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13.1.21

Old New Year 2021 — Finding Inspiration

THE MILLSTONE

The smog of lies hangs like a mask, 
Truth retches, twists as if she gasps. 
At millers' tales.

Her arms outstretched but finding strength
she tears the veil and clears the stench.
As clouds unfold.

Our ancestors, they too were bound
yet struck their feet in Common ground
And did not cease!

***

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

If you can keep your head when all about you   
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    But make allowance for their doubting too;   
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise...

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

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




THE WORD (1964)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

















Ryhor Krushyna by Mikhas' Bagun (public domain).

With which, fellow readers and writers, I thank you for your kind attention and comments and toast you and the New Year for a second time.
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10.1.21

The Legacy of Donald Trump's Administration

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

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

Ted Eytan (Flickr/CC)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The key takeaways from Donald Trump's administration:

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

Did I miss some positives?

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

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

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


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7.1.21

None Dare Call It Fraud

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

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

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

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

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

THE PEOPLE ARE PUNISHED

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A THUMB ON THE SCALES

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

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




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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TOTAL DISINFORMATION AWARENESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

VIRTUAL REALITY

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

Credit: CC0 (public domain)

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

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

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

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

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

WALKING WITHOUT ANIMALS

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

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

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

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

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

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

LOVING YOUR INNER FASCIST

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

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

Excerpt:

“A few weeks before his election, Trump earned 59 percent of possible Benitos, which made him “the most dangerous threat to pluralist democracy in this country in more than a century”. Four years later, we can assess how fascist Trump has been in power.

Hyper-nationalism. 2016: 2; 2020: 2
Militarism. 2016: 2; 2020: 3
Glorification of violence: 2016: 1; 2020: 2
Fetishization of youth: 2016: 0; 2020: 0
Fetishization of masculinity: 2016: 4; 2020: 3

Leader cult — Trump never tires of posing as the decisive man of action. 2016: 4; 2020: 4

Lost-golden-age syndrome — Obsessed with a politics of nostalgia, he even signals sympathy for those whose mourned-for golden age is the Confederacy. 2016: 4; 2020: 4

Self-definition by opposition — Fascists had no difficulty explaining what they were against: socialism, labor unions, democracy, traditional elites, foreigners — particularly those judged racial inferiors. 2016: 3; 2020: 4

Mass mobilization and mass party — Mussolini and Hitler built their own parties that enjoyed considerable popularity. Trump has with remarkable success suborned the Republican Party, making it his own. But he has shrunk it in the process, losing seats in Congress. 2016: 2; 2020: 1

Don’t compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. It belittles Hitler.

Hierarchical party structure and tendency to purge the disloyal — He has done his best to eliminate from positions of authority anyone but fawning supporters. His purges obviously lack the murderous violence of Hitler’s Night of the Long Knives, but they may prove no less effective in quashing dissent in the GOP. 2016: 1; 2020: 3

Theatricality — Trump works hard for dramatic moments, even risking coronavirus infections among his supporters to stage events in Tulsa and at Mount Rushmore. 2016: 3; 2020: 3

How does Trump stack up against fictional dictators? Pretty well, actually.

Those 11 attributes characterized fascist movements on the rise. Fascism in power demonstrated several additional features. They are not unique to fascism, but they are important characteristics of fascist rule.

Chaotic administration — Mussolini and Hitler pretended to run tight ships, but their governance was shambolic and improvisational. Trump’s administration shares this feature. Its handling of the coronavirus pandemic is a showpiece of inconsistency, mixed messages and internal conflict that is responsible for the needless deaths of tens of thousands of Americans. Four Benitos.

Information and media policy — Fascists lied constantly. Trump has set records for presidential dishonesty and seems to regard information as true only when it helps him politically. But unlike Mussolini and Hitler, he has not closed down newspapers, TV channels or media platforms. He has not jailed journalists or arranged their murder. Two Benitos.

Consolidation of power — Trump started slowly and met considerable resistance. He still has not tamed the media, the military or the intelligence services, despite lavishing money on the Pentagon and appointing loyalists of dubious qualifications to high posts. But after 43 months, he has done far, far less than Hitler and a good deal less than Mussolini. Two Benitos — but if he is still in office next year, he’ll probably earn a third in a hurry.

Pecuniary and institutional corruption — Mussolini and Hitler tolerated gluttonous corruption among loyalists while restraining their own venality. Trump and his family use the power of the presidency to advance their business interests. He calls into question the legitimacy of elections unless he likes the results, and he seeks to undermine public faith in the electoral process, for example by claiming that voting by mail invites fraud. Three Benitos. 

Economic policy — Fascists had no particular economic doctrine aside from preparing for war. They wanted to build autarkic economies that could withstand blockade and did not rely on foreign trade except for bilateral deals with weaker countries. They built up military industries through debt that they intended to repay by looting conquered lands. They quickly reached deals with big business, heavy industry especially, without which they could not build their arsenals. Trump, too, likes protectionism and has sacrificed the common interest to serve his business supporters. But, crucially, he has not geared the economy for war. One Benito.

Foreign policy — Trump doesn’t care (or understand) much about foreign policy aside from his eagerness to sign trade deals. He uses foreign affairs mainly for theatrical purposes, hoping for something to trumpet, as with his early efforts to intimidate, then court, North Korea. Like fascists, he hates international agreements and eagerly disrupts the status quo, but he does not seek war. Two Benitos.

Cultural policy — Trump invokes culture, heritage and history frequently, but he has no coherent cultural policy. He wants Confederate monuments to stay on their pedestals. He encourages, usually in dog-whistle fashion, racism as a cultural attitude. Two Benitos.

Racial policy — Trump has not enshrined racism in law. Nor has he enacted wide-ranging discriminatory policies. But he has tried to make immigration policy more racist, stoked White grievance. Racism is more central to Trump’s governance than it was to Mussolini’s early years, but much less so than it was to Hitler’s. Two Benitos. 

So where does Trump’s administration stand as he is nominated for a second term? He earned 47 of a possible 76 Benitos, or 62 percent. He remains the greatest threat to American democracy since the Civil War, but his exercise of power only partly resembles that of real fascists. He still faces checks and balances in Washington. He hasn’t shut down rival parties or uncompliant media.”

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

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

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

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31.12.20

On the Brink of a New Authoritarianism, 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Big Tech is above the law


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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wise and Foolish Builders


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

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

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

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

Gates & Epstein's Mad Scientists


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Getting Inside Their Soul

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Aldous Huxley in 1947 (public domain).
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28.12.20

Time, Terror and Plain Bad Narratives

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

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

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

Salvador Dali, Profile of Time (licence) 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Did I mention a bad screenplay?

No wonder the mayor of Nashville was laughing. 

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


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

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

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

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

One word makes the difference.

(After Don McLean)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doesn't really stand to reason, does it? 

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

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

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

(After John Lennon.)

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

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

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






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24.12.20

Death of a Vaccine Scientist

Update on the death of geneticist and molecular and cellular biologist Alexander Kagansky in St Petersburg last week. 

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



 Alexander Kagansky (YouTube)

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

mRNA INJECTABLES

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

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

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

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

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

DEATH & MOTIVE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

EXPERTISE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Given the potential for overexploitation and the unknown amount of compounds lost, this scenario of biodiversity—a focus on drugs lost from species extinction—is largely unexplored.
Several action teams have been recently established, including the Commission on Planetary Health by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Rockefeller Foundation (Planetary Health commission), Digital Forest (started in Brazil to evaluate genomic and metabolomic diversity in the Amazon), and the Biodiversity for Survival via Biomedicine (Bio2Bio) consortium put forward by the Global Young Academy.

The objectives include:
  • Create open interdisciplinary international dialogue among conservation and molecular scientists, physicians, patients, policy-makers, and commercial bodies in the areas of medicine, health, and well-being.

  • Establish best practices, including ethical and legal considerations, for sustainable natural product exploration, collection, production, storage, preparation, and purification of compounds.

  • Standardize high capacity bio-molecular and cell-based assays to test natural products against cell-based disease models.

  • Implement best practices in sustainable commercialization of natural products, considering the balance of ecosystem, community, and commercial interests.

  • Promote equitable sharing of benefits obtained from drug discoveries among stakeholders and the sustainability of natural products and the systems to which they are integral.


To be continued.


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19.12.20

Russiagate Hoax Was Cover for Clinton, Biden and Obama

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

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

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

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

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

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

"At the heart of the tale are several men, leaders of the Canadian mining industry, who have been major donors to the charitable endeavors of former President Bill Clinton and his family. Members of that group built, financed and eventually sold off to the Russians a company that would become known as Uranium One.

Beyond mines in Kazakhstan that are among the most lucrative in the world, the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States. Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million… Other people with ties to the company made donations as well."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Uranium One


Uranium, 92U United States Department of Energy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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






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