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Mar 11, 2023Liked by Morgoth

I hope that all those who were denounced, like me, for calling out this totalitarianism and the bullshit narrative underpinning it, are feeling vindicated. I know I am.

Cheers, Morgoth, for that you've done and continue to do.

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Superb post. The essence of human nature has not changed from the times when one tribe was murdering another for food and water. I too loved ‘JFK’; I’m also reminded of another of Oliver Stone’s films - ‘Wall Street’. It’s most memorable scene is the speech given by the the corporate raider Gordon Gekko (played by Michael Douglas in his best ever performance). Gekko extols the virtues of greed to meeting of shareholders in a company he is trying to take over (so that he can asset-strip and liquidate it for profit ultimately). He tells them that “Greed is good, greed is right, greed works..clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit”. Stone’s father had been a Wall Street trader all his working life; Stone has said in interviews that this gifted him some real insight into the machinations of money/power. Hancock is the patsy for far, far more powerful and Machiavellian figures driven by their own greed to bend the world to their will.

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One of the most crazy-making dynamics in clown world is the fashion in which the various organs of the technocracy will openly coordinate while shouting their plans for the transformational future from the rooftops, while simultaneously implanting in the heads of their hypnotized supporters the suggestion that any negative attention the technocracy receives is a right wing conspiracy theory. It is not the plan, or the actions clearly emanating from the plan, that is the crazy conspiracy theory - it is rather the suggestion that those formulating and implementing policy are motivated by anything other than unicorns, lollipops, and puppy smiles.

That is perhaps the key to why the tactic works so well. The NPC sees herself as the avatar of positive social change, filled with love for all humankind. Her motives are only ever pure and positive, and it follows that her thought leaders must be no less angelic. To even suggest that the motivation driving e.g. the UN Sustainability Goals or Agenda 2030 are anything but virtuous is to stab at the very heart of her self image as an enlightened change agent. She knows that she's one of the good people, and it follows that the people she takes her cues from must also be good people - so, those who suggest that maybe they aren't, or even merely imply that some of their policies might be just a little bit misguided, is clearly a right wing nut job animated by hatred.

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Mar 11, 2023·edited Mar 11, 2023Liked by Morgoth

Great article. Hancock has been properly played. He is the inverse of Sergeant Howie in The Wicker Man. Whereas Howie's morality was tested to see if he was pure enough for the role that the islanders had in mind for him, Hancock being given the opportunity to enrich his local landlord with a PPE contract was a similar test to see how corruptible he was. Of course he couldn't resist, thinking that he and a few of his mates were going to make bank while heroically managing a public crisis. Perhaps he thought that the public might overlook him helping out a friend given his masterful handling of the pandemic.

He is far too stupid to have been aware that something a lot deeper and darker was going on. He is the perfect patsy, knowing full well that he is guilty of something but unable to point the finger at anyone above him because he was too dumb, greedy and arrogant to have worked out what was actually happening.

"Who but a fool would be king for a day?"

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Great article Morgoth! Brought to mind this article

https://inflamermedia.com/2023/03/05/is-britain-the-most-corrupt-country-in-the-modern-world/

which raises the point that power is totally unaccountable in modern Britain. Various advisers, experts and other technocrats craft policy, civil servants implement policy, and politicians are just their to take the fall. Even then, the worst that will happen is that they'll have to resign a ministerial post. Democracy periodically cleanses itself through resignations and elections like a snake shedding its skin, but it's still the same snake.

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Mar 11, 2023Liked by Morgoth

I also feel that, from the perspective of power analysis a la de Jouvenel, it´s entirely implausible to effectively have "the experts", i.e. a bunch of middle management types, wrest control from national governments all over the world. Schmitt says that whoever decides on the state of exception is the sovereign. Well, the "pandemic" was a state of exception if I´ve ever seen one - are we really to believe that the "experts" or even the Hancock types are the global sovereign?

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Mar 11, 2023Liked by Morgoth

The original definitions were misinformation is simply untrue information and disinformation was part of an organized campaign to mislead. Disinformation was originally a KGB term. Now, it is simply applied to anything that contradicts the narrative put forth by the authorities.

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Mar 11, 2023Liked by Morgoth

Great article, as per usual.

Stone's JFK and Nixon are absolute cinematic masterpieces of paranoia, power and intrigue. Would love to see you cover them for classic movies.

It's worth remember that JFK conspiracy theories are only acceptable in the mainstream as long as those theories stay on the kosher plantation. The pejorative term "conspiracy theory" was weaponized by the CIA, particularly in CIA Document 1035-960 to smear people digging into who was really behind the the JFK assassination.

"We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." — William Casey, Ronald Reagan’s first CIA Director (from Casey’s first staff meeting, 1981)

https://www.globalresearch.ca/weaponizing-the-term-conspiracy-theory-disinformation-agents-and-the-cia

It is also worth noting "JFK" was produced by a company (Regency Enterprises) owned by billionaire Israeli spy Arnon Milchan.

Arnon Milchan publicly admitted in an interview that he was heavily involved in the operation to steal American uranium and smuggle it to Israel for their illegal nuclear weapons program. Funnily enough the the film does not mention JFK was trying shut down Israel's illegal nuclear weapons program. Coincidental omission, I'm sure. I'd like to see you and Endeavour try and discuss that angle on Youtube!

Two of the best articles on this subject are by Ron Unz where he covers in fascinating detail the vast lore and then hones in on the most likely tribal culprits at the end. Probably the best pieces in his superb American Pravda series, and his articles have an audio function so you can listen to them too.

https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-the-jfk-assassination-part-i-what-happened/

https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-the-jfk-assassination-part-ii-who-did-it/

Shame Ron Unz now has some of the worst takes on Covid, and it's a shame his wrong takes are being used by a few remaining guys on the DR to save face after laughing at people like us who did indeed say there was a deeper and far more nefarious agenda going on.

I remember a former Soviet spy once saying the life of a double agent is like wandering in a "wilderness of mirrors". So it is not surprising that some people peering into the deepest secrets behind the grandest conspiracy the deep state has ever pulled off (IE COVID), should get lost in that wilderness of mirrors and in some cases completely lose their mind. Like a tale from Lovecraft.

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Mar 11, 2023Liked by Morgoth

Good one Morgoth.

OT: Just got to your Small Boats rant in UO11.14 and I have a theory. ‘Small Boats’ is meant to subconsciously evoke Dunkirk evacuation. The Snow Goose.

Wickedly cynical I know...

Just an idea.

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Mar 11, 2023Liked by Morgoth

Oh, and as for for Oliver Stone's JFK, I love it, too. I've lost track of the times I've watched it, down the years.

I have long thought that the sequence where Jim Garrison meets with 'X' by the Reflecting Pool in Washington, is one of the most gripping and electrifying in cinematic history. Likewise the spellbinding trial segment....which never ceases to grip me.

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Excellent analysis.

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This is spot on:

There is something deeply infantilising and chilling about a discourse that seeks to reject as a matter of principle the idea that people plot and scheme to benefit themselves. It is a historic reality. It is, unfortunately, simply part of the human condition.

It's fairly clear that part of the liberal worldview is the idea people can be perfected and a utopia is achievable; their refusal to acknowledge the terrible things that people can do is part of the cognitive dissonance they live with every day (which I think drives them literally insane). I've lost count of the number of times I hear a media "commentator," of some kind, default to the "evil Nazi" trope as the only answer they have to why really bad shit happens. Which is kind of odd in its own right since "evil" is essentially a supernatural idea and they of course are above believing in the supernatural.

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Mar 14, 2023Liked by Morgoth

Ironic is that the term “Conspiracy Theory” came into being from the very same intelligence agencies that conspired and succeeded to murder JFK. After the Warren Commission’s conclusive finding of “the magic bullet theory,” all records were to be sealed for 50 years. And miraculously nothing ever ‘leaked’ or those investigating the matter suddenly ‘died mysteriously.’ To date records that are released are heavily redacted. Hence Conspiracy Theory has now become synonymous with The Truth to those of us who question the motives and actions of the ‘elite’ while the NPC’s are still drowning in obedient ignorance.

On this side of the pond we have we have our own version of Matt Hancock: the sociopath Dr Fauci to fill this position of patsy .Like you observed Morgoth ( and a phrase I just can’t seem to shake) “power needs coordination” and I believe we will soon see one patsy from each of the Five I’s but absolutely nobody will be held to account!

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2023

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I didn't get to this until today (Tuesday), so I'm a bit late to the game. The trouble with this all is that it's a war on pattern recognition, as Auron MacIntyre put it today. I've seen so many instances of this approach by the powerful, setting up a "heads I win, tails you lose" result. It's as if that's the power elite equivalent of "crossing the T," the goal for every admiral in the navy. Therefore, the "misinformation" campaigns must be simply the response to recognizing that information containment is near impossible in a digital age. The best they can do is create a false story, surround it with lots of jargon, and finally pin it on someone else to take the fall when it all comes out in the end.

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Brilliant take as always.

Wanted to say the 'indigenous act' you mentioned with AA would be pure genius as a mechanism to quell the vile Blair equalities act.

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Mar 11, 2023Liked by Morgoth

On the question of misinformation and disinformation, one is done by our government and the other is done by foreign governments

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