian academics and intellectuals at best. They have never had an original idea of their own. To gain advantage they have to hijack the ideas of others.

Technocracy was not their idea. It goes way back. The originals Greens of the 1960s will “spit molten nails that they got pushed out of their own movement”. The global elite took over the green movement and the purest objectives were hijacked by this elite who took off in a totally different direction.

They are hijackers. They take whatever idea suits them to push forward their own vested interests. It does not speak too well of their intellectual abilities.

Know who the enemy is. We have had our ladder leaning against the wrong wall, and we are worse off than we’ve been, for 40 years. We must identify the enemy to have any success, and make a target of them.

In the longer term, we must retain some vestige of liberty in the hearts of men, says Patrick Wood. If we lose our liberty people will be living in a scientific dictatorship where freedom is a curiosity. Hopefully enough people can keep a seed of liberty alive so that one day, when the dark ends, it may sprout again.

Notes from an interview by Patrick M Wood given to Richard Grove.

Propaganda and Directing The Will

2021-01-24T09:55:00.033+00:00

Edward Curtin does a disservice to propagandists: he credits them with being smart (such faint praise). Moreover he errs in assigning them the role of creating leaders, "a master, a prefabricated demigod." This is not the propagandists' contribution. The leaders are chosen to fit archetypes.

I can't remember who wrote it, but someone compared a generation of actors from the 1940s or 50s with those of our era. He demonstrated convincingly that each actor could be paired off with an archetypal character actor of the other generation. It's as if you went into a fruitier and requested two examples of each fruit, one fresh, the other dried and mummified.

Propagandists would like to be thought of as progenitors of our political class but their skills lie elsewhere. They come along later to help burnish the legend. What they value above all -- and what they are valued for -- is the skill to implant a world view and then to switch it on a dime.

Propagandists are generally people with some talent for persuading others but who can't get a better job at what they truly desire: creating whole worlds for the movies, the television or novels in which they can rival the creator himself. So they use their skills to warp, sway and manipulate on behalf of their paymaster.

They may work in newspapers or what we now call the panoply of media but their job, like a bodysuit of armour, is to defend and protect the state. Of course there are other propagandists who sell toilet tissue. They are better paid but receive less respect.

You can't blame the people for falling for propaganda. If they didn't fall for it, it wouldn't be very effective propaganda.

To reprise my opening assertion, look at the crossover between novelists and intelligence services or, more specifically, a counterintelligence section that is concerned mostly with concocting narratives since gathering accurate information is so much harder (Christopher Steele, don't call us. We'll call you.)

There are struggling writers (Howard Hunt is a classic example) and those who achieved success (such as Ian Fleming and Roald Dahl) but more accurately we can say, "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em'."

Event Covid and the uniform and relentless nature of messaging through Corporatist Media has laid bare the extent to which the organs influence journalists, and scientific and mainstream publishers.

Again, this makes sense if you return to the roster of writers: in a meritocratic world there would be no efficient way to ensure the propagandist reached the target audience. By controlling to a practical degree publishers and broadcasters the organs can promote favoured voices to a pedestal and run the factories of spinners of yarn.

Do the people seek divine masters? People listen to parental figures which is why totalitarian political systems are so quick to capture the youth and supplant parental authority. So-called progressivism does this. Parental authority is patriarchal and should be dismantled, it says. It doesn't talk about what will replace this patriarchy.

Totalitarians are not against hierarchies or father figures or even politburos full of men. They don't disdain the family, they see it as a rival. Likewise totalitarians are not against religion. They don't disdain God, they see God as a rival.

Joseph Stalin once had a prayer recited to him each day in school. It was only later that Russian stubbornness persuaded him that he could not crush or replace the Orthodox church and so he set about infiltrating it.

The new cover of Jacobin magazine discusses this theme in pictorial form.

Propagandists don't just serve up legends for leaders. They can give us each our own personal beliefs, a suite of attitudes that we like to believe are tailor made for us but which are really an off-the-peg suit. We imbibe many of our beliefs while growing up but the majority of our adult persona is worn like a coat and can be changed like one. The only difference between people is how much it pains them to change it.

Many people wouldn't give it a second thought: fitting in is prized in schools; team players in corporations. The visible symbol of universities are the colours, just as with sports teams, horses and dogs. Conformity is not meant to begin and end with a scarf.

Here lies the propagandist's trick. He needs you to be ready to switch your allegiance but only at a precise moment in response to an unmistakeable signal. How can people be fanatically roused against a rival team to the extent of going to war and yet about turn in full fury when the enemy is reassigned?

Curtin identifies the key skill and how it is used: "Propagandists’ ability to mesmerize the faithful has increase exponentially as the technological life has increased and been promoted as de rigueur."

The key to controlling the public mind is not censorship but the replacement of thinking with feeling, exemplified by Orwell's Two Minutes Hate. The publishers, broadcasters and social media play this trick, not surprisingly, by assuming the shape and the belief-forming influence of parents. After all, at a young age we mirror our parents' outlook, driven by bonds of loyalty and emotion not logic.

So the propagandist-as-Mesmer presumes to share our emotions, and our envy and fear. His speech patterns are repetitive and reassuring. He quickly becomes a crutch to our laziness and, having formed an emotional bond, begins to suggest other attitudes we may like to adopt. The other end of propaganda which is marketing plays a role here: are you a Telegraph man or a Mail woman. Be informed, up to the minute, with stories of a reliable consistency of depth and taste: "Be sure to read..."

With this cheery or frightening hourly dose of information comes the mesmerizing: each of those stories is emotionally charged to some degree. By dialing up or down the emotional amperage, and attaching it to this or that topic, those people or their country yonder... the control is effected.

So it is not the appointing of an external deity but the control of our inner response that is the true grail of the propagandist.

Old New Year 2021 — Finding Inspiration in Words

2021-01-13T18:29:00.019+00:00

THE MILLSTONE (2020)

The smog of lies hangs like a mask,

Truth retches, twists as if she gasps

among these mills.

Her arms outstretched but finding strength

she tears the veil and clears the stench

as clouds unfold.

Our ancestors, they too were bound

yet struck their feet in Common ground

and did not cease!

It's Old New Year, so I'm raising my spirit and feeding my soul in the Caucasus with a Belarusian glass, Svayak, so why not toast a country has been a refreshing exception to the masked-up panic of the past year. It brings to mind a poem familiar to many.

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise...

Rudyard Kipling's poem 'If' first appeared in his collection 'Rewards and Fairies' in 1909.

As censorship and downright lies bring the worst of Pravda to the Western press, let's also drink a toast to words, their inspiration and their power. And since we are talking of Baltic inspiration, here's one from the poet Ryhor Krushyna.

THE WORD (1964)

Within the spectrum wide with intuition
I recognize you, my word.
Its taste, its odor, and play of sounds for definition,
And my creative happiness I heard.

The colors gamut and its play,
The elixir of youth,
And golden dreams of yesterday,
The fervor and the restless whirl of truth.

I see it all, I feel it all,
With words creating all anew,
I hear the voice of my country’s call,
The war of emotions that I knew.

For instance, take such a word for taste
Such bitter word is “absinth” to be sure.
It seems along the village street there’s waste
Of weed that crawls along the paling ever more.

Some though are straining words as castor oil,
Though surely there are others honey sweet…
My word! I’ll not desert you in my toil,
I love your flight of fancy in this feat.

Mankind you do enrich so much
To prompt them to come forth in life.
You’ll cure the ailing with your touch,
And beat the evil enemy in strife.

You’re flashing with a lightning sheath,
And wafting with the warmth of spring and spree.
Upon my death you’ll meander as a wreath
To be consumed by life and me.

Ryhor Krushyna by Mikhas' Bagun (public domain).

With which, fellow readers and writers, I thank you for your kind attention and comments and toast you and the New Year for a second time.

The Legacy of Donald Trump's Administration

2021-01-10T09:33:00.047+00:00

What goes on in Donald Trump's head is not interesting -- nor is your opinion of the man. We have no idea what's in Trump's mind, any more than I know of yours or you of mine. We should abandon this 20th century style of history... in which a Hugh Trevor Roper presumes to tell us what Hitler or Churchill were thinking.

Trump's presidency exposed the wurst of the state and all the unspeakable parts that go into making it. The abiding image is the smirk in Congress of former FBI agent Peter Strzok who was given the job of co-ordinating the Russiagate hoax. Strzok brushed off questions as, metaphorically, he stroked his stalk in the public's face. Yes, his disdain was that crude and many celebrated his defiance. It is part of the story of these years.

Ted Eytan (Flickr/CC)

Objectively Trump's presidency was a watershed. Historians and political analysts should seize upon this administration to expose how government really works (they'll claim they knew all along, and then consign the knowledge to the dustbin).

You can hate Trump (which politicians do you love?) but he served a valuable purpose. He showed us how government works in all our countries: the superiority of the bureaucrat, who conspires against the people, for the institutions' benefit as the corporations pull the strings.

As for the idea that bureaucrats seek to learn from business how to manage more efficiently, they had a businessman but they were not interested in learning anything from him. What bureaucrats mean by partnering with businesses has more to do with graft and a second job once they retire.

There seems little point in surmising what Trump could have, should have or intended to do. We know that he was obstructed at every step and that many officials justified their obstruction in the national interest. The very struggle between Trump and his officials tells us a lot about government.

It tells us about vested interests and institutional psychology, about the challenge that outsiders represent to the in-group. Such neutered academic language is insufficient, however, because we also saw bureaucrats lie and create fake dossiers, frame individuals and prosecute patsies, and put up 'whistleblowers' who were really just insubordinate. We saw Russiagate revealed as a hoax and the Ukraine-related impeachment exposed as a put-up job. We saw the FBI operate as secret police for the political elite against any attempt to investigate corruption.

Many won't accept my interpretation because another feature of these years is the politicization of the media, the corporate world, the bureaucracy, the intelligence agencies and even the military. This was an era in which there were not facts only activism and political outcomes. In this mindset to acknowledge one piece of information while downplaying another is to declare your allegiance. Thus your assessment of what is worth mentioning may be different to mine.

Politicized media is biased but that's only one issue; censorship is a bigger problem, especially censorship by omission.

If we can agree this far, perhaps we can acknowledge that massive commercial interests manipulate the body politic: that bureaucrats as much as politicians are engaged in the business of war; and that in turn war is used to enter countries and grab resources, from energy to rare earth minerals; and that the most profitable activities are often not mentioned in polite society: the cultivation and pushing of drugs, licit and illicit; and sex trafficking and slavery.

We should be able to agree on something from the history of the past four years and debate it, before it becomes set in stone. Whatever your politics the partial and prejudicial view of the Corporatist Media does none of us favours. The hastening censorship of social media is even more cack-handed. One can hope it is short term but there are grounds to fear we are witnessing an upheaval as free speech is jettisoned for a consensus on truth.

The key takeaways from Donald Trump's administration:

The Epstein scandal and cover up, which briefly exposed how sex trafficking is used to entrap and blackmail politicians.
Epstein's liaison with investors like Bill Gates to finance scientists and the media.
Evidence that the CIA worked with Epstein and Mossad against the national interest.
The utter corruption of the judiciary. A president cannot get a hearing, let alone justice. Not even a ruling on something as important as a general election.
The evolution of the military industrial complex into the pharma-military-tech-media complex.
The power of the biggest industries: warfare, drugs licit and illicit, trafficking and slavery, and energy.
The rebirth of the Corporatist State.
Evidence that social media is an arm of the state for propaganda and surveillance.
Corporatist Media's staggering uniformity in peddling the same line as military intelligence.
The moment we realized that Chinese-style surveillance is in store for all of us.
The subversion of sovereignty as Corporations go supra-national while milking government for subsidies and contracts.
Corporations ceased paying tax, while demanding the right to set trans-national rules for their own benefit.
The middle class shrinks further as wages continue to slide has they have since the 1970s.
Confirmation that the USA is no democracy but an oligarchy (See Stanford study, 2014).
The apotheosis of decades of DARPA and CIA research into public manipulation and control.
Behavioral research and influence activities take a leading role in determining policy and outcomes.
Cancel culture goes mainstream, epitomized by events at Evergreen State College
CIA's subversion of feminism yields wave after wave of self-destructive criticism.
Hollywood's American Made (2017) sanitizes Mena, The Glorias (2020) sanitizes Steinem.
Facing transgender crisis, Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics postponed.
For first time bankers question U.S. Dollar's status as the world's reserve currency.
End of dollar hegemony means Americans would no longer enjoy superior living standards.
Technocrats seize opportunity to reset monetary and economic system.
World governments largely abandon Climate Change as a driver of policy.
Climate Change replaced with Event Covid as impetus to reshape society.
Unlike climate, Covid leads to demands for military intervention, more surveillance and medical martial law.
Except for Las Vegas music festival soon after Trump took office, truly mass shootings were notable by their rarity. Media focus switched to supposed white supremacist parades.
2020 U.S. general election revealed systemic voting fraud, confirming research going back to the Carter administration.
Censorship of individuals for "hate speech" became mass censorship as social media and big tech banned discussion of entire topics (election fraud) or any departure from the World Health Organization's official line on Covid.
Amazon, Google and Apple shut down Twitter-rival Parler.
Chinese trade marked the start of the administration. Chinese espionage and corruption emerged by the end.
The Biden family were belatedly investigated by the FBI and DoJ over money received from Russia and China.
Rep Eric Swalwell revealed to have been sleeping with a Chinese spy prior to pushing Russiagate and impeachment of President Trump. In fairness to Swalwell he was not the only one.
China, Bidens and Russiagate revealed to be related to a cover-up of the Clintons' Uranium One scandal.
Intel agencies delayed report on foreign interference by China, believing it would strengthen Trump's hand. Ombudsman says politicized intel agencies threaten the republic.
The techniques of Color Revolution and Phoenix Program Fusion Doctrine came home to roost.
As administration ends, Domestic Terrorism Bill poised to update Patriot Act definition of an action "dangerous to human life."
Just as Event Covid is more ambitious than Climate Change, in terms of surveillance and control, so Domestic Terrorism will expand the ambitions of Gun Control.

Did I miss some positives?

It is remarkable that we can summarize so many aspects of a presidential administration as bullet points that the informed reader will recognize immediately, even if he or she doesn't agree with all of them. This underlines the historical importance of the last four years.

Trump's administration broke the two party paradigm forever. If you still believe in the party system after witnessing the RINOs (Republicans in name only) kissing Biden's ring or the cross-aisle collusion... what is there to say?

History will probably airbrush the fraudulent election from the picture. It's likely that the unashamedly partisan view of the media will set the tone for academic studies. We got to witness how the sausage is made, to paraphrase Bismark. I wonder what other history we imbibed with mother's milk that was thus contaminated at source?

None Dare Call It Fraud

2021-01-07T08:25:00.049+00:00

As the U.S. establishment machine approves a patently fraudulent election we are witnessing a phenomenon familiar to readers of the Corporatist Media. The bureaucracy and the tight-knit political and media classes have closed ranks. Indeed, without a unified front the election fraud would not have been possible.

Words are put into the President's mouth. We are told he incited violence, requiring Twitter, Facebook and Google to remove any video or transcript of his words. Thus most people will never know that he said the opposite: "We are the party of law and order. Go home."

The real target is not the President, however. Video appears to show police letting protesters into the Capitol. In that case those who caused a riot were not Trump supporters but provocateurs. The words Trump never said are blamed for a riot by his supporters that never happened. The likely aim is to discredit or ban any peaceful rally by those who consider the 2020 presidential election to be fraudulent and the incoming administration illegitimate.

How much illusion do you need to get out of bed each day? How much lie does your life require? Is it something in yourself that drives you to avoid reality — perhaps those embarrassing, unmentionable primal motives such as envy and tribalism. Maybe it is just something we learned in the schoolyard: that if we gang up we can share the spoils; that every gang requires an outsider — and if there isn't one, we must create one.

Resolute denial is essential if the plan is to be carried to its conclusion. "Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason." One can imagine the Elizabethan courtier Sir John Harington was a close observer of skulduggery. If those with power conspire in a joint endeavor whose end justifies the means, then by that same token it must be just.

THE PEOPLE ARE PUNISHED

You or I don't get off so lightly. Perhaps not even kings and queens would have such scope to turn society on its head while banning any mention of the deed: to dash out the brains of the masses (metaphorically, or not), to butcher critics and to bribe the tribunes of the people to lie and betray their own. Perhaps Henry VIII qualifies or a Saudi monarch today. Even monarchs however cannot generally impose their will except through the bureaucracy. By the time of Elizabeth I the security state was born and the organs of the state operated in unison to propagandize and punish the people into compliance.

We have lived, in our modern nation state, without much punishment. In a society with a complex mesh of mutual interests, in which each to some extent needs the other, the carrot will do as good as the stick. The meritocratic promise of social mobility means the majority vest their hopes in the system. That may have changed.

The transhuman agenda of The Great Reset, the Green New Deal, a Net-Zero Carbon Society, UN Agenda 21 or whatever you call it is plain: oligarchic society has less need of the masses and thus offers the masses little scope for advancement. The carrot won't work any more. Feel the stick.

But first, persuasion. That is why the mainstream media has resorted to propaganda on steroids. Government ministers huddle with behavioral psychologists and entire brigades or regiments are diverted into influence activities to ensure that only one message gets through, while rival explanations or analyses are discredited. This is probably overkill. After all, the aforementioned psychologists know that the majority will side with the in-group.

You cannot advance in a society that doesn't need you, except by preferment. This is the province of the bureaucrat and the functionary, who seeks to prove his loyalty to the boss and who advances by politics and social connection, and who never says 'no', whatever the order. This is the world of the underboss, the consigliere and, above all, of the made man who has 'gone above and beyond' in proving his loyalty.

It is no coincidence that a slogan of Common Purpose is "leading beyond authority." This is the institutional mindset of the new bureaucracy. Many obtain preferment by signing up to a code of ethics, to a secret society that operates at the heart of officialdom and yet out of sight. There was a time when the press was concerned about the role of Freemasonry in the police. That seems quaint in the modern day of Common Purpose, Senior Executive Service, and the tentacles of a social and political ideology that is as influential as it is unspoken.

The unison of Corporatist and State media, of the executive and the intelligence agencies, the judiciary and law enforcement, and the bland unanimity of the legislature is not achieved by academic indoctrination, by the operation of secret societies, by cohort or class, nor by brute blackmail or bribery. It is all of these together and one can say with confidence that the proof is in the pudding.

The first responsibility of a bureaucracy is to protect and perpetuate itself. This institutional approach is very much the attitude of an entitled establishment elite determined to maintain its grip on wealth, by any means necessary. Harington also wrote, translated from the Latin: "Successful and fortunate crime/ is called virtue."

A THUMB ON THE SCALES

It was only meant to be a little bit of fraud: the election, that is. The early voting by mail-in ballot was supposed to oust the incumbent, along with a little tweaking of the Dominion Voting System-Smartmatic algorithm, applying a handicap to Trump votes in six swing states (see the evidence of Russell Ramsland on this site).

It was Trump's landslide that spoiled the original plan: 74 million people voted for him, the most ever for a president running for re-election. That required an even bigger vote for former vice-president Joe Biden — and an even bigger lie.

Amazingly, Biden revealed this before polling began. In his condition of progressive dementia he cannot keep secrets. He let his mouth run away.

Note that Biden is answering the second part of a two-part question: what people WHO HAVE ALREADY VOTED can still do to MAKE SURE you are the next president. That is the question that Biden is addressing when he says we have put together the most extensive voter fraud organisation.

His answer is not out of context as the “fact checkers” insist. It is very precisely in context and a response to a specific question.

Question: “And, part two, for the folks who have already voted, the 50 million Americans who’ve already voted, what can they do over the last 10 days to help make sure that you’re the next president of the United States?”

Answer: “Secondly we are in a situation where we have put together — and you guys did it for president Obama’s administration before this — we have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”

Biden made himself perfectly clear. Now the secret is in the open they are required to lie about the truth about the fraud. 'They' is everyone in this cohort who feeds from the same trough: the same sources of funding and income (largely subsidy, from government and tax-exempt foundations) and the same information (ditto).

Such uniformity and group think is not just disingenuous but dangerous yet they cling to it all the more tightly. This is a class defending its class interest — in the pages of The Guardian, the NYT, the socialist press and union affiliated press. They are the retainers, whether they know it or not, of the oligarchic kleptocracy.

Oh, for the rough and tumble of the politics of yesteryear, when you might have found someone to argue with, followed by a beer.

Despite the ribbons and badges on their lapels, this is a class that looks up, to juicy sinecures, not down to the proles. You will find those ribbon-causes are a source of well-paid employment -- funded by the aforementioned foundations, advertising their jobs in the same newspapers which they pay to place articles flattering the billionaire "philanthropists". How much incest can you take?

And so a quick scan of that press reveals a parallel universe in which the well-documented fraud in six key swing states, that simultaneously stopped counting with Donald Trump in the lead and reopened with Joe Biden coasting, simply never happened.

States in which Zuckerberg-Chan targeted $400 million of patent election interference, where testimony-under-oath and even CCTV provides evidence of the carting and unboxing of hundreds of thousands of ballots, resulting in the statistical impossibility of Joe Biden dramatically outperformed the rest of his party, while losing 18 of 19 bell weather counties and winning more votes than Barack Obama — all the while barely leaving his basement.

TOTAL DISINFORMATION AWARENESS

Fact check any one of those statements and you'll be assured it was otherwise. This is the corollary of Total Information Awareness, the 2003 programme to gather and store the personal information of everyone in the United States. The corporatist-intelligence-tech-media machine has Total control of the Information of which everyone is Aware.

As former Director of Central Intelligence William Casey stated in the presence of Barbara Honegger: "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."

This is no longer an intelligence critter's pipe dream. It is legally enforceable through the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 that allows U.S. intelligence agencies to brainwash the citizenry. With this act, Barack Obama's administration ended the restrictions on subjecting the domestic American population to the kind of propaganda that had been used through the Cold War to shape our view of defeated enemies, to characterize the communists and the fascists, and to disguise the purpose and aims of U.S. hegemony.

In short, the Color Revolution and the Fusion Doctrine have come home, just as Douglas Valentine forecast in his books on the Phoenix Program in Vietnam. National security is a fig leaf and really means State Security, in the terms that the Tudors would have understood.

"It's a class issue. The CIA has not been running around the world trying to improve the lives of poor people, to raise their standard of living, even though they say they’re out there trying to bring freedom and democracy to the world. They’re just as likely to back a Pinochet, a despot, as they are to fight a Communist." So said Valentine in an interview with Suzan Mazur.

The U.S. is about to get its Pinochet or perhaps something closer to the Greek Colonels but at the helm of the still-mighty United States. And it is being brought to you by a coalition of the willing — who constitute exactly the people who have been shrieking for four years about "literal Hitler".

VIRTUAL REALITY

The Corporatist Media has still not told us what spectre Trump is supposed to represent. Is it Ayn Rand's titans bestriding capitalism? Is it brown-shirted brawlers? Or is fascism truly fronted by a property developer with close ties to Chabad-Lubavitch?

Credit: CC0 (public domain)

Flinging around the F-word, they failed conspicuously to define it. Not by accident in my view, the Corporatist Media ignored the fact that Fascism is defined by Corporatism. Since 2016 when Media Matters flooded the Internet's chat rooms as Hillary Clinton was running for president, fascism has become a shorthand for an uncouth populist with whom we don't identify.

Weren't they insulting the memory of those who died in the fight against fascism by using it as a cheap epithet, the devalued currency of political caterwauling? They admitted to demeaning the F-word but said it didn't matter in the short-term battle to oust Trump.

Four years later we stare real fascism in the face. As Glenn Greenwald wrote (Dec 28, 2020): The Threat of Authoritarianism In The U.S. Is Very Real -- And Has Nothing To Do With Trump.

Locked in a reflexive knee jerk, the liberal left is unable to make the transition from cartoon fascism to the real thing. Like Socrates' shadows on the wall the Corporatist media creates a false reality while the people accept ever more chains.

Socrates' allegory of the cave is becoming ever more relevant: along with the physical chains come electronic ones. The priests of big tech are dangling the prospect of virtual reality headsets. Only just out of reach for the masses, this future will soon offer everyone the illusion of life at two or more removes.

WALKING WITHOUT ANIMALS

Combined with the depopulation agenda, the smart cities programme and the push for so-called renewable energy, huge swathes of the real world will become nature reserves, reserved for the pleasure of an elite. Socrates' higher levels of reality will include the actual world, the one children once learned about with St Francis of Assisi.

Regardless of your faith or lack of it, the words of his prayer speak a truth. We are fools if we allow someone else to delimit what is ours to enjoy. We are doubly foolish if we allow those same people to tell us what is real. And we are lost if we are complicit in a plan to tell us that humans and animals inhabit separate parts of the same Earth.

"The animals of God's creation inhabit the skies, the earth and the sea and have a part in human life. We, therefore, invoke God's blessing on these animals: over all the creatures of the earth."

That life is about to be stolen from us by an oligarchical collectivism in which surveillance is largely conducted by corporations on behalf of the state. In which military and tech oligarchs give up any sense of personal responsibility in return for unlimited government contracts and subsidies; in which governments are happy to let corporations evade tax, practice monopoly and abandon any semblance of the rule of law, so long as the military and tech oligarchs do their dirty work for them.

The logic goes like this: it's not fascism if it's Google and Facebook doing the surveillance; it's not a military regime if police and military contractors are privatised; and we can get away with compulsion and intrusion that Hitler could only have dreamed of, so long as get consumer's agreement, buried deep down in the terms of service.

When privacy disappears the people become no more than numbers.
When a person is simply a digit, he is a resource, a raw material.
Once humans are capital, humanity is fungible.
Humanity can be offset like a carbon trade.
That is to be bought and sold.
It is slavery.

LOVING YOUR INNER FASCIST

The Washington Post (owned by cloud provider to state security, Amazon's Jeffrey Jorgensen-Gise aka Bezos) deliberately misrepresents fascism, providing cover for the Corporatist State. In its Aug 2020 article: How fascist is President Trump? There’s still a formula for that. Not that much, at least compared to the 20th century’s leading fascists, John McNeill, professor of history at Georgetown University pays his dues.

The mindset displayed in this article is worth exploring at length because the majority are heading blindly into an authoritarian society. We should understand why.

Excerpt:

“A few weeks before his election, Trump earned 59 percent of possible Benitos, which made him “the most dangerous threat to pluralist democracy in this country in more than a century”. Four years later, we can assess how fascist Trump has been in power.
Hyper-nationalism. 2016: 2; 2020: 2
Militarism. 2016: 2; 2020: 3
Glorification of violence: 2016: 1; 2020: 2
Fetishization of youth: 2016: 0; 2020: 0
Fetishization of masculinity: 2016: 4; 2020: 3
Leader cult — Trump never tires of posing as the decisive man of action. 2016: 4; 2020: 4
Lost-golden-age syndrome — Obsessed with a politics of nostalgia, he even signals sympathy for those whose mourned-for golden age is the Confederacy. 2016: 4; 2020: 4
Self-definition by opposition — Fascists had no difficulty explaining what they were against: socialism, labor unions, democracy, traditional elites, foreigners — particularly those judged racial inferiors. 2016: 3; 2020: 4
Mass mobilization and mass party — Mussolini and Hitler built their own parties that enjoyed considerable popularity. Trump has with remarkable success suborned the Republican Party, making it his own. But he has shrunk it in the process, losing seats in Congress. 2016: 2; 2020: 1
Don’t compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. It belittles Hitler.
Hierarchical party structure and tendency to purge the disloyal — He has done his best to eliminate from positions of authority anyone but fawning supporters. His purges obviously lack the murderous violence of Hitler’s Night of the Long Knives, but they may prove no less effective in quashing dissent in the GOP. 2016: 1; 2020: 3
Theatricality — Trump works hard for dramatic moments, even risking coronavirus infections among his supporters to stage events in Tulsa and at Mount Rushmore. 2016: 3; 2020: 3
How does Trump stack up against fictional dictators? Pretty well, actually.
Those 11 attributes characterized fascist movements on the rise. Fascism in power demonstrated several additional features. They are not unique to fascism, but they are important characteristics of fascist rule.
Chaotic administration — Mussolini and Hitler pretended to run tight ships, but their governance was shambolic and improvisational. Trump’s administration shares this feature. Its handling of the coronavirus pandemic is a showpiece of inconsistency, mixed messages and internal conflict that is responsible for the needless deaths of tens of thousands of Americans. Four Benitos.
Information and media policy — Fascists lied constantly. Trump has set records for presidential dishonesty and seems to regard information as true only when it helps him politically. But unlike Mussolini and Hitler, he has not closed down newspapers, TV channels or media platforms. He has not jailed journalists or arranged their murder. Two Benitos.
Consolidation of power — Trump started slowly and met considerable resistance. He still has not tamed the media, the military or the intelligence services, despite lavishing money on the Pentagon and appointing loyalists of dubious qualifications to high posts. But after 43 months, he has done far, far less than Hitler and a good deal less than Mussolini. Two Benitos — but if he is still in office next year, he’ll probably earn a third in a hurry.
Pecuniary and institutional corruption — Mussolini and Hitler tolerated gluttonous corruption among loyalists while restraining their own venality. Trump and his family use the power of the presidency to advance their business interests. He calls into question the legitimacy of elections unless he likes the results, and he seeks to undermine public faith in the electoral process, for example by claiming that voting by mail invites fraud. Three Benitos.
Economic policy — Fascists had no particular economic doctrine aside from preparing for war. They wanted to build autarkic economies that could withstand blockade and did not rely on foreign trade except for bilateral deals with weaker countries. They built up military industries through debt that they intended to repay by looting conquered lands. They quickly reached deals with big business, heavy industry especially, without which they could not build their arsenals. Trump, too, likes protectionism and has sacrificed the common interest to serve his business supporters. But, crucially, he has not geared the economy for war. One Benito.
Foreign policy — Trump doesn’t care (or understand) much about foreign policy aside from his eagerness to sign trade deals. He uses foreign affairs mainly for theatrical purposes, hoping for something to trumpet, as with his early efforts to intimidate, then court, North Korea. Like fascists, he hates international agreements and eagerly disrupts the status quo, but he does not seek war. Two Benitos.
Cultural policy — Trump invokes culture, heritage and history frequently, but he has no coherent cultural policy. He wants Confederate monuments to stay on their pedestals. He encourages, usually in dog-whistle fashion, racism as a cultural attitude. Two Benitos.
Racial policy — Trump has not enshrined racism in law. Nor has he enacted wide-ranging discriminatory policies. But he has tried to make immigration policy more racist, stoked White grievance. Racism is more central to Trump’s governance than it was to Mussolini’s early years, but much less so than it was to Hitler’s. Two Benitos.
So where does Trump’s administration stand as he is nominated for a second term? He earned 47 of a possible 76 Benitos, or 62 percent. He remains the greatest threat to American democracy since the Civil War, but his exercise of power only partly resembles that of real fascists. He still faces checks and balances in Washington. He hasn’t shut down rival parties or uncompliant media.”

Thus a political polemic poses as academic insight. Professor McNeill succeeds only in queering the definition of fascism, ignoring the elephant in the room which is the Corporatist State and fails by his own measure to identify any coherent authoritarian strategy on the part of Trump. It is patent nonsense but it provides a narrative for the class interest that I mentioned above. To believe a lie is itself a test of loyalty, as the Soviet dissident and later Israeli lawmaker Natan Sharansky said.

"I was loyal Soviet citizen until the age of 20. What it meant to be a loyal citizen was to say what you were supposed to say, to read what you were permitted to read, to vote the way you were told to vote and, at the same time, to know that it was all a lie."

The effort to remove a pantomime villain from office has just been used as justification for the wholesale subversion of democracy on a scale not seen since the Second World War. As Hitler was elected, we have to go back to China or even to the Bolshevik Revolution for the potential ramifications of a putsch on this scale.

On the Brink of a New Authoritarianism, 2021

2020-12-31T10:04:00.064+00:00

The vaulting ambition of big tech is likely to trigger a new leap in authoritarianism as it embeds itself within a reinvigorated neoliberal administration headed for the White House.

Glenn Greenwald, Dec 28, 2020: The Threat of Authoritarianism In The U.S. Is Very Real -- And Has Nothing To Do With Trump

In this trenchant analysis Greenwald shows how big tech has profited massively from Event Covid, while one in five small businesses has closed according to AP. Those who grab the spoils, he says, are not "the Randian victors of free market capitalism" but military and tech giants dependent on massive government contracts and subsidies which they extract through the arm-twisting of lobbyists and the bought and paid subservience of politicians.

This should anger capitalists more than socialists, says Greenwald. Unwilling, perhaps, to offend his liberal following, he stops short of noting that the left has been largely complicit by its silence. Socialist organizations have looked the other way as lockdown after lockdown has chipped away at fundamental rights. It is hard to escape the conclusion that much of the left likes what it thinks it sees in The Great Reset. After all, state corporatism benefits giants like Walmart, Amazon, Google and Facebook and turns them into state enterprises in function if not in ownership. So long as the left and the titans share the same dominant ideology, perhaps they can overlook private profit for now, in the interest of building a technocratic society.

These companies "overwhelmingly supported the Democratic Party candidate about to assume the presidency. Predictably, they are being rewarded with numerous key positions in his transition team and the same will ultimately be true of the new administration," writes Greenwald.

"The Biden/Harris administration clearly intends to do a great deal for Silicon Valley, and Silicon Valley is well-positioned to do a great deal for them in return, starting with their immense power over the flow of information and debate."

The dominant strain of U.S. neoliberalism is authoritarianism and it's back in the driving seat. It poses as the champion of radical humanitarianism while turning millions of people into temporary workers juggling multiple jobs. These progressive titans of big tech use artificial intelligence and algorithms to chip away at hourly wages. They earn billions from gig workers who have no union rights, no benefits, no stock options and no pension.

And now they propose to use the population as livestock for mass experimentation with only a fig leaf of consent. You won’t be forced to take an injectable. You just won’t be admitted back into society without one.

This oligarchy synthesizes politics and profit. Those who oppose its pursuit of ever-greater wealth and control of the government system become its political enemies. If you doubt that big tech has the political clout and the desire for vengeance, stop here and just read the quotes from Greenwald on this page.

The root of this vengeful desire needs further research. Suffice for now to note that big tech has demonstrated its willingness to cancel, silence and suppress, with open political partiality, those who express differing opinions. Whether this has its base in emotion, insecurity or greed is moot: big tech is in practice an exemplar of the idea that we do things not because they are right but because we can. Invention is not the child of necessity. Rather invention has the potential to be the whore of unbridled tyranny. As former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said:

“There is what I call the creepy line. The Google policy on a lot of things is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.”

Whatever your view of Donald Trump's presidency, it has exposed not only the reality of the Deep State but also how it functions. It is clear that Trump has been isolated by the bureaucracy, even within the White House itself. Outside, the Department of Justice and the FBI openly mocked and defied him.

It turns out the FBI has possessed Democratic Party volunteer Seth Rich's laptop since his murder just before the 2016 election. Thus the FBI knew that the leaking of emails from the Democratic National Committee was an inside job and had nothing to do with Russia. It knew that the pee pee dossier was fake even before former FBI boss Robert Mueller launched his two-year, $40-million-plus investigation of the Russiagate hoax. The FBI, the DoJ and the Internal Revenue Service have been investigating the Biden family's Byzantine financial affairs since 2018, yet "50 intelligence analysts" told the press in October 2020 it was all just Russian disinformation.

Big tech censored any mention of Hunter Biden's laptop and evidence of $100 millions in cash from Russia and China. Up to a quarter of Democratic voters say they would have voted differently if they'd known. And then there's the 2020 election, in which Mark Zuckerberg and spouse Priscilla Chan gave $400 million to install Dominion Voting Systems machines in swing states, with strings attached. This was politically-motivated funding that probably violated campaign finance rules.

Big Tech is above the law

This is not a surprise if you understand that the FBI is not a law enforcement agency. It is the U.S. political police and was set up as such by J Edgar Hoover who very much admired the Gestapo. The FBI's forebears were the Pinkertons, employed by the robber barons to rid their factories of trades unionists and Wobblies. The FBI has always been the muscle for big business, just as the Wall Street bankers and lawyers had their own boot boys, the OSS/CIA, to advance their commercial interests abroad.

State Security is run very much for private gain. One one level this is justified by the notion that "the chief business of the American people is business" (President Calvin Coolidge, 1925). The public gets to pay the bill but the three-letter agencies serve private vested interests that are very much for profit -- just not your profit, Mr Joe Public. Greenwald points out how this is even more relevant today.

The big tech titans are powerful precisely because surveillance capitalism has placed them in bed with State Security. Fully two-thirds of State Security is privatized and much of it is run by those same tech titans who run your social media account and deliver brown-box packages to your door.

By combining their forces, the state and big tech corporations can extract ever more data from the population. It profits the corporations to know each customer down to the minutest detail and the state will pay handsomely for the same information.

A virtuous circle from their perspective, the more intrusive the surveillance, the more they can say they are serving your needs and the less freedom of maneuver you have. Consider the Five Freedoms in the Bill of Rights: speech, religion, press, assembly, and the right to petition the government. The big tech proposition is 'trust us and you won't need them'. Or as the World Economic Forum puts it:

"Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better."

Allow big tech to meet your material and entertainment requirements and you won't have the time or the desire to worry about anything else. Bolt on transhumanism, hook up your brain to the computer and your freedom of speech becomes less important than exploring your inner mind.

Your body becomes a living experiment. Into what? Listen to Elon Musk and the transhumanists: they say if you're under 50, you'll live forever. The Covid injectables are a live experiment to use mRNA to manipulate DNA. This fits seamlessly into transhumanist thinking and published research.

Google your Five Freedoms and the results will highlight not those of humans but of animals. Don't be surprised. The Animal Welfare Act has regulated research since 1966. There is no comparable act for humans. Private research on humans is largely unregulated. So long as it is not receiving federal funding, big tech is free to use mobile and electronic devices to research health and cybernetics free of any controls.

Money, power and dreams of eternal life are all bound together in the transhumanist research sponsored by the big tech titans. This requires mass research upon a live population. The concepts discussed by The Reality Club, which promotes "The Third Culture" through its site Edge.org cannot advance without using the population as a mass data set.

With that much at stake they will brook no opposition. Fortunately for them, the corporations, bankers and lawyers long ago founded the intelligence agencies as the muscle to profit from control. The money of privately-controlled, tax-exempt foundations has bought influence and loyalty in academia, the media, big pharma, the judiciary and the two remaining arms of government bureaucracy. Big tech just takes it a step further. As Greenwald writes:

"They view those who oppose them and reject their pieties not as adversaries to be engaged but as enemies, domestic terrorists, bigots, extremists and violence-inciters to be fired, censored, and silenced."

This sounds like a witch hunt and big tech is leading it, exerting ever greater control over the diminished independence of the population. Working hand in glove with corporate media, and the intelligence community and Wall Street this forms a consortium with the power to dupe and gaslight the population for its own profit and power.

"All of these authoritarian powers will, ironically, be invoked and justified in the name of stopping authoritarianism — not from those who wield power but from the movement that was just removed from power. Those who spent four years shrieking to great profit about the dangers of lurking “fascism” will — without ealizing the irony — now use this merger of state and corporate power to consolidate their own authority, control the contours of permissible debate, and silence those who challenge them even further."

Wise and Foolish Builders

It remains to be seen how firm footed are these men (for they are almost entirely men) who would reshape the world and its creatures, great and small. Like all humans it seems that these transhumanists have in them a God-shaped hole. Before we get to that, let's leave aside their dreams and sketch out the practical ways in which their research is already being deployed.

In small corner of this huge field of research. In transhumanist thinking, the Five Freedoms are history. Even Maslow's hierarchy of needs (physiological, safety, belonging, esteem and self-actualization) are replaced because in this Great Reset your needs will be influenced from outside.

According to Psi-theory, developed by Dietrich Dörner at the University of Bamberg, needs have no inherent existence or definition. They are formed by manipulating the cognitive processes, emotions and motivation. This is the field of influence activities, whose current poster child is the UK's Behavioral Insights Team (BIT) which sets government policy be defining outcomes and then manipulating the population in order to obtain them.

The BIT and SAG/SPI-B are using Dörner’s five basic needs as central to the project surrounding Event Covid. These are existence preservation, species preservation, group affiliation and social interaction, certainty and predictability, competence to solve problems.

Gates & Epstein's Mad Scientists

You can see the influence activities target precisely these five perceived concerns. By working with Google, Facebook and Twitter psychologists can measure how people respond in real time. This is the programming of Artificial intelligence using humans as a live data set via the Internet.

Coincidentally (not) it was scientists in these specific fields of research that Jeffrey Epstein and his friend Bill Gates courted. They worked together, I’m sure. First of all, Gates was much richer than Epstein so why would he rely on a minnow to allocate funding in fields so close to Gates’ own heart. Secondly, now Epstein is offed, Gates has a direct line of control.

Forbes magazine has deleted the following article for “not meeting standards”. However it was published in 2013 and has been on the web for seven years, it’s strange they’ve only just decided it’s worth deleting.

Science Funder Jeffrey Epstein Launches Radical Emotional Software For The Gaming Industry, by Drew Hendricks, Oct 2013. Here it is on the Wayback Machine.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140208042826/http://www.forbes.com/sites/drewhendricks/2013/10/02/science-funder-jeffrey-epstein-launches-radical-emotional-software-for-the-gaming-industry/

Among Epstein’s key scientists are the leaders in what’s called transhumanism, blending people with machines, chasing dreams like eternal life, transplanting human brains into computers and vice versa and ultimately taking out religion and replacing it with science.

The top Gates-Epstein scientists include, according to NBC News, in July 2019:

Dr. George Church – renowned geneticist who holds professorships at Harvard, Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Key researcher into connectome, a comprehensive map of neural connections in the brain, and may be thought of as its “wiring diagram”.

Joi Ito – Japanese entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a former director of the MIT Media Lab

Reid Hoffman – founder of LinkedIn but also a funder of fact-checkers and combating fake news… interestingly LinkedIn could also be used to provide a legend and background to a sock puppet (hat tip Polly).

Martin Nowak – Professor of Mathematics and of Biology at Harvard University and Director of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.

Getting Inside Their Soul

To comprehend where this is going we shall have to get inside how they think. We'll have to give up a little of ourselves in 2021. We cannot use only our own way of thinking. In Satanic Transhumanism: The Future of Reason? Peter Clarke writes:

"In modern times, several prominent transhumanists have explicitly linked occult practices to their transhumanist goals. For example, Jack Parson, founder of America’s rocket program, was deeply involved in the occult religion Thelema. Parsons had a distinct vision for bringing about the next step in evolution for humanity. He described his vision in occultish terms, but his goals directly aligned with transhumanism."

And Jack Parsons links through his partners L Ron Hubbard and Frank Malina to the wife of Malina’s son, Roger, who is Christine Maxwell, sister of Ghislaine, daughters of once the biggest scientific publisher, Robert Maxwell, and thus to the funder and blackmailer of scientists, Jeffrey Epstein, associate of Bill Gates.

Shall we in 2021 sit back and say, ‘Oh, that’s just a coincidence,’ and ignore it. Or will we say, ‘That’s too much of a coincidence,’ wake up and try to understand what’s going down?

The architects of big tech have allied themselves to some ideas that to themselves give meaning to their activities but which to outsiders look mean and scary. Are they building their empires on rock, or like the foolish man on sand. We don't yet know and neither do they. In many ways their motives are mundane but the consequences are grotesque.

The most controversial aspect of Event Covid has been that science has played third fiddle to profit and the politics of medicine. To understand the delicate interplay of these vested interests, we must go back to the dystopian author, seer and active participant in MK-Ultra, Aldous Huxley:

“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”

Aldous Huxley in 1947 (public domain).

Time, Terror and Plain Bad Narratives

2020-12-28T16:35:00.026+00:00

What Time Is It In Lockdown?, asks Edward Curtin.

A fine choice of title. Time, as imposed on the worker, is George Woodcock's The Tyranny of the Clock (1944). Its hands are the perfect representation of order and direction and yet the clock face also resembles the dotted circumference of a coin that can be clipped to diminish value, to elide, stretch and appropriate the Lives of Others.

The clock should be the impartial witness yet it is in Switzerland, the home of squirreled, secreted, unearned and sometimes stolen or laundered wealth, that the obsession with timeliness reaches its apogee. The hands switch places like a card sharp, up becomes down; black, white; and the swivel-faced tool of fraud and deception.

Salvador Dali, Profile of Time (licenc e)

Our society uses time in a variety of ways to pattern behaviour, to warp our perceptions as much as Dali melted his clock in The Persistence of Memory (1931). Gabriel García Márquez illustrated similar with One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) in which the repetition of names and allusions to events acquire a hypnotic impetus of their own, constantly updating and overwriting memory.

Timing has the power to imbue events with meaning, as synchronicity, to propel the mind into action or to freeze it, convulsed or confused. Time as panic, shattered, haphazard: no longer steadying the pace but jarring the peace.

This is the variant of time that attempts to appropriate, to replace or make permanent a new normal like French Revolutionary Time: "not my time, this is my time". Or the spine-tingling tocsin of a new Pearl Harbor that will bring opportunity to the master of ceremonies in the shadows beside the stage. We should pay attention to the resonance of such time, not embrace it but beware.

No sooner Christmas than another elision of realities, a compression of consciousness, the reduction of possibilities: the tolling of a bell; the words "evacuate now"; again the ring of that sustained funeral note; again the relentless, triggering, androidic voice.

As a writer and imaginer, the symbolism jumped out at me, as it surely must for many readers and listeners. This is the twisted creativity of a struggling novelist à la Howard Hunt; the bent mind of a failed scriptwriter -- an idea springing half formed from the psychology of a sociopath that knows how to jangle the nerves but cannot perceive the counterpoint of joy that would make the movie whole. He is confined to writing the dark scenes as the tool of state terror. At least he gets the kick of seeing his drama worked upon real lives.

"That's when she heard the announcement from the RV turn from a warning to playing the 1964 hit Downtown by Petula Clark. Moments later the explosion hit."

“This is going to tie us together forever, for the rest of my life,” Officer James Wells, who suffered some hearing loss due to the explosion, told a news conference. “Christmas will never be the same.”

Did I mention a bad screenplay?

No wonder the mayor of Nashville was laughing.

The cover story is little better: yet another white male in late middle-age consumed in a ham-acted, arch demonstration of pointless rebellion. So far no manifesto, just a bunch of assumptions: "probably" a conspiracy theorist, "probably" suspicious of 5G, "probably" had some past history with AT&T.

What was inside the Nashville AT&T building? William Binney, whistleblower and former National Security Agency officer explains at 28:00 minutes into this video.

And then the dangler, that part of the cover story we are invited to indulge: like the Las Vegas "shooter" Stephen Paddock the protagonist of Nashville owned numerous homes and gave two to a female acquaintance. The very haziness of this part of the story allows the audience to project one's own character: a good person turned bad, a user and a loser, a gambler, a money launderer, a mysterious income or double life, a lonely man, lost and desperate, a last will and testament.

Predictably this soap opera is the part of the story that fills the column inches and the six o'clock news. They will not notice the disconnect: a man about to throw everything away may tie up loose ends but as to crafting a warning tape, with an oppositional, automated woman's voice punctuated by the toll of a funeral bell and finishing with an obscure pop song which alludes to the downtown location of the bomb attack (it's unlikely to be a reference to his lost youth as Anthony Quinn was aged seven at the song's debut in 1964)... is... stretching credulity.

So, bye-bye, Miss American, why?
Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry

One word makes the difference.

(After Don McLean)

Do you see how this badly-drawn man draws the attention away from what should be obvious questions even to the willfully oblivious:

The contents of those buildings
AT&T's building is said to be a bunker
AT&T as NSA contractor
AT&T as owner of CNN
The resulting network blackout
Including of airspace
The extent of internal damage
Outward versus inward force of blast
Other buildings damaged at same time
The role of narrative in this event
The motive of distraction

Back to the bell. Time shapes our lives through the patterning of events, never more than when the bell tolls. The metronome of humans killing humans. It is a trigger the invites response, whether action or dismay. During the eight years of the Obama administration, mass shooter and terror events were a regular and depressing occurrence in an era that promised "hope and change". With the exception of the Las Vegas shooting just as Trump came into office, somebody seems to have hit the pause button. Even if you disagree with me that some of these events are manipulated by the state as a pretext for gun control you must still account for the decline in frequency.

Did these lone wolf narratives increase because of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, which legalized the propagandizing of the population?

To those who purr that "the government wouldn't lie," this was the law that makes it legal for state bodies to lie to the people. It gives officials immunity if they misinform and deceive.

Caution is necessary as there is no agreed official definition for mass killings (since 1980, four deaths classify as "mass" under the FBI's definition). Common sense suggests a mass killing involves a crime scene that looks like mass deaths.

Terrorist spectaculars have become common in Europe, with fewer casualties offset by gruesome staging. There is rarely a spectacular totally devoid of death. Generally the protagonist dies, leaving the narrative, unchallenged as the state's exclusive franchise. Before you criticize my line there are plenty of examples where terrorists by the knife are executed rather than arrested.

Surely the definition of a terrorist implies the intention of some degree of political success and thus a network of survivors. Keeping the perpetrator alive would seem to be a priority and the best guarantee of preventing a repetition. Yet it is the norm today to execute perpetrators of terror on sight. The excuse being the threat of suicide bombers. Strangely the terrorists nowadays provoke their own annihilation by wearing fake explosive belts and vests.

Why fake? Ask yourself the logic. If you intend to go out with a blast, why wear a fake vest which you know will be used as justification to shoot you sooner rather than later? And yet... the fake vest has become a meme.

This is narrative: a lone wolf, self-radicalized, thus no need to look for a broader network. Sporting the fashion for fake suicide vests, thus inviting his own immediate annihilation and the justification for executing the perpetrator on the spot and avoiding a trial that would provide the terrorist with a platform for his cause.

Doesn't really stand to reason, does it?

The Carnegie Institution asked itself in 1908 "Is there any means known more effective than war, assuming you wish to alter the life of an entire people? And they conclude that, no more effective means to that end is known to humanity, than war. So then, in 1909, they raise the second question, and discuss it, namely, how do we involve the United States in a war?" (“Transcript of Norman Dodd Interview” by G. Edward Griffin, 1982).

So this is Covid
And what have you done
Another year over
A new one just begun

And so this is Covid
For weak and for strong
The rich and the poor ones
The war is so long

(After John Lennon.)

Clearly we have the classic definition of the goose step, a balanced stepping, slow march, one Prussian patent leather boot piercing you in the arse, identifying anyone in the domestic population as a terrorist and thus an enemy of the state.

And central to it all, the narrative. Most of all it brings back the tick-tock of the clock in the crocodile's stomach... the sound of approaching doom.

We draw some hope. Peter Pan was "liberated" from his family but he did ultimately cut off the hand of the pirate and would-be child abductor Captain Hook. And the child, representing the eternal dreams of us all, set the relentless approach of doom upon the pirate who would enslave him.

Death of a Vaccine Scientist

2020-12-24T09:33:00.020+00:00

Update on the death of geneticist and molecular and cellular biologist Alexander Kagansky, 45, in St Petersburg in December 2020.

He was a former employee of the Wellcome Trust in Scotland and was also connected with the Maryland-based National Cancer Institute. The Nevskie Novosti publication reports that in recent months Kagansky had also worked in Edinburgh on a vaccine against coronavirus infection. Izvestia suggested this research was in the UK.

Alexander Kagansky (YouTube)

He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology in 2004 after spending three years at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. In 1998 he got his MS in Biophysics from from St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University in Russia.

mRNA INJECTABLES

Kagansky was a pioneer in synthetic epigenetics. This is the study of heritable phenotype changes that do not involve alterations in the DNA sequence. He had published papers on the manipulation of mRNA.

Note mRNA type injectables are being rolled out across the world. These do not work like conventional vaccines. Indeed, the six or so "vaccine candidates" seem to have been forgotten by governments to be replaced by an exclusive focus on mRNA injectables.

The Gates-lobby group GAVI says mRNA cannot alter DNA as it "will only hang around inside a cell for about 72 hours, before being degraded." GAVI further adds, "Some viruses like HIV can integrate their genetic material into the DNA of their hosts, but this isn’t true of all viruses, and HIV can only do so with the help of specialised enzymes that it carries with it. MRNA vaccines don’t carry these enzymes."

In Australia the University of Queensland and CSL COVID injectables trial was abandoned after some volunteers "falsely tested positive for HIV," which officials feared would undermine trust in the vaccine, the NYT reported. "The HIV protein fragment posed no risk to human health, but could interfere with HIV screening tests," wrote Live Science.

The late scientist would have been a leading expert on precisely this aspect of mRNA injectables (see his research below).

DEATH & MOTIVE

Of course, Kagansky may have stabbed himself and jumped out of a 14th-floor window.

On the other hand he was a rising star and would not be the first person to be killed as a result of business rivalry or jealousy and it could be wholly unrelated to his vaccine or mRNA research.

The Daily Mail points the finger at the Russian government but given the high-stakes competition within Big Pharma, it stands to reason that a rival, non-Russian competitor could also have an interest in silencing or disrupting Russian scientists.

If we imagine, for a moment, that his death is related to his work, one point comes to light. The 46-year-old was most recently working in the Far East of Russia, in Vladivostok… harder for a Western agent to penetrate and far easier for the Russian authorities to control. Yet he was killed while visiting a friend in St Petersburg which is easily reached across the Finnish border. Kagansky headed the Center for Genomic and Regenerative Medicine at the Far Eastern Federal University. While there he continued research collaboration with Edinburgh University.

The Fontanka.ru news website reported that he had been visiting an old schoolmate for a birthday party on the day of his death. The friend denied that he had stabbed Kagansky and claimed that the scientist had wounded himself, thought he paper did not name the source of that information.

According to this account, the friend said they woke up in the morning after a party and the friend went to prepare a brunch. Kagansky went to the bathroom, grabbed a knife, stabbed himself and jumped from the 14th floor.

Izvestia interviewed a mutual friend who suggested Kagansky had suffered stress in recent months. The following could equally suggest that he was facing external rather than internal pressure: "he became nervous, easily fell into depression, talked about imminent death. The acquaintances of the deceased note that the scientist had an exhausting schedule, he worked a lot and traveled around the country and abroad."

The friend at whose flat he stayed is, according to Russian news outlets, a media manager or journalist named Igor Ivanov. Reminiscent of Ivan Ivanov, which Russophiles will know is the equivalent of John Doe.

It did not take long for joint efforts in the face of Covid's "existential threat to humanity" to break down into familiar, humdrum, geopolitical rivalry. In July 2020, the BBC reported, Russian spies target Covid-19 vaccine research -- the usual evidence-free allegations of hacking but a consensus of Western intelligence services (95% certain) and a denial from the Russian presidential spokesman.

Then in September, The Guardian alleged, Russia is spreading lies about Covid vaccines, says UK military chief, alongside a clichéd and unflattering image of an urgent and constipated-looking military chief.

We are not privy to whether the data dumps actually happened, whether the threat materialized -- or if Western military intelligence took any action against any individual to pre-empt such a threat.

EXPERTISE

Kagansky worked in Scotland between 2005 and 2012 (or for 13 years until 2017 by some accounts), including as a Chancellor's fellow at the Edinburgh-based Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, which "discovers how changes in our DNA impact our lives."

On the University of Edinburgh web site, Kagansky listed his research activities:

My research in a nutshell: One of the most fundamental problems in modern biology is to determine mechanisms that underlie changes in genome regulation at the level of chromatin structure, as it defines gene expression and chromosome function and is linked to cancer, differentiation, ageing, and brain function. To address that, we must understand what changes occur upon the transformation between active and repressed chromatin states. Our goal is to understand the molecular mechanisms and role of such transitions in mammalian cells. To achieve this, we induce targeted chromatin changes using locus-specific targeting of chromatin modifiers. We also develop new chemical approaches to changing the chromatin structure.

Chromatin is a substance within a chromosome consisting of DNA and protein. The DNA carries the cell's genetic instructions.

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small, endogenous RNAs of 21–25 nucleotides (nts) in length. They play an important regulatory role in animals and plants by targeting specific mRNAs for degradation or translation repression.

In 2009 he published a paper on MicroRNAs: "Recent studies from transcription, pre-mRNA splicing, and miRNA-processing perspectives have investigated these relationships and yielded interesting, yet somewhat controversial findings. Here we discuss major studies in the field."

This paper is well worth reading: it shows just how experimental mRNA work remains.

Kagansky was also joint author of a paper that looks at the commercialization of nature under the guise of protecting biodiversity. Towards policies that capture the expected value of biomolecular diversity for drug discovery, human health, and well-being -- Biologia Futura, Sep 2020.

Given the potential for overexploitation and the unknown amount of compounds lost, this scenario of biodiversity—a focus on drugs lost from species extinction—is largely unexplored.

Several action teams have been recently established, including the Commission on Planetary Health by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Rockefeller Foundation (Planetary Health commission), Digital Forest (started in Brazil to evaluate genomic and metabolomic diversity in the Amazon), and the Biodiversity for Survival via Biomedicine (Bio2Bio) consortium put forward by the Global Young Academy.

The objectives include:

Create open interdisciplinary international dialogue among conservation and molecular scientists, physicians, patients, policy-makers, and commercial bodies in the areas of medicine, health, and well-being.
Establish best practices, including ethical and legal considerations, for sustainable natural product exploration, collection, production, storage, preparation, and purification of compounds.
Standardize high capacity bio-molecular and cell-based assays to test natural products against cell-based disease models.
Implement best practices in sustainable commercialization of natural products, considering the balance of ecosystem, community, and commercial interests.
Promote equitable sharing of benefits obtained from drug discoveries among stakeholders and the sustainability of natural products and the systems to which they are integral.

To be continued.

Russiagate Hoax Was Cover for Clinton, Biden and Obama

2020-12-19T16:20:00.030+00:00

New information suggests Russiagate was concocted to protect Obama, the Clintons and the Bidens. It is now revealed that the FBI not only knew Hillary Clinton was using a private server for her emails as U.S. Secretary of State but also that they'd been penetrated and that her emails were in the possession of foreign intelligence. In order to cover that up the FBI lied and perpetrated the Russiagate hoax.

Many people still argue that the FBI could not have been protecting Hillary Clinton because it had tried to damage her chances in the 2016 presidential election. After all, then FBI director James Comey announced in Oct 2016, less than two weeks before polling, that he was reopening the investigation into her use of a private email server while she was Secretary of State.

Look closely, however, and Comey said only that Clinton had been careless, much less serious than reckless endangerment of national security. The FBI investigation went nowhere. It was effectively designed to excuse her. So while he caused Hillary some embarrassment, the polls insisted she was far in the lead and the damage was minor compared with what was not revealed.

What were they covering up? They had proof that foreign countries had been reading Hillary's emails. What was in those emails? The Uranium One scandal.

The FBI was worried that foreign countries might leak those emails. So it prepared a cover story. It decided to run a psychological operation against the American public, framing a sitting U.S. president. It created a ruse so that if foreign countries were to release Hillary's emails, the FBI could accuse Donald Trump of orchestrating the leak in collusion with a foreign power and say they were... (yes, you guessed it)... "Russian disinformation".

The scandal of Uranium One was well known at the time that Hillary Clinton was running for the U.S. presidency in 2016. Even the New York Times had written extensively about how "Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Company." It is a testament to how much the intelligence agencies control the press, that such an article would almost certainly not be written today.

"At the heart of the tale are several men, leaders of the Canadian mining industry, who have been major donors to the charitable endeavors of former President Bill Clinton and his family. Members of that group built, financed and eventually sold off to the Russians a company that would become known as Uranium One.
Beyond mines in Kazakhstan that are among the most lucrative in the world, the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States. Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million… Other people with ties to the company made donations as well."

It is 2020, and a remarkable presidential election has just taken place, amid censorship on a scale that once was expected of the Soviet Union but is not part of daily life in post Smith-Mundt Modernization Act (2012) America.

Now, with the election still contested but almost certainly past, some of those agencies that suppressed information, have seen fit to let it drip out. The FBI has admitted it's had Seth Rich's laptop all along. Hunter Biden has admitted the DoJ has been investigating his money laundering since 2018. And now, it's come out that the FBI knew Hillary was using a private server server and that foreign countries had her emails.

Instead of addressing that issue, the FBI decided to run a psychological operation against the American public, framing a sitting U.S. president. It created a cover story so that if foreign countries were to release Hillary's emails, the FBI could accuse Donald Trump of orchestrating the leak in collusion with a foreign power.

FOREIGN STATES HAD HILLARY'S EMAILS - FBI ADMITS

You had to be on Hillary's contact list to get through.
So Obama knew he was emailing Hillary on a personal server, while she was abroad.
Thus Obama knew he, Hillary and Biden were compromised.
The FBI also knew that foreign intelligence services had those emails.

FBI LAUNCHES COVER UP
Part One - a year long investigation into her use of a private server, called “Midyear Exam,” designed to excuse her.

And in case a foreign government might release those emails...

Part Two - a fake investigation to suggest Trump was in league with the Russians, who leaked the emails on his behalf, called "Crossfire Hurricane."

WHAT'S IN THOSE EMAILS?
Those emails that so worried the FBI, it came up with a 4-year Russiagate hoax to blame on Trump?

Uranium One

Uranium, ₉₂U United States Department of Energy

NEW INFO ON FBI LIES

They make up a story about Carter Page falsely alleging Page would get shares in Uranium One – the very company whose sale the Clintons negotiated.
The new information is – Carter Page is on tape denying that had ever had meetings about Uranium One – and the FBI's Strzok knew the allegations against Page were fake before they even got a FISA ruling.
The FBI went to court, swore the dossier was true when they knew it was fake, and lied because otherwise the story would come out exposing Obama, Clinton, Biden and the sale of the U.S.' nuclear fuel.

THE BIDEN CONNECTION

In a related transaction, CEFC paid out compensation after it failed to buy a stake in Rosneft (which was also trying to buy Uranium One). Chinese firm CEFC is the same firm mentioned in Hunter Biden's emails. He was trying to arrange keys for his father, Joe, to an office shared with the CEO of CEFC.

Rosneft was also trying to buy uranium from Kazakhstan... it turns out that Joe Biden met with Kazakh representatives in photographs obtained by a Kazakh anticorruption web site.

SELLING OUT USA

So they're all up to their necks in uranium.... Hillary, Joe, Hunter... all had financial ties to Chinese, Russian and Kazakh governments who were all competing to buy nuclear fuel.

It's the kind of scandal that might bring down the Democratic Party for a generation. So they need a counter narrative in case it gets out... and that narrative is to blame it all on Donald Trump.

Hillary paid Christopher Steele (and Mi6) to invent a fake Dossier in which the CEO of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, would have an imaginary meeting with Carter Page...
One ludicrous error in Steele's invented story, Page was offered up to 19% of Rosneft, Russia's biggest oil company with a market capitalization of $58 billion. Steele suggests Russia was going to give a barely-known American a stake worth $12 billion? Christopher Steele is a financial illiterate.

WHO GOT THE MONEY?
The NYT even admitted money flowed to Clinton back in 2015 before they knew this would become an political hot potato (see link below).

Dan Bongino distilled this information in his usual succinct, yet passionate way:

"Hillary Clinton and her foundation benefited handsomely from this Uranium One deal. Hunter Biden was soliciting up to $10 million form the Chinese company involved with the Russian company in the Uranium One deal. This is the biggest scandal of our time. This makes Watergate look like an episode of Telebubbies.

People at the highest levels of government were fattening their wallets, abusing their power to sell the U.S.' nuclear fuel to nuclear-powered enemies and everybody was on the take.

When the FBI saw those emails they panicked. They panicked because they thought if Trump won the presidency this would come out. So in an effort to stop it they flip the script and fabricate a dossier that implicated the same Russian company involved in Uranium One with the Trump team.

They made up the collusion hoax to give the media something to chew while they let this thing drip so it didn't all come out at one time. It's the saddest thing I've ever seen. We've all been played for suckers."

It turns out you were prompted to demonize Donald Trump for one very simple reason: some corrupt politicians were very frightened their own criminality was about to be exposed.

So they created a hoax and spent $42 million of taxpayers' money so that Robert Mueller could investigate a pee pee dossier that he knew to be fake. Someone whipped up the media into a four-year frenzy of lies, fake news and insinuations to create public support for that hoax. None of this happened by accident. It was all coordinated for a specific purpose.

New Strzok text messages show FBI warned key allegation in FISA might be false, by John Solomon, Dec 2020

Russia Collusion Wasn’t About Donald Trump, It Was Designed to Protect Hillary Clinton, by Lee Smith, Dec 2020

Hillary Clinton's Russia collusion narrative – here's what new revelations mean, by Andrew McCarthy, Oct 2020

Photo shows Joe Biden meeting Hunter’s alleged business partner from Kazakhstan - NY Post, Oct 2020

China's CEFC paid out compensation after Rosneft stake deal fell through - Reuters, Nov 2018

Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal - NYT, Apr 2015

Don't Mention The Soros

2020-12-17T08:28:00.019+00:00

U.S. news reporters have an unspoken rule - DON'T MENTION THE SOROS - so it was refreshing to hear the unmentionable getting an airing. Just for the sake of it.

I have no declaration of interest: I've never taken a university course funded by the Open Society Foundation though I know many people who have. If you work in and around Eastern Europe the foundation is omnipresent. Economists, technocrats, aspiring politicians and academics rising up the institutional food chain often will have embarked on an academic exchange or fellowship programme financed by Soros' flagship charity.

Many people identify with the values that Soros espouses and don't understand why anyone should raise objections to the man or his methods. It is, however, the methods that are examined here and the conflicts of interest that lie not far below the surface. Anyone who looks objectively at the tax-exempt foundations that bestride the world (and they do) will spot the alignment of philanthropic and profit-seeking ventures of finance capital.

Only in the pages of the Corporatist Media do philanthropists get a clean pass, their virtue unquestioned, their conflicts of interest unexamined. This is hardly surprising. As the press loses readers and subscribers it increasingly turns to precisely these deep-pocketed men and women for sponsorship and paid-for advertorial to keep newspapers afloat. Television is already going the same way. The biggest individual funder of the media is Bill Gates. He is repaid with nothing but praise. By mid-2020, television presenters were seen to silence their colleagues if one of them criticized George Soros.

This is not as it should be. Nobody's actions are above criticism. In the long term it will not help Gates or Soros, the media or the people if journalists censor themselves, piling lies of omission one upon another. This is a world in which State Security is legally allowed to flood the media with propaganda. One in which public opinion is manipulated by behavioral influencers. Soon no-one will know what anyone thinks and opinion polls, like elections, will be managed, from input to outcome.

The driving force in the revelations recounted here is the investigative journalist John Solomon in The Hill. Recently Tucker Carlson used his spot on Fox News to draw together and update the threads that show how George Soros exerts undeniable foreign influence upon the U.S. political system -- or, if you must say it ain't so, an uncanny ability to produce coincidence after coincidence.

It should be added, lest anyone cast accusations of 'going after an old man' that the Soros foundation activities are a family affair and now are run largely by George's son Alexander.

ELECTIONS SHINE SPOTLIGHT ON SOROS

After the election shenanigans state officials have been clearly reluctant to let investigators probe what happened between the night of November 3rd when vote counting in the general election was suspended -- and the following morning, when President Trump's lead had vanished.

Could the reluctance of local officials have anything to do with the public campaign by Team Soros to install its own people in key positions, allowing them to influence the outcome?

It turns out that there is an activist campaign called The Secretary of State Project, also known as the SoS Project, launched in July 2006 for the express purpose of advancing "election protection" measures.

There is a much-reported, parallel campaign to finance candidates for local district attorney. In both cases -- secretaries of state and district attorneys -- huge sums have been injected into what were traditionally low-key elections.

What makes these positions important is their ability to deliver control of the local courts and the local electoral process. We have already seen that political thugs have largely gotten away with violence and intimidation, while individuals who took a stance to protect their home or business have been prosecuted.

Soros pictured in Munich, 2011, by Harald Dettenborn

DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS GET THE SOROS SHINE

Investigations of voting machines used in Michigan have revealed they were pre-programmed to reject large numbers of ballots -- more than 68% -- sending them for adjudication by unknown election officials (the documents that would reveal 'who' were destroyed, leaving no audit trail).

Dominion Voting Systems itself is linked to George Soros, thorough chairman Mark Moloch-Brown, a British intelligence asset and wheeler-dealer, who sits on the board of Soros' Open Society Foundation. Dominion's Canadian HQ shares an office in Toronto will numerous Soros-funded pressure groups and lobbyists.

The Election shenanigans are plain to see if you don't willfully close your eyes and they appear to be illegal, in that money was donated with clearly partisan political objectives.

ZUCKERBERG-CHAN RATTLE THE CAN

For example, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook provided a full service to the Democratic Party, from fact checkers and a partisan feed of “trending” news stories — to the emotional measurement and calibration of Facebook users — but that’s not all.

Zuckerberg and Chinese-American spouse Priscilla Chan made sure that swing states used the Dominion machines, providing funding if they could not afford them. They also prepared polling stations and counting centres for the unprecedented switch to mail-in ballots, including the poll workers who would count them.

When Dominion Voting Systems approached Michigan to offer its machines at $7,500 a piece, state election officials said they could not afford them. Zuckerberg stepped in and paid for them, in return for an additional contract ensuring they would be used in specific ways.

In total Chan and Zuckerberg spent $400 million to pay election workers, train poll workers and rent polling locations for the Nov. 3 vote in key swing states such as Michigan and Pennsylvania.

SOROS' INFLUENCE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC

George Soros has not only interfered in U.S. domestic politics but also in U.S. foreign affairs. John Solomon's research has shown how Soros has used U.S.-funded NGOs to protect his business interests and go after rivals.

In summary, Soros has achieved the following goals:

Flood the streets with political activists
Influence the local court system
Influence the elections
Halt DoJ investigations of his own business
Prompt DoJ investigations of business rivals
Selectively prosecute Paul Manafort
Worked with CIA "whistleblower" behind the Trump impeachment

He could not have perpetrated such foreign interference unless law enforcement, the judiciary and above all intelligence services looked the other way. It turns out, however that the institutions charged with protecting national interests did more than turn their back on their country. They actively colluded with Soros in his financial and political schemes, regardless of the threat they posed to the interests of the United States, and with a blatantly partisan regard to who should be considered a friend or an enemy, foreign or domestic.

CIA, FBI, DoJ COLLUSION WITH GEORGE SOROS

We now have evidence that the CIA worked for four years to evict a sitting president, with the direct involvement of its opposite number, Britain's Mi6 and its hapless operative Christopher "pee pee" Steele. Robert Hannigan, former head of G.C.H.Q., colluded with former CIA director John Brennan to create the false appearance that Trump's team had been in communication "with Moscow".

We also have evidence that the FBI and DoJ pursued cases against Trump and associates that both organisations knew to be fake, false and unprovable. At the same time, the FBI sat on cases and witheld evidence in the murder of Seth Rich, the Hillary Clinton server affair and the money laundering of Hunter and James Biden.

The CIA also failed to protect national security or former VP Joe Biden from compromise by China, just as the CIA and FBI failed to act when congressman Eric Swalwell was leading the impeachment charge against President Trump while sleeping with a Chinese spy.

Polls show that many Democrats regret voting for Joe Biden and would not have done so if they had read of his son's collusion with China. The media kept the public in the dark. The CIA appears to control the news media which has unanimously failed to report any of the above and maintains a uniform silence on the issue of Soros. In 2012 the Obama administration amended the Smith-Mundt act to make legal propaganda by the CIA and U.S. agencies against the domestic population. This act by Team Obama is directly responsible for the Corporatist Media marching as one, displaying a remarkable propensity to censor the same stories and report identical news, on the same day and often in exactly the same words.

LINKS
Sources And References On George Soros' Campaign To Buy Influence At State Level In The U.S.

Additional Information On Soros' Manipulation Of The FBI And DoJ To Shield Himself From Investigation While Targeting Rivals

Further News Items On Soros' Links To The Manafort Prosecution And Trump Impeachment

Ballotpedia - Secretary of State Project

GEORGE SOROS PAYS TO ELECT COMPLIANT STATE OFFICIALS
AT DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND STATE SECRETARY LEVEL

Ensures easy ride for Antifa in court
Ensures election officials are Soros friendly

The Secretary of State Project, also known as the SoS Project, was an independent 527 political organization founded in July 2006 for the purpose of advancing "election protection" measures. Members believed that the only way in which to accomplish such a goal was to devote all efforts and resources toward helping get Democrats elected to the offices of Secretary of State in selected swing, or battleground, states, specifically those whose margin of victory in the 2004 presidential election contest was 120,000 votes or less.

The Secretary of State Project originated due to the culmination of frustration, anger, bitterness and overall resentment Democrats felt towards Republicans in the wake of President George W. Bush’s re-election in 2004. Still plagued with memories of Katherine Harris and Florida from the 2000 presidential contest, Democrats placed the blame for Senator John Kerry’s loss squarely on the head of former Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, who ruled that provisional ballots in the state would not be counted if they were submitted in the wrong precinct, a decision upheld by the United States Court of Appeals. Bush’s victory in the state – a relatively slim 118,000+ votes – gave him the necessary electoral votes (twenty) to cross the victory threshold of two hundred and seventy.

Donations
A number of Democracy Alliance Partners contributed to the SoS Project, including Gail Furman ($20,000), Daniel Berger ($10,000), George Soros ($10,000), Susie T. Buell ($5,000), Drummond Pike ($5,000) and Ashindi Maxton ($300).

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John Solomon in The Hill, Mar 2019 - US Embassy pressed Ukraine to drop probe of George Soros group during 2016 election

US EMBASSY TELLS UKRAINE NOT TO PROSECUTE SOROS

AMBASSADOR'S AIDES ISSUE 'DO NOT TOUCH' LIST

Lutsenko told me he was stunned when the ambassador “gave me a list of people whom we should not prosecute.” The list included a founder of the AntAC group and two members of Parliament who vocally supported the group’s anti-corruption reform agenda, according to a source directly familiar with the meeting.

It turns out the group that Ukrainian law enforcement was probing was co-funded by the Obama administration and liberal mega-donor George Soros. And it was collaborating with the FBI agents investigating then-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort’s business activities with pro-Russian figures in Ukraine.

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SOROS ASKS US GOV TO PROSECUTE HIS BUSINESS RIVALS
OPEN SOCIETY MEMO SHOWS LIST OF SOROS TARGETS

Ukraine: Behind the scenes advice and support to Ukrainian partner Anti-Corruption Action Centre’s efforts to generate corruption litigation in Europe and the U.S. respecting state assets stolen by senior Ukrainian leaders,” the memo states.

The memo included a chart of Ukrainians the Soros team wanted to have pursued, including some with ties to Manafort.

Senior U.S. law enforcement officials confirmed to me that the early kleptocracy collaborations inside Ukraine led to highly visible U.S. actions against the oligarch Dmitri Firtash, a major target of the Soros group, and Manafort. Firtash is now represented by former Hillary Clinton lawyer Lanny Davis and former U.S. Attorney Dan Webb.

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REVOLVING DOORS - SOROS GIVES BOARD POSITION TO FBI OFFICAL
FBI SUPERVISOR OF INTERNATIONAL FRAUD CASES GETS REWARD

One attendee was Karen Greenaway, then the FBI supervisor in charge of international fraud cases and one of the lead agents in the Manafort investigation in Ukraine. She attended multiple such events and won glowing praise in a social media post from AntAC’s executive director.

In one event during 2016, Greenaway and Ambassador Yovanovitch participated alongside AntAC’s executive director, Daria Kaleniuk, and Lutsenko was present. The message was clear: The embassy supported AntAC.

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Buffalo Chronicle, Nov 2019 - White House visitor logs detail Eric Ciaramella meetings, suggesting an attempted coup

CIA WHISTLEBLOWER IN IMPEACHEMENT/ UKRAINE HOAX
ATTENDED OBAMA WHITE HOUSE 27 TIMES, MET WITH DARIA KALENIUK

Logs Also Show DNC Contractor Who Allegedly Worked with Ukraine to Investigate Trump/Manafort Visited Obama White House 27 times

An analysis of Obama-era White House visitor logs that detail meeting of controversial CIA employee Eric Ciaramella, who had been assigned to the White House to conduct domestic espionage on President Donald Trump, suggests that his ‘whistleblower’ complaint may have been conceived in collaboration with former Obama Administration officials, in an apparent coup d’etat.

The White House visitor logs revealed the following individuals met with Ciaramella while he was detailed to the Obama White House:

Daria Kaleniuk: Co-founder and executive director of the Soros-funded Anticorruption Action Center (AntAC) in Ukraine. She visited on December 9, 2015

John Solomon in The Hill, Aug 2019 - George Soros's secret 2016 access to State exposes 'big money' hypocrisy of Democrats

SOROS BUSINESS RIVAL IN ENERGY INDUSTRY FACES DoJ WRATH
DMITRY FIRTASH INDICTED, CLEARING PATH FOR SOROS INVESTMENT

George Soros's secret 2016 access to State exposes 'big money' hypocrisy of Democrats
But in Ukraine, some targets had political and business implications as well.

For example, one DoJ investigation in 2014 targeted Ukrainian oligarch Dmitri Firtash. He and Soros both have significant energy interests in Europe — and rival plans to rebuild Ukraine. After Firtash’s indictment, Soros’s business announced plans to invest $1 billion in Ukraine.

Since then, significant problems have arisen with the DoJ’s case, thwarting efforts to extradite Firtash to the U.S. for trial.

Arguably, philanthropy and business collided.

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John Solomon in The Hill, Jul 2019 - How Mueller deputy Andrew Weissmann's offer to an oligarch could boomerang on DoJ

MUELLER STAFFER ANDREW WEISSMANN THREATENED SOROS RIVAL
TOLD FIRTASH: PRODUCE DIRT ON TRUMP AND CHARGES GO AWAY

The ink was still drying on special counsel Robert Mueller’s appointment papers when his chief deputy, the famously aggressive and occasionally controversial prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, made a bold but secret overture in early June 2017.

Weissmann quietly reached out to the American lawyers for Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash with a tempting offer: Give us some dirt on Donald Trump in the Russia case, and Team Mueller might make his 2014 U.S. criminal charges go away.

The specifics of the never-before-reported offer were confirmed to me by multiple sources with direct knowledge, as well as in contemporaneous defense memos I read.

It's The China, Stupid

2020-12-16T09:41:00.044+00:00

The quip, "The economy, stupid," was the retort of Bill Clinton's election strategist when campaign workers asked what topics they should raise among voters. In the presidential election just past, it could have been China. Except, that any mention of China was censored.

With a strictly non-professional interest in popular psychology I've been interested in the phenomenon of projection in politics.

I always thought they did the pointy-finger thing at Russia because they didn't want to confront China directly. In military planning, Moscow served as a proxy for Beijing. China, after all, challenges Western dominance in both population and economic growth while the Russian economy is about the size of Italy's.

We should not demonize any country and certainly not Russia in place of China or the other way around. Should we be honest in our relations with other countries, however, and with ourselves?

The West is avoiding confrontation, I told myself; demonizing Russia while it's really sending an indirect warning to China. Never did I imagine that the obsession with Russia, from the Russiagate hoax to those dreary British intel pronouncements of imminent paralysis at the hands of dastardly Easterners, are actually a cover for their close ties to that larger group of Easterners. What a tangled web we weave...

Mi5 — CLUELESS OR COMPLICIT

Commentator and former GCHQ insider Alex Thomson has pointed out that GCHQ allowed Huawei to install communications equipment for an arm of British state security. Are we to believe that the British branch of the crucial Five Eyes state security network was clueless until the Trump administration imposed sanctions on Huawei in May 2019? Clearly Mi5 is incompetent and was duped by the Chinese or the wannabe spies overestimated their skills in connivance — or some hanky panky was going on under the bed sheets all along.

Crowdsourced investigators of the truth are finding that Huawei was aided in looting the intellectual property of Canada's Nortel by politicians and state security insiders. Canada's move to arrest the CEO of Huawei was a showboat.

Remember that the most powerful commercial and institutional forces of the west, from HSBC to the Rockefellers, were active in China long before the communists. I suspect the real relationship with China is the absolute reverse of what the Corporatist Media leads us to believe.

CHINA MADE IN

Writers about technocracy, such as Patrick Wood and the late Antony Sutton, have argued that globalism is a cover for technocracy, a shift from political to corporatist state. In this analysis it was necessary to grip the lever of political control in the U.S., using the world's biggest economy as a fulcrum to put in motion the Chinese rock: this would fall back upon the U.S. economic system, smashing it.

The Chinese were easily persuaded of this strategy because it comports with the teachings of Sun Tzu: To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

As for persuading the American people, it required “a catastrophic catalyzing event such as 'a new Pearl Harbor'.” In the destruction of the domestic U.S. economy the people are presented with a problem. They demand government do something: the reaction. Finally, technocracy is transplanted from China as the solution.

In plain English, China would pilot technocracy so that, once built, it could be imposed on the U.S. in one, swift movement. This avoids the opposition that would mount in the West if the technocratic system was assembled on site. This process can be seen in a series of events:

"The Trilateral Commission is a non-governmental, nonpartisan discussion group founded by David Rockefeller in July 1973 to foster closer cooperation between Japan, Western Europe and North America." — this is from Wikipedia. Notice no mention of China.

The Trilateral Commission is used this to inject the plan into the UN and the U.S. political system. Everything moves very quickly: 1972 Nixon visits China, 1973 Trilateral Commission founded, 1979 Chairman Deng visits U.S., 1980 U.S. grants China full trade access.

This was presented under the guise of liberalizing trade and thus free enterprise — though the resulting state of affairs in China is something quite different.

FOUNDATIONS OF WORLD TRADE

Sun Tzu may have strategized that one should appear weak when strong and strong when weak but he never suggested you should abandon the pretence of strength altogether. It is clearly vital to send consistent messaging to your troops to that they act towards a common purpose.

A project so fundamental as to reconstitute society requires more than a few lunchtime talks to build consensus among political leaders, if such a project proceeds by consensus at all. Once you are 'messing' with ownership of the means of production and changes that affect the value of assets held by the most powerful people in society, you are no longer talking about decisions that politicians will be allowed to make on their own.

Even if you believe that politicians wake up one day and think, hey, I'll abolish private ownership for the masses and close down small businesses, you are talking about the customers and the workforce of the top 500 corporations, the people who deposit their earnings at the bank and pay taxes that subsidize the weapons manufacturers. Indirectly, those consumers also support the Chinese corporations.

Do you imagine a decision to shut down the economy, as we have seen in 2020, is made at the level of politicians, without close direction or control from the people whose wealth and position depends on how the worker ants are organized? Quite the reverse. And thus it was that David Rockefeller built not just the United Nations building but also the World Trade Center.

David Rockefeller broke ground for the World Trade Center on August 5, 1966.

Pictured in Newsweek April 3, 1967

The demolition of those foundations on September 11th, 2001 brought down not only four buildings of the World Trade Center (one and two, six and seven) but also shook the foundations of the American economic system.

In the late 1990s, working as a reporter for CNBC, I was paid to sing the praises of the free market and I did so honestly, though I can see in hindsight that I was a propagandist. I traveled frequently between Europe and the United States and marveled at the smooth logic of the American economy. If a corporation pays its workers well, it creates the customer base for its own products. There was even room for meritocracy in the U.S. system, in contrast to nepotistic Europe. As asset prices and wages rose in the 1990s, it seemed to be further proof of this virtuous circle.

And then the Dot Com bubble burst and the fraudulent nature of the U.S. stock market was revealed. I was told at the time by an economist that the Federal Reserve would simply cut interests rates and reinflate the bubble and so it turned out. The Fed did this again and again over the next two decades until 'printing' digital money became a permanent state of affairs. The foundations had fractured. The reset was underway.

Just as something must have cracked beneath the Twin Towers before they fell at freefall speed, so something had cracked in the western economy long before the markets began to tumble. This is not the article for that save to say that wages had not been rising in real terms since the early 1990s. Governments don't create money: banks do, by lending credit. Banks filled the gap created by stagnant wages but then the people went insolvent, followed by the banks. Meanwhile the Treasury, through the Federal Reserve, was printing money and lending it to the banks who used it to avoid having to mark their balance sheets to market and thus propped up asset prices and the stock market.

MAO'S BLANK SHEET OF PAPER

The FBI's decision, once the presidential election was safely out of the way, to reveal it had been investigating the Biden family all along — since 2018 — is not a brazen middle finger to the electorate nor a mea culpa. It is, according to this line of thought, a distraction. The fact that the Corporatist Media reports it — when it previously censored any reference to the China Bidens — points the same way: read between the lines.

For the second time in three elections, we are facing a 'president from nowhere,' with an unexamined past and an unspoken agenda: Kamala Harris avoided scrutiny because she was never the candidate.

Her mentor is likely Barrack Obama, who after he left office never moved out of Washington D.C. I challenge you to name a person who is better positioned to guide the former state prosecutor who is now on course to assume the reins of the world's superpower. Obama loyalists have are already being lined up for round two.

Much as the press may call them "Biden loyalists" and evidence of "bold new thinking" — some journalists even imply that Joe Biden was Obama's handler — the fact is his key picks are veterans of the Obama administration.

Hot Pot, Teochew style, from Clovis, California. Photographed by NeoBatfreak

Throw in a bit more and you have a hot pot, a cauldron of pragmatic potluck, with no label to show the ingredients, though its flavours remind us of something.

The World Economic Forum said in its now-suppressed video, “you'll own nothing, and you'll be happy.”

Chairman Mao compared the Chinese people — poor and stripped of their culture — to a blank sheet of paper.

Proposals for a Great Reset, calls for supra-national government, the shift to monopoly and oligarchical collectivism, the promotion of Google and Facebook as barely-cloaked agents of the state, of Amazon as a communist-style universalniy magazin, the largely-privatized nature of the surveillance state, allowing it to embed itself deeply in China's social credit system... and the compromise and penetration of individuals at all levels by agents of the Chinese state all point the same way.

And all the time the Corporatist Media is urgently shifting your gaze, and murmuring Russia, Russia, Russia...

Voting Machines Appear Pre-Rigged to Change Votes

2020-12-16T07:33:00.011+00:00

Forensic investigators call it the oldest trick in the book. Faced with examination of a laptop, a crooked official switches it on without first isolating it from the Internet and, oopsie, the laptop receives a signal to wipe the hard drive, just as you can do to your lost smartphone.

It was a close call. Michigan county clerks said their Dominion Voting Machines used in the November 3rd general elections had to be 'wiped' and prepared for a new local election in January. That would destroy the last chance of finding evidence of how the vote count changed after tabulation was suspended and restarted between election night and the following morning.

Warm bodies did the trick. Campaigners for election honesty are said to have mounted a physical guard around the location of the voting machines. That allowed the forensic investigator of elections, Russell Ramsland, co-founder of Allied Security Operations Group, to gain access to at least part of the digital ones and zeros, and a clue to what happened on and after November 3rd.

It's Time to Heal... or to Heel.

Mass Adjudication Let Individuals Or Machines Change 68.05% Of Votes

On Nov 9th, 2020, I drew attention to the expertise of this particular forensic investigator in the post, U.S. Elections Are Bent And No-one Cares. In the weeks that followed even Republican governors and state senates were clearly reluctant to examine the voting system, even if that would put suspicions to rest. Finally someone did care and a Michigan judge allowed the results of a forensic audit of Dominion Voting Systems machines and software in one Michigan county to be released on December 14th.

What it revealed is damning: according to Ramsland's report for Michigan, Dominion Voting Systems “is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results.”

In the scanning and recording of votes, the machine recorded an error rate of 68 percent. To put this in perspective, the usual error rate is 1 percent or less.

The machines were set so that huge numbers of votes were sent to the penalty bin during scanning. Under the Dominion system these 'error votes' have to be adjudicated by a human, we don't know exactly whom: maybe a vote tabulating officer on the spot; perhaps remotely. With 68.05% of votes set aside for adjudication, however, they could simply be credited to one candidate en masse.

"The system intentionally generates an enormously high number of ballot errors," Ramsland wrote in the audit. "The intentional errors lead to bulk adjudication of ballots with no oversight, no transparency, and no audit trail. This leads to voter or election fraud. Based on our study, we conclude that the Dominion Voting System should not be used in Michigan. "

Ramsland added: "We further conclude that the results of Antrim County should not have been certified."

Who adjudicated these 'votes in error,' and when and where is not known. Files and adjudication logs are missing. The audit trail does not exist because the data was destroyed after the vote. This happened after the Antrim country clerk uploaded a re-provisioned CF card with updated software on Nov 6th, 2020. Evidence of crime - or not - officials were determined to delete something.

The same machines were used in 48 other counties in Michigan. Ramsland sees no reason to doubt they worked the same way.

Before the 2020 general election, a study by USA TODAY, Columbia Journalism Investigations and PBS series FRONTLINE investigation looked at precisely this issue. Michael Morley, an election law expert and assistant professor at Florida State University's College of Law.

Rejected ballots in the 2020 election battle between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden could become the post-election focus - USA Today, Oct 12, 2020

"Assume that everything goes perfectly 99.8% of the time,” Morley said. “Well, 0.02% of 70 million winds up being an awful lot of people."

USA Today, based in McLean, Virginia, was waving it in our faces. In the event, an error rate expected to be a fraction of one per cent, turned out to be of 68% in some counties and voting districts.

This scale of vote switching is consistent with events observed in late voting when large quantities of mail-in ballots were awarded exclusively to Joe Biden, erasing President Trump's lead and throwing the election to Biden.

Dominion Voting Systems criticized "fabrications" around the Antrim County results, in a post on its web site.

"There were no software glitches that switched votes in Antrim County or anywhere else. The errors identified in Antrim County were isolated human errors not involving Dominion." The company says election officials did not "update the programming in their tabulators after requiring changes to their ballot."

Back To The Feudal Future: Technocrats as Robber Barons

2020-12-15T16:55:00.003+00:00

Sean Stinson's article The Great Reset: The end of Capitalism as we know it does a service by reminding us of what we can learn from Marx in the current crisis - but also what we cannot.

As the headline implies, he argues that we are no longer in capitalism and thus cannot be in a crisis of capitalism. We are rather in a technocracy that lacks the familiar transactional indicators and mechanisms of price discovery such as a functioning stock market and a relationship between asset prices and reality. Soon the technocrats plan to do away with credit, private ownership and above all any autonomous determination of the price of labour, the last redoubt of the worker and his union.

He notes that "Marx was absolutely correct when he said that the crises of capitalist production are due to under-consumption." The fear of over-production is the theme that unites the archetypal capitalist with the finance capitalist. Instead they seek to ensure scarcity, in which they determine the social hierarchy; wealth and power being identical.

Capitalism is being shunted off to the scrapyard. That began, however, more half a century ago. What we're looking at is simply the narrative. No president wants to be the first to tell the people that they no longer get to live better than the rest of the world's population. Or that the U.S. dollar no longer commands a greater spending power than other currencies. There has to be something to blame. The people may rebel so the government needs an excuse to militarize the police and remove constitutional rights.

For a while it was Climate Change that demanded the root and branch reform of society. Then it was joined by the War on Terror. In reality, as I have written for more than a decade, governments were just searching for a scapegoat. Eventually Climate Change was junked as the rationale for an economic reset because, like any prophesy, it loses its edge when repeated forecasts of apocalypsis come and go.

What remains of Climate Change is the Carbon Trade because that was always the profitable aspect of the cult. All cults require the faithful to fork over their assets, preferably as regular monthly payments or tithes, so that the gurus can amass Rolls-Royces or the current fashion for yachts or space rockets. The Carbon Trade does the same by vastly increasing the cost of fuel through price and tax which is handed over to the gurus in the form of subsidies for their "net-zero carbon" boondoggles or Elon Musk's "reusable" vehicles.

THE INNER PARTY

Like financial wizardry the wording must be impenetrable to the masses. They are just told to "save carbon" and as in an insurance scam they won't find out they've been had until the perpetrators have made off with all those monthly payments the workers struggled to pay.

There is a collectivist, party character to The Great Reset if only because so many of the bankers and tech billionaires identify with the Democratic party. Of course it's just a vehicle - any will do - but they sit astride a political bulldozer that pursues deregulation and anti-competitive practices, and clears the path by which the bankers and tech billionaires amass their wealth.

To this extent the oligarchy constitutes a party as much as any back in the early days of European parliaments and assemblies. The fact that so many of them are tied to the Chinese experiment also leads many to reach for the word socialism. It's important to note that Rockefeller was active in China long before the communists.

Corporations have created profitable new niches for the State under the guise of privatisation and shrinking government. Two thirds of the surveillance state is privatised, while military corporations rely almost entirely on the government for their contracts, making them effectively state enterprises... except that the profits are privatised, the losses are socialised.

This form of corporatism operates just as easily in a nominally capitalist state as in a communist one. Many of the same corporations traded with the Soviet Union throughout its existence, just as they did so in Nazi Germany and in China.

State corporatism is the model, or monopoly capitalism. It never has subscribed to the Adam Smith public relations of market competition. The oligarchical collectivists see competition as far less profitable than sitting down with government bureaucrats and signing a non-competitive contract for products that the population is then forced to buy.

Precisely this process is paraded before our eyes with Big Pharma and the injectables being pushed under the guise of "vaccine". The drug companies even admit many of these cocktails do not provide immunity but merely suppress symptoms. And then they publish lists of side effects which curiously parallel the symptoms of the disease.

Only the vicious monopoly power of the State could do this. A scam on this scale would be unlikely to survive in a competitive market or successfully raise finance if capitalists were putting their own money at stake. This is a one-party state with a rigged stock market in which the senior cadre of bureaucrats move smoothly into well-paid corporate jobs and vice versa.

This nomenclatura is the social contruct we should be worried about! Instead of imagining biology or gender to be social constructs and mulling the layout of lavatories in schools we should address how the structure of society is changing.

THE OUTER PARTY

Where are the social scientists, where are the psychologists, where are the real economists? No, not the mathematical modelers and monetary fetishists preparing reports-to-order for government to provide the pseudo-rationale for pre-planned policies and outcomes. We know what happened to our academics. They were bought and paid with research grants from tax-exempt foundations that operate as profit-seeking arms of corporations owned by those self-same oligarchs that use government as a tool for private profit.

Technocracy was a movement that developed BEFORE the Great Depression and owed its roots to the same fork of the Enlightenment that brought forth the Fabians. In a sense the New Deal swamped the technocrats before the progressives turned their admiring eyes towards Mussolini. Elon Musk's grandfather, a founding member of the Technocracy movement, was chased out of Canada by a government that feared, probably unfairly, that he was a fascist.

It all became a bit messy. Technocracy became moot as the pseudo scientists such as Trofim Lysenko had their day. Though Lysenko contributed to the Soviet famines of the 1930s, it was not until the 1950s that he finally was dethroned... having sent a generation of real scientists to the GULAG. So he paralleled perfectly the rise of Rockefeller's eugenicists, though they outlived him and are still with us today.

To understand this we must abandon false dichotomies. We must not perceive distinctions where there are none: such as the left and right wings of the same dodo; or progressives versus populists. These inexact comparisons are a waste of our energy and they fail to identify the protagonists.

BANKERS AND BARONS

A ruling power, whether it be an organised criminal enterprise or a coterie of ruling families as in Tudor England or Renaissance Venice, will buttress its power and cloak its hand behind a cohort of retainers. It becomes a class in Marx's sense when it acts as an oppositional force in a historical context. The influence of the tax-exempt foundations in shaping the modern world largely meets that definition.

If capitalism is dead, so is the capitalist class. Indeed the rise of finance capitalism is a sign of this for it has a transient connection to industry. If this class no longer consists of industrialists, it has no need of workers. If no need of workers, then perhaps it no longer needs consumer markets.

We are confused because we are told this capital was built through industry but banking is not industrial any more than the rentier. Even Standard Oil gained its wealth and power not through pumping oil from the ground as from cornering the market and putting rivals out of business. While the heirs of J.D. Rockefeller still pump oil, their accumulated wealth and power is sheltered in tax-exempt foundations.

Finance capital is concerned, through the corporation as a psychopathic individual legal entity, only with amassing further power to itself. This is more easily achieved by hoarding wealth, cornering markets and driving up scarcity value. The Rothschild-Rhodes-De Beers creation of the diamond markets is a textbook example but today finance capital is more likely to buy up agricultural land and water rights or to pursue regime change in order to capture minerals and rare earths.

ARTISANS AS INDUSTRY

Post-industrial is not the point. Industry was always the province of the artisan who invented the machinery that increased the scale of production. At a later date industrialisation would go exponential through the enclosure of resources previously held or exercised in common: land, water and labour. First, however, capital must be amassed beyond what was possible by controlling nodes on the Silk Road or hand-building fleets of ships. First the Enclosures and then the rise of the State as a tax authority would provide bankers with their partner in organised crime.

Mass-industry turns out to have been a temporary phenomenon, required to build cities and infrastructure for ruling as much as for living. The Great Reset, the World Economic Forum assures us, will do a lot less manufacturing as humans will play a different role in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This supplants industry with Big Tech. There is nothing industrial about Twitter or Facebook. Even Amazon is a universalniy magazin, a Soviet one-stop shop. Its purpose is to put small business out of business and return power to the barons. How much product stocks the shelves in the Brave New World is yet to be seen.

BACK, FURTHER BACK

The proximate cause of The Great Reset is a crisis of finance capitalism and specifically of bankers. It is the logical outcome of the looting of treasuries and endless bailouts of the richest and most powerful institutions that have brought the monetary system to collapse. What's happening is that the bankers have a small window to put together another monetary system. The banks have been insolvent since the financial crash of 2008 and if they move fast enough they can shift their liabilities to a new digital currency before the whole house of cards comes down. They will use the debtors and those who accept government stimulus as the vanguard to get the system up and running. This represents a quantum leap in theft and appropriation of resources. The aim is to move from fiat currency (paper to you and me) issued as financial credit to a new monetary system of social credits issued under threat of dispossession and exclusion. Event Covid is simply the cover for an unprecedented transfer of wealth and power.

Maybe power returns to basics over millennia. Much of what passes for social philosophy is perhaps an engaging distraction while social constructs tend towards entropy. State-run schooling plays a supporting role to the State, justifying force and providing the rationale for regulations. For this reason academia is ill-equipped to perform constructive social criticism.

Academics traditionally have worked in fortresses, oblivious to the work of other disciplines that could inform their work. The Internet has raised the profile of revisionist historians and alternative archaeologists bringing belated recognition to those who, like Jacques Cinq-Mars, were demonized as the universities in their cloisters sang their hymns to uniformitarianism. Those who avert their eyes from uncertainty, risk and catastrophe, insist that development is largely linear, bar a few distruptions. Like all religions this is pock marked with meteorites but insists that the present is a guide to the past.

I suggest this is the wrong way around and encourages an unreasonable faith in linear progress. Like all religions, adepts have a habit of springing from the sublime to the ridiculous. We were taught at school that after the withdrawal of the Roman Empire, Europe fell into the Dark Ages when essentially the bosses went home and the plebs didn't know what to do. This defies common sense. The great architects of the Roman roads may have withdrawn but that does not mean people lost the ability to trade, write contracts with each other, build houses and otherwise conduct business on a local rather than imperial scale.

Codex Manesse, UB Heidelberg, public domain.

If we choose, we can head into a similar phase of history. This time the barons are enclosing not land or the Commons but the information that forms the synapses of our lives. This is valuable because it is personal and the appropriation is doubly personal because they would sell it back to us in the form of access to the product of our own labour.

The technocracy plans by this caper not only to hoard existing resources but to create new ones - if you believe the patents held by Bill Gates and Microsoft - through 'monetizing' humans themselves. Whatever the technical imaginings of Gates and the promoters of transhumanism like Edge.org, this is likely to lead to a society based on the panopticon and the prison. Technology will provide the 24/7 surveillance and a cohort of thugs will intervene and suppress the population where necessary - in return for slightly more food and a couple more credits at the company store.

If we allow it, we shall return to the pre-capitalist, feudal mode of production. Or we resist and take command of the next truly great reset.

Naomi Klein Resets The Global Trap

2020-12-11T11:24:00.111+00:00

Naomi Klein's article in The Intercept, The Great Reset Conspiracy, should be seen in context. On Nov 17, 2020, the New York Times declared “The Baseless Great Reset Conspiracy theory rises again.”

As we shall see, The Great Reset is the project of the World Economic Forum, a body directly connected to the Club of Rome, an organization whose fundamental objective is population reduction, and thus there is every reason to explore its motivations with an open mind. First, however, the context.

The year 2020, more than any in memory, has shown the Corporatist Media acting in unison, taking an identical line on specific stories at the same moment, in the same manner, and often in the very same words. There is no need to suspect collusion: it is self-evident.

The journal for which Klein writes her article is the same Intercept from which the journalist Glenn Greenwald resigned after its editors decided to censor his article on Hunter Biden's international fund raising, in which the former vice president's son accepted money from persons close to the Chinese Communist Party and Russia's richest woman, Elena Baturina.

At the very moment The Intercept's editors were censoring Greenwald's report, the press, in unison, was declaring the discovery of Hunter Biden's laptop and the separate corroboration of emails by his former business partner Anthony Bobulinski to be "a Russian disinformation campaign".

Now, after the presidential election, Hunter Biden himself has admitted he is the subject of an FBI tax probe, as is Joe Biden's brother, James. Too bad there are polls suggesting that roughly one-fifth of Democratic Party supporters would not have voted for Joe Biden if the media had told them at the time about the family's financial shenanigans, questionable ties and possible collusion with Chinese communists.

The media is no longer denying that The Great Reset (TGR) is a thing. Now, with Klein's article, it has shifted the goalposts: people are creating a "viral conspiracy theory purporting to expose something no one ever attempted to hide."

NAOMI DEALS SOMA AT TIME OF CRISIS

Naomi Klein as photographed by Mariusz Kubik

Like Soma, the mind-numbing drug in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Klein deals in calm, calling TGR just another attempt to "rebrand capitalism as a slightly buggy poverty alleviation and ecological restoration program." It's just some do-gooding as cover for the World Economic Forum's members' unprogressive attempts to evade regulations and taxes.

She slams those who accuse Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab of "using the state of shock created by the coronavirus... to turn the world into a high-tech dictatorship that will take away your freedom forever."

"... a green/socialist/Venezuela/Soros/forced vaccine dictatorship... a Big Pharma/GMO/biometric implants/5G/robot dog/forced vaccine dictatorship..."

[The Intercept's editors should try editing rather than censorship.]

"Less a conspiracy theory than a conspiracy smoothie, the Great Reset has managed to mash up every freakout happening on the internet."

Our self-annointed guru then goes on to diminish "researchers" in bunny quotes... and then admits she's not looked much at TGR.

"I’ve been doing my best to ignore it for months, even when various Reset “researchers” have insisted that all of this is an example of the shock doctrine, a term I coined a decade and a half ago to describe the many ways that elites try to harness deep disasters to push through policies that further enrich the already wealthy and restrict democratic liberties."

HOW NAOMI CONFUSED US

The crux of her argument is that TGR is a cover for doing nothing about the real crises in capitalism. "It is, first and foremost, about blocking a real Green New Deal, which most assuredly would not have the support of BP, Mastercard, the Prince of Wales, and all of the other Great Reset partners."

Here Klein is perpetuating some myths that I will explore in detail below.

The false dichotomy of Big Oil vs. Big Environmentalism
The role of the Prince of Wales and Big Oil's owners in launching Big Environmentalism with the World Wildlife Fund and The Club of Rome.
Rockefeller fronter Maurice Strong (himself an oil man) founding the United Nations Environment Programme and convening the first international meeting on climate change.

Now, consider this sentence from Klein: "Do these people honestly think that Schwab is in cahoots with AOC and using the pandemic to put BP out of business — with the full cooperation of BP?"

No doubt Klein would consider the following a "conspiracy theory": Is it a coincidence that the families that are most prominent in the World Wildlife Fund, Club of Rome, and promotion of Agenda 21 and the Great Reset — the British and Dutch royal families, the Rockefellers and Rothschilds — are the very same families that are among the wealthiest owners of the Earth’s mineral resources through Corporations like BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron and Exxon?

As the environmentalist Vandana Shiva said: "We are talking about the old oil economy trying to maintain itself with another raw material: the green planet. The only reason that corn and soya is being planted for biofuel is that subsidies make it profitable."

DAVOS AND THE CLUB OF ROME

Klein remains willfully blind to the fact that the main movers behind carbon trading AKA climate change are Big Oil and banks. That the same people are the main investors in biomass energy generation - which burns forests for almost half its "sustainable" fuel and air-polluting garbage for much of the rest: including old car tires which are, of course, a product essential to Big Oil that it is keen to get rid of for free (in fact, it even gets subsidized to burn tires). The biggest investors in biomass energy? Klein's supposed anti-Green mafia, the Koch brothers.

If Klein was to pay more attention she would read about the Davos Manifesto of 1973, revealed in the WEF's own book, The World Economic Forum: A Partner In Shaping History — The First 40 Years.

It explains how Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands chaired the third European Management Symposium of the WEF which considered the topic, 'shaping your future', with a special presentation on the Club of Rome-commissioned publication, The Limits To Growth. This is the usual Malthusian, millenarian warning that the world's population is heading for imminent disaster in no more than a couple of decades.

Yes, that Prince Bernhard. Former SS officer, founder with Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, of the World Wildlife Fund, founder of the Bilderburg Group, who married into the Dutch royal family, whose huge ownership of colonial acquisitions include stakes in Royal Dutch Shell.

There is clearly more to this agenda than "the old oil economy trying to maintain itself." There is a confluence of powerful economic interests who have financed and harnessed academic theories to justify and buttress their own desire to control the Earth, its resources and its human and animal populations. The media and publishers, of which Klein is part, take these academic rationales and normalize them within the boundaries of public discourse.

Who are these economic interests? Advances in technology have made the Military Industrial Complex a quaint simplification. The warfare industry is no longer directed outward in competition for global resources but also inwards at propagandizing, reframing and repurposing domestic populations. The biggest and most powerful industries remain warfare, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals derived from petrochemicals, narcotics legal and illicit, and human trafficking.

It's easy to corroborate the activities of these industries in recent years. They include resource grabs, from Iraqi and Libyan oil to Bolivian lithium. We have seen Afghan heroin production steadily increase under British and U.S. military protection. In The Cartels Do Not Exist, the academic Oswaldo Zavala argues that the war on drugs is being used as an excuse to depopulate areas of Mexico for the benefit of international mining companies. The line between licit an illicit drugs has vanished as pharmaceutical companies have become the biggest pushers of opiates and opioids, creating a new crisis that exceeds the crack cocaine explosion exposed by journalist Gary Webb R.I.P. and former Los Angeles Police detective Michael Ruppert R.I.P and laid at the door of military intelligence. To those who exposed the pharmaceuticals business, licit and illicit, we can add, this month, the name of Brandy Vaughan R.I.P.

Drug abuse promoted by corporations and government agencies is a very real, man-made epidemic. Yet over the past decade the World Health Organization has blatantly promoted its own man-made epidemics by declaring scare after scare, exposed as such after the event - and after the profits have been made and billions of dollars in unused drugs (see Tamiflu) have been thrown away. This has never happened before on such a regular basis. We are asked to believe that death-dealing viral epidemics have suddenly begun to appear several times a decade with the threat of catastrophe if we don't take vaccine after vaccine. Can you see a parallel with the threat of imminent disaster from population, from climate change, always just a decade or so away?

The petrochemical-pharmaceutical complex is active on other fronts. Having contaminated much of the food supply with pesticides, hormones and antibiotics, it is extending its bid for control of everything we eat with genetically modified organisms or GMO crops that alone can survive pesticides so that farmers will have to buy their seeds from the same companies. Monsanto has just merged with Bayer, largely reconstituting the IG Farben combine. The industrial complex is conspiracy fact.

Yet Klein is able to present this as "conspiracy theory" because the Corporatist Media is silent. It did not take long for the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 to turn the domestic media into a Megaphone for the warfare, big tech, petrochemical-pharmaceutical complex.

THIS IS WHERE IT GOES

The technocratic, transhuman project is openly discussed by the likes of Bill Gates and the cohort of "mad" scientists financed by Gates' former friends, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the world's biggest scientific publisher. A useful shortcut to many of the prominent figures involved is John Brockman's Edge Foundation. Proposals for cybernetic systems to control the population date from Plato but technology today makes this possible on a global scale.

Klein uses the banal logic that necessity is the mother of invention to imply there is no "secret globalist cabal," in her words, seeking to "take away your freedom forever." Aphorisms are no substitute for evidence. Technology has always pursued what is possible. It has no causal connection with necessity and technology can be used for good and bad. "Why would they do that," is a weak question that already contains the answer, "because they can." It is a lack of imagination in the face of people whose imagination is running wild.

If the WEF and the elite are merely posing as Green to buy karma for their tax-evading, polluting sins the evidence should point in the same direction.

Are they really trying to reduce energy consumption? That should be a simple calculation.
Do the proposed smart cities require less or more energy?
Can wind and solar power, along with "low-carbon" hydrogen provide anything like enough energy?
As renewable energy is interruptible and requires back up from conventional energy sources, can that reduce spending on energy or increase it?
Can it even realistically reduce the need for "fossil" fuels?
Are the masses correct to assume they'll share in the futuristic cars, gizmos and space flight?
Why is the plan for the plebeians to foot the bill in higher taxes and lower consumption? Who gets the goodies?

Basta! Enough! The technocratic proposals from Gates and others clearly require a massive increase in energy consumption. Smart cities and the Internet of Things require unimaginably huge data centers gorging on power 24/7. Big Oil and Big Tech need more energy for their own projects and that means less for you. The proposals in TGR bear this out: you will own nothing but rent everything.

The media paints a fiction in which petrol and diesel vehicles will be banned and everything will run on electricity or hydrogen. Britain's prime minister recently foresaw entire cities lit and heated by windmills and "low-carbon" hydrogen (hydrogen comes comes from "fossil" fuels, specifically natural gas. It can be made from biomass gasification and electrolysis of water but that in turn requires energy). If windmills and solar currently supply about one-tenth of our electricity, where is the extra power for cars, let alone entire cities?

Klein should have smelled a smoldering pork pie (Cockney rhyming slang for lie). What the WEF and its allies are claiming does not add up. Is she ready to consider that their words may be a misdirection, a cover for something else? (Of course not. See whose board she sits on, below).

Smart cities and the UN Agenda 21 need huge quantities of energy beyond anything we currently use. The greater use of advanced technologies require minerals and rare earths that are currently owned by sovereign nations. After the coup in Bolivia, which owns huge deposits of lithium essential to the batteries of Tesla cars, Elon Musk stated: "We Will Coup Whoever We Want." Like Joe Biden, Musk has an endearing habit whereby the truth will out.

Could sovereign ownership of increasingly vital and valuable deposits of minerals be one reason the corporations and leading countries controlling the United Nations are so keen to tell us the nation state is past its sell-by date — that we should all live as one and no-one should own anything? Mebe?

Herding people into smart cities while clearing the land of populations is entirely consistent which what has already been done in Mexico, with the managed genocide in Rwanda and with the current military competition to control Africa's Sahel region. Huge areas of land would be needed just to grow trees for biomass furnaces. To power the U.S. for a year would require every tree that currently grows in the country. A 30-to-1 biomass stock to gross growth ratio leaves considerably less room for people! Yet if there's plenty of room for such a magnificent forest, why the panic about population?

NAOMI AS MISDIRECTION

I will show you that Klein's Shock Doctrine was not new or revelatory, and that the central part of the book was at least pre-dated by a ground-breaking work of 2001. But first, her motives.

What she wrote in Shock Doctrine in 2007, was really a sanitized version for the public, a re-knitting of well-worn threads that had been explored by revisionist historians like Antony Sutton and by a culture of grassroots research inspired by the Kennedy assassination: its luminaries included Mark Lane, Mae Brussell in Paul Krassner's magazine The Realist (financed by John Lennon), Stanley Monteith, G. Edward Griffin, Jim Marrs, Bill Cooper, Dave Emory, David Ray Griffin and many more. Of a younger generation, one must mention the late Dave McGowan.

One example: without Stanley Monteith's interview of Earl T. Smith, former U.S. ambassador to Cuba, the world would have no inkling that the State Department (dominated by the CIA) financed and armed Fidel Castro and denied arms to the man Castro was seeking to oust, President Fulgencio Batista. You didn't know that? Contrary to everything you were told at high school? Opposite to everything the universities teach? Contrary to the media narrative on Cuba? Sit up. That's how they roll.

Klein shows herself in a bad light when she bunny-ears "researchers" given that they did much of her work for her. It was not the court historians nor many among her new-found academic colleagues on state salaries and pensions who rocked the boat and capsized the official narratives.

Yet there was a time! Even Hollywood, in the late 1960s-1970s, took to social and political criticism after JFK's execution and Watergate. The press was straining at the reins in the U.S., Latin America and Europe. Two decades later, in the 1990s, public television saw another wave of revelatory journalism, notably in European collaborations like the BBC's Operation Gladio and Granada TV's many exposés.

Then came the Internet. By the time Klein wrote Shock Doctrine, the net had enabled the crowdsourcing of research and the truth movement was born. No longer would a Mae Brussell negotiate with a radio station to broadcast her findings and painstakingly post her Xeroxed show notes in stamped, addressed envelopes to listeners each week. What was about to go viral was nothing less than a shockwave to the establishment.

Just one example: while environmental groups in the Corporatist Media attacked their opponents as the stooges of Big Oil, the reality that I described above was now common currency in Internet chat rooms: Big Oil had founded the environmental movement. It was plain for anyone with the critical faculties to see. Blown wide open was the neat ruse based on deception and pedestrian psychology: anticipate your enemy — indeed, create him; disguise your stratagem by painting yourself as the mortal enemy of the opposition you control.

NAOMI AS DERIVATIVE

The launch of YouTube in 2005 would soon allow access to historic documentaries that content creators would repurpose and update, providing a rolling-commentary on our world; and neither the academic publishers nor the traditionalist press could keep up. The publishers have long formed part of the establishment — Frances Stonor Saunders and later Joel Whitney, in Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers, have shown that the great press houses are often in cahoots with intelligence services and the tax-exempt foundations. At a moment when the printed press was wailing about its loss of influence to the Internet, the establishment press was about to reassert its influence.

Parachuting into the middle of these Internet badlands came Naomi Klein. Shock Doctrine knits together the CIA's attempts to wipe and repattern the brain by financing the Canadian psychiatrist Ewen Cameron, the use of "shock doctrine" to transform South American economies in the 1970s, the repatriation of that doctrine to Margaret Thatcher's Britain, the role of the IMF in buttressing Western financial interests, first among the Asian Tigers and later in the attempt to grab Russian mining and mineral assets in 1998. She extended her analysis to the resource wars in the Middle East and the 21'st Century imperialism evident from South Africa to Palestine.

Academics and more volubly the establishment press rose to their feet at Klein's achievement but it was not really that new. Economists in developing countries had long made the same arguments, from both a classical liberal perspective and a Marxist one, such as C.L.R. James among many.

In 2001 the economist Richard Werner had published Princes of the Yen, directly anticipating Klein's thesis by six years. Werner's work is also accessible through documentary of the same name, in which he makes the case that the international financial institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were used as a Trojan horse in a calculated strategy to seize control of public assets, local banks and corporations around the globe — and ultimately to subvert political systems, democracy and to put entire regions under the Western elite's financial ownership and control.

NAOMI AS REGULATED ACADEMIC THOUGHT SYSTEM

Shock Doctrine is a tour de force, an attempt to condense even further such world-encompassing tomes as those written by the historian Niall Ferguson. It's a good book and Klein triumphed at a convenient moment as a fashionable young thing, admittedly with huge support from academia and the establishment press which allowed her, for a while, to dominate the conversation.

The rewards of fame brought her into that establishment. She now sits on the board of climate-action group 350.org which is a poster child for those environmental groups financed, even created, by Big Oil. Supposedly the grassroots brainchild of Bill McKibben, 350 Org's original and biggest funders are the Rockefellers to the tune of almost $6 million.

As Catholics and even non-Catholics watch in open-mouthed shock at the Woke Pope's hurry to sign up to everything UN and globalist, it's no surprise to read that in 2015 it was Klein who helped launch Pope Francis’s historic encyclical on ecology. Pope Benedict had held the job until 2013 when he became the first in 600 years to resign. Can't imagine how or why that could have been made to happen, or by whom, in favor of a replacement who just happened to be compliant with the current globalist agenda at a moment of Global Reset. Hmm. Not suggesting nothing. Just, hmm. Back to the secular.

What are we to make of Naomi Klein's new role as university chaperone to the next generation of students to follow the elite down the Yellow Brick Road? Did she become a Pied Piper — or was she created for the role?

Population Reduction is the Driving Logic of Covid and Global Warmers

2020-12-01T09:53:00.002+00:00

Covid and climate change are a battleground for the right to “rebuild post-pandemic society in a sustainable way.” Even committed believers admit “some turned to eco-facism and decided that the world would just be better off without us.”

I'd rather use the word Millenarian rather than the wooly eco-fascist, because those who want to purify the earth of humans through a holocaust (accurate meaning of a sacrifice completely consumed by fire) are religious zealots.

'What will you do when the world gets hot?’, the red-robed, carefully made up, street actors of Extinction Rebellion intone as they gyrate their bodies in a mock fire of hell.

I also call them Global Warmers which is a far more accurate description of their beliefs than climate change, which is a tautology. On the other side are those who seized upon Event Covid as an opportunity -- or who planned it as a rival path to an ecological Great Reset.

What separates the Global Warmers from the Covidians is mostly a difference of degree. The Red Cross, whom you might expect to be busy to the point of obsession with Event Covid, has time to remind us that Climate change is a bigger threat than COVID.

"Unfortunately there is no vaccine for climate change," said the Secretary-General of the International Federation of Red Cross in a snappy one-liner.

In Nov 2020 the IFRC had time to compile a report on global catastrophes since the 1960s, and claims the world had been hit by more than 100 disasters—many of them climate related—since the World Health Organization declared the pandemic in March.

One can't help hearing the smacking of lips as professionals in the business of disaster tot up the running total of catastrophe. Sure enough, the Red Cross/Crescent estimated that $50 billion would be needed annually over the next decade to help 50 developing countries to adapt to the changing climate.

The main mover behind Event Covid is, of course, Bill Gates who has financed preparations for a pandemic and has been spot-on with his predictions. This includes Event 201 in Oct 2019, that predicted that the world would be unprepared for a viral outbreak -- and then did nothing to prepare for it. This fact puts a new spin on the phrase "disaster planning".

Gates was not alone. The Rockefeller tax-exempt foundations produced the Lockstep document in 2010 and the World Economic Forum has been working on its Great Reset for half a decade. All were predicated upon a looming disaster for which would fail to prepare, resulting in the forcible regulation of society that would lead to protest and economic discomfort.

That is the Global Warming agenda in a nutshell but how does progress on GW compare with "progress" on Event Covid and how do these strands weave together? We don't need to fend off accusations of bias because the International Energy Agency has been thinking along the same lines.

In Aug 2020 Bill Gates quoted the IEA to estimated that the Event Covid Lockdown had reduced carbon emissions by about 8 percent, meaning that industry and human activities would release the equivalent of around 47 billion tons of carbon, instead of 51 billion.

Carbon emissions are the gold standard to some and gobbledygook to others. Measurements of carbon, like temperature, can be made to show an increase or a decrease depending on what you choose to measure and when. There is no scientific consensus because consensus is not a scientific concept. There is a tsunami of cash from taxation and carbon tax credits that are a proven boondoggle. Tax-exempt foundations fund exclusively those whose findings report that global warming is caused by carbon emissions.

Bill Gates is one of the funders and makes ready use of the research:

"Consider what it’s taking to achieve this 8 percent reduction. More than 600,000 people have died, and tens of millions are out of work. This April, car traffic was half what it was in April 2019. For months, air traffic virtually came to a halt.

Now let’s treat the shutdown caused by COVID-19 as if it were a carbon-reduction strategy. Has closing off major parts of the economy avoided emissions at anything close to $100 per ton? (what Gates calls the benchmark for discussion.)

No. In the United States, according to data from the Rhodium Group it comes to between $3,200 and $5,400 per ton. In the European Union, it’s roughly the same amount. In other words, the shutdown is reducing emissions at a cost between 32 and 54 times the $100 per ton that economists consider a reasonable price."

We are not within striking distance of the Global Warmers' goals, even with a third of small businesses on the verge of bankruptcy and tens of millions of people out of work. The World Food Program says those in acute danger of starvation has doubled to about 300 million. The fact is, we can only imagine how badly people are faring because the corporatist media is not reporting it.

"The loss of life and economic misery caused by this pandemic are on par with what will happen regularly if we do not eliminate the world’s carbon emission," Bill Gates opines. On his own calculations, meeting the Global Warmers' goals will need 32 to 54 times more suffering.

This is where the millenarians arise. Would it not be simpler to just, you know, as Prince Philip said in this exchange with the BBC:

BBC: What do you see as the biggest challenges in conservation? 
Philip: The growing human population. From where we are there’s nothing else. 
BBC: And do you have views about what should be done about that? 
Philip: Can’t you guess?

This is the man who said on another occasion that he would like to return in the after-life as a virus to wipe out humans.

And if you think he's an irrelevant dotard the interests that are most prominent in the Club of Rome and promotion of Agenda 21 and the Great Reset — the British and Dutch royal families, the Rockefellers and Rothschilds — are among the leading owners of the Earth’s mineral resources through Corporations like BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron and Exxon.

Which brings us full circle to autocracy and plutocracy. One of the great shibboleths of the global warming debate is that the leading environmental organizations are locked in a battle with Big Oil, a struggle for the very survival of the Earth. This opinion is deliberately ignores some inconvenient truths: restriction on the use of oil raises its scarcity value and preserves the wealth for future generations of oligarchs.

As the environmental leader Vandana Shiva puts it, "We are talking about the old oil economy trying to maintain itself with another raw material: the green planet."

If environmentalism and plutocracy find common cause, what is the future for the working stiffs, the ordinary people who built the wealth on which the former rest, signalling their virtue in comfort and plenty?

What we see now is a vary real meeting of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement founded in 1991 by Les Knight and a human culling that involves no such choice. The modern version is Extinction Rebellion, described by spiked! magazine as an "upper-middle-class death cult". Author Brendan O'Neill describes their millenarian chanting in colorful detail:

"The men and women gathered outside King’s Cross station and formed a circle. They swayed and chanted. They preached about End Times.

Extinction Rebellion near New York Stock Exchange, Oct 2019, by Felton Davis (licence)

‘What will you do when the world gets hot, what, what?’, they intoned, conjuring up images of the hellfire they believe will shortly consume mankind. They sang hymns to their god – science. ‘We’ve got all the science / All that we need / To change the world / Hallelujah’, they sang, rocking side to side as they did so."

Both Global Warmers and Covidians argue that a mass die-off is only a matter of time. In both cases the die-off may be averted by timely measures -- yet by their own logic the adjustment to industry, economies and working lives is so great that is not compatible with current levels of consumption, liberty or living standards.

Inconsistent logic means someone is not telling the whole truth. Goals that are incompatible with current stated plans means there are other plans that are not being stated.

To be continued.

Pray to be Treated as if you Believe in God

2020-11-30T09:47:00.015+00:00

It was the LSD experiments of the Sixties that identified "a God-shaped hole" in people. The issue is what we allow to fill that hole.

There is plenty to suggest people have taken to "Da Science" and some brands of environmentalism as religion, replete with millenarianism and faith in "a coming fundamental transformation of society, after which all things will be changed." Their scorn for non-believers is as fierce as the most dogmatic, rules-based religion.

One thing they lack — those who would build a society on atheism — is evidence of morality impervious to human manipulation. I don't doubt their goodwill or their rationality. Nor do I argue that morality is the exclusive province of religion. It does not come from God nor even directly from religion.

Morality is a byproduct, in my view, of the premise that God towers over us. If God made you, no other human can take away your rights. If on the contrary people are supreme, then what they say goes and they can fight til kingdom come. You can sit there mapping out your Rousseau humanism with minute rules for the perfect society -- and while you daydream someone can roll over you in a tank -- or unleash his killer robot dog -- and might maketh right, or at least top snout for a while.

The Billionaires are those daydreamers. What makes them dangerous is that they own Big Tech, Big Pharma and Big Educashun. They hope to put a lock on people and make their transhuman society permanent by cybernetic control of thought, economics, movement and opportunity and by injecting and quarantining the people into submission.

There is a thread on Reddit entitled, "I would be spiritually safer if I got a lobotomy than if joined a religion."

Recently a video resurfaced, falsely attributed to Bill Gates, in which some military unIntelligence types are discussing controlling fundamentalism by destroying a particular part of the brain that harbors spirituality. The resulting hullabaloo over "it's not Gates" distracts from the more worrying idea that people were discussing it. Nor is it new. Lobotomy was a "miracle cure" of the 1940s. Do you see how we are always told to wait for a miracle cure? That bit IS Bill Gates in a nutshell.

Lobotomy was supposedly shelved after jamming people's brains with implements produced zombie-like patients, including JFK's sister Rosemary who was "cured" of her high-spirits and a "forward" approach to sex. Lobotomy is back and has been since the 1990s.

Religion has always been a problem for governments but especially for highly uniform and regulated cybernetic societies. The usual tracts, 1984 and BNW make that clear. In his book Aldous Huxley replaces religion with soma and peans to "Our Ford". In real life, Huxley helped to run the MK-Ultra mind research of Sidney Gottlieb and Jolyon West that was specifically interested in gaining control the subconscious mind that regulates morality and ones preparedness to commit certain actions.

How to remove religion, or channel it in directions that can be controlled, has been an obsession of regimes since ancient times. In the early modern era, we have the examples of the Tudor regime which unleashed a ruthless programme of mass-societal re-education and propaganda, trying to keep religion but to bend obeisance to the State. There's a crucial issue here in the role of religion during rise of the State but no time for tangents.

Both Rousseau and Robespierre thought society could not function without a supreme being: Rousseau's deism was even emotional and good, which he saw as essential to the origination of good as opposed to purely self-interest. Of course, I'm simplifying in the interest of brevity. Robespierre saw a similar weakness in the Cult of Reason, being only a means to an end. Hence he got busy and balanced reason with its object, virtue, in the Cult of The Supreme Being, which was authorized by the National Convention in 1794 and became the official religion of France.

In comparison Hitler's controllers took the easy path, opting for a bastardized New Age humanism and appropriated the ancient wheel of life symbol. The Bolsheviks hijacked the communal, Christian aspects of Russian society and Stalin actually had a prayer written to himself for daily recitation in the schools. However when he began to demolish religious monuments the sight of people throwing themselves on the rubble became a public relations problem and he had to keep the church and settle for infiltrating it instead.

The demolition of the Cathedral of Christ Savior, Moskva river embankment, December 1931 (Wikipedia, photographer unknown)

Only when Pol Pot read Rousseau, Robespierre and a smattering of Sartre did religion become as bloody as it had been under the Tudors as the Khmer Rouge sought to remold their own population so profoundly.

Why such effort to modify belief systems? Is it the God-shaped hole in humans that explains the urgency to shift the people from one religion to another? Whatever the answer, it is the same reason those who develop systems of government control consider liquidating the spiritual centre of the brain. it is the same tidy military minds who dream of uniformity. It is the same robber barons who dream of a compliant world of billions of consumers, all slaving for and buying from the oligarchy and their monopoly corporations.

They want to treat us as little more than livestock and there is the glaring hole in their logic: if our destiny is livestock, how did we develop greater faculties than cattle, why did we create those profound and wonderful texts and paintings throughout our time on this Earth, who will do that in the future and more importantly, if not to God's glory then to whose?

Even if you do not believe in God, this is the reason you should pray to be treated as if you do: as if you were born with rights that no human can take away; as if people owe respect to each other's body and property -- not based on some arbitrary hierarchy of victims, each one enjoying his or her 15 minutes as supreme martyr before being accused of some privilege, current or historic. Rather we should aspire to be treated with respect because we are all born with certain inalienable rights. It is only when the government fears a higher power, fears God or people who believe in an authority greater and more permanent than the state, that you have your rights.

Autonomous Individuals Search in Vain for Coherence

2020-11-24T10:44:00.005+00:00

Watching the kitten get the measure of himself, I see how he prepares for the world. Arching his back and walking tall, then pausing before a bizarre sideways jump -- it looks ridiculous to us. He is catching invisible prey, trying to climb cinder blocks, tumbling and finding his feet. Without it he could never one day climb a tree, survive a fight or feed himself. Before he can encounter the real world, he builds a life within.

I think it goes something like this. Having put his faith in God (or sky fairies, if you are an atheist) the religious man addresses the Big Question to the best of his ability and sets off to understand and grapple with the world as he finds it.

If he is great, he may like Dostoevsky, understand the nihilists better than they understand themselves. He may like Graham Greene, gain access to the inner mind of the whisky priest who breaks every commandment of his religion only to know it better.

The post-modern mind is free - it thinks - of superstition and cultural modes of thinking, of the traps of ethnicity. Yet it soon is locked in a virtuous circle of in-coherence that renders it unable to form a steady image of the world. With no fixed beliefs, the PM mind has nothing against which to measure and compare this jagged image. At best it can perceive vague threats, emotions, attraction or repulsion.

In the article below, Ravi Zacharias talks of a PM mind that demands coherence from others but perceives none within. The PM mind is demanding coherence salve the dissonance created by inner turmoil.

"From fuzzy logic to relativism the homeless mind has moved to the home-less idea.

This is dangerous because such a person may seek anything that presents coherence: castes and untouchables; technocratic seers ruling the Eloi; or the perfect "society of peace" in which dissent is not tolerated but ruthlessly liquidated, in an endless pursuit of harmony, honour and homogeneity.

We have a hint as to which of those outcomes is more likely. The Event Covid world in which society must be locked down to preserve each and every individual is not communal. This is the deification of the self which lays obligations upon society that owes 'me' a living. It is the transmutation of individualism as a balance of freedom and responsibility into a hierarchy of needs. Social engineers have realized that such people can be manipulated by influencing their perception of needs, especially in people who, increasingly, think with emotion.

No wonder people see everywhere the infantilization of society. The desire for untrammeled freedom of action, of autonomous individuals, has inevitably created yin's search for yang. The danger is that this primitive search for coherence is attracted to an equally infantile opposite: that which meets the most short-term needs most proximately and immediately, which is the zero-sum thinking that believes one more for you is one less for me.

Only a complex inner cultural world can conceive, create and operate within a society that is a rich tapestry where many fibres interconnect far below those that we see. In fact, were one to remove that unseen weft and warp, all that is so colourful and apparently real would fall to pieces. Only a complex inner cultural life can grapple with a world in which every action has consequences that are often unseen or unintended.

Without knowledge or trust that a complex society may meet our needs indirectly by raising up others and perhaps gratify us with delay, we shall not bother to invent, nor start a business, nor share our knowledge and time.

This is the realization that learning that creates intelligence, not the other way around. And if we know that for machines, why have we abandoned it for ourselves?

Here's the link to the article mentioned above: https://www.rzim.org/read/just-thinking-magazine/an-ancient-message-through-modern-means-to-a-postmodern-mind

From JFK to the New World Order

2020-11-22T07:56:00.035+00:00

George Soros's Antifa has gone quiet after the U.S.presidential election of November 3rd. Or has it? Two Republican election board officials in Michigan reversed their opposition to certifying the election after threats were made to them and their families.

Coincidentally similar, transparent threats went viral and no doubt election supervisors in many other districts saw this as a message of vengeance if they dared to follow their conscience and stand up against election fraud.

You can be sure Antifa is moving hell and high water to ensure party discipline, as per the Open Society Foundation's objectives. They're busy. That's why they haven't been so active on the streets, except to swarm and threaten citizens who dared to rally in Washington DC and other cities in favor of fair and open elections.

JFK WAS JUST AN APPETIZER

Be careful what you wish for, is a trope in politics, especially when it means collaborating with anti-democratic forces for short-term objectives. The event of Nov 22, 1963, was a hair trigger, since when the willful destruction of the American political system has gone into overdrive. Like one of Shakespeare's tragedies, one murder required another until brother and son were silenced and all those involved shared the guilt and the spoils: LBJ, Nixon, Ford and the Bushes in particular. To this day only presidents Donald Trump and arguably Jimmy Carter were not connected to the assassins in some way.

Macbeth:
I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself,
And falls on th'other. . . .

Unlike Macbeth, the presidents are not the progenitors but only the tip of the iceberg that we see. Those motivated to execute JFK had much more at stake: industries that required war and death; boondoggles that consumed subsidies and compliant politicians; and their own ambition to hammer the world on an anvil, into a shape that met their vaulting ambitions.

The public execution of John F Kennedy was the work of external influences as much as internal. The U.S. has long been the plaything of interests that show no loyalty to mere citizens or institutions. In their world the same person can run for president and also say "perhaps that 18th-century Constitution should be abandoned to a 20th-century paper shredder!”

These toxic vested interests may be home-reared, like the criminal Rockefeller combine or foreign, like the bankers hiding behind the red shield or star or whatever disguise suits their strategy of the day. What they have in common is their readiness to use America as a permanent factory of war - the wartime economy as much as the people.

Not only to drop them when they have served their purpose but to disassemble the economy on which they rely, to infiltrate society and destroy every one of its pillars - from family to fatherhood, selling a false promise to women and mothers that ends in loneliness and dependency, and attacking their children by promoting the dealing of drugs with a for-profit prison at the end of a one-way street.

When I first encountered the campaign of former LAPD detective Michael Ruppert against the Central Intelligence Agency's distribution of cocaine in inner city neighburhoods, I struggled to understand the mentality of those who would do such a thing. See Ruppert confront Director of Central Intelligence John Deutch John Deutsch https://youtu.be/IMBu0YTwfXc

CONSUMING SOCIETY

George H.W. Bush came into focus through his involvement in the JFK assassination, which is beyond contention: his long preparation of the Cuban exiles cover story; his deliberate misdirection as to his whereabouts on Nov 22nd; his deliberate fingering of an innocent man; his attempt to misdirect FBI Director J.E. Hoover, recorded in Hoover's own memo; photographs of Bush in Dallas on the day; and his presence with his son in the long, thin line of the beneficiaries of butchery.

His motives bothered me. I tried to get inside his mind: was it that of an ultra-right-wing patriot who thought he was saving his nation through assassination? (I think of Bush's associate in El Salvador's death squads of the 1970s-80s Roberto D'Aubuisson who ordered the murder, as he celebrated mass, of Archibishop Oscar Romero).

Then I returned to the work of Michael Ruppert and Gary Webb who exposed how Bush and his CIA-FBI-LAPD cohort viewed the country's Black population as nothing more than disposable, to be turned into an internal market for crack cocaine so that Bush could finance his wars in Central America; so that the FBI could undermine the Black Panther movement and create fake, FBI-manufactured terrorists in order to push the domestic political agenda rightward (as a cover for the real direction in which the Rockefeller terrorists were moving the country?)

It goes on to this day. See Trevor Aaronson's The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism.

The LAPD built a computer database on the population from which it could not only track criminals but, arguably, cultivate them and use them in manufactured happenings for reasons much more nefarious than trying to justify a bigger police budget. The Manson familiy and the Symbionese Liberation Army came out of this. After the FBI's counter intelligence program CoIntelPro was exposed in 1971, the LAPD's files found their way to the Western Goals Foundation, linked to the John Birch Society and the World Anti-Communist League.

JOHN BIRCH AS ORANGE MAN BAD

Here we veer into distraction. Researchers of the 1970s and 80s saw the John Birch Society as a hard-line wedge to build an authoritarian society -- and the CIA and the Council on Foreign Relations must have been happy for the Birchers to take the heat.

What we know today, however, casts a different light on those vested interests and we have a clearer view of who was seeking an authoritarian society in the service of their globalist masters.

See this interview with Western Goals founder Congressman Larry McDonald on the links between the CFR, the United Nations and the CIA. McDonald speaks to Pat Buchanan and Tom Braden, co-hosts of Crossfire.

I recommend following the words of Tom Braden with an ear to CNN journalists today, along with the rest of the Corporatist Media. The tone is identical, as is his urgency to deny a particular agenda.

MEDIA MOCKINGBIRDS AT WORK

Tom Braden was a CIA operative and journalist. In true Mockingbird media style, Braden quotes one of the CIA's own Mockingbird outlets, Newsweek, as if it is an independent source: "The John Birch Society considers communism only one arm of a master conspiracy in which socialist American insiders are plotting to establish world government."

Tom Braden: "That kind of silly, asinine statement is what makes people laugh at the John Birch Society."

Larry McDonald calls out Braden as a long-standing member of the Rockefeller apparatus and the Council on Foreign Relations. "You are fully aware that there is an elitist core in this country that has seen value in subsidizing communism - the Trilateral Commission, the CFR - and they've dominated the State Department for 40 years (speaking in 1983). Their objective is to try to bring about a gradual transition in our society, the dissolving of sovereignty and moving steadily to the left on the political spectrum. The IMF has been set up to facilitate that transfer of sovereignty and wealth. You are looking at a group that is working on the dissolution of sovereignty on the road to world government and certainly you are familiar with the work of professor Carroll Quigley who is a part of your club and he admitted all this and he said in his book Tragedy and Hope, 'the only thing I disagree with is that we have decided to keep it a secret'.

Arthur Schlesinger Jr, writing in 1947 (May/June 1947 issue of the Partisan Review) says, 'yes this is the hidden policy of America but we can't tell the American public because they're too unsophisticated to see the value'."

Tom Braden: "That's the silliest thing I've heard."

Larry McDonald: "Schlesinger wrote that objective was, through the steady erosion of new deals, we bring the American society steadily to the left and through the concept of benign containment we merge into the vital center of the socialist left."

Pat Buchanan argues that the objective of one-world government was originally behind the UN but had been abandoned by 1949. "Hasn't that idea been dissipated because no-one believes in the utopian ideal of world government anymore?"

Larry McDonald: "There are those who realize moving directly from a prototype of a UN into world government is tactically impossible but phasing out national sovereignty into regional government, and phasing out sovereignty into international treaties... "

THE LADY DOTH PROTEST TOO MUCH

Tom Brady asks if NATO is part of the conspiracy.

Larry McDonald: there are some in NATO who are committed to the defense of the West but you find a steady dissolution and a NATO policy dominated by State Department policy."

Tom Brady then lists the many pro-gun bodies of which Larry McDonald is a member.

Larry McDonald: "There is a real drive in this country to destroy the realization of the citizens that they have a constitutional right to bear arms."

On Ronald Reagan, Larry McDonald complains that his rhetoric goes one way, the actions another, with respect to inflation and weakening the dollar. On CIA Director William Casey, he says that Casey's previous job was technology transfer to the Soviet Union, the Kamaz factory project and the Export-Import Bank.

Tom Braden continues to ask, is this part of the conspiracy. Pat Buchanan accuses Brady of using the word conspiracy 45 times.
Tom Braden "It's the JBS that says its a conspiracy. I'm trying to find out what the conspiracy is. Who's in it and what agencies of government are in it."
Braden then claims not to have heard of Georgetown Prof Carroll Quigley, although both were members of the Council on Foreign Relations.

This week the New York Times blithely ignored the World Economic Forum's stated policy and declared: The baseless ‘Great Reset’ conspiracy theory rises again, Nov 17, 2020. The spirit of Tom Braden, CIA shill, stalks the corridors of the media.

Larry McDonald says look at your founder, Edward Mandell House, who wrote Philip Drew Administrator. What he envisaged was a world government along socialist lines as prescribed by Karl Marx. (House was President Woodrow Wilson's principal advisor though McDonald says House dominated Wilson, not the other way around).

The driving forces have been willing to collaborate, subsidize, transfer technology for what they feel is some kind of an accommodation, a merger and I submit this would be a disaster for the American republic.

Three months after the interview Larry McDonald was killed in the shooting down of KAL007

Larry McDonald on the New World Order. Pt 1/2 ( Pt 2/2 https://youtu.be/P6vN_rMCAa8 )

Media reports about Facebook Censorship fail to mention Centra Tracking Tool

2020-11-19T09:40:00.004+00:00

Facebook tool Centra tracks all a user’s accounts, including anything they upload, to study not just their contacts but their behaviour.

Facebook “marks” photos, links and documents that a user may share, in order to track them them not just on Facebook but across the entire Internet. Hint: apparently you can spot this data in a url. It comes after the & and you should delete it.

Twitter and Facebook chiefs faced some difficult questions this week, for a change. Ted Cruz has emerged as one of the few senators willing to challenge them.

Sen Josh Hawley put Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg on the spot for tracking and tracing its users. If you want just the meat of the hearing, watch this clip https://youtu.be/GzwIQ-69kiY?t=3019 otherwise the highlights are here:

JH: What is the Facebook internal tool called Centra?
MZ: I’m not aware of any tool with that name.
JH: Let me see if this refreshes your memory. There is a demonstrative over my shoulder,” Hawley noted. “Centra is a tool that Facebook uses to track its users not just on Facebook, but across the entire internet. Centra tracks different profiles that a user visits, their message recipients, their linked accounts, the pages they visit around the Web that have Facebook buttons. Centra also uses behavioral data to monitor users’ accounts, even if those accounts are registered under a different name.

The NYT’s long article covering the Senate grilling contained no mention of Centra, one mention of censorship and four mentions of bias. The BBC’s propaganda and censorship by omission is disguised in the same way. There is a hearty debate about bias, which is the least of the problems: a viewer can correct for bias. They cannot correct for something that’s simply not been reported at all.

This kind of secrecy and defensiveness only encourages suspicions about who really runs Facebook, which was launched on the same day, Feb 4, 2004, that the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency retired LifeLog.

There's a browser extension called Facebook Container which restricts Facebook to the tab you've got open. This supposedly stops it scraping data about what else you are doing in your browser session. You can check which of your data Facebook is tracking with the ‘Off-Facebook Activity’ tool.

The Great Reset: Fascism or Communism - We Settle It

2020-11-15T16:05:00.018+00:00

Fight it or prepare for it - communism it is. You can sit in a smoky corner and debate whether it's actually state corporatism -- and it shares certain characteristics but after all it is a NEW world order and is not exactly fascism or communism as was. For you, as the individual on the receiving end, it's going to be nothing like life under fascism. For you, it's going to be communism.

I cannot overstate how influential Martin Armstrong is. He advises governments and banks around the world. He was imprisoned by U.S. authorities who wanted his forecasting software. They accused him of swindling investors. If that was the case he would have cut a deal. He refused, either a deal or to hand over his proprietary software. See the documentary on his life.

This is the best interview by Greg Hunter since he interviewed Jim Sinclair in spring of 2020.

Want to know exactly what’s happening?

If you eliminate small businesses, you kill the firms that provide 70% of jobs. Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats did not want to bail out small businesses. Why not?

Armstrong has consulted with more governments than anyone and has discussed what is now called The Great Reset for four years.

The European and American governments have followed the Japanese into a debt trap. That debt trap was caused by the CIA-World Bank-IMF but that’s another story.

The EU lowered interests to negative levels in 2014 to try to stimulate the economy. After six years they have failed and, worse, they are trapped. They cannot sell raise money because they offer no return: you can’t sell bonds at negative yields.

Pension companies depend on earnings from holding bonds, because bonds are long-term instruments that are in theory a match for the long-term liabilities of pension funds. But since bonds earn nothing, pension funds are broke. Half of German pension funds are insolvent.

Two solutions are: Convert debt to a perpetual debt (like British Consols, you earn an annual coupon but the government sets no fixed date at which it promises to return your principal) and raise the interest rate to at least 3%.

Armstrong proposes this: he says governments should give up some power and retain the people’s freedom. Governments don't want that. They prefer to retain maximum freedom of maneouvre.

Solution Two is to turn to Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum and Thomas Picketty, a 49 year-old French socialist economist and bestseller (I wonder why). Picketty’s idea is to take all property away. That way you can eliminate all debt. You eliminate the pension fund and replace it with Universal Basic Income so the government doesn’t need to keep rolling over bonds to pay pensions. Picketty’s view is that if all your personal private debts disappear, so do the government's obligations. That is why government likes it.

When your debts disappear, so do banks. Big Tech likes that. What does Jack Dorsey of Twitter spend most of his tine on – his second business, Square. A version of Stripe and PayPal. Facebook is trying to put together its own currency. If banks are eliminated and replaced by digital wallets, Big Tech is going to get a percentage of every transaction the world.

This is the real reason Big Tech is censoring discussion on the Internet. It can get away with this because Big Tech has more freedom of action than the government. If the government tried to silence discussion it would fall foul of the Constitution. Big Tech claims they have the freedom of the corporate individual – to censor and promote their objectives.

Turning to Klaus Schwabb’s Eight Predictions for 2030, one is that the United States will no longer be a superpower. The U.S. will share power with nations through the United Nations according to the proposals of George Soros’ Open Society.

Politicians feel the system is broke and can no longer defend it, Keynesian economics has failed and the only way to go is authoritarian.

Armstrong has published internal memos discussing that Germany may suspend the Bundestag Election in August 2021. There is no way the contrived pandemic is going to disappear.

Armstrong's book, The Cycle of War and The Coronavirus, was ready in May but the publisher held it back. He received the first hard copy on the day of the presidential election.

Martin Armstrong continues:

“Event Covid has been staged to clamp down on civil unrest. The box of masks says it does not prevent disease. So why are people being beaten and thrown into prison for not wearing them? What is going on is a takeover.

CIVIL WAR VS COMMUNISM 3.0

Either way we are going to end up in a civil war. It will probably split the south and middle of the U.S. against New England and the West. These people are using the virus and climate change as a justification to do this. They erected a clock on Time Square and it says we have seven years left.

Neither side is going to accept defeat in the U.S. You are going to see revolutions. People are gong to rise up against this. Manhattan looks like a ghost town. A friend walked around London and at least a third of companies were finished. Even before the second lockdown a third of the shops in Covent Garden were finished.

They have no intention of going back to normal.

People keep saying our collapsing system is capitalism. No it's socialism that's collapsing because governments cannot afford the pension funds, the social benefits that they have promised, and they continue to borrow without ever repaying anybody. The only way to keep that going is to adopt this Modern Monetary Theory where they won't issue debt any more they're just going to print money.

Klaus Schwab calls this the fourth industrial revolution. The problem is no-one organized the first industrial revolution. It is the average person that created the industrial revolution and this is why communism fails because it rejects individual rights and ingenuity. Advancement comes from people not governments. Even Einstein said always imagine.

I call it Communism 3.0 because this is the third time it’s been attempted: 1848, 1917 with the Russian and Chinese revolutions and now we are right back. You would think they’d get over this nonsense."

Martin Armstrong – The Reset is Communism