Controlled Opposition: Strawman Arguments Versus Reality

Matthew Ehret via LRC suggests that any attempt at questioning the kind of opposition figures that are thrown up is wrong, because if the opposition were always controlled, the globalists would have long ago achieved their goals and the situation is hopeless.

He may have qualified this opening remark on the rest of the show, which I didn’t watch, so possibly I have him wrong.

In any case, let me refute his argument for the strawman it is.

NO ONE is saying that EVERY opposition to the globalist project is run by the globalists themselves. That is so obviously a distortion of any reasonable understanding of the dialectic as to be a red herring.

Thousands, possibly tens of thousands, of people are wide awake and know what is going on. I draw that conclusion from looking at comment sections, usually pseudonymous, on the web. None of these people is controlled except to the degree they censor themselves, out of prudence or moderators and trolls distort and tar their comments.

HOWEVER, this opposition, while certainly visible at a lower level and indirectly influential, does not directly affect the power centers, whose operating assumptions have already factored in their discontent and channelled it into much more visible and directly influential TALKING HEADS, who are almost always vetted and in conformity to certain parameters, while allowed leeway to argue WITHIN those parameters.

What about patriotic and influential groups within the power network, such as, intelligence or military groups, who disclose or leak information to scuttle ongoing globalist plans?

OF COURSE these are real points of opposition. And the proof is that some globalist projects are at least temporarily scuttled.

Ehret argues that the globalists should already have accomplished their goals, if there was that much controlled opposition.

Here, I need to rub my eyes.

Where the devil does Matt Ehret live? When I read the papers, I see millions of people, even those with access to the net and the leisure to read, walking around with face masks, getting multiples injections, locking themselves up in their homes, announcing their pronouns, and displaying other signs of complete capitulation to the demands of the government. That looks like mission accomplished to me.

I see two sets of Orthodox Slavs busy inflicting tremendous damage to their motherland, to their churches, their people, their economies, and their future, while ENABLING and DISTRACTING from the globalist policies that have actually exported inflation and starvation around the world. I see NATO, which was irrelevant before, now thriving and expanding, and the military industrial awash with new money.

I see millions if not billions of small businesses shut down forever, ancient crafts destroyed for eternity and their owners expropriated and enslaved to debt,  over the last decade or so and hardly any articles in the media about this ongoing catastrophic destruction.

Instead, the leaders of resistance genuflect before the golden calf, beg forgiveness for trivial statements from idolators of the calf, and jail and silence its critics. And you tell me they are NOT leaders controlled by the system and I should SWALLOW their claims without any qualification?

If the globalists have postponed some of their plans, missed targeted outcomes here and there and do stand exposed for their machinations, this is NOT due to highly visible semi or fully controlled FIGURE HEADS, but due to tens of thousands of internet warriors, many long dead or disappeared who have spoken out truthfully over the decades  and indeed centuries [through republished samizdat texts revived by the web] to inform the world.  Whether they were at one time agents or compromised, whether they were bigots or racists, or jihadis, or Nazis, or Bolsheviks, Gentiles, Talmudists, snake charmers or wizards ultimately does not matter, if their material was truthful.

TRUTH percolates up from the ground. It grows like a mustard seed from the ground.

ASTRO TURF, NEEDING MONEY, BRANDING, NETWORKS, AND PARAMETERS, COMES FROM ABOVE.

 

 

 

 

 

Pro-Gvt Disinfo Expert Does Deep Dive Into Jan 6?

UPDATE: I cited Greenwald on the DHS hiring disinfo specialists to censor the web, under the guise of correcting disinformation.  On second thoughts, Greenwald is probably not the best person to cite, given his past with Snowden and other deep state actors, good or bad. So I’ve deleted the quote.

David Troy does a deep dive into what he considers the background of Jan 6.

Just a glance tells me Troy has an axe to grind….linking child porn to the gold standard is I suppose one way of looking at gold-bugs.

He mentions the following, whose deaths he spins to support his pro-government/deep state argument:

Mark Lombardi, about whom I blogged a DECADE ago.

Gary Webb, about whom I blogged more than a decade ago.

Danny Casolaro, about whom I also blogged a decade ago.

[the post was made private so I will repost it and link to that]

No time for more now.

EXCERPT:

The work of multiple researchers and historians has intersected to provide a fuller picture of the historical forces that led to the events of January 6th. The story centers on the Council for National Policy (CNP) and its members and affiliates who were the most active organizers and participants. But the deeper question is why this history unfolded the way it did.

Where did the CNP come from? What are its goals? Considering this larger historical frame apart from the day-to-day frustrations of party politics reveals a number of key themes. CNP was born from the same network of people who created both the John Birch Society and the World Anti-Communist League. In turn, those networks are also tightly associated with the birth of American libertarianism and also harbor a fervent and lingering passion for the gold standard.

Within this community, the fear and distrust of communism cannot be separated from the libertarian “non-aggression principle” and the preference for the gold standard. The fetish for gold is in fact directly tied into the non-aggression principle in that they see inflationary fiat currency as a kind of “molestation,” as articulated by Robert LeFevre, considered by many to be the progenitor of modern American libertarian thought.

Russian State Site Warns Against Fake Sites & Notices

United Russia [official site] warned on April 16 of fake notices with significant social impact being published on a site spoofing it.

Today, compromising information was posted on a fake site that positions itself as the official resource of the Duma faction.
You need to be prepared for a huge amount of false information. And an example of this is the false statement spread on behalf of the faction of Russia’s largest political party. This was stated by the first deputy head of the United Russia faction Dmitry Vyatkin .
“You need to understand that this alleged “appeal to the President” is only aimed at dividing our society, compromising the Armed Forces, introducing doubts into the minds of people, and also causing damage and undermining confidence in our party. We are closely monitoring the situation, promptly responding to such sabotage and will definitely achieve punishment for those responsible – for this, United Russia has worked long and hard to improve legislation and increase the information security of our citizens,” he said.
The deputy head of the faction , Yevhen Revenko , added that this was pure provocation.
“Someone (I guess who: 10 minutes after the appearance of the fake, the reposts went through the well-known provocateur and liar Anton Gerashchenko in Telegram and 15 minutes later on the Ukrainian UNIAN resource) staged a provocation: he created a false website of our faction and began to post all sorts of nonsense, fakes on socially important topics. Some online publications were quick to pick up. Colleagues please be careful. For our part, we turned to Roskomnadzor with a request to block and remove the fake from everywhere. Well, I’ll add that just as there was no trust in the Kiev mouthpieces of the national propagandist, it still isn’t. Another confirmation,” he said.

 

Better Dead Than Zed

THE TIMES ON  Z AS A DESIGNATION FOR NAZIS

ORIGINAL POST ON APRIL 19

For those who have yet to understand the depth and complexity of the cryptocracy under which we live, this tweet will help:

1973 Soviet film where kids in a sub named “Neptune” discover a sunken warship and thinking it a pirate ship initially, note the marking “Z-29” on the side and note “only fascists use the letter Z!”. One child is dressed in Ukrainian colors. Wild. #moskva #SlavaUkraini #Neptune

[April 17]

And then there’s this in the film, The Grand Budapest Hotel [2014]:

The double-ZZ symbol meant to be a riff on the Nazi’s swastika was referred to on set as “the zig zags.” Wes Anderson doodled “thousands” of variations during pre-production.

DeepFake AI: Was Moschun Mapped Onto Bucha?

UPDATE

Bucha was the headquarters of General Nikolai Vatutin, who was the leader of the Red Army forces that liberated Kiev from the Nazis. Vatutin was fought by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army [UPA] organized by Stepan Bandera, the popular but controversial figure, who associated with the Nazis. Vatutin died from wounds received in battle with the UPA and there is an ongoing dispute between Ukraine and Russia about the memorial to him in Kiev and where his ashes are buried.

UPDATE

Today, I read that a car caught fire and the driver died after crashing into the gate of the Russian embassy in the Romanian capital……which would be BUCHAREST….

An odd coincidence…or not.

ORIGINAL POST

Think about the language.
MOSCHUN….visually similar to MOSCOW…..
where the deepfake video might have been made when the Ukrainians took it back from the Russians around March 24.

Then, they picked BUCHA, close by, and with a resonant name, similar visually to Buchenwald, and similar aurally to Butchery, Butcher and Bucha [Ukrainians for outcry].

Interestingly, the Ukrainians then called in a Holocaust expert to proclaim that Bucha was a genocide…reinforcing the Buchenwald association again.

The expert is a Ukrainian-born Israeli citizen Eugene Finkel. This will ensure that influential Jewish lobbies everywhere will pressure their governments to intervene. Use- the-Jews is the cynical name of the game and the Ukies are using it to deflect attention from the non-fake fact that Jews [Zelenksy, Kolomoisky, Soros etc.] and Nazis [Azov et al.] are actually collaborating here in the Ukraine and in NATO and the US.

The same logic applies to the international press given a Holocaust survivor allegedly killed during Russian shelling of Kharkhiv. I suppose I should tack on alleged to practically everything in this war of lies.

All these associations are calculated to hit emotionally at global audiences. This is psychological warfare, not at the Russians, who can see through it, but at the domestic population.

A subliminal association of MOSCOW with BUTCHERY and the HOLOCAUST is set up.  Ordinary Jews get triggered and Jewish lobbies campaign furiously to intervene.

We’ve been here before how many times?

Deepfake AI can be used to manipulate satellite imagery and map one location onto another so the falsification is practically invisible to a layman.

Former WSJ Publisher Censors News Websites With Nutrition Labels

From Politico.com:

Labeling through extensive disclosure is more practical on the internet than in print or through broadcasts, where space is limited. Disclosures online can be detailed enough to give readers all the information they need to decide how trustworthy to consider a source. My analyst colleagues at NewsGuard often write “Nutrition Labels” for news sites in the thousands of words, with numerous citations, to explain why sites like RT and Sputnik News fail basic criteria of journalistic practice and differ fundamentally from government news sources with effective independent charters such as the BBC. Microsoft makes NewsGuard’s detailed ratings and reviews of news websites available to its users, but the other large platforms don’t yet provide this kind of transparency to their users. And labels work: Gallup research found that when given access to apolitical source ratings, a majority of readers became less likely to believe or share news from websites rated untrustworthy and more likely to believe and share news from websites rated trustworthy.”

Yet another example of the pervasive censorship and distortion that plagues the so-called free press.

Lower ratings will automatically be slapped on unpopular political positions, even those voiced by completely marginal internet blogs and websites, the last remaining strong-holds of pure truth-telling. The lower ratings will translate into lower rankings by the search engines and that will lead to a precipitous drop in readership. Wrong-think will not simply be devalued. It will be silenced.

Hate-Russia Is Part Of The Internet Counter-Reformation

The Internet Reformation [h/t to Anthony Wile of The Daily Bell ] is the notion that the widespread use of the internet was the equivalent of the  widespread use of the printed word, following on Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press.

It was an unveiling of things that had been hidden until then, from the teachings of the Bible to the workings of nature. It was an apocalypse, if you will, of the same magnitude as what is taking place today, with the adoption of the Internet.

Something similar was supposed to have happened with the Internet. The monopoly of the large media houses was supposed to have been shattered and replaced by the voices of citizens. And it was. But this Reformation was barely underway in 2007, when the Internet Counter-Reformation mounted its assault, using dozens of large anonymous or pseudonymous “citizen media” outlets, which, on careful examination, proved to have been astro-turfed.

That is, they led straight back to the mainstream media [MSM] and to the mainstream alternative media, to use an oxymoron.

I have explained who these mainstream alternatives are elsewhere.

They include outlets like Democracy Now, Alternet, Breitbart, Daily Caller and dozens of others.

These are just a few I’ve picked that are widely read on all sides of the political spectrum.  There are scores of other sites that are just as influential that I have not named. They too belong here. As do hundreds of smaller ones, for whom the words below are equally relevant.

The mainstream alternatives constitute what the now-disappeared Zahir Ebrahim

[who seems to have resurfaced through a mirror blog of some kind]

has dubbed the dissentstream

a body of dissent, which, on closer examination, reinforces in subtle ways the assumptions and conclusions of the mainstream media, both establishment and alternative.

This body of dissent mixed with disinformation is allowed to exist because of the variety of uses it has for the state:

It acts a  release-valve for citizen frustration and hostility

It provides maximum cognitive diversity in the information environment

Is provides maximum cover for information operations and black operations conducted by the intelligence services

It allows war- gaming of various planned or mulled future scenarios

It traces and surveils social networks of potential and real dissidents

It disciplines bloggers/citizens to self-censor, through high-profile highly visible pundit take-downs and cancellations

It tests the public mood and readiness for various covert and public projects

It employs predictive programming, aka “revelation of the method,” as described by Michael Hoffman

[The notion of predictive programming is regarded as a conspiracy theory by the media-academic-think-tank complex, which is now sending anyone who looks for it on a Google search to the term, predictive coding. Previously, you could find predictive programming on the first page of a Google search for the term.]

It generates and develops memes that mold public consciousness and markets

It taps potential markets and creates new one

It takes without credit, ideas, research, innovations, and leads and uses them to reward and enrich preferred individuals and companies  and to suppress and impoverish other voices

That is not an exhaustive list, by any means.

Bottom line:

The media is not about informing the public. It is about misleading it and milking it.

The media is not about revealing the truth. It is about paralyzing the will and diverting/exhausting attention and resources.

 

 

Jacque Attali in 2009: Hopefully, A Pandemic Will Bring About World Government

Alex Jones cites a supposed quote from Jacques Attali.

A number of social and print media outlets are running with the same quote.

Poynter says the text that social media cites is fraudulent or a wild misinterpretation.  Now I accept that social media might be running disinformation on this, but I am pretty much 100 percent sure that Poynter is.

The text is from a book that is now unavailable and out of print so we have to take the word of third parties who claim to have copies of it.

As for Attali, as he is a plagiarist and liar, I am not really interested in anything he has to say.

I found this, via Poynter, from Attali’s  blog in l’Expres in 2009.

History teaches us that humanity only evolves significantly when it is really afraid: it then first sets up defense mechanisms; sometimes intolerable (scapegoats and totalitarianisms); sometimes futile (distraction); sometimes effective (therapeutics, discarding if necessary all previous moral principles). Then, once the crisis is over, it transforms these mechanisms to make them compatible with individual freedom, and to inscribe them in a democratic health policy.

The pandemic that is beginning could trigger one of these structuring fears.

If it is not more serious than the two previous fears linked to a risk of pandemic (the mad cow crisis of 2001 in Great Britain and the bird flu crisis of 2003 in China), it will first have significant economic consequences (fall in air transport, fall in tourism and the price of oil); it will cost about 2 million dollars per contaminated person and will make the stock markets fall by about 15%; its impact will be very brief (China’s growth rate fell only in the second quarter of 2003, only to explode in the third quarter); it will also have organizational consequences (in 2003, very rigorous police measures were taken throughout Asia; the World Health Organization set up global alert procedures; and some countries, particularly France and Japan, stockpiled considerable quantities of drugs and masks).

If it is a little more serious, which is possible, since it is transmissible by humans, it will have truly planetary consequences: economic ( models suggest that it could lead to a loss of 3 trillion dollars, that is to say a drop of 5% of the world’s GDP) and political ( because of the risks of contagion, the countries of the North will have an interest in the countries of the South not being sick and they will have to ensure that the poorest have access to the medicines that are currently stocked only for the richest); a major pandemic will then bring out, better than any humanitarian or ecological discourse, the awareness of the need for altruism, which is, at the very least, self-serving.

And, even if, as we must obviously hope, this crisis is not very serious, we must not forget, as with the economic crisis, to draw lessons from it, so that before the next, inevitable one, prevention and control mechanisms and logistical processes for the equitable distribution of medicines and vaccines are put in place. To do this, we will have to set up a world police force, a world stockpile and therefore a world tax system. We will then come, much more quickly than would have been possible on economic grounds alone, to set up the foundations of a true world government. It was through the hospital that the establishment of a real state began in France in the 17th century.

In the meantime, we could at least hope for the implementation of a real European policy on the subject. But here again, as on so many other subjects, Brussels is silent.

j@attali.com

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

I also ran into this explanation from dailyhunt.in:

Attali, a former adviser to late French president François Mitterrand, has written numerous books. However, none of them were called “The Future of Life”.

“Future Life”, published in 1981 in French as “L’Avenir du Futur” and later translated into English, was written by Michel Salomon and features an interview with Attali in which he answers the question “Is it possible and desirable to live 120 years?”

The book’s publisher, Seghers, sent AFP a copy of the passage in which Attali is quoted.


Excerpt featuring Attali’s interview in the original French version of “Future Life”

At one point in the interview, Attali says: “...as soon as a person gets to be older than sixty or sixty-five, and his productivity and profitability begin to slip, he costs society dearly.” And later: “Actually, from the viewpoint of the cost to society, it is much preferable that the human machine abruptly stop functioning than that it deteriorate very gradually.”

Which is considerably more sinister than the article that Poynter pulled up, which obscures Attali’s real position.

Youtube Bans All Russian State- Owned Media World-Wide

NDTV reports:

Our Community Guidelines prohibit content denying, minimizing or trivializing well-documented violent events, and we remove content about Russia’s invasion in Ukraine that violates this policy,” spokesman Farshad Shadloo said. “In line with that, effective immediately, we are also blocking YouTube channels associated with Russian state-funded media, globally.”

Such are the hypocrites, cowards, and liars that rule us.

It is perfectly alright for them to adopt as their military policy such a thing as TOTAL INFORMATIONAL WAR and consider the entirety of civilian life here and abroad part of the battlefield, but if some nation shuts down a propaganda station from a foreign agent on its soil, the global policeman is on the scene to lecture it on its assault on FREE EXPRESSION AND THE FREE PRESS.