offguardian--2020-11-23--An Invitation to Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies

In lieu of writing reviews of their own books – with the exception of Walt Whitman , who did that with Leaves of Grass – writers often write introductions or prefaces .
The purpose of such introductions is to give the prospective readers a sense of what to expect in the pages that follow , as if the author knew exactly what he was writing when he was writing it , as if he weren ’ t waylaid by words along the way , or could possibly know what a reader may experience when reading them .
In a way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even while knowing that all writing , if it is any good , is a leap into the relative dark , both for the writer and the reader .
We can ’ t know beforehand how either will affect us .
What changes us in life and in books is always surprising .
The following is the Introduction to my new book , Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies .
I offer it here as an invitation to consider joining me in the book so we may seek together .
Sort of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ putting together this selection of essays , I was reminded of what Albert Camus once wrote : While I do not claim that all these essays are art , they are my efforts to say in the most eloquent way I can what really has mattered to me in recent years , not just politically but personally , since they are entwined .
Upon reflection , I see that what matters to me now is what mattered to me when I was young .
Although the issues have changed in certain ways as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or because , my wanderings through life with all its changes have paradoxically meant , in Nietzsche ’ s words , that I have been becoming who I am .
This seems true to me , and the essaying of the words that follow are part of that becoming .
Ortega y Gassett once said that “ whether he be an original or a plagiarist , man is the novelist of himself.
” I agree .
While a book of essays is not a novel , if read in its entirety , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ times and the man who tells them ; it expresses two stories simultaneously .
And each story , if told well , always has a double dimension , the old and the new .
Every life and every event is disclosed in an historical context , now and then and all the time in between .
While hoping I am an original , I know that I have learned and borrowed from many others .
My greater hope is that what I say here is said in a way no other could , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ That it is novel .
For I am convinced that we can not grasp the unique nature of our current era simply by repeating straightforward political analyses .
That approach is necessary but not enough .
For it leaves out the hidden heart of a world that seems to be spinning madly toward some kind of denouement .
It omits all the little thoughts , secrets , fears , and desires of so many people who wish to speak but can ’ t find the words to express their thoughts .
From a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with truth , death , and freedom .
As I recall , those words have been synonymous for God for many thinkers .
So I suppose you could say that I have always been intoxicated with God or for God , or maybe God has been intoxicated with me .
I don ’ t know , nor do I care to : knowledge is overrated .
I know what I feel .
My concerns have been those of many writers throughout the ages — poets , rebels , journalists , philosophers , passionate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ truth and a peaceful world of love and kindness .
Those I have admired the most , believers or unbelievers — it is often hard to tell the difference , nor does it matter—were those who dismissed categories , distinctions , or labels , but who wrote freely because for them to write freely was to live freely and not to be caged by anyone ’ s restrictions as to what they should be saying or how they were saying it .
For them truth was their God , and through the weaving @ @ @ @ @ @ @ always seeking to disclose what was hidden from common sight .
They used language to open up cracks in the consensus reality that the great poet and writer Kenneth Rexroth called the “ social lie ” : Indeed , we live in the era of massive fraud where the trans-national wealthy elites , led by the American war and propaganda machine , continue to try to convince the gullible that they are saviors of humanity even as they lie and cheat and murder by the millions .
So what follows are my efforts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the beauty of life and telling little stories here and there that I hope exemplify its comedy and tragedy .
I am always experimenting every time I sit down to write .
Not consciously , since I let inspiration guide me .
Often , as I think is evident in many pieces , thoughts come to me when walking , and from those initial thoughts comes the path I follow , not knowing exactly where I am headed .
Some of these essays are highly intellectual and structured ; some , straightforwardly political @ @ @ @ @ @ @ express essential truths I sense in the telling .
The process feels physical to me .
It has a feel and smell .
A rhythm .
Like a song .
Like a dawdling walk in the woods or by a flowing river .
If I call them all essays , it is to indicate that they are my attempts , my experiments , my experience ( Latin : exigere : trial , attempt , try ) to disclose to myself and anyone who might read them what is going on in the world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
To use my artistic and sociological imagination to connect the dots between the personal and the social and in so doing to say something worth sharing with others .
Whatever my ostensible starting point — a major event , a book , an experience — you can usually be sure that by the time you have read to the end of the piece , I will have branched off down by-ways that lead to other trails that eventually reconnect to the main path .
Or so I hope .
While I usually @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to one , sometimes I only intuit it and the reader is left to do the reconnoitering alone .
I think this is good .
For while these essays are set in ink within the covers of a book , verbal tenses and ink can be misleading .
They suggest that the author ’ s quest is over , that what motivated the initial words is past , that the case is closed and the reader and writer are dead-heads satisfied with their knowingness .
For me , that is far from true @ @ @ @ @ @ @ essays is that I have tried to do so in language that evokes in the reader the exhilaration I felt in writing them , and that such aliveness will be carried into the world as rebellion against war and injustice .
I have arranged the essays in no particular order , except to begin and end with a few that tell you something about me .
I think it is always good to have some deeper sense of who the author is whose words you are reading , beyond the brief notices on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cover a wide variety of topics : propaganda , wars , government assassinations , work , nature , time , the CIA , silence , poetry , digital dementia , etc .
They range far and wide , as I try to connect the scattered dots to draw a coherent picture of our world today .
Since I write with no particular goal in mind except truth as I see it , perhaps readers would be best served by randomly choosing a piece and seeing where it might lead them .
As with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ best done somewhat randomly in the hope that one experiences a sense of liberation in the process .
I have scattered some satirical pieces throughout to add a bit of levity to serious matters and hope the reader will not mistake their “ authors ” for the real me .
But if so , that would add to the humor , something we need to survive .
Three authors whom I hold in high esteem and whose names I mention numerous times in this book are John Berger , Albert Camus , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ described as a Marxist art critic , but such an appellation is misleading , for he was much more than that .
While always situating his analyses in historical and cultural contexts , and never forgetting the class structure that underlies the cruel capitalistic order , he was acutely aware that consumerism and therefore global capitalism , as well as philosophical materialism , rested upon a “ materialist fantasy ” that denied the spiritual power of evil and the spiritual power of good to respond .
As a counter-weight , Berger always made @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and include what he called “ enclaves of the beyond ” in his writing .
These were often the marginalized hiding places of hope where the spiritual faith in human love and solidarity was nourished and sustained despite the world ’ s evil .
Albert Camus was very similar in many ways .
An avowed atheist with a spiritual core , he was an artistic anarchist with a passionate spiritual hunger and an austere and moral Don Juan .
He could not be pigeonholed .
This drove many crazy .
His allegiance was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tried to fight injustice while extolling life ’ s beauty and the human search for happiness .
He grasped the essence of the ever-recurring plague that evildoers inflict upon the world .
He was preoccupied with death , freedom , and an absent God , but never gave up hope and insisted that rebellion was the only honorable course .
Yet the fight against the plague must go on ; that was Camus ’ message .
If not , you will be destroyed by your own complicity in evil .
James W. Douglass @ @ @ @ @ @ @ overt spiritual sensibility , continues to write brilliantly about “ the unspeakable ” that has been used to cover-up the US government ’ s assassinations of its greatest anti-war leaders : JFK , Malcolm X , MLK , and RFK .
The unspeakable is a term coined by the Trappist monk Thomas Merton in the mid-1960s .
He meant it to point to a systemic evil that permeates American society that defies speech : It is , in other words , the plague that is us when we live in the nest of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ American Empire .
Douglass makes the plague manifest in order to give us hope , and in speaking the unspeakable , he shows us both the radical evil and the redemptive courage that we are all capable of .
I mention these three brilliant writers here to say how grateful I am for their work .
There are many others , of course , whom you will encounter in the course of reading these essays .
For even when we write alone , even when we think we walk alone , we are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ As Camus says in one of his short stories , it is hard to distinguish between solitary and solidary .

Edward Curtin
In lieu of writing reviews of their own books – with the exception of Walt Whitman, who did that with Leaves of Grass – writers often write introductions or prefaces.
The purpose of such introductions is to give the prospective readers a sense of what to expect in the pages that follow, as if the author knew exactly what he was writing when he was writing it, as if he weren’t waylaid by words along the way, or could possibly know what a reader may experience when reading them.
In a way, I too have done that, even while knowing that all writing, if it is any good, is a leap into the relative dark, both for the writer and the reader. We can’t know beforehand how either will affect us. What changes us in life and in books is always surprising.
Who knows?
The following is the Introduction to my new book, Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies. I offer it here as an invitation to consider joining me in the book so we may seek together. Sort of like Whitman’s invitation:
Now I will you to be a bold swimmer,/ To jump off in the midst of the sea, and rise again and nod to me and shout, and /laughingly dash with your hair.
Introduction
In putting together this selection of essays, I was reminded of what Albert Camus once wrote:
A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
While I do not claim that all these essays are art, they are my efforts to say in the most eloquent way I can what really has mattered to me in recent years, not just politically but personally, since they are entwined. Upon reflection, I see that what matters to me now is what mattered to me when I was young. Although the issues have changed in certain ways as they must, I have not—unless, or because, my wanderings through life with all its changes have paradoxically meant, in Nietzsche’s words, that I have been becoming who I am.
This seems true to me, and the essaying of the words that follow are part of that becoming. Ortega y Gassett once said that “whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.” I agree.
While a book of essays is not a novel, if read in its entirety, it does tell a story that reveals the times and the man who tells them; it expresses two stories simultaneously. And each story, if told well, always has a double dimension, the old and the new. Every life and every event is disclosed in an historical context, now and then and all the time in between.
While hoping I am an original, I know that I have learned and borrowed from many others. My greater hope is that what I say here is said in a way no other could, that it bears my original stamp. That it is novel. For I am convinced that we cannot grasp the unique nature of our current era simply by repeating straightforward political analyses.
That approach is necessary but not enough. For it leaves out the hidden heart of a world that seems to be spinning madly toward some kind of denouement. It omits all the little thoughts, secrets, fears, and desires of so many people who wish to speak but can’t find the words to express their thoughts.
From a young age, I have been obsessed with truth, death, and freedom. As I recall, those words have been synonymous for God for many thinkers. So I suppose you could say that I have always been intoxicated with God or for God, or maybe God has been intoxicated with me. I don’t know, nor do I care to: knowledge is overrated. I know what I feel.
My concerns have been those of many writers throughout the ages — poets, rebels, journalists, philosophers, passionate writers of every stripe, desperados for truth and a peaceful world of love and kindness. Those I have admired the most, believers or unbelievers — it is often hard to tell the difference, nor does it matter—were those who dismissed categories, distinctions, or labels, but who wrote freely because for them to write freely was to live freely and not to be caged by anyone’s restrictions as to what they should be saying or how they were saying it.
For them truth was their God, and through the weaving of words down a page they were always seeking to disclose what was hidden from common sight. They used language to open up cracks in the consensus reality that the great poet and writer Kenneth Rexroth called the “social lie”:
Since all society is organized in the interest of exploiting classes and since if men knew this they would cease to work and society would fall apart, it has always been necessary, at least since the urban revolutions, for societies to be governed ideologically by a system of fraud.”
Indeed, we live in the era of massive fraud where the trans-national wealthy elites, led by the American war and propaganda machine, continue to try to convince the gullible that they are saviors of humanity even as they lie and cheat and murder by the millions.
So what follows are my efforts to unearth the fraud, while celebrating the beauty of life and telling little stories here and there that I hope exemplify its comedy and tragedy. I am always experimenting every time I sit down to write. Not consciously, since I let inspiration guide me. Often, as I think is evident in many pieces, thoughts come to me when walking, and from those initial thoughts comes the path I follow, not knowing exactly where I am headed. Some of these essays are highly intellectual and structured; some, straightforwardly political; others are meanderings that seek to express essential truths I sense in the telling.
The process feels physical to me. It has a feel and smell. A rhythm. Like a song. Like a dawdling walk in the woods or by a flowing river. If I call them all essays, it is to indicate that they are my attempts, my experiments, my experience (Latin: exigere: trial, attempt, try) to disclose to myself and anyone who might read them what is going on in the world that I find important and worth investigating. To use my artistic and sociological imagination to connect the dots between the personal and the social and in so doing to say something worth sharing with others.
Whatever my ostensible starting point — a major event, a book, an experience — you can usually be sure that by the time you have read to the end of the piece, I will have branched off down by-ways that lead to other trails that eventually reconnect to the main path. Or so I hope. While I usually see how the roads all lead back to one, sometimes I only intuit it and the reader is left to do the reconnoitering alone.
I think this is good. For while these essays are set in ink within the covers of a book, verbal tenses and ink can be misleading. They suggest that the author’s quest is over, that what motivated the initial words is past, that the case is closed and the reader and writer are dead-heads satisfied with their knowingness. For me, that is far from true. The paradox of having written these essays is that I have tried to do so in language that evokes in the reader the exhilaration I felt in writing them, and that such aliveness will be carried into the world as rebellion against war and injustice.
I have arranged the essays in no particular order, except to begin and end with a few that tell you something about me. I think it is always good to have some deeper sense of who the author is whose words you are reading, beyond the brief notices on the back of books.
These essays cover a wide variety of topics: propaganda, wars, government assassinations, work, nature, time, the CIA, silence, poetry, digital dementia, etc. They range far and wide, as I try to connect the scattered dots to draw a coherent picture of our world today. Since I write with no particular goal in mind except truth as I see it, perhaps readers would be best served by randomly choosing a piece and seeing where it might lead them.
As with living, I suspect that reading is best done somewhat randomly in the hope that one experiences a sense of liberation in the process. I have scattered some satirical pieces throughout to add a bit of levity to serious matters and hope the reader will not mistake their “authors” for the real me. But if so, that would add to the humor, something we need to survive.
Three authors whom I hold in high esteem and whose names I mention numerous times in this book are John Berger, Albert Camus, and James W. Douglass.
Berger is often described as a Marxist art critic, but such an appellation is misleading, for he was much more than that. While always situating his analyses in historical and cultural contexts, and never forgetting the class structure that underlies the cruel capitalistic order, he was acutely aware that consumerism and therefore global capitalism, as well as philosophical materialism, rested upon a “materialist fantasy” that denied the spiritual power of evil and the spiritual power of good to respond.
As a counter-weight, Berger always made sure to cling close to human reality and include what he called “enclaves of the beyond” in his writing. These were often the marginalized hiding places of hope where the spiritual faith in human love and solidarity was nourished and sustained despite the world’s evil.
Albert Camus was very similar in many ways. An avowed atheist with a spiritual core, he was an artistic anarchist with a passionate spiritual hunger and an austere and moral Don Juan. He could not be pigeonholed. This drove many crazy.
His allegiance was to truth, not ideologies. He tried to fight injustice while extolling life’s beauty and the human search for happiness. He grasped the essence of the ever-recurring plague that evildoers inflict upon the world. He was preoccupied with death, freedom, and an absent God, but never gave up hope and insisted that rebellion was the only honorable course. Yet the fight against the plague must go on; that was Camus’ message.
If not, you will be destroyed by your own complicity in evil.
James W. Douglass, although a writer of a more overt spiritual sensibility, continues to write brilliantly about “the unspeakable” that has been used to cover-up the US government’s assassinations of its greatest anti-war leaders: JFK, Malcolm X, MLK, and RFK. The unspeakable is a term coined by the Trappist monk Thomas Merton in the mid-1960s. He meant it to point to a systemic evil that permeates American society that defies speech:
It is the void that contradicts everything that is spoken even before the words are said; the void that gets into the language of public and official declarations at the very moment when they are pronounced, and makes them ring dead with the hollowness of the abyss. It is the void out of which Eichmann drew the punctilious exactitude of his obedience…”
It is, in other words, the plague that is us when we live in the nest of the unspeakable as obedient servants of the American Empire. Douglass makes the plague manifest in order to give us hope, and in speaking the unspeakable, he shows us both the radical evil and the redemptive courage that we are all capable of.
I mention these three brilliant writers here to say how grateful I am for their work. There are many others, of course, whom you will encounter in the course of reading these essays. For even when we write alone, even when we think we walk alone, we are always following in others’ footsteps.
As Camus says in one of his short stories, it is hard to distinguish between solitary and solidary.


offguardian--2020-11-22--The A-Z of Covid19

The A-Z of Covid19

Your handy guide for navigating the current crisis In these troubling times it can be hard to find a clear path through the maze of disinformation and covid-denial .
Print the following out and keep it with you at all times .
Refer to it when confronted with a Covidiot or any suggesting you try thinking for yourself .
ANTI-VAXXER ( Sic ) Criminal lunatic who is intent on denying everyone the opportunity of ever being vaccinated against anything by means of unsubstantiated neo-religious ravings .
Candidate for funny-farms and medical experimentation .
BREXIT : Fantasy utopian state believed in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ THEORIST : Criminally insane individual dedicated to the annihilation of humanity by allowing everyone to die of COVID-19 by alleging that it may not be as deadly as we all know it is .
Other characteristics include denying climate change , voting for BREXIT and non-readership of the GUARDIAN .
COVID-19 : Unstoppable and totally lethal plague carried by any living organism with 100 % mortality rate that can be caught by any living being on the earth .
Symptoms include a ) being alive and b ) living on planet Earth .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ contracting COVID-19 .
Otherwise represented as falsely arising from conspiracy-theorist-alleged conditions e.g .
“ cancer ” , “ heart disease ” , “ accident ” , “ being shot , ” etc .
DEMOCRACY : Fantasy utopia believed in by ANTI-VAXXERS and CONSPIRACY THEORISTS .
Characterised by BREXIT and TRUMP .
FACE MASK/COVERING : Essential Personal Protective Equipment for living organisms .
ANTI-VAXXERS and CONSPIRACY THEORISTS do not wear them and this renders them easily identifiable .
FACT-CHECKERS : For reference please read Orwell , G,1984 ref : Ministry of Truth .
FREEDOM @ @ @ @ @ @ @ THEORISTS and ANTI-VAXXERS ( see above ) .
Cited by the aforementioned as something preferable to protection from DEATH ( see above ) by COVID-19 .
GATES , BILL : Philanthropist dedicated to saving the world from COVID-19 .
GREAT BARRINGTON DECLARATION , THE : Pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo written by a bunch of QUACKs including “ Dr .
Johnny Bananas ” in order to spread MISINFORMATION about COVID-19 .
GREAT RESET : THE : Mythical blueprint for post COVID-19 society .
Referred to by ANTI-VAXXERS and CONSPIRACY THEORISTS .
GUARDIAN , THE : Source @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Required reading .
Non-biased , humanist publication written by the most gifted journalists now living .
HANCOCK : MATT : Hero of the people dedicated to saving everyone from COVID-19 .
HEALTH : Condition of existence characterised by non-infection by COVID-19 .
Misrepresented by ANTI-VAXXERS and CONSPIRACY THEORISTS as normal , non-pathological state .
IMMUNOLOGY : Fake science intended to mislead the public regarding COVID-19 .
KOONTZ , DEAN : Author who predicted COVID-19 in one of his novels .
LOCKDOWN : Utopian state that will free humanity for ever .
MISINFORMATION @ @ @ @ @ @ @ permitted by the STATE : eg .
2+2=4 without reference to FACT CHECKERS .
NHS : Pre-2020 organisation , now defunct , providing placebo medication for now-debunked conditions such as “ cancer ” , “ heart disease , ” “ diabetes ” etc .
NORMAL ; NEW : Post-2020 Age of Enlightenment : for further information see Zamyatin , , Y , We .
Huxley , A , Brave New World .
PANDEMIC : The current state of existence characterising life on Planet Earth .
PARLIAMENT : Pre-2020 institution , now defunct , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ benefit of the masses over decisions that had already been taken by the STATE .
POLICE : Pre-2020 organisation , now defunct , created to enact entertaining drama for the masses , e.g by driving around in fast cars and running about in city centres trying to catch “ baddies ” and “ crooks.
” Especially effective at reducing traffic congestion in December and January .
Ref : Z-Cars , The Bill , Dixon of Dock Green .
QUACK : Signatory of the GREAT BARRINGTON DECLARATION with fake Ph.D. SKY NEWS : Unbiased @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be broadcast in all pubs and places of entertainment .
SOCIAL DISTANCING : Introduced 2020 .
The natural form of communication for human beings requiring a respectful personal space .
Let ’ s face it , how many years have you gone around putting up with bad breath , BO and fag smoke ?
STATE , THE : Benefactor and source of all blessings .
T-CELL : Mythical component of IMMUNOLOGY used to mislead the public regarding COVID-19 .
TRUMP , DONALD : Former president of the United States .
Believer in debunked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ THE , Isolated control population for COVID-19 VACCINE .
Characterised by inhabitants with zero capacity for rebelliousness .
VACCINE : Panacea for COVID-19 .
To be injected into population of entire planet .
Declared safe by QUACKs .
Said population expendable in drive to halt “ climate change.
” VIROLOGY : Fake science intended to mislead the public regarding COVID-19 .
WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION : Bunch of nice chaps who like sitting around talking about COVID-19 .
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM : Bunch of nice chaps who like sitting around talking about money .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ WE ” , ( soon to be banned )

Your handy guide for navigating the current crisis
Mark Chapman
In these troubling times it can be hard to find a clear path through the maze of disinformation and covid-denial. Print the following out and keep it with you at all times. Refer to it when confronted with a Covidiot or any suggesting you try thinking for yourself.
A
ANTI-VAXXER (Sic) Criminal lunatic who is intent on denying everyone the opportunity of ever being vaccinated against anything by means of unsubstantiated neo-religious ravings. Candidate for funny-farms and medical experimentation.
B
BREXIT: Fantasy utopian state believed in by ANTI-VAXXERS and CONSPIRACY THEORISTS.
C
CONSPIRACY THEORIST: Criminally insane individual dedicated to the annihilation of humanity by allowing everyone to die of COVID-19 by alleging that it may not be as deadly as we all know it is. Other characteristics include denying climate change, voting for BREXIT and non-readership of the GUARDIAN.
COVID-19: Unstoppable and totally lethal plague carried by any living organism with 100% mortality rate that can be caught by any living being on the earth. Symptoms include a) being alive and b) living on planet Earth.
D
DEATH: Preventable non-living condition arising from contracting COVID-19. Otherwise represented as falsely arising from conspiracy-theorist-alleged conditions e.g. “cancer”, “heart disease”, “accident”, “being shot,” etc .
DEMOCRACY: Fantasy utopia believed in by ANTI-VAXXERS and CONSPIRACY THEORISTS. Characterised by BREXIT and TRUMP.
E
EPIDEMIOLOGY: Fake science to spread MISINFORMATION about COVID-19.
EXPONENTIAL: Default speed of COVID-19 spread.
F
FACE MASK/COVERING: Essential Personal Protective Equipment for living organisms. ANTI-VAXXERS and CONSPIRACY THEORISTS do not wear them and this renders them easily identifiable.
FACT-CHECKERS: For reference please read Orwell, G,1984 ref: Ministry of Truth.
FREEDOM: Mythical condition believed in by CONSPIRACY THEORISTS and ANTI-VAXXERS (see above). Cited by the aforementioned as something preferable to protection from DEATH (see above) by COVID-19.
G
GATES, BILL: Philanthropist dedicated to saving the world from COVID-19.
GREAT BARRINGTON DECLARATION, THE: Pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo written by a bunch of QUACKs including “Dr. Johnny Bananas” in order to spread MISINFORMATION about COVID-19.
GREAT RESET: THE: Mythical blueprint for post COVID-19 society. Referred to by ANTI-VAXXERS and CONSPIRACY THEORISTS.
GUARDIAN, THE: Source of reliable and truthful information regarding COVID-19. Required reading. Non-biased, humanist publication written by the most gifted journalists now living.
H
HANCOCK: MATT: Hero of the people dedicated to saving everyone from COVID-19.
HEALTH: Condition of existence characterised by non-infection by COVID-19. Misrepresented by ANTI-VAXXERS and CONSPIRACY THEORISTS as normal, non-pathological state.
I
IMMUNOLOGY: Fake science intended to mislead the public regarding COVID-19.
J
JOHNSON, BORIS: Prime Minister of England. Very funny chap.
K
KOONTZ, DEAN: Author who predicted COVID-19 in one of his novels.
L
LIFE: Pathological delusion believed in by CONSPIRACY THEORISTS.
LOCKDOWN: Utopian state that will free humanity for ever.
M
MISINFORMATION: Act of suggesting mistaken beliefs not permitted by the STATE: eg. 2+2=4 without reference to FACT CHECKERS.
N
NHS: Pre-2020 organisation, now defunct, providing placebo medication for now-debunked conditions such as “cancer”, “heart disease,” “diabetes” etc.
NORMAL; NEW: Post-2020 Age of Enlightenment: for further information see Zamyatin,, Y, We. Huxley, A, Brave New World.
O
OXFORD: UNIVERSITY OF: Developmental research station for COVID-19.
P
PANDEMIC: The current state of existence characterising life on Planet Earth.
PARLIAMENT: Pre-2020 institution, now defunct, dedicated to squabbling on television for the benefit of the masses over decisions that had already been taken by the STATE.
PLANDEMIC: Criminally insane publication written by CONSPIRACY THEORISTS.
POLICE: Pre-2020 organisation, now defunct, created to enact entertaining drama for the masses, e.g by driving around in fast cars and running about in city centres trying to catch “baddies” and “crooks.” Especially effective at reducing traffic congestion in December and January. Ref: Z-Cars, The Bill, Dixon of Dock Green.
PRISON: Institutions created to house ANTI-VAXXERS and CONSPIRACY THEORISTS.
Q
QUACK: Signatory of the GREAT BARRINGTON DECLARATION with fake Ph.D.
R
R NUMBER: Statistical integer for illustrating spread of COVID-19. Non-referenced.
S
SAFE: Condition of total atrophy. See DEATH.
SCIENTIST: Individual responsible for issuing warnings justifying lockdowns.
SKY NEWS: Unbiased source of information regarding COVID-19. To be broadcast in all pubs and places of entertainment.
SOCIAL DISTANCING: Introduced 2020. The natural form of communication for human beings requiring a respectful personal space. Let’s face it, how many years have you gone around putting up with bad breath, BO and fag smoke?
STATE, THE: Benefactor and source of all blessings.
SWEDEN: Rogue state of COVID-19 deniers.
T
T-CELL: Mythical component of IMMUNOLOGY used to mislead the public regarding COVID-19.
TRUMP, DONALD : Former president of the United States. Believer in debunked fantasy of DEMOCRACY.
U
UNITED KINGDOM, THE, Isolated control population for COVID-19 VACCINE. Characterised by inhabitants with zero capacity for rebelliousness.
V
VACCINE: Panacea for COVID-19. To be injected into population of entire planet. Declared safe by QUACKs. Said population expendable in drive to halt “climate change.”
VIROLOGY: Fake science intended to mislead the public regarding COVID-19.
VIRUS: Integral component of COVID-19. Non-referenced.
W
WE: (1924, Zamyatin, Y.) Blueprint for post-COVID-19 society.
WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION: Bunch of nice chaps who like sitting around talking about COVID-19.
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM: Bunch of nice chaps who like sitting around talking about money.
Z
ZAMYATIN, Y: Author of “WE”, (soon to be banned)


The Germans Are Back!

Break out the Wagner , folks…the Germans are back !
No , not the warm , fuzzy , pussified , peace-loving , post-war Germans … the Germans !
You know the ones I mean .
The “ I didn ’ t know where the trains were going ” Germans .
The “ I was just following orders ” Germans .
The other Germans .
In case you missed it , on November 18 , the German parliament passed a law , the so-called “ Infection Protection Act ” ( “ Das Infektionsschutzgesetz ” in German ) formally granting the government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wants under the guise of protecting the public health .
The government has been doing this anyway — ordering lockdowns , curfews , travel bans , banning demonstrations , raiding homes and businesses , ordering everyone to wear medical masks , harassing and arresting dissidents , etc .
— but now it has been “ legitimized ” by the Bundestag , enshrined into law , and presumably stamped with one of those intricate official stamps that German bureaucrats like to stamp things with .
Now , this “ Infection Protection Act , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is not in any way comparable to the “ Enabling Act of 1933 , ” which formally granted the government the authority to issue whatever edicts it wanted under the guise of remedying the distress of the people .
Yes , I realize that sounds quite similar , but , according to the government and the German media , there is absolutely no equivalence whatsoever , and anyone who suggests there is is “ a far-right AfD extremist , ” “ a neo-Nazi conspiracy theorist , ” or “ an anti-vax esotericist , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Act was being legitimized ( i.e.
, the current one , not the one in 1933 ) , tens of thousands of anti-totalitarian protesters gathered in the streets , many of them carrying copies of the Grundgesetz ( i.e.
, the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany ) , which the parliament had just abrogated .
They were met by thousands of riot police , who declared the demonstration “ illegal ” ( because many of the protesters were not wearing masks ) , beat up and arrested hundreds of them , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ water cannons .
The German media — which are totally objective , and not at all like Goebbels ’ Ministry of Propaganda in the Nazi era — dutifully reminded the German public that these protesters were all “ Corona Deniers , ” “ far-right extremists , ” “ conspiracy theorists , ” “ anti-vaxxers , ” “ neo-Nazis , ” and so on , so they probably got what they deserved .
Also , a spokesperson for the Berlin police ( who bear absolutely no resemblance to the Gestapo , or the Stasi @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) pointed out that their water cannons were only being used to “ irrigate ” the protesters ( i.e.
, not being aimed directly at them ) because there were so many “ Corona Denier ” children in their ranks .
According to the government , the German media , the intelligentsia , and , basically , anyone in public life who wants to remain there , these “ Corona Deniers ” are becoming a problem .
They are spreading baseless “ conspiracy theories ” that are threatening the public health and causing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , that the vast majority of those infected suffer only mild to moderate flu symptoms or , more commonly , no symptoms at all , and that over 99.7 % survive ) .
They are walking around without medical-looking masks , which is making a mockery of the government and media ’ s efforts to convince the public that they are under attack by an apocalyptic plague .
They are posting scientific facts on the Internet .
They are staging these protests and otherwise challenging the government ’ s right to declare a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ German constitution indefinitely , and rule society by decree and force .
Despite the German government and media ’ s efforts to demonize anyone not obediently parroting the official “ New Normal ” narrative as a “ dangerous neo-Nazi Corona Denier , ” the “ Corona Denialism ” movement is growing , not just in Germany , but all throughout Europe .
Clearly , the time is coming for Germany to take stronger measures against this threat .
The health of the Vater … uh , the nation , is at stake !
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” will provide the government with the authority it needs to conceive and carry out some kind of … well , you know , solution .
Allowing these degenerate anti-social deviants to run around challenging the German government ’ s absolute power is not an option , not in a time of national health emergency !
These “ Nazi-sympathizing Corona Deniers ” must be rooted out and dealt with , mercilessly !
I ’ m not privy to the details , of course , but , it being Germany , I imagine some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ set up to efficiently deal with the “ Corona Denier Problem.
” Steps are clearly already being taken .
Alternative media outlets are being deplatformed ( because , according the media , they are “ Querfront magazines ” ) .
In April , a well-known dissident lawyer was forcibly committed to a psychiatric ward ( but the authorities and the media assured us that it had nothing to do with her dissident views , or with the lawsuits she was filing against the government ; she just coincidentally became completely paranoid ) .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ it isn ’ t clear exactly what for , as the authorities have released no details and the mainstream media is not reporting it ) .
In the run-up to the 29 August demonstration , at which the government granted some neo-Nazis de-facto permission to “ storm the Reichstag , ” so that the media could film it and discredit the real protest , one German politician went so far as to call for “ Corona Deniers ” to be deported … presumably on trains , somewhere to the east .
But seriously @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pick on the Germans .
I love the Germans .
I live in Germany .
And they ’ re hardly the only ones implementing the new pathologized totalitarianism .
It ’ s just that , given their not-too-distant history , it is rather depressing , and more than a little frightening , to watch as Germany is once again transformed into a totalitarian state , where the police are hunting down the mask-less on the streets , raiding restaurants , bars , and people ’ s homes , where goose-stepping little Good German @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Yoga studios to see if they are violating “ social distancing rules , ” where I can ’ t take a walk or shop for groceries without being surrounded by hostile , glaring , sometimes verbally-abusive Germans , who are infuriated that I ’ m not wearing a mask , and otherwise mindlessly following orders , and who robotically remind me , “ Es ist Pflicht !
Es ist Pflicht !
” Yes , I am fully aware that it is “ Pflicht.
” If I had any doubt as to whether it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Senat cleared that up when they commissioned and ran this charming advert instructing me to fuck myself if I don ’ t want to follow their “ Corona orders ” and profess my belief in their new Big Lie .
And OK , before the Literalist Society starts flooding me with outraged emails , no , I ’ m not calling these Germans “ Nazis.
” I am calling them “ totalitarians.
” Which , at this point , given everything we know , if you ’ re still pretending that this coronavirus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ emergency measures ” we are being subjected to , I ’ m sorry , but that is what you are .
You may not believe that is what you are … totalitarians never do , not until it is far too late .
It functions like a cult , totalitarianism .
It creeps up on you , little by little , little lie by little lie , accommodation by accommodation , rationalization by rationalization … until one day you find yourself taking orders from some twisted little narcissistic nihilist on a mission @ @ @ @ @ @ @ don ’ t surrender to it all at once .
You do it over the course of weeks and months .
Imperceptibly , it becomes your reality .
You do not recognize that you are in it , because everything you see is part of it , and everyone you know is in it … except for the others , who are not part of it .
The “ deniers.
” The “ deviants.
” The “ foreigners.
” The “ strangers.
” The “ Covidiots.
” The “ virus spreaders.
” See @ @ @ @ @ @ @ change , totalitarianism is totalitarianism .
It doesn ’ t really matter which uniform it wears , or which language it speaks … it is the same abomination .
It is an idol , a simulacrum of the hubris of man , formed from the clay of the minds of the masses by megalomaniacal spiritual cripples who want to exterminate what they can not control .
And what they want to control is always everything .
Everything that reminds them of their weakness and their shame .
You .
Me .
Society .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Honor .
Faith .
The past .
The future .
Life .
Death .
Everything that will not obey them .
Unfortunately , once this kind of thing gets started , and reaches the stage we are currently experiencing , more often than not , it does not stop , not until cities lie in ruins or fields are littered with human skulls .
It might take us ten or twelve years to get there , but , make no mistake , that ’ s where we ’ re headed , where totalitarianism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t believe me , just ask the Germans .
CJ Hopkins is an award-winning American playwright , novelist and political satirist based in Berlin .
His plays are published by Bloomsbury Publishing and Broadway Play Publishing , Inc. His dystopian novel , Zone 23 , is published by Snoggsworthy , Swaine & Cormorant .
Volume I of his Consent Factory Essays is published by Consent Factory Publishing , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amalgamated Content , Inc .
He can be reached at cjhopkins.com or consentfactory.org .

CJ Hopkins
Break out the Wagner, folks…the Germans are back! No, not the warm, fuzzy, pussified, peace-loving, post-war Germans … the Germans! You know the ones I mean. The “I didn’t know where the trains were going” Germans. The “I was just following orders” Germans. The other Germans.
Yeah…those Germans.
In case you missed it, on November 18, the German parliament passed a law, the so-called “Infection Protection Act” (“Das Infektionsschutzgesetz” in German) formally granting the government the authority to issue whatever edicts it wants under the guise of protecting the public health.
The government has been doing this anyway — ordering lockdowns, curfews, travel bans, banning demonstrations, raiding homes and businesses, ordering everyone to wear medical masks, harassing and arresting dissidents, etc. — but now it has been “legitimized” by the Bundestag, enshrined into law, and presumably stamped with one of those intricate official stamps that German bureaucrats like to stamp things with.
Now, this “Infection Protection Act,” which was rushed through the parliament, is not in any way comparable to the “Enabling Act of 1933,” which formally granted the government the authority to issue whatever edicts it wanted under the guise of remedying the distress of the people.
Yes, I realize that sounds quite similar, but, according to the government and the German media, there is absolutely no equivalence whatsoever, and anyone who suggests there is is “a far-right AfD extremist,” “a neo-Nazi conspiracy theorist,” or “an anti-vax esotericist,” or whatever.
As the Protection Act was being legitimized (i.e., the current one, not the one in 1933), tens of thousands of anti-totalitarian protesters gathered in the streets, many of them carrying copies of the Grundgesetz (i.e., the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany), which the parliament had just abrogated. They were met by thousands of riot police, who declared the demonstration “illegal” (because many of the protesters were not wearing masks), beat up and arrested hundreds of them, and then hosed down the rest with water cannons.
The German media — which are totally objective, and not at all like Goebbels’ Ministry of Propaganda in the Nazi era — dutifully reminded the German public that these protesters were all “Corona Deniers,” “far-right extremists,” “conspiracy theorists,” “anti-vaxxers,” “neo-Nazis,” and so on, so they probably got what they deserved.
Also, a spokesperson for the Berlin police (who bear absolutely no resemblance to the Gestapo, or the Stasi, or any other notorious official-ideology-enforcing goons) pointed out that their water cannons were only being used to “irrigate” the protesters (i.e., not being aimed directly at them) because there were so many “Corona Denier” children in their ranks.
According to the government, the German media, the intelligentsia, and, basically, anyone in public life who wants to remain there, these “Corona Deniers” are becoming a problem. They are spreading baseless “conspiracy theories” that are threatening the public health and causing distress to the German people (e.g., that the vast majority of those infected suffer only mild to moderate flu symptoms or, more commonly, no symptoms at all, and that over 99.7% survive).
They are walking around without medical-looking masks, which is making a mockery of the government and media’s efforts to convince the public that they are under attack by an apocalyptic plague. They are posting scientific facts on the Internet. They are staging these protests and otherwise challenging the government’s right to declare a “health emergency,” suspend the German constitution indefinitely, and rule society by decree and force.
Despite the German government and media’s efforts to demonize anyone not obediently parroting the official “New Normal” narrative as a “dangerous neo-Nazi Corona Denier,” the “Corona Denialism” movement is growing, not just in Germany, but all throughout Europe.
Clearly, the time is coming for Germany to take stronger measures against this threat. The health of the Vater … uh, the nation, is at stake! Fortunately, this “Infection Protection Act” will provide the government with the authority it needs to conceive and carry out some kind of … well, you know, solution. Allowing these degenerate anti-social deviants to run around challenging the German government’s absolute power is not an option, not in a time of national health emergency! These “Nazi-sympathizing Corona Deniers” must be rooted out and dealt with, mercilessly!
I’m not privy to the details, of course, but, it being Germany, I imagine some sort of Special Task Force has been set up to efficiently deal with the “Corona Denier Problem.” Steps are clearly already being taken. Alternative media outlets are being deplatformed (because, according the media, they are “Querfront magazines”).
In April, a well-known dissident lawyer was forcibly committed to a psychiatric ward (but the authorities and the media assured us that it had nothing to do with her dissident views, or with the lawsuits she was filing against the government; she just coincidentally became completely paranoid). Heavily-armed police are arresting YouTubers (although it isn’t clear exactly what for, as the authorities have released no details and the mainstream media is not reporting it).
In the run-up to the 29 August demonstration, at which the government granted some neo-Nazis de-facto permission to “storm the Reichstag,” so that the media could film it and discredit the real protest, one German politician went so far as to call for “Corona Deniers” to be deported … presumably on trains, somewhere to the east.
For the benefit of those who don't read German, this is Aziz Bozkurt, SPD politician and Chairman of the Migration and Diversity Working Group in the SPD, calling for people who refuse to conform to the insane "New Normal" ideology to be deported. Do you get what's happening yet? https://t.co/qvZw78P0mD — Consent Factory (@consent_factory) August 4, 2020
But seriously, I don’t mean to pick on the Germans. I love the Germans. I live in Germany. And they’re hardly the only ones implementing the new pathologized totalitarianism.
It’s just that, given their not-too-distant history, it is rather depressing, and more than a little frightening, to watch as Germany is once again transformed into a totalitarian state, where the police are hunting down the mask-less on the streets, raiding restaurants, bars, and people’s homes, where goose-stepping little Good German citizens are peering into the windows of Yoga studios to see if they are violating “social distancing rules,” where I can’t take a walk or shop for groceries without being surrounded by hostile, glaring, sometimes verbally-abusive Germans, who are infuriated that I’m not wearing a mask, and otherwise mindlessly following orders, and who robotically remind me, “Es ist Pflicht! Es ist Pflicht!”
Yes, I am fully aware that it is “Pflicht.” If I had any doubt as to whether it was “Pflicht,” the Berlin Senat cleared that up when they commissioned and ran this charming advert instructing me to fuck myself if I don’t want to follow their “Corona orders” and profess my belief in their new Big Lie.
And OK, before the Literalist Society starts flooding me with outraged emails, no, I’m not calling these Germans “Nazis.” I am calling them “totalitarians.” Which, at this point, given everything we know, if you’re still pretending that this coronavirus in any way warrants the increasingly ridiculous “emergency measures” we are being subjected to, I’m sorry, but that is what you are.
You may not believe that is what you are … totalitarians never do, not until it is far too late.
It functions like a cult, totalitarianism. It creeps up on you, little by little, little lie by little lie, accommodation by accommodation, rationalization by rationalization … until one day you find yourself taking orders from some twisted little narcissistic nihilist on a mission to remake the entire world. You don’t surrender to it all at once. You do it over the course of weeks and months.
Imperceptibly, it becomes your reality. You do not recognize that you are in it, because everything you see is part of it, and everyone you know is in it … except for the others, who are not part of it. The “deniers.” The “deviants.” The “foreigners.” The “strangers.” The “Covidiots.” The “virus spreaders.”
See, although the narratives and symbols may change, totalitarianism is totalitarianism. It doesn’t really matter which uniform it wears, or which language it speaks … it is the same abomination. It is an idol, a simulacrum of the hubris of man, formed from the clay of the minds of the masses by megalomaniacal spiritual cripples who want to exterminate what they cannot control.
And what they want to control is always everything.
Everything that reminds them of their weakness and their shame. You. Me. Society. The world. Laughter. Love. Honor. Faith. The past. The future. Life. Death. Everything that will not obey them.
Unfortunately, once this kind of thing gets started, and reaches the stage we are currently experiencing, more often than not, it does not stop, not until cities lie in ruins or fields are littered with human skulls. It might take us ten or twelve years to get there, but, make no mistake, that’s where we’re headed, where totalitarianism is always headed … if you don’t believe me, just ask the Germans.
CJ Hopkins is an award-winning American playwright, novelist and political satirist based in Berlin. His plays are published by Bloomsbury Publishing and Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. His dystopian novel, Zone 23, is published by Snoggsworthy, Swaine & Cormorant. Volume I of his Consent Factory Essays is published by Consent Factory Publishing, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amalgamated Content, Inc. He can be reached at cjhopkins.com or consentfactory.org.


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offguardian--2020-11-26--US Election: A Color Revolution ‘Comes Home to Roost’

It has been more than three weeks since election day and the incumbent US president still has yet to concede defeat .
Despite the media ’ s distraction over the perspiration of his personal attorney during a bizarre press conference , the legal team led by former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has actually done a decent job uncovering potential fraud in battleground states , where vote counting was delayed for several days before the former vice president was declared a “ winner ” by the news media and Silicon Valley .
Unfortunately , the 2020 election is not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ therefore evidence that instances of fraud occurred will likely not be enough for the litigation to change the outcome , though it does appear his camp is finally facing up to leaving the White House come January .
Then again , whether or not burden of proof was ever provided is immaterial , seeing as before he even took the oath of office a silent coup was underway to remove the democratically-elected government of Donald J. Trump that is now entering its final phase .
Trump found an unlikely voice of support contesting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in former six-term Democratic Congresswoman from Georgia and 2008 Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney , who this time was the running mate of former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura as a write-in entrant in some eligible states for the divided Greens who officially nominated labor activist Howie Hawkins .
During the 2016 election , the Democrats scapegoated Jill Stein for Hillary Clinton ’ s unexpected loss , even baselessly implicating the Green Party nominee in the Russiagate hoax simply for having appeared at a 2015 Moscow gala for the RT television network where @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Putin were in attendance .
Not only did the legislatures of swing states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin exclude Hawkins from the ballot at the behest of Democrats in a shameless act of voter suppression , but McKinney described the irregularities which plagued electronic voting machines in her home state of Georgia in 2020 as “ déjà vu ” , having been cheated out of Congress herself by such tactics in 2006 .
McKinney also previously penned an essay entitled The Purple Revolution : US Hybrid Warfare Comes Home to Roost ?
on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which makes an apropos historical reference .
This November 22nd marked fifty-seven years since the assassination of John F. Kennedy .
When asked for his reaction to the killing of the 35th president in Dallas back in 1963 and less than two years before his own public murder , civil rights leader Malcolm X famously stated that “ chickens were coming home to roost ” , alluding to the US government ’ s interventions overseas such as the CIA-orchestrated assassination of the first Prime Minister of the Congo , Patrice Lumumba , in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rule .
His remarks in the wake of a national tragedy proved too controversial even for the Nation of Islam which publicly censured its most recognizable minister who would announce his departure from the black nationalist organization a few months later .
The following year , he would be gunned down in Harlem in an assassination long-suspected to have been the work of the FBI ’ s counter-intelligence program ( COINTELPRO ) which had infiltrated his inner circle to frame the NOI for a mysterious death equally thought by the public to have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ JFK .
It is unclear whether the African-American Muslim leader believed the US government was behind Kennedy ’ s death , but chances are he was not naïve enough to think that the same machinations used abroad could not be implemented by those very forces domestically to remove someone elected by the American people they opposed .
If the Kennedy assassination was indeed a result of the “ unwarranted influence of the military-industrial complex ” which his predecessor Dwight D. Eisenhower even famously warned of during his farewell address , what took place @ @ @ @ @ @ @ President Kennedy had already been undercut by his own Joint Chiefs of Staff and Central Intelligence Agency in trying to defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis and his back-channel negotiations with Nikita Khrushchev were sabotaged by hawkish officials within his own administration .
The internal struggle that scuttled Kennedy ’ s attempts at détente parallels the vying factions which undermined Trump ’ s diplomacy with North Korea to a near tee .
Political scientist Michael Parenti explained in his essay The JFK Assassination : Defending the Gangster State how the 35th president was targeted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as “ soft on communism ” and placating the Soviet Union in his diplomatic efforts following the failed Bay of Pigs invasion : While the widely perceived truth about the JFK assassination remains sealed from public view , the Church Committee and Rockefeller Commissions of the 1970s exposed the numerous CIA-backed juntas which unseated popular leaders in Guatemala , Syria , Iran , the Dominican Republic , the Congo , Brazil , Indonesia , Chile , and countless other nations in the global south .
Ever since , the CIA ’ s preferred @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what are paradoxically labelled “ non-governmental organizations ” ( NGOs ) — which actually receive US government funding — as cutouts to destabilize noncompliant nations under the guise of supporting “ pro-democracy ” opposition movements .
During the Cold War , the vast majority of states overthrown were left-leaning or socialist governments aligned with the Eastern Bloc , but in the post-Soviet world many of the toppled administrations have been far from left-wing and even conservative , with their only offense favoring economic ties with Russia or China and resisting Western hegemony .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ taken shape at home in the US , the political establishment has used plutocratic foundations in Big Philanthropy and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex to defang them for its own agenda .
Look no further than the way the nationwide mass demonstrations against racism and police brutality this year were rapidly transformed into a movement to elect Joe Biden , who drafted the senate version of the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act , with no substantial legislation passed to reform police .
The corporatized Black Lives Matter movement , a recipient @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the CIA ’ s philanthropic frontage in the Ford Foundation , grew out of the legacy of the short-lived Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011 which itself were coopted by reformist and pro-Democratic Party outfits .
Not coincidentally , OWS was also infiltrated by Serbian political activist Srđa Popović of Otpor !
( “ Resistance !
” ) and the Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies ( CANVAS ) fame who previously led the Bulldozer Revolution which overthrew Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević in 2000 .
A central component of the Gene Sharp-inspired @ @ @ @ @ @ @ engineering of contested election scenarios where leaders singled-out for regime change can be ousted after appearing to consolidate power , as seen in election-themed revolutions in Serbia ( Bulldozer ) , Georgia ( Rose ) , Ukraine ( Orange ) , Kyrgyzstan ( Tulip ) , Moldova ( Grape ) , and other countries .
The same manner in which Biden declared himself the victor in spite of the lawsuits filed in federal court was recently observed abroad in the disputed election aftermath in Belarus where US-backed opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya announced herself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ order to spark preplanned protests in Minsk against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko .
This was a replication of an unsuccessful blueprint from the 2009 Green Movement unrest in Iran during the incumbency of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , as well as the presidential crisis in Venezuela last year , among others .
Trump ‘ s lawyer Rudy Giuliani appeared to be confused when he alleged that the e-voting irregularities involving the election software company Dominion Voting Systems had ties to deceased former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and international financier George Soros , who actually @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government in Caracas .
Giuliani may be mistaken but is pointing to something accurate , except in the contested US election his client is in the position of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro while Biden would be the equivalent of self-appointed “ interim president ” Juan Guaidó .
Sans a few exceptions such as Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador ( who certainly knows a rigged contest when he sees one ) , most of the “ international community ” congratulated Biden on his assumed win just like Venezuela ’ s illegitimate coup leader @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conservative right seem to be equally misunderstood about Soros , who is neither the charitable billionaire or “ globalist ” bogeyman they imagine , but rather an anti-communist business tycoon who favors vulture capitalism and Western imperialism under the banner of liberal democracy .
As touched on by Cynthia McKinney , in the aftermath of Trump ’ s shocking triumph over Hillary Clinton in 2016 , rumors began to swirl that a Soros-funded US ‘ Color Revolution ’ was in the works — a ‘ Purple Revolution ’ , monikered after the noticeable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her concession speech as a combination of blue and red intended to symbolize bipartisan opposition to Trump .
Whether or not that was true , it was in the wee hours following her loss that the Clinton campaign reportedly settled on placing the blame at the feet of unproven Russian interference for Trump ’ s unlikely victory .
Or was it even earlier ?
Recently declassified CIA memorandums proved that months before the election in July 2016 , Clinton had orchestrated a plan to whip up a smear campaign tying Trump to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Committee email server .
The documents also showed beyond a doubt how the Russia probe was launched even though both the FBI and CIA were privy to Clinton ’ s intent on linking Trump with the Kremlin .
The three-year Russia investigation and subsequent impeachment over the Ukraine scandal were only the beginning chapters in the slow-motion soft coup against Trump .
When all else failed , the US elite began to prepare for his ouster in the 2020 election .
In fact , the possibility of a second Trump term was evidently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ establishment to even fathom , so they only prepared for his defeat and presupposed refusal to relinquish power instead .
Quite literally , an exclusive cabal of Washington insiders , establishment Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans were gathered by a former high-ranking Pentagon official , Nils Gilman , to participate in role-playing “ election simulation ” scenarios and tabletop “ war game ” exercises predicting various election outcomes which anticipated that Trump would resist acknowledging defeat and transferring power , precipitating a constitutional crisis .
It was called the Transition Integrity Project ( TIP @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Donna Brazile , who were joined by prominent neoconservative figures William Kristol , Max Boot , and the former George W. Bush speechwriter who coined the “ Axis of Evil ” phrase , war criminal David Frum .
Most telling is that among the scenarios considered , even in the postulated drill where the premise was a decisive victory for Trump , TIP determined that Biden should ignore the vote result and consider any measures necessary to attain the presidency , including provoking a constitutional crisis and possible civil war where Democratic-held states @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Union , the electoral college abolished , and statehood awarded to Washington DC and Puerto Rico .
Upon reading the TIP report , it is clear that the real purpose of the bipartisan exercise was to mastermind the very disputed election outcome and concentration of power it predicts would be triggered by Trump .
It is also possible that the project enlisted mass media in its scheme .
Just weeks before Election Day , a highly-publicized scandal broke at The New Yorker magazine after staff writer and CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ meeting with fellow employees .
Many were too amused to notice the online conference call was revealed to be an “ election simulation ” featuring top columnists of the publication role-playing as participants .
It would not be out of the realm of possibility given the unprecedented extent to which corporate outlets and Big Tech companies have gone to influence the outcome of the election .
Even those within legacy media such as The New York Post , one of the oldest newspapers in the United States , found itself censored by Twitter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ emails from Hunter Biden ’ s laptop of which not even the former vice president ’ s campaign denied the authenticity .
When Trump delivered a press conference outlining his campaign ’ s allegations of election fraud , major news outlets not only made the Orwellian decision to “ fact check ” Trump live on-air but cut away from the speech in the middle of his remarks in coordinated unison .
Then when the president ’ s own social media posts were censored and flagged as disinformation , the jig was truly up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CEO Mark Zuckerberg openly bragged about how the platform was “ partnering with the intelligence community ” for censorship to be a soft power arm after the 2016 election .
Lo and behold , rather than being broken up for violating anti-trust laws , Silicon Valley has already been rewarded for staying true to its roots in the national security state by Biden ’ s transition team which consists of executives from Airbnb , Alphabet , Amazon , Facebook , Dell , DropBox , Microsoft ’ s LinkedIn , Lyft , Stripe and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump is so hated because of his rejection of certain foreign policy orthodoxies like JFK alone ?
The truth is really so much more .
It is because of his inclination to disgrace Washington ’ s sacred institutions for his own political gain which the entire establishment desperately needs to maintain the faith of the masses in its corrupt political system , rogue national security state , yellow press , and obsolete democratic process .
It is imperative to preserve these bureaucratic cornerstones as above criticism because they are a linchpin to holding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump blazed his own trail to the presidency and in doing so undermined the hallowed bastions of power in Washington , promising to “ drain the swamp ” while eroding faith in the leading US spy agencies as an unelected secret government or “ deep state ” , and most of all denouncing corporate media as “ fake news ” and the “ enemy of the people.
” Even though these were accuracies cynically told by Trump for his own advantage , they were misunderstood by his detractors to be falsehoods simply because @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s populist agitation even worried his own group of backers within the ruling elite who convinced him to soften his rhetoric and reverse many of his positions once he took office .
Since the 2020 election has not resulted in a desirable outcome , he has only continued to increase popular distrust of the political order and its mechanisms which guarantee the status quo overrides the will of the people , signaling he is more than willing to take the whole system down with him .
Indeed , polls indicate many Americans seem @ @ @ @ @ @ @ election was rigged in Biden ’ s favor .
This is precisely why his rabble-rousing is viewed as dangerous by the elite which unleashed its media organs and intelligence agencies from day one to sabotage him — they knew that he is willing to lay bare the full corruption of the powers that be in order to help his own cause .
For this reason , the media has resorted to the most deceitful and partisan methods to portray Trump as a unique danger that most be ousted at any cost .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ incongruous as that behind Biden came into formation , from Lincoln Project “ Never Trumper ” Republicans to the Democratic Socialists of America , Big Tech monopolies to Black Lives Matter , Wall Street megadonors to the remnants of Occupy Wall Street , Bush-era national security officials to the inappropriately-named Revolutionary Communist Party ( Refuse Fascism ) , and so on .
Or to really give an idea of just how absurd the ideological alliance was to ensure a Biden presidency , the Transition Integrity Project was even shamefully promoted by the likes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like Democracy Now !
which made its journalistic name critically covering the very neoconservative figures from the Bush years behind TIP .
Somehow , those in power managed to persuade the “ anti-establishment ” to side with them against the bad orange man as the supposed greater evil , tricking them into defending institutions they should oppose as inviolable and the archaic US electoral system which deprives them of real democracy as unimpeachable .
This is the real legacy of the Trump era — only time will tell if it is its lesson @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and geopolitical analyst .
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Max Parry
It has been more than three weeks since election day and the incumbent US president still has yet to concede defeat. Despite the media’s distraction over the perspiration of his personal attorney during a bizarre press conference, the legal team led by former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has actually done a decent job uncovering potential fraud in battleground states, where vote counting was delayed for several days before the former vice president was declared a “winner” by the news media and Silicon Valley.
Unfortunately, the 2020 election is not a sporting event or academic paper, therefore evidence that instances of fraud occurred will likely not be enough for the litigation to change the outcome, though it does appear his camp is finally facing up to leaving the White House come January. Then again, whether or not burden of proof was ever provided is immaterial, seeing as before he even took the oath of office a silent coup was underway to remove the democratically-elected government of Donald J. Trump that is now entering its final phase.
Trump found an unlikely voice of support contesting Biden’s premature declaration of victory in former six-term Democratic Congresswoman from Georgia and 2008 Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, who this time was the running mate of former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura as a write-in entrant in some eligible states for the divided Greens who officially nominated labor activist Howie Hawkins.
During the 2016 election, the Democrats scapegoated Jill Stein for Hillary Clinton’s unexpected loss, even baselessly implicating the Green Party nominee in the Russiagate hoax simply for having appeared at a 2015 Moscow gala for the RT television network where General Michael Flynn and Russian President Vladimir Putin were in attendance.
Not only did the legislatures of swing states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin exclude Hawkins from the ballot at the behest of Democrats in a shameless act of voter suppression, but McKinney described the irregularities which plagued electronic voting machines in her home state of Georgia in 2020 as “déjà vu”, having been cheated out of Congress herself by such tactics in 2006.
McKinney also previously penned an essay entitled The Purple Revolution: US Hybrid Warfare Comes Home to Roost? on the establishment’s efforts to remove Trump which makes an apropos historical reference.
This November 22nd marked fifty-seven years since the assassination of John F. Kennedy. When asked for his reaction to the killing of the 35th president in Dallas back in 1963 and less than two years before his own public murder, civil rights leader Malcolm X famously stated that “chickens were coming home to roost”, alluding to the US government’s interventions overseas such as the CIA-orchestrated assassination of the first Prime Minister of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba, in 1960 following its independence from Belgian colonial rule.
His remarks in the wake of a national tragedy proved too controversial even for the Nation of Islam which publicly censured its most recognizable minister who would announce his departure from the black nationalist organization a few months later. The following year, he would be gunned down in Harlem in an assassination long-suspected to have been the work of the FBI’s counter-intelligence program (COINTELPRO) which had infiltrated his inner circle to frame the NOI for a mysterious death equally thought by the public to have been a state-sanctioned execution like that of JFK.
It is unclear whether the African-American Muslim leader believed the US government was behind Kennedy’s death, but chances are he was not naïve enough to think that the same machinations used abroad could not be implemented by those very forces domestically to remove someone elected by the American people they opposed. If the Kennedy assassination was indeed a result of the “unwarranted influence of the military-industrial complex” which his predecessor Dwight D. Eisenhower even famously warned of during his farewell address, what took place was almost certainly a secret putsch.
President Kennedy had already been undercut by his own Joint Chiefs of Staff and Central Intelligence Agency in trying to defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis and his back-channel negotiations with Nikita Khrushchev were sabotaged by hawkish officials within his own administration. The internal struggle that scuttled Kennedy’s attempts at détente parallels the vying factions which undermined Trump’s diplomacy with North Korea to a near tee.
Political scientist Michael Parenti explained in his essay The JFK Assassination: Defending the Gangster State how the 35th president was targeted by the security state which perceived Kennedy as “soft on communism” and placating the Soviet Union in his diplomatic efforts following the failed Bay of Pigs invasion:
The dirty truth is that Kennedy was heartily hated by right-wing forces in this country, including many powerful people in the intelligence organizations. He had betrayed the national interest as they defined it, by refusing to go all out against Cuba, making overtures of rapproachment with Castro, and refusing to escalate the ground war in Vietnam. They also saw him as an anti-business liberal who was taking the country down the wrong path. Whether Kennedy really was all that liberal is another matter. What the national security rightists saw him to be was what counted.
While the widely perceived truth about the JFK assassination remains sealed from public view, the Church Committee and Rockefeller Commissions of the 1970s exposed the numerous CIA-backed juntas which unseated popular leaders in Guatemala, Syria, Iran, the Dominican Republic, the Congo, Brazil, Indonesia, Chile, and countless other nations in the global south.
Ever since, the CIA’s preferred regime change stratagem has been to use what are paradoxically labelled “non-governmental organizations” (NGOs) — which actually receive US government funding — as cutouts to destabilize noncompliant nations under the guise of supporting “pro-democracy” opposition movements. During the Cold War, the vast majority of states overthrown were left-leaning or socialist governments aligned with the Eastern Bloc, but in the post-Soviet world many of the toppled administrations have been far from left-wing and even conservative, with their only offense favoring economic ties with Russia or China and resisting Western hegemony.
Similarly, when domestic protest movements have taken shape at home in the US, the political establishment has used plutocratic foundations in Big Philanthropy and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex to defang them for its own agenda. Look no further than the way the nationwide mass demonstrations against racism and police brutality this year were rapidly transformed into a movement to elect Joe Biden, who drafted the senate version of the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, with no substantial legislation passed to reform police.
The corporatized Black Lives Matter movement, a recipient of $100 million dollar grants from the CIA’s philanthropic frontage in the Ford Foundation, grew out of the legacy of the short-lived Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011 which itself were coopted by reformist and pro-Democratic Party outfits.
Not coincidentally, OWS was also infiltrated by Serbian political activist Srđa Popović of Otpor! (“Resistance!”) and the Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) fame who previously led the Bulldozer Revolution which overthrew Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević in 2000.
A central component of the Gene Sharp-inspired ‘Color Revolution’ template is the engineering of contested election scenarios where leaders singled-out for regime change can be ousted after appearing to consolidate power, as seen in election-themed revolutions in Serbia (Bulldozer), Georgia (Rose), Ukraine (Orange), Kyrgyzstan (Tulip), Moldova (Grape), and other countries.
The same manner in which Biden declared himself the victor in spite of the lawsuits filed in federal court was recently observed abroad in the disputed election aftermath in Belarus where US-backed opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya announced herself the winner of its presidential contest in order to spark preplanned protests in Minsk against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. This was a replication of an unsuccessful blueprint from the 2009 Green Movement unrest in Iran during the incumbency of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as well as the presidential crisis in Venezuela last year, among others.
Trump‘s lawyer Rudy Giuliani appeared to be confused when he alleged that the e-voting irregularities involving the election software company Dominion Voting Systems had ties to deceased former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and international financier George Soros, who actually supports the US-backed opposition to the Chavista government in Caracas.
Giuliani may be mistaken but is pointing to something accurate, except in the contested US election his client is in the position of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro while Biden would be the equivalent of self-appointed “interim president” Juan Guaidó. Sans a few exceptions such as Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (who certainly knows a rigged contest when he sees one), most of the “international community” congratulated Biden on his assumed win just like Venezuela’s illegitimate coup leader.
Meanwhile, both the pseudo-left and conservative right seem to be equally misunderstood about Soros, who is neither the charitable billionaire or “globalist” bogeyman they imagine, but rather an anti-communist business tycoon who favors vulture capitalism and Western imperialism under the banner of liberal democracy.
As touched on by Cynthia McKinney, in the aftermath of Trump’s shocking triumph over Hillary Clinton in 2016, rumors began to swirl that a Soros-funded US ‘Color Revolution’ was in the works — a ‘Purple Revolution’, monikered after the noticeable shade Mrs. Clinton chose to don in her concession speech as a combination of blue and red intended to symbolize bipartisan opposition to Trump.
Whether or not that was true, it was in the wee hours following her loss that the Clinton campaign reportedly settled on placing the blame at the feet of unproven Russian interference for Trump’s unlikely victory.
Or was it even earlier?
Recently declassified CIA memorandums proved that months before the election in July 2016, Clinton had orchestrated a plan to whip up a smear campaign tying Trump to the alleged Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee email server. The documents also showed beyond a doubt how the Russia probe was launched even though both the FBI and CIA were privy to Clinton’s intent on linking Trump with the Kremlin.
The three-year Russia investigation and subsequent impeachment over the Ukraine scandal were only the beginning chapters in the slow-motion soft coup against Trump. When all else failed, the US elite began to prepare for his ouster in the 2020 election. In fact, the possibility of a second Trump term was evidently too much of a nightmare for the establishment to even fathom, so they only prepared for his defeat and presupposed refusal to relinquish power instead.
Quite literally, an exclusive cabal of Washington insiders, establishment Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans were gathered by a former high-ranking Pentagon official, Nils Gilman, to participate in role-playing “election simulation” scenarios and tabletop “war game” exercises predicting various election outcomes which anticipated that Trump would resist acknowledging defeat and transferring power, precipitating a constitutional crisis. It was called the Transition Integrity Project (TIP) and featured Clintonites John Podesta and Donna Brazile, who were joined by prominent neoconservative figures William Kristol, Max Boot, and the former George W. Bush speechwriter who coined the “Axis of Evil” phrase, war criminal David Frum.
Most telling is that among the scenarios considered, even in the postulated drill where the premise was a decisive victory for Trump, TIP determined that Biden should ignore the vote result and consider any measures necessary to attain the presidency, including provoking a constitutional crisis and possible civil war where Democratic-held states would be encouraged to secede from the Union, the electoral college abolished, and statehood awarded to Washington DC and Puerto Rico.
Upon reading the TIP report, it is clear that the real purpose of the bipartisan exercise was to mastermind the very disputed election outcome and concentration of power it predicts would be triggered by Trump. It is also possible that the project enlisted mass media in its scheme.
Just weeks before Election Day, a highly-publicized scandal broke at The New Yorker magazine after staff writer and CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin accidentally exposed himself during a Zoom video meeting with fellow employees. Many were too amused to notice the online conference call was revealed to be an “election simulation” featuring top columnists of the publication role-playing as participants.
It would not be out of the realm of possibility given the unprecedented extent to which corporate outlets and Big Tech companies have gone to influence the outcome of the election. Even those within legacy media such as The New York Post, one of the oldest newspapers in the United States, found itself censored by Twitter for publishing an explosive story which contained emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop of which not even the former vice president’s campaign denied the authenticity.
When Trump delivered a press conference outlining his campaign’s allegations of election fraud, major news outlets not only made the Orwellian decision to “fact check” Trump live on-air but cut away from the speech in the middle of his remarks in coordinated unison. Then when the president’s own social media posts were censored and flagged as disinformation, the jig was truly up.
It’s little wonder Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg openly bragged about how the platform was “partnering with the intelligence community” for censorship to be a soft power arm after the 2016 election.
Lo and behold, rather than being broken up for violating anti-trust laws, Silicon Valley has already been rewarded for staying true to its roots in the national security state by Biden’s transition team which consists of executives from Airbnb, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Dell, DropBox, Microsoft’s LinkedIn, Lyft, Stripe and Uber.
Can it really be that Trump is so hated because of his rejection of certain foreign policy orthodoxies like JFK alone? The truth is really so much more. It is because of his inclination to disgrace Washington’s sacred institutions for his own political gain which the entire establishment desperately needs to maintain the faith of the masses in its corrupt political system, rogue national security state, yellow press, and obsolete democratic process.
It is imperative to preserve these bureaucratic cornerstones as above criticism because they are a linchpin to holding power. As a political outsider, Trump blazed his own trail to the presidency and in doing so undermined the hallowed bastions of power in Washington, promising to “drain the swamp” while eroding faith in the leading US spy agencies as an unelected secret government or “deep state”, and most of all denouncing corporate media as “fake news” and the “enemy of the people.” Even though these were accuracies cynically told by Trump for his own advantage, they were misunderstood by his detractors to be falsehoods simply because he was the source.
Trump’s populist agitation even worried his own group of backers within the ruling elite who convinced him to soften his rhetoric and reverse many of his positions once he took office. Since the 2020 election has not resulted in a desirable outcome, he has only continued to increase popular distrust of the political order and its mechanisms which guarantee the status quo overrides the will of the people, signaling he is more than willing to take the whole system down with him.
Indeed, polls indicate many Americans seem to agree with the president that the election was rigged in Biden’s favor. This is precisely why his rabble-rousing is viewed as dangerous by the elite which unleashed its media organs and intelligence agencies from day one to sabotage him — they knew that he is willing to lay bare the full corruption of the powers that be in order to help his own cause. For this reason, the media has resorted to the most deceitful and partisan methods to portray Trump as a unique danger that most be ousted at any cost.
It is no wonder how a coalition as incongruous as that behind Biden came into formation, from Lincoln Project “Never Trumper” Republicans to the Democratic Socialists of America, Big Tech monopolies to Black Lives Matter, Wall Street megadonors to the remnants of Occupy Wall Street, Bush-era national security officials to the inappropriately-named Revolutionary Communist Party (Refuse Fascism), and so on.
Or to really give an idea of just how absurd the ideological alliance was to ensure a Biden presidency, the Transition Integrity Project was even shamefully promoted by the likes of so-called “progressive” news outlets like Democracy Now! which made its journalistic name critically covering the very neoconservative figures from the Bush years behind TIP.
Somehow, those in power managed to persuade the “anti-establishment” to side with them against the bad orange man as the supposed greater evil, tricking them into defending institutions they should oppose as inviolable and the archaic US electoral system which deprives them of real democracy as unimpeachable. This is the real legacy of the Trump era — only time will tell if it is its lesson.
Max Parry is an independent journalist and geopolitical analyst. His writing has appeared widely in alternative media. Max may be reached at [email protected]