Send in the Clowns for the Circus Is in Town
Edward Curtin
Don’t bother, they’re here, already performing in the center ring under the big top owned and operated by The Umbrella People.
Trump, Biden, Pence, Harris, and their clownish sidekicks, Pompeo, Michelle Obama, et al., are performing daily under the umbrella’s shadowy protection. For The Umbrella People run a three-ring circus, and although their clowns pop out of separate tiny cars and, acting like enemies, squirt each other with water hoses to the audience’s delight, raucous laughter, and serious attentiveness, they are all part of the same show, working for the same bosses.
Sadly, many people think this circus is the real world and that the clowns are not allied pimps serving the interests of their masters, but are real enemies.
The Umbrella People are the moguls who own the showtime studios – some call them the secret government, the deep-state, or the power elite. They run a protection racket, so I like to use a term that emphasizes their method of making sure the sunlight of truth never gets to those huddled under their umbrella.
They produce and direct the daily circus that is the American Spectacle, the movie that is meant to entertain and distract the audience from the side show that continues outside the big top, the place where millions of vulnerable people are abused and killed. And although the sideshow is the real main event, few pay attention since their eyes are fixed on the center ring were the spotlight directs their focus.
The French writer Guy Debord called this The Society of the Spectacle.
For many months now, all eyes have been directed to the Covid-19 propaganda show with Fauci and Gates, and their mainstream corporate media mouthpieces, striking thunderbolts in the storm to scare the unknowing audience into submission so the transformation of the Great Global Reset, led by the World Economic Forum and the International Monetary Fund, can proceed smoothly.
Now hearts are aflutter with excitement to see the war-loving Joe Biden boldly coming forth like Lazarus from the grave to announce his choice of a masked vice-presidential running mate who will echo his pronouncements.
And the star of the big top, the softly coiffured reality television emcee Trump, around whom the spectacle swirls, elicits outraged responses as he plays the part of the comical bad guy.
Punch and Judy indeed.
All the while the corporate mainstream media warn of grim viral milestones, election warnings, storms ahead! The world as you know it is coming to an end, they remind us daily.
The latter meme contains a hint of truth since not just the world as we know it may be coming to an end, but the world itself, including human life, as the clowns initiate a nuclear holocaust while everyone is being entertained.
Meanwhile, as the circus rolls along, far away and out of mind, shit happens:
With more than 400 military bases equipped with nuclear weapons surrounding China, the United States military continues its encirclement of China and China enters a “state of siege.”
The US conducts military exercises with the Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group in the contested South China Sea. These US “maritime Air defense operation[s]” close to the Chinese mainland are a part of significantly increased US military exercises in the area.
The US Defense Secretary Esper announces that the US is withdrawing troops from Germany but moving them closer to the Russian border to serve as a more effective deterrent against Russia.
Russia says it will regard any ballistic missile aimed at its territory as a nuclear attack and will respond in kind with nuclear weapons.
Although the US is formally not at war with any African country, a new report reveals that the United States has special forces operating in 22 African countries with 29 bases and 6,000 troops, with a huge drone hub in Niger that cost 100 + million to build and is expected to have operating costs of more than $280 billion by 2024.
The US continues its assault on Syria, aside from direct military operations, by building up Kurdish proxies in northeastern Syria to protect the oil fields that they are stealing from the Syrian government, a plan hatched long ago. The US says their strategy is to deny ISIS a valuable revenue stream. The same ISIS they used to attack the Syrian government in a war of aggression.
A new document exposes the US plan to overthrow the socialist government of Nicaragua through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), a traditional US regime change and CIA front organization.
Meanwhile, in Belarus, a place most Americans can’t find on a map, there is another color “revolution” underway.
Continuing its war against Iran and Venezuela by other means, the Trump administration seizes Iranian tankers carrying fuel to Venezuela. “Something will happen with Venezuela. That’s all I can tell you. Something will be happening with Venezuela,” said Trump in a July interview with Noticias Telemundo.
And of course the Palestinians are left to suffer and die as Israel is supported in its despotic policies in the Middle East.
The list goes on and on as the US under Trump continues to wage war by multiple means around the world. But his followers see him as peaceful president because these wars are waged through sanctions, special operations, drones, third parties, etc.
But back in the center ring, the two presidential clown candidates keep the audience entertained, as they shoot water at each other. Trump, who now presides over all the events just listed, and Biden, who enthusiastically supported the American wars against Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, etc.
But then the followers of Obama/Biden also see their champions as peaceful leaders. This is even more absurd.
Don’t you like farce?
Besides being a rabid advocate for the invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a senator, Biden, as Vice-President under Obama for eight years, seconded and promoted all of Obama’s wars that were wrapped in “humanitarian” propaganda to evade international law and keep his liberal supporters quiet.
From Bush II, an outright cowboy war-wager who used America’s large military forces to invade Afghanistan and Iraq under false pretensions – i.e. lies, Obama and his sidekick Biden learned to arm and finance thousands of Islamic jihadists, run by the CIA and US special forces, to do the job in more circumspect ways.
They expanded and grew The United States Africa Command (US AFRICOM) throughout Africa. They agreed to a $1 trillion upgrade of US nuclear weapons (that continues under Trump). They disarmed their followers, who, in any case, wished to look the other way.
Out of sight and out of mind, Obama/Biden continued the “war on terror” with drones, private militias, color revolutions, etc. They waged war on six-seven – who knows how many – countries.
An exception to the more secretive wars was the Obama administration’s openly savage assault on Libya in 2011 under the lies of an imperial moral legitimacy. In order to save you, we will destroy you, which is what they did to Libya, a country still in ruins and chaos.
Their equally blood-thirsty Secretary of State Hillary Clinton let the cat out of the bag when she laughed and gleefully applauded the brutal murder of Libya’s leader Moammar Gaddafi with the words: “We came, we saw, he died.” Yippee!
After Libya was destroyed and so many killed in an illegal and immoral war financed with $2 billion dollars from the America treasury, Joseph Biden bragged that the US didn’t lose a single life and such a war was a “prescription for how to deal with the world as we go forward.”
Biden was Obama’s front man on Iraq, the war he voted for in 2003, and wrote an op ed article in 2006 calling for the breakup of the country into three parts, Shia, Sunni, and Kurdish.
When Obama launched 48 cruise missiles and more than ten thousand tons of bombs on Syria in 2016, killing over a hundred civilians, a third of them children, V.P. Biden stood proud and strong in support of the action.
When the US launched the bloody coup in Ukraine in 2014, Biden was of course in agreement.
But we are told that Trump and Biden are arch-enemies. One of them wants war and the other wants peace.
How many Americans will vote for these clowns this year? They are really front men for The Umbrella People, the money people who use the CIA and other undercover forces to carry out their organized crime activities.
As CS Lewis said in his preface to The Screwtape Letters:
The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint […] But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice.
In the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump received 129 million votes out of 157 million registered American voters eager to believe that this system is not built on imperial war-making by both parties.
Perhaps that’s a generous assessment. Maybe many of those voters believe in the USA’s “manifest destiny” to rule the world and wage war in God’s name. I hope not. But if so, you can expect a big turnout on November 3, 2020.
In any case, it’s quite a circus, but these clowns aren’t funny. They are dangerous.
“But where are the clowns?
Quick, send in the clowns
Don’t bother they’re here”
Don’t you like farce?
Edward Curtin is a writer whose work has appeared widely. He teaches sociology at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. His website is http://edwardcurtin.com/. He is the author of the new book Seeking Truth in A Country of Lies
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The endless mention of “nuclear weapons”, systems that may not even exist… Hiro/Naga were firebombed…
https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/on-this-atom-bomb-anniversary-youre-being-lied-to-about-hiroshima-and-much-more-to-make-you-fearful/
http://heiwaco.tripod.com/
“Death Object: Exploding The Nuclear Weapons Hoax” – Akio Nakatani (great book)
http://mileswmathis.com/trinity.pdf
http://mileswmathis.com/bikini.pdf
Time to wake up folks, they have lied to us about EVERYTHING, as they continue to do so. The whole world’s a stage
The Clowns are literally here
We Will Mock U
An Anthem, a Meme and a Laff Finally!
https://worldchangebrief.webnode.com
When clowns wigs are deployed, you know the resistance has begun
I think ‘clowns’ in this context is probably more like rodeo clowns. These guys hide in casks in the arena and if there’s a problem with the event — a rider’s been thrown and is being threatened by an animal — then they pop up and perform two functions, one being to distract the animal, the other to help get the competitor out of the arena. That said, turning your back on the process isn’t going to change anything. We get the circus every few years because it gives the process legitimacy but realistically its going to happen whether we approve or not. (Surely that’s one lesson that was learned from Iraq2? You can lie your way into an optional war, people can call you out on it but it will go on anyway because it relies on the mass of people having a relatively short memory and attention span.)… Read more »
Instead of “debates,” Biden and Trump should enter the stage with a case of those old fashion seltzer bottles each and cream pies, and squirt and throw them at each other. I might even watch that for 5 minutes
Using this approach, they could eliminate the farcical “election” altogether and simply award the Oval Office Throne to the participant who didn’t get confused during the heat of the competition, and began to squirt and cream pie himself.
Trump is cleaning up the mess the other idiots left him.
I’ll grant you that he is, occasionally, doing just that – but purely by accident.
In 4 years he has done more than Slo Joe accomplished in 47.
My cat has done more in 4 years than Slo Joe accomplished in 47, so I’m still not going to pretend that Trump’s agenda is for the good of the American people…
Washington is borked, and it’s borking the rest of the world as it sinks.
Others may contend that – Trump is the mess …
WOW. I cannot express how mind boggling to be reading over the last 4-6 weeks articles like this that are saying what I have been saying for the last 5 + years. Along with that, the most incredible mind blowing “I told you so” deja vu kick ass validation that helps make up for all the ad hominem attacks over the years. That being said, we are never going back to “the way things were” and the most important thing people need to realize is that this is totally a spiritual battle that just so happens to manifest itself in the five senses world we live in temporarily. If you don’t understand that, you will not be able to understand any of it. That being said, get your spiritual house in order. Not a believer? Pray for revelation like your life depends on it. Because it does . . .… Read more »
Pray to a god who let this happen?
To my mind, nobody LET this happen. Bad human beings – or at any rate weak ones – MADE it happen, and it’s their names I’m interested in publicizing. We are always going to have scum floating near the surface of our existence, but if we don’t mind getting our hands a bit dirty now and then, we can skim it off, disinfect it, or just let it shrivel up. Seriously, I can’t even imagine a world with mature human beings in it, where all the bad things are removed by a benevolent god and only the good things remain. If that was the situation, we wouldn’t even know what a good thing was. We would all be asleep. I honestly believe the purpose of human evolution is to learn how to wake up, if only because at least some of us sense that we need to. Surely having a… Read more »
He’s not talking of a god – he’s talking of spirituality … a serious difference !
If you don’t get it, try again. Some never will …. and I’m a born atheist, never opened a bible to read in my life … and I understand what he’s on about entirely.
Spirituality is not going to save us from this political/economic/ideological attack unfortunately.
Mass protests in Italy forced the Italian government to cancel their second lockdown.
I’m all for spirituality.
The VAXX Report (2020) Free PDF http://www.renegadetribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/The-VAXX-Report-Cover-Pages-1536×755.jpg Author’s note: For the last month and a half I have been generating this 92 page document, based on the vaccine notes (compiled by Charles Giuliani) which I have finally turned into a downloadable PDF. It truly has been hard work for me as, among other things, I have done an extensive photo-research to illustrate every page. I think people will be more willing to read this report if it comes as something rather visual than just a document with content text and no images, thus they will be able to connect the dots much more easily as well. The layout’s design is very simplistic (except for the cover), nothing fancy there, and I prefer it this way for a number of reasons. The PDF is interactive, the reader can double-click on the sky blue text and it will take him/her to original… Read more »
“Russia says it will regard any ballistic missile aimed at its territory as a nuclear attack and will respond in kind with nuclear weapons.” Short of Armageddon we shall never know, but given that virology and vaccines look like a gravy train with useful side effects then there is the distinct possibility that Nukes are a forerunner. Alexander P. de Seversky surveyed the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bomb damage and concluded it looked just the same as all the other Japanese cities that had been fire bombed with napalm. Perhaps Oppenheimer et al simply failed to produce the conditions needed for an explosive fission chain reaction – not unlikely given the limited time and computational power available. Perhaps a runaway chain reaction is just a wild idea, and never has been proven. But since the power it bestows is the same if it works or not (if you can keep the secret)… Read more »
The human mind can only handle one horrific revelation at a time, however…
My mind is fully occupied with the covid hoax right now.
If we ever manage to deal with that, I’ll be right on this one.
The Nakatini book is a delight to read both from historical and technical point of view.
Sounds interesting. These days, I’m not closing my mind to any possibility – not even to the remote chance of stumbling upon the truth…
Clowns to the ring
ring to the clown
hocus and pocus
circle them – around.
“I don’t think we ever should ever shake hands ever again, to be honest with you.“ Fauci
Apart from the thrice reference to the word “ever”, when someone ends a statement with “to be honest with you” I know that the probability of them telling the truth is somewhere in the 0.26% range. Or rounding up, 0.3%
It would be quite ironic if all the germaphobes in the world came to realize that viruses were a manufactured and propagated fraud by Rockefeller and the medical industrial complex.
Clown on a bike Suddenly you were there, Arrived just like the bear arrived at Paddington. But why Birmingham? That we may never know. All the way from Mexico, some epic cycle hike on a penny farthing bike, wielding a crepe bouquet – a faded paper spray – in white-gloved hands through unknown lands. Red nose, hair, lipstick, all credit to the dipstick that created unbeknown a trademark for a clown: los gatos hecho en Méx On each cheek appears those imitation tears, yet somehow you beguile with an entertainer’s smile. Bracers painted, trousers too, garish stripes of green and blue, buttons painted gold. Did they break the mould? Noone can see your tootsies too small for your bootsies, with all of you recycled no way you ever cycled. Say, how does one cacher the art of papier mâché? They say a clown is made from tricks of the trade.… Read more »
WOULDN’T IT BE NICE Like a Hollywood production every four years the political duopoly yells lights, camera, action and the show begins. I bet most don’t know Kellyanne Conway’s husband George Conway co-founded The “Lincoln Project” comprised of neoconservative “never Trump” Republicans. And I have a suspicion the hooligans at BLM demonstrations (Antifa and QAnon) are probably two opposing factions within the security state. When you cut through all the window dressing and stage props it doesn’t make a bit of difference whether Trump or Biden is President. Afterall, didn’t Biden assure wealthy donors at a ritzy New York fundraiser that “nothing would fundamentally change” if he is elected. Surely, you must take him at his word. There’s five decades of reactionary warmongering legislation to bear this out. Every war criminal from the George Bush administration is zealously supporting Biden. Trump is disliked by a bunch of security state ghouls because he’s… Read more »
Yes, but where the masks? And shouldn’t there be a chiseled “1963” on the headstone?
Or 2003 the year Bush invaded Iraq.
The donkey and elephant should be peeing on it, as well.
Maybe they’ll do that when they finish dancing…….
I didn’t know that George Conway co-founded “The Lincoln Project”. But then, I’ve only seen Kellyanne and George Conway out of the corner of my eye, so to speak. I don’t know who they are, except that they are apparently (self-)important Beltway celebrities.
Pardon a “lookist” observation, but strictly as a matter of physiognomy, they strike me as egregiously mean-looking and ugly. I only know them by thumbnails in the aptly-named “Yahoo” website, which I masochistically glance at to see what’s being fed to the yahoos.
Almost every day, it seems, there is a thumbnail and a blurb for some sensational account of what Kellyanne or George did or said, typically with outrage and high dudgeon. She always looks grim and bitter, and he always looks porcine. As Ed Grimley might say, I find it sad and alarming that this sour couple could acquire a constituency and be deemed “influencers”.
A bit of cognitive dissonance wouldn’t you say that Kellyanne’s husband founded the Lincoln Project…….🤡
Conway and Trump’s twitter wars were as fake as the Russiagate Ruse, which Trump was in on from the very beginning. Carter Page is an overused asset merely to obtain FISA warrants. His background as a cut out at Merrill Lynch in Moscow is a telltale sign.
It’s all fake. Shakespeare knew that all the world’s a stage even back then.
Secret societies keep their secrets.
There’s no business like show biz.
UMP “SIGN OF THE TIMES” ~~~ [I’ve been a LA Dodgers fanboy since 1960 when “immortal” pitchers Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale ruled the roost in quite legendary ways, sportswise. (When Big D didn’t show up to call an Expos game with the Dodgers in Montreal some years after his player retirement, they found him, still pretty young, but dead, in his hotel room of a heart attack: they were startled to find one of the few things he had with him on the road in his night stand was a cassette recording of Bobby Kennedy’s victory speech, among his last words, in which he salutes Drysdale, as a hometown aside, for having that very night just set the record for most consecutive scoreless innings in ⚾ history ~~ 57+(?) I believe. It was touching that so few had known about it.] I’ve been a big fan too of this… Read more »
Adding magic to myth and madness, last night was a night to honor Kobe Bryant at Dodger Stadium, on what would have been his 42nd birthday. He can be seen online at games there, in Dodger Blue, and was seen as well by yours truly, as we passed each other more than once at a local church in Newport, O.L.Q.A, on our way to Communion. He took his family to pre-dawn service there, in the dark, a couple hours before he and his daughter Gigi, 12yo hoops phenom, were killed (or rather clearly, by enough facts in evidence, assassinated). Only a LONG half year ago.
…Ay John, y’know how eSports tournaments have been coming on in leaps and bounds in recent years, big money getting involved and all that?…
…Well now you know why…
😉
The temptation to digitize beyond a need or sound purpose is the thing: the thing that’s going to cost us big-time. If I were a sports superstar I’d be concerned about body snatching.
Tolle said something pithy, that cleverness devoid of wisdom is about the most dangerous and destructive thing afoot, now.
The founder of Netscape remarked, “Software will eat the world.”
Only heaven-sent gifts will stop it now. Stop the “old” consciousness, the accumulation of endless digits, untethered to real values. “10011010100 etc”
” A new heaven and a new earth”.
We await!
Errata to soothe the sensibilities of baseball statisticians: RFK among his last words were those to congratulate Drysdale for having just pitched his 6th consecutive shutout, almost unheard of, not his record 58 &2/3 scoreless innings (we were listening decades later when Orel Hersheiser broke that, in Blue). This excerpt from Wiki: “Among the personal belongings found in Drysdale’s hotel room was a cassette tape of Robert F. Kennedy’s victory speech after the 1968 California Democratic presidential primary, a speech given only moments before Senator Kennedy’s assassination. In the speech, Kennedy had noted, to the cheers of the crowd, that Drysdale had pitched his sixth straight shutout that evening. Drysdale had apparently carried the tape with him wherever he went since Kennedy’s murder.[14]” [Knowing the cabals’ Guinness Record-shattering animus for t)All Things Kennedy, it would never startle me to find Drysdale’s fatal heart attack, alone, on the road, at 56,… Read more »
Was there that much voter turnout in 2016? Did Hillary get 26% of the popular vote and Trump got 23% leaving 51% of the popular who voted for neither?
same with u.k 66 million 24mill voted and they call it a majority
it not it a minority
demoscam
There was no pandemic- never- nada-zilch- not anywhere.
There were large scale social crimes carried out.
Got that right, and ongoing.
left and right mean nothing – it’s about those with power and those without. Socialism for the powerful and feudalism for the rest. Anyone that doesn’t see that now, never will.
GKC SOCIAL “TAKE” SHINES ON: “When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: “Ah, yes, when one is young, one has these ideals in the abstract and these castles in the air; but in middle age they all break up like clouds, and one comes down to a belief in practical politics, to using the machinery one has and getting on with the world as it is.” Thus, at least, venerable and philanthropic old men now in their honoured graves used to talk to me when I was a boy. But since then I have grown up and have discovered that these philanthropic old men were telling lies. What has really happened is exactly the opposite of what they said would happen. They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical… Read more »
Thesis Seven. “Separation is itself an integral part of the unity of this world, of a global social practice split into reality and image. The social practice confronted by an autonomous spectacle is at the same time the real totality which contains that spectacle. But the split within this totality mutilates it to the point that the spectacle seems to be its goal. The language of the spectacle consists of signs of the dominant system of production — signs which are at the same time the ultimate end-products of that system. ” The system of signs is the self-reproduction of the system of signs: which is as a reproduction of the significance of the dominant system of production of signs. In other words: the language-faculty – as the total set of the signification of signs (not merely semantics but semiotics) – is the Integrated Spectacle. And all of those who… Read more »
Dammit, I had things to do today. Your post is making me stop and question everything again. There are disclosures, even constantly appearing, that afford awareness upon which we can act. Then there are intrusions such as yours that might have us stop all action, as useless and complicit. Yet not from futility (although that is also true) but from the pure laugh of existence, in which we can choose to play, or not.
sure, buddy.
He did warn us by calling it thesis7… i skipped right through it. Thanks BigB
Noam Chomsky on Young Turks, Aug 2020.
They should not be interviewing him at his age to be honest. Trump is a zionist traitor of the highest order, but to blame what’s coming entirely on him is not really right, it’s not helping matters. He’s just the guy off the TV. A little kid just got beaten up by adults for wearing a Trump hat outside the Biden rally. Statements like Chomsky’s are fuelling such horror.
So Chomsky is now pushing global warming crap; and I presume he was given a script. It starts at about 19:45:
If Gnome Chumpski says so, it must be right.
In the Trump era, I find insight in applying Debord. “In a world that is really upside down, the true is a moment of the false.” If the creative destruction of Trump scares Chomsky to this absurd extreme, then his prior political claims are rendered insufficient to our new complexity. I have to dismiss his pretense to foresight. Liberation is also possible now, in a world of such rupture and devoid of consensual authority.
Chomsky, good or bad, or unlimited hangover that he is, is expressing here a certain truth that, all too arguable, that so many of Trump’s policies are weaponized by predatory capitalism, to inflict incalculable and unmatched damage on human interests. For the short term bang for the buck. Unlimited damage.
Nothing new, Orange Man’s always been that way, all about that score, look it up. He called that feral snake Roy Cohn his “mentor”. Way back when.
If anything, you can make the case that Chomsky is chastely understating the Reality (TV).
£4£$4$~~~
“You should dream more, Wormold. Reality in this century is not something to be faced.’
— Graham Greene, “Our Man in Havana”
Funny that I’m at the moment reading Our man in Havana… I must be at my 15h Graham Green in a row… small world, and bizarre
Don’t worry, everything will be just peachy once we get rid of the Orange Baboon and instalL Creepy Joe and Kabbala Haaretz in the Oval Office.
No more wars, no more racism, no more sexism, universal peace and brotherhood and justice and happiness will instantly break out over us.
2 “wrongs” don’t make a right.
____
Or a Left.
In the war of attrition against us, this way, there are endless offerings from the one-headed monster, the duopoly. And the right not to choose is also so choosey.
That may serve as an explanation, but never an excuse — for such monotonous Orangeness
___
🍑-y + 🍊 : Colour-coordinated 4U
As we talk of clowns, tightrope walkers and umbrellas, a song from my time in Brazil during the military dictatorship. Those Latin American wars on dissent are very much closer to home than you think – being linked at so many levels to the Paperclip Nazis, the Europeans who informed U.S. politics, foreign and domestic. It merely adapts to the fashions of the time. Anyhow, a short introduction: the singer, Elis Regina, was accused of complicity for failing to protest sufficiently the dictatorship of the 1960s-80s until, that is, she performed what became a celebrated tribute to the exiles who “vanished as if on a rocket’s tail” and to the disappeared, upon whose “tortured stains” sucked the “blotting paper of the sky”. The Drunk and the Tightrope Walker (O Bêbado e a Equilibrista), was written by a psychiatrist turned musician, Aldir Blanc Mendes (who died this May 4th, 2020). The… Read more »
I left the oligarchy and their idea of democracy for the 1% a long time ago
God help us
Unlimited Welfare State: Members Only.
A brilliant insightful piece by Ed. The quote from C. S. Lewis is absolutely perfect. –
(“The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint […] But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice.”)
I agree, but I trust that despite making a trenchant rhetorical point, Lewis understood that the greatest evil arising from the latter group of quiet men often, even typically, trickles down to sordid “dens of crime”.
I say this because coincidentally, earlier today I watched an interview with Erin Marie Olszewski, the nurse who blew the whistle on the New York Elmhurst Hospital Center’s wantonly homicidal COVID procedures. I’d seen earlier interviews with her, but I was forcefully reminded of the horrific malpractice and appalling attitudes of the medical staff there.
Charles Dickens came to mind! I thought that if Dickens were alive, or had a present-day counterpart, he might create a literary portrait based on Olszewski’s credible and compelling account. A sordid den of crime indeed!
Do you have a link to that latest interview with Olszewski? Thank you.
“Undercover Epicenter Nurse”- Interview with Erin Marie Olszewski • Aug 14, 2020
Thank you.
Anything that pushes the existence of a virus is controlled opposition. To understand how the world works you really need to understand that the power elite massively infiltrate the opposition like a mutant octopus and have a complete stranglehold on it. It’s as ascribed to Lenin (but understood by power everywhere and for millennia): “The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.” We can also look to Sun Tzu’s Art of War. If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. The power elite know themselves, they know what bastards they are and they certainly know us much better than we know ourselves. They are… Read more »
In the sulfurous arc sketched by the letters of Screwtape to his nephew in the “confines” of Tempter’s Training College, I became something more than a simple fan of their curator, Mr. Clive S. Lewis: along with “The Moon Is Down 🌒” by Steinbeck, and “Living to Tell the Tale” (Vivir para Contarlo?) by Marquez, Screwtape was a supplement to my scripture about Joseph and his Coat of Coats up thru Moses having thunderous and larger than life adventures on the Mount with handmade Tablets. She had been a lifelong avid reader –she was Fairfax (Hollywood) HS valedictorian, class of ’35, but “autodidacte” thereafter, as young mother of 3. The suave influence that the revelations of diabolical conspiracies (no theory!) invisibly amongst us have upon our vanity and pride and self-exculpatory flaws of reasonings had upon my mother at her tender (last) age of 91 (she still tap danced spectacularly!)… Read more »
PS I tried to add this to the first paragraph, but the edit had timed out, so I put it here, as explanatory of the LA culture 100 years ago:
…avid reader as Fairfax High (Hollywood) valedictorian, class of ’35, but “autodidacte” thereafter, as young mother of 3. (She had never read the Bible, until I read it aloud, 80 years later, and though she had heard it at church all through her girlhood. As a cradle Catholic, she was conditioned in the 1920s LA culture to let Sunday readings be enough, because there were too many “racy parts” in the pre-Gospel earlier books of the Bible! True enough.)
Great post John – thanks!
Thanks, Gary, sorry if the above was garbled, I wrestle with the edit functions here: I had meant to post the 1st Screwtape Letter alongside the above, not long at all, since it is 80 years on just so revealing about the dynamics of critical thinking. Here it is then: ________________ C. S. LEWIS MAGDALEN COLLEGE July 5, 1941 I My dear Wormwood, I note what you say about guiding your patient’s reading and taking care that he sees a good deal of his materialist friend. But are you not being a trifle naïf? It sounds as if you supposed that argument was the way to keep him out of the Enemy’s clutches. That might have been so if he had lived a few centuries earlier. At that time the humans still knew pretty well when a thing was proved and when it was not; and if it was proved… Read more »
Really quite brilliant. More to add to my reading list for sure.
Failing to condemn and oppose totalitarian, murdering regimes such as Islamist Iran, communist China and starving socialist Venezuela, while assuming evil intent in every US action, exemplifies perfectly the naivety, prejudice, hypocrisy and blindness to horrendous injustice that made me abandon leftism in the first place. This article would be approved by Lenin and other tyrants hating democracy. Those regimes I mentioned are monstrous, and destroy the human rights and freedoms that only western democracy gave the world. All war and violence is wrong, not just when Americans do it.
“Communist China, Socialist Venezuela?” What is this an advert for “the Roy Cohn Hour?” You sound like the deranged spawn of some Rego Park, CPUSA Stalinoid dilettantes. If you are looking for a really receptive audience for that bilge head on over to the Sheldon Adelson Corporate Enslavement Center and Mutual Admiration Society. They just eat up that crap.
Your sneering and insulting reveal your hate. As I Keep saying, your intolerance betrays leftist ideals.
Whipping up hatred against the US serves a valuable purpose for the owners of the US.
If everyone loved the US they wouldnt be able to start on so many countries, which is led by the owners of the US.
All war and violence comes from one group of people. Those with a keen eye can see who.
Where does one find that keen eye, and its guarantee of functioning correctly?
Not just WHEN the americans do it. when ? it’s an on going policy of the war mongering yanks, Iran has not fought a war of aggression in over 200 years , the warmongering yanks? since its inception 240 years ago , they have been at war for 225 years with someone , that not a bad record, all the others combined plus a few more you would like to add doesn’t come anywhere near.
Iran peaceful! This dictatorship funds and arms the Hezbollah terror group attacking Israel, the Islamist terror groups ruining Yemen, it is infiltrating and destabilising Lebanon, denies human rights to its subjects, persecutes non-Muslim Iranians, keeps women as second-class citizens, has morality police beat them up in public for refusing the hijab, executes men in public for being gay (including teenagers), imprisons and tortures anyone who criticises and questions the Islamist regime, is busy building one of the largest militaries in the world, and is developing ballistic missiles to carry the nuclear warheads with which the Mullahs openly promise ‘to annihilate Israel’. Iran’s military even write ‘death to Israel’ on their test missiles. Posters can verify all these claims online if they wish, but I’m sure few will bother. As an ex-leftist myself, I know how easy it is to ignore all criticism that leftists cannot perceive reality or see evil… Read more »
This absurd and irrational bigotry against democratic nations like the US, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha give oo-er you blind imbecile, you could never have had any interest in being on the left, apart from how you dress maybe.
Yeah… blind imbecile, straight to caracter destruction and people are cheering.. you sound like a paid zionist
…Hey man, – monkey Xi, monkey do…
Any advance on 3 million?
Only 3 Million?
How about 6 million, all being turned into soap and lamp shades?
Thank you for serving as a target so I can see who’s who
Bravo! Bravo!! Encore!!!
You’ve got all the approved AIPAC talking points into the smallest possible space.
Collect your shekels on the way out.
A bit disappointed, though, that you didn’t get in the latest startling revelations about cannibalism and witchcraft in Tehran.
Maybe next time.
This is true. However, Americans do seem to be rather keen on it, which is why they are hated all over the world.
I too left the Left, but maybe you need to go back and re-learn the bits Lefties actually get right ?
Like communism is better than capitalism, despite the 120m deaths of those who refused or merely displeased communist dictators over the last 100 years? Is that the part leftists got right? Or was it the bit about evil white people practising slavery (forget all prior human history) when the truth is that they were the only ones in human history known to have ended it? How about the part where white humans are racist, but not humans of other colours? Were leftists right when they told you the story that Americans are hated because they love war more than anyone else? I know, you provide the numbers, evidence and rationale to support your claims about Americans as more guilty than other humans, and I’ll check them and revise my views about leftist truths accordingly
This is all ‘my enemy’s enemy is my friend’. It’s an old road that leads nowhere.
America has been dominated by liberal capitalism run in the interests of a private banking cabal for about a century. What hell that has unleashed upon the world !
To criticise that in extreme is not for one microsecond to make any apology for the horrors of Marxist Communism or the identity politics spawn of it which tears our world apart today.
There is a common opposition in both these political movements.
Are you, by any chance, being sponsored to write the word ”leftist”? You must have raised a fortune!
(Not that it’s extremely tedious to read post after post in which you say exactly the same thing, of course).
Only 120 million?
Surely you can do better than that, old chap.
Blue sky thinking, blue sky thinking.
6 billion, surely.
Must aim higher.
Americans received the worst education programs and were dumbed down by the real masters. They were told they were the best and they ended up as naive… they are people, like u, and they are being stripped down… like u idiot.. unless you’re exempt?
Those regimes I mentioned are monstrous, and destroy the human rights and freedoms that only western democracy gave the world.
Thanks for making me burst out laughing. ;o)
Did I say anything untrue? Perhaps you could correct me with some arguments and evidence. Also, please explain who gave you your rights and freedoms, such as the freedom to laugh here, if it was not western culture and democracy. Do you laugh at those fighting for absent human rights in communist China and Islamist Iran?
I_left_the_left
Nobody_gives_a_fuck.
(Seriously. People on here couldn’t care less about what you claim were your political leanings in the past). ;o)
I don’t see how you could have left the left. The more you write, the more obvious it is that you were never in the left.
Bingo. Disinformation troll.
Lower the discourse, distract with nonsense. Push the Trump idolatry. Ask childish questions. Repeat empty platitudes.
Fill up the comments page with junk.
Chalk it up to last generation’s neighbourly psyops in USA, “I used to be a Democrat, before I was won over by the wisdom of Reagan’s policies about: _________”
Like they sell prepackaged fireplace logs in markets, that one is ever foisted with still much success on suckers.
As, I suspect you got plenty of that in UK, if you substitute Maggie for Ron.
Starving half a million Iraqi children under 5 to death is not the work of Iran or Venezuela, it is the work of subhuman American filth who need to be repaid in their own coin and made to suffer as they have made others suffer.
The babies born with two heads and no faces in Fallujah are not the handiwork of Iran or Venezuela, they are the handiwork of the same subhuman filth you want to slobber over.
What about the Americans who oppose imperialism and who have had their lives ended or destroyed by speaking out against it?
The “scientific” paper “Investigation of a COVID-19 outbreak in Germany resulting from a single travel-associated primary case: a case series,” from “The Lancet Infectious Diseases,” is a complete fabrication. The article claims to document a case where Covid-19 was spread from China to Europe. The carrier of Covid-19 was Patient 0, a Chinese business woman who traveled from Shanghai to Munich on Jan 19, 2020, to facilitate workshops, and attend meetings with her German colleagues. She showed no signs of illness during her stay in Germany, although she mentions suffering from jet-lag. She returned to China on Jan 22 where she became ill, and on Jan 26 tested positive for Covid-19. It is claimed that, although asymptomatic at the time, she passed the disease to a number of German associates, who then passed it to others. Those who tested positive for Covid-19 (by qRT-PCR) had their virus sequenced. The sequences… Read more »
Not bad for a virus that doesn’t exist
Some present day ‘politicians’ want to be rulers of the world, to be written into history as some sort of Caesar. They may get their wish. However, in these days of nuclear weapons it will be a short history, with noone left to read it. The political system has to be modified and some form of accountability needs to be incorporated to prevent presidents and prime ministers, rogue officials, from ignoring the public, running riot, and making fortunes for themselves and their gangs in the process. What safeguards we currently have in place clearly isn’t working. Compulsive liars should never be given another public office. It’s naive to deny that some lies will be told on the campaign trail by politicians, but these lies have to stop during their tenure. Those elected who renege on their campaign promises should have their tenure cut short. Today’s public are supposed to be… Read more »
then dont vote the electors must be fucking stupid to keep voting for known liars pedos, con artists, murderers, time and time again and expecting a different type of politicians and results!!
no sympathy
there is a oldsaying never trust a Tory
never trust politicians they dont represent you
they worked for big business
what part of that do you not all understand..?
I understand that Labour politicians are better humans than the Tories you clearly hate, but with no reason or evidence to prove your accusation. But I can’t see how hating Jews and honouring their violent killers makes you a better human. Maybe Jeremy Corbyn knows. More importantly, do you think British Tories can manipulate globalist eugenicists like Bill Gates, or big pharma interests like Gilead, rather than the reverse?
Hindsight is a very personal affair and rarely makes an appearance on a mass scale. Some time ago, the security forces solved their problems with leaks, rogues and spies, by simply increasing the quality and depth of vetting new recruits.
After thatcher’s secret weapon, the ‘oldsaying’ could just as easily apply to the Labour party.
The system is in place for us to use. Removing big business from the political process would prevent the tail wagging the dog and free thousands of corporate lobbyist to go and do something more worthwhile.
Remembering the past I recall Labour facilitating the genocide of millions.And its other human rights abuses.All covered up by its arch propagandist Norman Reddaway.
You dont seem to understand that politicians do the bidding of those who own the world.
A politician isnt going to make it to a position of influence unless they are a snake. Its futile to wish for something else, because that’s not how it works.
Why not focus on who is controlling everything and why?
I for one do not give up so easily.
History is littered with examples of humans creating ‘something else’ and making it work.
We have in this modern age all we need to ensure decent, fair, and efficient governance. It’s the false notion that nothing can be done.
I believe that’s Big Pharma’s motto, and they are doing great!
There’s a criminal at the head of WHO and he’s altered world economy and muzzled everybody… now he’s telling his friends « See? It can be done done, now lets settle our bets » « All right, do you have change for a million »
Any new solution is compromised because the ruling group have way too much power. If they can make it work for them they will hijack it. If it threatens them they will crush it.
The only solution is to name and remove them.
But not from democracy to dictatorship, in which people become subject to unable to speak freely, let alone vote freely.
Ironically, our protest rock band The Refusers just released a song titled Clown Show.
Lyrics:
“We’re bought and sold, I told you so. Gonna fight it with rock and roll.
Cast off the yoke, go for broke. Cram it down their throats!
Eeny Meeny Eeny Meeny Miny Moe. Wall Street and the government are a joke.
It’s a clown show, Bozo. Clown show, Bozo. Clown show, Bozo.
Bozo, Bozo, Bozo, Bozo clown show!”
Free streaming link to hear our song Clown Show
https://www.reverbnation.com/therefusers/song/31999474-clown-show
Indeed, the situation is far from funny, especially the growing confrontation with China and Russia, which increasingly looks like world war. But there is a pattern of history here, and blindness to the nuclear cataclysm that awaits.
https://www.ghostsofhistory.wordpress.com/
China and Russia are part of this Covid hoax. It’s smoke and mirrors.
That’s the strange part of this article. On the one hand he refers to the Umbrella people pulling the strings,then implies the political theatre is actually real – ie the US/China conflict. As you say it is a part of the show. The cabal are colluding across the board. In fact I am pretty sure the entire covid hoax was planned out carefully with the Chinese.
Just because it’s a show means it’s not real? That real people don’t get killed?
Chinese scientists in Wuhan even produced and somehow released a fake virus that changed global history. Unless the evil yankees did it, of course.
I wonder if Edward Curtin has read about Cybereason and their drills for the upcoming circus finale in November ?
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/cybereason-announces-new-plans-to-accelerate-access-to-us-govt-networks-ahead-of-2020-election/
Kind of important context don’t you think ?
…and because I am at a very loose end, basically waiting around to see what utter shit the powers that be are going to throw into our faces next, I read about the asteroid that will likely strike Earth on Nov 2nd this year.
https://www.realtalktime.com/asteroid-collision-november-2018vp1/
(Yeah 6 feet diameter…)
Just to jump into the circus hoopla with both feet, let’s draw upon the failed prediction of a catastrophic event involving fire and mass death in Seattle which some random German guy thought was going to happen on 3rd November 2019 (see Adam Green). Let’s say he got the year wrong… by one.
So a mini nuke it is then, in Seattle Nov 2nd/ 3rd, blamed on an asteroid strike, media crisis management by Cybereason (Unit 8200).
God I am at a loose end.
Vote Harris/Trump/Crusty the Clown.
I’ve been to that Observatory on Palomar mountain many times.
CNN just published a story on it. Maybe you’re on to something.
I just caught a Caitlin Johnstone tweet that the lockdown was halfway through and would be over in 3 weeks. In what part of the world did the lockdown last 6 weeks?
Marxian Utopia ?
Hardly. That would only have amounted to a brief hiatus in business as usual.
Reports in Brazil (where I live) say China has been using HCQ since February. No more pandemic and lockdown there. But Bill Gates, friend of communist dictator Xi Jinping, hater of evil Orange Man, top funder of the corrupt WHO, says HCQ, which has saved millions since 1955 with no ill effects, has dangerous side effects, and that we will need his very effective vaccines instead. Fauci his friend famously warns us not to trust HCQ too. Isn’t that weird? Perhaps it’s because unheard of profits for big pharma will only only possible if off-patent, dirt cheap HCQ remains banned…
She’s a dissappointment.
Lockdown never even arrived in Sweden, which nonetheless had lower death rates than the UK.
Caitlin Jonestown done lost her shit…
…That is *All*.
There’s a great song from the 70’s by a band called String Driven Thing called “Circus.” Been thinking of it lately as I watch the neuroses of the locals come to the fore as they wear their masks right out of the door on beautiful sunny days. The intentional heightened pandemonium of the song as it progresses is apt for what is swirling around us at the moment. Lyrics and song below: I was watching the man on the tightrope He was doing his best to stay up He was swaying from side to side And the crowd around him cried And the nails of the lady beside me Were digging into my skin And her breathing was becoming excited As they let the lions in She said Fall, why don’t you fall for me now? Fall, why don’t you fall for me now? Fall, why don’t you fall for… Read more »
Thank you for this. I’m ashamed to say I’d never heard of either this band or this song. (Rip Van Winkle’s got nothing on me.)
I think for many of us wherever we can create oases of sanity and some sense of “normalcy” that is important. And don’t take no crap from the self-righteous who are ill informed. No matter the case- we gotta keep going.
I’ve had enough freaks in the circus
And none of them are in the ring
Same here.
If we go with the idea that this wasn’t pre planned then why is this government and team of scientific advisors and medical officers still in jobs. Professor Ferguson doomsday model was released as a worse case scenario if no lockdown was introduced. Ferguson’s track record of modelling pandemics have been an absolute shambles. Analysis of these models have shown they were full of bugs, wrong assumptions and the conclusion that they weren’t fit for purpose. For Boris and the Tory government to not even bother to peer review this model would be gross incompetence. And Witty, Vallance and every other scientific and medical adviser in the UK didn’t verify these models? Or did they agree? Again this is gross incompetence. Why are these people still in jobs and why would any sane person give them a platform. Witty and Vallance are being allowed to continue to make wild predictions… Read more »
http://tapnewswire.com/2020/08/special-announcement-from-the-free-people-alliance/
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Boris and favoured experts are scientifically illiterate. That means they treat science as the ancients revered the Oracle of Delphi, as fount of infallible authority and prophecy. They have lost or never understood the endless scepticism which makes science and rational governance possible. Our leaders fail to understand that scientific knowledge is fallible, provisional, and always contestable, which is precisely what allows it to progress. By contrast, dogmatic knowledge is like faith or ideology; Christian, Islamic, communist and fascist beliefs can never be changed, tested or improved. Because government assumes science as dogmatic certainty can justify policy-making (so absolving them of responsibility), it gets hopelessly wrong-footed every time better science appears. During the pandemic, poor or incomplete establishment science treated as dogma and protected from sceptical challenge has led to faulty predictions, absurdly severe lockdown, the demonisation and banning of lifesaving HCQ, the dumb faith in expensive vaccines produced by… Read more »
We need, preferably over the counter, HCQ and zinc.
The fact that this government has refused to allow its use is little better than mass murder.
There seems a possibility that it is going to finally be used in the USA.
The figures of deaths of countries using HCQ and those not, are absolutely compelling that HCQ works.
It is an outrage that we can’t get it in Britain.
The UK Gov spent £20m on hydroxycholoquine, ordered from the United States. I’m guessing this batch is for the super rich and the vaccines are for us.
Nobody needs HCQ. There’s no evidence of a virus. Since the mortality rate from country to country is an arbitrary number based on the way governments choose to report deaths, HCQ has nothing to do with the variations. It may simply be that not putting people on ventilators saves lives. If people want to mitigate damage from EMF, they should research Melatonin. If people want to regulate their immune system from overreacting to toxins and prohibit upper respiratory infections, and regulating cytokine release they should research the effects of taking supplemental C, D and Quercetin. HCQ blocks the hERG channel. It can cause arrhythmia. Azithromyacin blocks the hERG channel. Taking those two medications together is unwarranted and possibly dangerous. I believe the initial researcher who is a fraud and allied with Sarkozy for decades, put those two medications together on purpose. Not to help, but to harm. And it keeps… Read more »
It occurred to me today that slave ships were full of people like us. Is the point of all this drama to keep us slaves looking out the windows to see if we are turning around to head back to our native lands and a life we knew?
Good article with a concise distillation of facts regarding the now inbred criminality of the American nation. Ever since WW2 they have increased and sought to justify a course of greed fuelled intimidation worldwide, behaviour exemplifying all the hallmarks of the psychopathic mindset with its complete disregard for human suffering. A nation whose entire economy is controlled by the manufacture of weaponry designed to obliterate, intimidate and subdue any who stand in the way. A nation which can impose sanctions on those it deems necessary and recently resorts to acts of piracy on a country it wishes to enslave with its imperialist agenda. Edward draws the very apt analogy of a circus wherein the attention of the audience is entertained and, more importantly, distracted, to forever consign any attempt at critical thought and reasoning into the realms of the impossible. This big tented circus is truly the embodiment of the… Read more »
Is a Muslim evil because he is Muslim? Is a Jew guilty because of his religious identity? Is someone inferior because of his skin colour? Are all whites racist because of past racism? Are all Iranians guilty of terrorist violence? Of course not, in all cases. We must judge individuals on their behaviour or the content of their character, as Christ, Martin Luther King and many leftists have repeatedly taught us. You betray all that with your hate against people who were born American. What horrible racism. Perhaps you should reflect on the 120m innocent citizens whose lives were ended by their own communist dictatorships over the last century. Countless millions of others must live in fear in case they join them. This unspeakable horror continues in communist China’s hundreds of concentration camps, which currently hold a reported 3m Muslims, Tibetans, and other undesirable minorities. They face torture, rape, murder,… Read more »
“ Perhaps you should reflect on the 120m innocent citizens whose lives were ended by their own communist dictatorships”
Perhaps you should reflect on the fact that China does not see the world as an object to be raped and exploited for their own benefit. You seem to have a morally defective view of recent American history and its ongoing belligerent behaviour on this small planet we live on which because of their behaviour could extinguish all of our lives in a nuclear holocaust. Left or right makes no difference and as Mr Curtin suggests this three ring circus is full of Republican and Democrat clowns. I do not hate the American people as per your accusation, I do however pity them for their indifference towards the criminal elite which controls them.
Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos!
This is odd. I posted the appropriate “Simpsons” link to the preceding comment, and actually saw the Simpsons’ thumbnail when the comment posted. Now the comment displays a link to the “undercover nurse” video I posted earlier.
I know I saw the Simpsons’ video displaying previously, so I didn’t accidently post the wrong URL. I’m re-posting the Simpsons’ link to see what happens:
What really tickles the people’s fancy is when one of the clowns sneaks outside center ring and pisses on the crowd. They can hardly get their hankies out to wipe their face masks clean they’re laughing so hard. Oh those wacky wonderful silly clowns!
But Biden is too senile a clown to piss on any crowd. And we Trump supporters are too busy to laugh anyway, as we are busy cheering on Trump the anti-politician in his fight against the corrupt political classes and their corporate and neo-con friends. Sadly, I doubt many leftists have minds open enough to take my blasphemous view seriously or to join us in the great fight to restore democracy by draining the swamp. Making people hate and attack Trump as a greedy capitalist, an evil racist or just a clown is so easy and such a great way to divide popular resistance, and then to rule more effectively and securely. This tactic hides the reality of how globalist elites have corrupted and taken control of so many of our elected politicians, whole parliaments and key institutions like the corporate mass media and ‘neutral’ government advisors. But look how… Read more »
Humanity is caught in the death grip of political and corporate leaders and their criminal overlords, As a deer frozen with fear from oncoming headlights on a road at midnight. Life for those leaders of the establishment is so comfortable and so luxurious, they feel it is better that everything remains the same for them, Whilst humanity has to be modified, neutered, lobotomized and culled. Now the establishment itself has created the situation of an ultimate change. There have been great people in the world, but even the greatest of them in some way or other, compromise with the establishment. They all lived in a compromise with the vested interests. These ‘great’ people are not going to save you! The society’s whole interest is in how to exploit you, how to enslave you, how to use you in a more efficient way, almost like a machine. It gives you all… Read more »
Interesting comment. Some may not like my methods but I force people to see the truth. This is motivated out of love.
Should we accept or condemn those who prefer to trust in peaceful change, regular elections and majority rule, rather than ‘spread rebellion all around’ them? Should we treat normies with different opinions as equals or look down on them as the dumb herd who need our enlightened leadership and salvation? Dictators only do the second, I’d wager.
khagan gone boris piffel donmeh 2much johnson is missing he is kidnapped he was taken because of his political beliefs i am not sure what they are but he seems nice enough we must help him help him free the turkic new york born donmeh khazar khagan the methods rolling out in aussie,canuckustan and kiwi are tried and tested methods from old commie russia and smart city china slow boil frogs lockstep is the game all in belarus not quite but maybe soon beirut big bang now today new masks and lock downs corrective corrections it is all a racket know white hats here gangs counter gangs and pseudo sometimes mob turf wars but in the main lockstep divisions dividings spoils why be a loner when you can be club member putins desperation to be in not out iran is in and out of chatham house like a drunken sailor… Read more »
…Speaking of Khagan, whatever happened to ol’ Vicki Noodleman?…
…- Any sightings of her handing out cookies in Minsk yet?
War Is a Racket. Yes it is. To Hell With It!
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Xp7whYQ1BAg/ViFaZuyLquI/AAAAAAAACK8/lv9lMHy4IhQ/s1600/bm5620528a.jpg
One who was not a clown.
Neo-cons and swamp critters hate Trump because he’s against war and the US as global policeman.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/list-73-former-gop-national-security-experts-swamp-monsters-warmongers-sign-letter-endorsing-joe-biden-president-ric-grenell-responds-video/
Do they now?
“Policeman.” Thought no one used that tired cliche any longer.
Trump is against war, except in Syria, Iran, Yemen, Ukraine, Venezuela, Somalia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and a few other places.
Well… The main problem is that the Herd of modern moron slaves (mms) are so busy with the task of surviving they really don’t know how our wonderful Civilization is organized.
Even when some know, they really understand they can’t do much about it. The main reason for this is that the first opposite Force for Change are the other mms, that really don’t want “any additional troubles” beyond what they already have.
So the majority of mms embraces and enjoys the Circus. They at least can call the clowns (jesters) names, do some pointless marches in the streets, enter some funny fights with another set of mms that Protect the jesters and above…
A long time ago I made a depiction of the Civilization we live in. Those that accept Reality really understand what the MONUMENTAL TASK it is to Change just a tiny piece of this mess.
Enjoy…
Voz 0db: Good image. Most civilians fail to recognize that the “owners” of the world’s monetary systems always use the same modus. Organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and Bank for International Settlements use financial arbitrage and trade sanctions to insure that no rogue countries can function or exist outside their influence.
Excerpted from: Bank for International Settlements – Wikipedia
“The BIS was established in 1930 by an intergovernmental agreement between Germany, Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, the United States and Switzerland.[4] [5] It opened its doors in Basel, Switzerland on 17 May 1930.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_for_International_Settlements
When countries (or States) experience unprecedented drought, famine, civil war, and financial liquidity risks, they are hard pressed to correct the damage as they are now broke or “broker”… Usury banking guarantees that all sub-players will incur debt and be held hostage to the dictates of civilian enslavement and overt fascism.
I agree with Ronald Reagan that ‘government is the problem, not the solution’. Maybe you would too. Sadly, we can’t do society without authorities and laws. So should we choose a) government which controls the people (autocracy, the historical norm for 98% of human history) or b) government controlled by the people (democracy, a Western idea only popular very recently)? If I’m not mistaken, the only known peaceful way to empower the people of a nation to choose who governs or to remove failed or fraudulent leaders is through the ballot box. So will you trust and recommend elite rule and accompanying oppression, or majority rule and power to the people? I can agree that democracy has been heavily corrupted and needs to be made great again, hence my support for Trump and not the elite swamp.
You clearly wish to live under the illusion that mutTrump – a billionaire – cares about “democracy”! After 4 years in the White Horse he has nothing to show for… Except trillions of Wealth Transfer to his Friends and Owners. Enjoy the nickel!
Love it
And the curtin dropped and he was exposed— suffering from TDS. Howbout that.
When the MSM begins its campaign of systematically discrediting anti-lockdown protests by pointing the finger and labelling the protests ‘far-right’ – they won’t be wrong. Some protests *ARE* being led by the Right.
But this is because the unions and the Left in all its forms have refused to participate. The champions of human rights are seemingly OK with technofascism and tyranny.
The Left’s self-indulgent and cowardly absence has amplified the voice of the Right.
anybody still supporting this fascist hoax, at this late date, in the face of all evidence, is in fact far-right, whether or not they’re consciously aware of it.
I want to see this issue of “it’s Covid Communism” vs. “the Covid scam is a global fascist take over” explored and settled. To my reading, the ‘far right’ are better described as ‘third positionists’. Keith Woods’ much watched video here explains this political philosophy as they themselves describe it. If the Left want to portray them as ‘pro-capitalist’, and accuse them of being disengenuous then so be it. They consistently and repeatedly reject Neoliberal, international, rent-seeking, usurous forms of capitalism, and although I am not a signed up member of any political movement, and am not here to defend third positionism, it toasts my nut to keep reading misrepresentations of what they actually say and stand for. Of note too, is that (again to my reading) many on this relatively small fringe of political opinion have been either silently accepting or are active supporters of the core Covid narrative… Read more »
I think Covidians are strongly authoritarian. I don’t know if they are right wing but suspect you are correct. What would an election look like today? Or in two years time? It might return an anti-Covid-Hysteria parliament which would be dangerous to the health of the nation. An election is not permissible. Elections have already been banned all over the Earth. I consider that completely nuts. Could the abolishment of elections be the real reason for this quarantine of the healthy? Could the Global Reset (as seen in MSM outlets) be a red herring?The 5th of November will offer a clue.
‘An anti-Covid-Hysteria parliament which would be dangerous to the health of the nation.’
Could you explain this: Public health? political health?
From what I see, you are correct about some elections being suspended e.g. in the UK and some leaders haveunilaterally extended their terms (Ardern in NZ for example).
This is a psychological operation to slide the population into fascism by redefining the word.
Any challenge to the Neoliberal Elite since 2016 has been labeled “far right” or “white supremacist”, even as latter transcended 1930s Corporatism, the very definition of fascism.
This neuters the people: how can you call your government fascist if, by the very act of doing so, you become a fascist and thus outside the pale?
Whether or not you were in the Court of the Orange King, simply citing the Constitution has been enough to cancel you as “fascist” or, if you are a lefty, “a red brownshirt”.
Is the left responsible for neutering politics by maiming the language? Partly. It’s also been the victim, however, and remains cowed and silent, frightened of being labelled, just as the UK Labour Party rolled over and let outsiders label who was and was not beyond the pale.
100% correct.
Psychopathy 101: – Psychopaths gonna *project*… – ‘specially onto their victims…
What I’ve seen in my whole lifetime looking at national politics (USA) is “battered democrat syndrome”: infiltrate the Dems up the wazoo then tell them it’s all their fault for letting it happen.
Problem is, we’ve never developed any real “immune system” that can defend us from such a simple trick. Simple though “well-financed”.
Reading the exchanges on Twitter regarding Caitlin Johnstone’s non-position, I think again that there is something fundamental about Leftist thinking which struggles to comprehend this moment we are in. A Leftwing friend with whom I discussed the Covid situation some months back, could not at that time see the events as anything other than as described in the media or in Leftwing outlets. The global nature of the governmental response for him precluded any possibility that there might be ulterior motives or deception at play. NB Cuba, Iran, Venezuala, China, Russia have all been understood for many years as rivals to the US dominated empire and yet they all joined in with the charade of Covid 19. Lefties struggle to fathom this disconnect, as they have been steeped in understanding the world order as ‘US domination’ (as described by Curtin here) pitched against the freedom fight of plucky renegades. Truth… Read more »
I’m a lifelong ‘leftie’ and I can clearly see what’s happening – with horror. How others can’t see it, is mind boggling to me.
I suspect Caitlin Johnstone is a State funded, controlled opposition shill. There are plenty of others no doubt.
What can I say? Take the red pill and wake up. Things will then make sense.
> I suspect Caitlin Johnstone is a State funded, controlled opposition shill. There are plenty of others no doubt.
One gets the *strangest* feeling reading the comments on “her” site..
That, and “her” recent “it’s just all so confusing!” vibe re: the Dreaded
Pathogen™ made me stop reading there on a regular basis.
Caitlin *Jonestown*.
…- FIFY.
I copied the spelling from ‘Crank’ who I was replying to.
Yes. There are no countries or borders, or even sovereignty. They exist in theory, but in practice their existence has little meaning. The illusion is what’s been fostered. The idea of nation states are used to pit one group of people against another in wars, the same way the voters are divided against each other in each country, as are the covid skeptics against the covid believers. The same way, in ancient societies, religion was used to send armies to war. The wars are merely tools for eradication of human life, to disguise land and capital transactions. When “New World Order“ was proclaimed out loud in speeches by presidents and politicians it had already occurred with the formation of the UN. There’s no need for a one world government if there’s already a global governance system in place through the IMF, IBS, World Bank, Central Banks, Chatham House, CFR, Trilateral… Read more »
And of course the Palestinians are left to suffer and die as Israel is supported in its despotic policies in the Middle East. This is a weak addendum thown in for the sake of inclusion. Curtin is like so many here, quite rightly getting us to think about the foreign policy of the USA, but studiously avoiding the elephant in the room. The political Left’s pathological refusal to honestly consider the true relationship between Israel and the US (or to consider the ethno-religious-supremacists within US power circles and their curation of that relationship) is just one more example of ring mastering. The deranged ignorance of liberals and the duplicity of ‘Conservatives’ are two anothers. Who owns the circus though? I recommend this long article (below) asking us to follow the money trails which lead back to roots of the atrocities which Edward writes about here. These are monumental times, and… Read more »
The USA billionaires of which there are some 600 apparently, are at last count and that is quite a while ago – 565 billion dollars richer from the plandemic.
The US working and middle classes are losing jobs by the million and are now facing real struggle, even poverty and hunger.
Follow the money?
Those figures tell all.
Business Insider puts it another 100 billion more……
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8390755/US-billionaires-565bn-RICHER-pandemic.html
It would be handy if Off-Guardian could publish a piece about this, because it reveals the true purpose of ‘coronavirus’.
Agreed, Eyes Open. I would *very much* like to see the Admins tackle that as well.
This seminal paper from 2011 provides an excellent jumping-off point:…
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51761051_The_Network_of_Global_Corporate_Control
…Identify the (corporate/institutional) shareholders of the components of the ‘super-connected entity’ described in the paper. Then continue to follow the money until you wind up at the *individual* shareholders. – They’re your ultimate ‘owner class’, and to a man and woman, the actual perps behind the whole sordid caper.
I have read that Tony Hall article and I found it a very useful aid to understanding the history and structure of what is going on. No lizards, no 5g, just a very detailed expose of how ‘the money’ works. Conspiracy facts not theory!
I would recommend taking the time to read it. If you don’t like the Unz Review, it’s also on the American Herald Tribune site:
https://ahtribune.com/world/covid-19/4346-following-the-money.html
> I have read that Tony Hall article
I thought it was way, way, way too long, and unfocused.
“Look over there!”
/ pass
Nice article. “Representative” democracy is how the real elite can continue to call the shots behind the scenes – it’s impossible to corrupt a whole nation, but it’s quite easy to bribe, coerce, intimidate, extort and control a few power-hungry “representatives” in parliament. It is the same in any western country, but the clown-show is more pronounced in the US I suppose. In most countries, the political system has stayed unchanged for literally centuries. Why is that? I can imagine in the early days, it was quite cumbersome to send the entire district to parliament. Sending a representative makes logistical sense in the age of the horse and carriage. Of course, it’s also much easier to bribe, coerce, intimidate, extort and control that ambitious and power-hungry “representative”. Knowing that, we should start campaigning for a new DIRECT democratic system. Now, in the digital age, it does not make any sense… Read more »
Fascinating that all the talk about AI and big data does not touch on democracy, isn’t it. It’s as if Information Technology is purely a way for vested interests to control the people. It’s used to tell us what to think – when it could just as easily be used to ask us what we think. Why are Digital IDs being discussed as a way to grant us temporary rights to participate in society on pain of exclusion and subject to revocation (if we don’t submit to this or that) — instead of Digital IDs as a right to decide what goes or doesn’t go? The Internet makes direct democracy possible. As you say, representative democracy, deputing others to act as tribunes, has been around for centuries. I worked on a project using algorithms borrowed from cryptocurrency that would translate the popular will into decisions on specific policies. There is… Read more »
Yes, it’s strange how technology accelerates at a rapid pace, but our system of governance established centuries ago, in the age of horse and carriage, is already 100% perfect apparently – nothing to see or improve on here, move along! Do your democratic “duty” and vote for the next clown that’s in our pockets already 😉
Interesting to hear about your project. Technology can liberate or enslave – we’re on the “enslave” path here right now. I don’t think technology is fundamentally “bad” or “good”, again it depends on the people and forces behind it. Technology could as you say be used in a positive way to ensure that the will of the people is indeed being heard, and that decisions that do not have support are not enacted. That’s what democracy is all about right? (at least in theory).
Kaczynski was right in his analysis (if not in his actions).
There is no Democracy. It is but an illusion.
Data harvesting for AI purposes will be used for evil, you can guarantee it.
When the machine finally awakes we will see a new modern form of Fascism. But we won’t be told by allowing our every stroke of the keyboard, our thoughts, our images, our voices, and the digital collection of every piece of our daily lives, that we have unknowingly, and unwittingly, played a part in our own imprisonment.
“Data harvesting for AI purposes will be used for evil, you can guarantee it.”
IBM made the Third Reich possible. How did it happen that Microsoft, a company born out of IBM, is in turn giving birth to a new generation of the same technology: Hollerith punch cards, recording all a person’s ethnic, medical, labour and social data.
A portable score of one’s social credit, value or worth. Perhaps linked to a digital wallet, providing the ability to control what you buy, as already happens in China.
The Nazi Party: IBM & “Death’s Calculator” by Edwin Black
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ibm-and-quot-death-s-calculator-quot-2
To clarify, I’m not saying something silly like these companies are uniquely evil (clearly technology firms are aware of that ethical risk, or they’d never have a motto ‘don’t be evil’ in the first place, and they wouldn’t feel the need to retire such a motto, as Google did). I have family members who’ve worked for two of these three companies.
It does illustrate, however, the likelihood of technology to veer toward evil, not simply the possibility. It’s not just a matter of “business”: inanimate money working with both sides. It is truly remarkable that the same companies that saw fit to enable the worst aspects of the Third Reich are at it again.
You might find Lutz Dammbeck’s documentary ‘The Net’ insightful, Moneycircus…
…- Details the origins and history of the computer/information revolution, with particular respect to the intersection of cybernetics with behavioural psychology, and the resulting birth and rise of ‘biopolitics’.
(Mixed english and german, with english subtitles.)
…crank, you might wanna check this out too, considering your Ted Kaczynski reference, up-thread…
Good to see people raising this idea. A genuine alternative. It at least appears achievable. Robert Anton Wilson wrote about it twenty years ago. I’ve done some thinking on it myself in recent years. A mass society will still need some kind of structure to implement decisions made in any participatory process. That is a tricky element. The state is a monopoly of violence which is maintained by paid enforcers. How can a participatory system control the controllers ? Incumbancy is the issue. We need structures without incumbants : i.e. ones that form for the duration of the decision then fade to nothing. How would a polity be demarkated ? States need to be protected, unless this is to be a global system of governance. Governments are seen and see themselves first and foremost as defenders of the realm. Hard to perform this role without office holders. Finally, the media… Read more »
‘Going Direct’ is the name bankers have given to their plan to abolish cash under the cover of Event Covid. It’s time to steal their slogan and use it to hammer the whole plan to use the internet to repress the people.
Yes, we want to ‘go direct’ but we’ll keep untrackable money, thank you. Instead we’ll take direct democracy.
Google’s and Facebook’s manipulation of the internet is allowed to continue by the present incumbents… A direct democracy system would not tolerate that. It would be addressed.. unlike in the present where Robert Epstein, senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, have clear evidence of manipulation only for his wife to die in a mysterious car crash (sure a crash is a crash but given the import of Epstein’s allegations and the timing I’m not buying it.)
You don’t have to discard the entire governance model to make this work – you just replace the representatives in the legislative assembly (parliament) with a direct link to the people, you can keep the bureacracy to actually effectuate everything. In a representative democracy, government is usually formed by the dominant political party/ a majority coalition – however, what does that “goverment” actually consist of? 20-ish ministers and they closest aides is the political part of it, and the rest (99.99%) is the good ol’ bureacracy effectuating everything – regardless of who is in power. The bureacracy stays relatively constant between governments, it could be that way in a direct democracy as well, only that they answer to the people not to some incompetent fool like BOJO the clown and there would be no elected government per se (it would be redundant) Obviously you would need to develop mechanisms that… Read more »
This is often seen as the ‘permanent government’ though. Political influence of vested interests is not just aimed at elected representatives, it is rife throughout bureaucracy too. One thing that strong government can do is (potentially) act as a counterbalance to this incumbent bureaucratic power [Seen ‘A Very British Coup‘ ?] It rarely happens of course, but one can see the attraction of leadership when there is a hive of civil servants who have been embedded in the state for generations and regard themselves as society’s true managers.
I like the idea of direct democracy through the internet. It could be ultimately the invention’s greatest contribution and obvious destiny. It needs more work though in my opinion.
Good points! however, it’s ultimately the legislative assembly that make the laws and determine the national budget, and I believe it is here the most sinister subversion of democracy happens and where the representatives simply are often not voting in the interest of their constituency, but in the interest of powerful interest groups – take as the prime example the US where politicians are practically bought by special interests more or less openly. I have no immediate solutions to the problems of the entrenchment and corruption of the bureacracy, you bring up some very valid points, but again as an “all else equal” argument, it is really a separate problem from my initial proposal that actually needs to be seen independently of parliamentary approach to democracy. To the extent politicians could clean up incumbent bureacracies, so could other forces. What those forces could be I really don’t know, but that’s… Read more »
For the bureaucrats: – short-arsed term limits and *instant* recall for all…
…- Even better, a rotating, straw poll system like jury duty, again with instant recall for transgressors/fuck-ups. – Make civic service a personal duty and a public honour… – Teach that to the kids in school, as well.
As an example of this, several people consider Mark Sedwill to be effectively running the UK at the moment.
“…you just replace the representatives in the legislative assembly (parliament) with a direct link to the people,…” …A blockchain-based publishing platform like Steemit, perhaps in a more Wiki-like collaborative authoring/editing format, combined with a Github/Subversion style repository/version control framework would achieve that. ‘We the Peeps’ would be able to cooperatively draft our own legislation, with both individual contributions and the overall draft-in-progress being blockchain-authenticated at all stages. Individual edits would be attributable and conflicting edits resolved via version control, and constraints could be placed curtailing semantic complexity/legalese through community rules/forum chat discussion a-la Wikipedia. Further, as Moneycircus pointed out to you in a comment furter up the thread; It’s even possible to have second and third rounds of consultation – sending a proposal back to the people to think it over – as a positive means to refine and perfect decisions… So the draft-in-progress could be discussed, voted on and… Read more »
Do you know of a place where these ideas are being discussed in depth ?
On the point of sortition or straw poll/ jury service, I read ‘In The Name of The People’ by Ivo Moseley, which makes the case that modern ideas of ‘democracy’ (through election) were regarded as a route to tyranny by just about everyone from the Greeks to the early Victorians. Real democracy was always understood as involving the drawing of lots.
Somehow these things get lost.
Thanks also for the ‘Net’ doc link. I watched that some years back, yes, but could well watch it again.
oh you are going to get your direct digital democracy, but you wont like it.
I vote for Comrade Aladdin.
https://www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/2018/04/meet-aladdin-computer-more-powerful-traditional-politics
If I get it in the format I described, I’m pretty sure I will prefer it over the Pluto-oligarchical corrupt faux-democracy we have today! but feel free to elaborate.
Predictable, I know, but couldn’t help.
“The Umbrella People are the moguls who own the showtime studios – some call them the secret government, the deep-state, or the power elite”
I call them Colluding Class because they collude to steal assets from people (like the Kohl-Regime did from me) and carve out new wars by never ever resolving conflicts but nurturing them to simmer.
Perhaps without specifically asserting it, the great Edward Curtin’s message is: “Humanity has endured more than enough unnecessary, tragic wars, and the time has long past when humanity finally stops the world’s war criminals and ended criminal wars of aggression forever..Emphasis on forever..”
Peace.
“The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.”
John Dalberg, Lord Acton.