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USA out of NATO/No More NATO [2022)
Google.
When did Soviet Union collapse?
Wikipedia.
Vladimir Putin.
Retired as a KGB Lieutenant Colonel on the second day of the 1991 Soviet coup attempt against Gorbachev.
"As soon as the coup began, I immediately decided which side I was on."
One can assume that Putin was against the pro-communist coup.
As for Gorbachev.
Gorbachev the reformer.
Putin was on the same side as Yeltsin.
Which explains what happened next.
But we need to back up.
Putin starts working for the mayor of Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) as an advisor on international affairs.
So Putin was working for both the KGB and the mayor (Anatoly Sobchak).
Approximately one year later, he became head of the Committee for External Relations for the mayor of Leningrad.
He was still in the KGB.
Putin held this job until 1996.
Remember when Putin retired from the KGB.
Concurrently, Putin was first deputy chairman for the Government of Saint Petersburg.
He assumed this role in March 1994.
About one year later, he organized the Saint Petersburg chapter of Our Home – Russia: a pro-government political party.
It was a liberal party.
It was founded by Viktor Chernomyrdin.
Pro-government. And liberal.
Remember, Russia had just gotten finished with being a communist country.
So the previous form of government was radically (totalitarian) liberal.
Putin was a legislative election campaign manager that same year.
For the next two years, he was leader of the Saint Petersburg chapter of Our Home – Russia.
Sobchak, the Saint Petersburg mayor for whom Putin had begun working in 1990, lost his reelection bid.
Putin had been in charge of the reelection campaign.
At this point, Putin resigned his positions within the Saint Petersburg government.
He moved to Moscow.
He began working for Pavel Borodin as deputy chief of the Presidential Property Management Department.
June 1996.
Putin remained in this position for approximately a year.
March 1997.
Yeltsin, with whom Putin had sided in the failed August coup of 1991, hired Putin to become his deputy chief of staff.
Putin held this position for about a year.
He also was the chief of the Main Control Directorate of the Presidential Property Management Department.
His tenure there lasted slightly longer.
This position was an important one.
Both his predecessor (Alexei Kudrin), and his successor (Nikolai Patrushev), wound up in positions of prominence and also worked with Putin later in their careers.
Putin successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in economics at the Saint Petersburg Mining Institute.
His thesis advisor was Vladimir Litvinenko.
Putin then succeeded Viktoriya Mitina as First Deputy Chief of the Presidential Staff "for regions".
Two months later, he succeeded Sergey Shakhray as head of the commission for "delimitation of power" agreements "of the regions" and head of the President's federal center.
Putin soon-afterwards, by appointment of Yeltsin, became head of the FSB: the successor to the KGB.
Here's where our story gets interesting.
And here's where the current Ukraine war started.
The Czech Republic (AKA Czechia) [a former signatory of the Warsaw Pact] joined NATO.
Hungary [a former signatory of the Warsaw Pact countries] joined NATO.
Poland [a former signatory of the Warsaw Pact countries] joined NATO.
Approximately five months later, Putin became acting Prime Minister of Russia.
August 9, 1999.
The Warsaw Pact was a mutual defense organization like NATO.
The Warsaw Pact ceased to exist on July 1, 1991.
When did the Warsaw Pact begin?
When did NATO begin?
The Soviets created the Warsaw Pact (CoMEcon) IN RESPONSE to the actions of NATO and the West.
So surely NATO dissolved after July 1, 1991, when the threat of the Warsaw Pact ceased to exist, right?
Oh, they didn't.
Well, then surely NATO ceased operations at least when the USSR ceased to exist on December 26, 1991, right?
Oh, they didn't take that opportunity for peace either, eh?
Are you fucking telling me that NATO, instead of disbanding and toning it down, INCORPORATED COUNTRIES FROM THEIR FORMER ADVERSARY (CoMEcon AKA the "Warsaw Pact" countries) INTO THEIR FUCKING "MUTUAL-DEFENSE ALLIANCE"?!?
That's exactly what NATO did.
Just five months before Putin first rose to the Prime Minister position in Russia.
22 years ago NATO first began to BORDER RUSSIA, right?
[because Poland borders Russia]
No, actually.
NATO began to border Russia in 1949 (!) with the joining of founding member Norway.
Russia was patient.
It was only six years later (1955) that Russia (the Soviet Union) decided to make a proportionate riposte and create the Warsaw Pact zone IN RESPONSE to NATO.
So when Poland joined NATO in 1999, it became the second country bordering Russia to do so.
NATO has been on Russia's doorstep since 1949.
And NATO set up a fucking tent on Russia's doorstep in 1999.
Fifty years later.
NATO, if they were really about "defense" and peace, would not have taken this provocative action.
Yeltsin wanted Putin to be his successor.
And so Putin ran for President.
Putin had become Russia's fifth Prime Minister in 18 months.
The State Duma overwhelmingly-approved this: 233 in favor, 84 against, and 17 abstained.
Putin was an unknown outside of Russia.
He had only briefly been the head of the FSB.
Most intelligence analysts expected him to go the way of the four Prime Ministers who came before him (in a mere 18 months).
Yeltsin was sick.
He unexpectedly resigned.
And Putin became Acting President.
Putin won an early Presidential election.
He was inaugurated.
Life came at him fast.
The Kursk submarine sunk.
Another crisis arose two years later with the Moscow theater hostage crisis.
Putin was elected to a second term.
Here's where "peace-loving" NATO stepped in again.
Bulgaria [a former signatory of the Warsaw Pact countries] joined NATO.
Estonia [a former Soviet Republic bordering Russia] joined NATO.
Latvia [a former Soviet Republic bordering Russia] joined NATO.
Lithuania [a former Soviet Republic bordering Russia] joined NATO.
Romania [a former signatory of the Warsaw Pact countries] joined NATO.
Slovakia [a former signatory of the Warsaw Pact countries] joined NATO.
Slovenia [a former part of communist Yugoslavia] joined NATO.
So NATO, instead of being satisfied with expanding NATO by two countries in 1999 (and bordering Russia with two members), decided to expand by a further SEVEN (!) countries (giving them FIVE members that border Russia).
The provocativeness of this cannot be understated.
Russia does not have a mutual defense treaty with Canada.
Because Canada is in NATO.
And Russia does not have a mutual defense treaty with Mexico.
Indeed, Russia no longer has nukes in Cuba.
It is approximately 230 miles from Havana, Cuba to Miami, Florida.
The world almost ended in October 1962 because of this kind of proximity.
230 miles.
And how far is Tallinn, Estonia (a part of NATO since 2004) from Saint Petersburg, Russia?
Approximately 230 miles.
Look it up.
Don't take my word for it.
Havana to Miami.
Tallinn to St. Petersburg (in miles).
Are there nukes in Tallinn?
But there are NATO forces in Tallinn.
And in Estonia.
NATO was on Russia's doorstep for six years (since 1949) before the Warsaw Pact even existed .
NATO pitched a tent on Russia's doorstep in 1999 with the accession of Poland.
And then NATO effectively started brandishing weapons on Russia's doorstep with the accession of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in 2004.
What would you do if someone was on your doorstep?
You ask questions.
You find out their name is Norway and they're in a gang called NATO.
They say, "if you mess with me, then my gang will declare war on you".
Pretty unsettling.
But you let them hang out and loiter on your doorstep for fifty years.
After fifty years, they bring a friend named Poland and set up a tent on your doorstep.
They are there, every day and every night, sleeping in their tent and cooking on their camping stove.
They leave their trash everywhere.
They act like they own your doorstep.
You cannot leave your house by your front door.
You have to go out of your garage.
Or through your backyard and out the side gate.
Five years later, Norway and Poland (NATO gang members), bring their gang buddies Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to live in the tent on your doorstep.
It's getting crowded in that tent!
But this time there's something even more unsettling.
These gang members are brandishing automatic weapons.
They have hand guns.
Every time you look out your peephole, you see the five people on your porch.
And they are heavily armed!
That is where Putin was at in 2004 when he began his second Presidential term.
Since then, NATO has added:
-Albania [a former signatory of the Warsaw Pact] in 2009
-Croatia [a former part of communist Yugoslavia] in 2009
-Montenegro [a former part of communist Yugoslavia] in 2017
-North Macedonia [a former part of communist Yugoslavia] in 2020
East, east, east.
Always east.
Ever eastwards!
NATO is the gang on Russia's porch.
It started with Norway loitering and saying, "mess with me and you mess with my gang".
For fifty years Russia let punk Norway hang out and brag about their gang.
After fifty years, Norway and their buddy Poland (another NATO gang member), set up a tent on Russia's porch.
Day and night.
Norway and Poland talking shit about how their gang would fuck Russia up.
Russia used to be in a gang.
Two, actually.
Russia was the kingpin of both of them.
The capo.
NATO are crips.
CoMEcon (Warsaw Pact)/USSR were bloods.
The bloods have ceased to exist.
Their gang has been broken up.
The bloods (Russia) even made their colors red, white, and blue: same as USA and France (two of NATO's founding members).
The bloods have taken on the ways of the crips.
The bloods are a defeated gang.
But that's not good enough for the crips.
The crips want to push their face into the pavement and grind it.
In 2014, with five armed gang members living in a tent on their porch, Russia decided to start going in and out of its own front door again.
They invented a curse word.
Russia invented a curse word.
The word is/was, "Crimea!"
At first, the gang members were shocked that the homeowner (Russia) had grown a pair of balls.
And then every day it happened.
Russia would emerge from its front door.
The gang members would brandish their weapons and say, "why don't you try something?"
The gang members would say, "this is our porch now, motherfucker!"
And Russia would just say, "Crimea river!"
Russia would go out to the mailbox.
Russia would enter and leave through its own front door.
For eight years Russia has been doing this.
Refusing to be prisoners in their own home.
But last year a new little shit named Ukraine started hanging out in the tent on the porch.
And Ukraine said, "We're gonna prevent you from saying, 'Crimea river!'"
Russia said, "How are you going to do that?"
Ukraine said, "I'm gonna fuck you up if you say, 'Crimea river!'"
Russia asked, "Are you in this NATO gang?"
Ukraine replied, "Well, not yet. But I want to be. And I'm gonna join as soon as possible."
This last reply was in the fall of 2021.
There was a new shit on the block: Ukraine.
And Ukraine wanted to be the badass.
Ukraine wanted to make sure that Russia could no longer enter and leave through its own front door.
But Ukraine made a threat.
Ukraine said, "As soon as I get into NATO, I'm gonna fuck you up the first time I hear the words, 'Crimea river!'"
Russia finally decided to do something.
Russia thought, "Ok, I can't fight these five gang members living with automatic weapons in a tent on my porch. There's too many of them. But I cannot go back to being unable to enter and leave through my own front door. So there is only one solution. I must fight the one who is threatening my freedom. I should be able to enter and leave through my own front door. And these gang members let me do that. I can even tell them to go fuck themselves and get away with it. Because I'm polite. I just say, 'Crimea river!' But now the time has come. I cannot tolerate little shit Ukraine telling me that he is gonna restrict my movement and my speech ON MY OWN FRONT PORCH! This little comedian shit has made his intentions known: as soon as he joins the NATO gang, he is gonna have them fuck me up in colossal manner anytime I exert my ownership of my own house. As soon as I go out to check the mail and they heckle me. As soon as I respond with a relatively-tame, 'Crimea river!', Ukraine is gonna sic the entire fucking gang on my ass. So that is the final straw. I can't fight the whole bullshit gang of thugs, but I can fight the little shit. And I must fight him before he gets into the gang. Now is the time. Do or die."
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7uPO4cFjoSPnnQozEoZKfx?si=e8b7838d8f924d2e
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Apocalypse Now [1979)
There is a war on.
Our enemy is brutal.
Our enemy is both foreign and domestic.
Domestic elements have aligned themselves with a foreign agenda.
That agenda is the agenda of communist China.
…and you will know us by the trail of dead.
Where was our airstrike?
Has the radioman been beheaded?
Now we are stuck in the morass of this fetid jungle.
Chickenhawks are the most eager to order assassinations.
Avril Haines.
PBR Street Gang.
Clean drumming.
Chef saucier with some Vietnamese and New Orleans French.
Charlie don't surf.
But General Michael Flynn does.
Look out honey 'cause I'm using technology.
With a heart full of napalm.
Those dedicated few.
We salute you.
In some colonial outpost.
Without a commanding officer.
Mr. Arkadin.
Confidential report.
Legacy of ashes.
A willingness to serve.
Mental illness.
Psychological terror.
This is the unrestricted warfare of the Chinese.
William Colby.
Did he try to right the ship?
It is a bold stratagem.
He who dares, wins.
Canoe accident.
Purple haze.
Mama's tape plays for dead son.
Baby driver.
The sadness.
Not your war.
What happens when it's not voluntary.
Resentment.
Vietnam as ideological war.
And war profiteering.
Both.
Each side of the coin with heart blinded to the obverse/reverse truth.
They were only toy arrows.
To scare us.
But you insisted upon killing.
And you were killed.
You were by the book.
Yet you had no wisdom.
You could have been a great leader.
But you lacked agility.
To turn on a dime.
Mercury poisoning.
Make hats, go nuts.
Make deaths, go nuts.
Did Kathy Griffin incite violence when she held up a bloody prop head intended to look like a realistic beheading of President Trump?
Flash back.
Trip up the river.
Long, strange.
Deserter.
What a surfeit of patriotism will do.
Present a schism.
To fight harder.
To fight even after the war is over.
It was a great plan.
Was the radioman beheaded?
Almighty standing by?
Skyking.
This is perhaps the best film ever made.
Francis Ford Coppola.
And it contains several of the greatest performances ever committed to film.
Marlon Brando.
Robert Duvall.
But the most important is Martin Sheen.
We are now living in a country strewn with decapitations.
All illusion of democracy is gone.
Our republic is no longer one where dissent is allowed.
From two parties, one has coalesced.
A totalitarism state is emerging.
Technocrats as the ruling council.
What are patriots to do?
We who are left alive?
Soon to be targeted by our own government…as if we were terrorists.
We only want our votes to count.
We only want free and fair elections.
Outcome-Determinative-Electoral-Fraud-2020
Election-Fraud-Facts-Detail
Summary+Evidence+Election+2020
What will you do, digital soldier?
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V for Vendetta [2005)
Was QAnon bullshit?
We intend to answer these questions herein.
Because you deserve answers.
The first question supposes that Q is now in the past tense.
Did Q ever promise Biden would not be inaugurated?
Not to my knowledge.
But few followers of Q likely saw a triumphant Biden inaugural event in the cards.
President Trump brought the people together on January 6, 2021.
He did not incite anything.
Anyone with a fucking brain knows that most large political gatherings are incredibly susceptible to agents provocateurs.
We know about them from Genoa.
Before 9/11.
It was still a pre-9/11 world.
To wit, anti-globalization protesters at the G8 summit in Genoa claim that the violence at that event was provocateured.
I don't doubt it.
So when I saw what was happening immediately after (actually BEFORE) Trump's speech ended, I knew what I was seeing.
Sure, Trump supporters were mad.
And we still are!
But there was not a single MAGA rally over the past five years that ever descended into violence.
Find an example.
Antifa and BLM were allowed to commit arson, looting, and vandalism for AT LEAST six months (with impunity).
And so the corrupt ruling system exposed itself on January 6.
By way of faux outrage.
What of it?
What will happen now?
Indeed, what IS happening?
The 2020 election was stolen by every manner of fraud under the sun.
The thieves got caught.
And still they paid no price.
Because not only was the election rigged, but the SYSTEM is rigged.
A coherent movement going forward will recognize this.
Where We Go 1ne, We Go All.
St. Mary's Virus.
Coronavirus.
https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan-lab-millions-us-dollars-risky-coronavirus-research-1500741
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/top-us-health-advisor-dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan-lab-for-risky-coronavirus-research-report/articleshow/75449844.cms
Tony Fauci is a fraud.
A false savior.
A false messiah.
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/4755
But V for Vendetta got many things wrong.
It failed to account for (or warn against) totalitarianism rising from the Left.
We saw it in Hillary Clinton.
And we now see it in the authoritarian communism of Big Tech and the Democrat Party.
Keep in mind that V for Vendetta hails from the first War "on" Terror: in which the United States subjected Muslims worldwide to horrible treatment (based on the lie that the terror attacks of 9/11 were the work of 19 beardy guys with box cutters).
I fought in that war.
I fought against the lies.
I called out Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld as being two of the primary authors of the attacks.
That was called 9/11 truth.
Subsequently, I voted for Barack Obama in 2008 solely because I thought he would bring these same neoconservatives (Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, etc.) to justice.
He did not.
And now the second War "on" Terror is upon us: the one where everyone who voted for Trump (all 78 million of us [McInerney numbers]) are domestic terrorists.
Who was Q?
Who is Q?
Who is acting?
Who is real?
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/embedding-with-pentagon-leadership-in-trumps-chaotic-last-week
It would appear that Ezra Cohen-Watnick is a fucktard.
Maybe he learned this in acting classes at Camp Peary while he was training to be in the Defense Clandestine Service (DIA).
This same Vanity Fair article also shows Chris Miller to be a pretty colossal fucktard.
But no one has taken the crown of Fucktard so completely as Mike Pence.
So what is it?
Are they all acting??
Or are they all, indeed, fucktards???
They are certainly ACTING like a bunch of cocksuckers.
I suppose only time will tell.
Brass tacks.
If they had a plan, it failed.
If they had a plan and it failed, it probably was a shitty plan.
Maybe they didn't have a plan.
Maybe QAnon was just an FBI psyop.
But somehow I don't think so.
I suppose because I am an eternal optimist.
Now we are hearing from such luminaries as Simon Parkes that the plan had to be called off.
Sounds a bit like the ever-shifting timeline of QAnon.
And that is a possibility.
Perhaps there was a plan.
Perhaps it was a great plan.
And perhaps now the plan has been moved back to March or April.
A couple of things we DO know.
Trump clearly won the election.
There was clearly MASSIVE election fraud.
Bill Barr was completely (seemingly) uninterested in said fraud.
Another prick acting like a fucktard.
Barr appoints John Durham.
Durham had three years to bring the Spygate/Obamagate cabal to justice.
He got ONE fucking indictment in three years.
Which makes John Durham look an awful lot like another fucktard.
Let's be clear.
Trump supporters don't want violence.
Trump should have pardoned Assange (but not Snowden).
Donald Trump very much became V (and Q?) by calling his supporters to D.C.
But he never once did anything remotely-related to inciting violence.
That claim is total bullshit.
It's like the Phantom of the Opera.
Meets Batman.
And Punisher.
We waited patiently for pain.
Still waiting.
We see the church sex scandals.
I will give Bill Barr credit for one thing: he rounded up Jeffrey Epstein.
But then the fucker went and offed himself under near-impossible circumstances.
Which leads us back to our commonalities:
–Trump supporters, BLM, and Antifa can all agree that the system is rigged
–Trump supporters, BLM, and Antifa can all agree that Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself
Lots of LGBTQ bullshit in this movie.
Which only proves my point.
We love the first openly-homosexual DNI Richard Grenell.
We are not white supremacists.
Not anymore than BLM are black supremacists.
#SayHerName.
Ashli Babbitt.
Hands up, don't shoot.
Unarmed.
I guess Pelosi's laptop just had a bunch of medium Sudokus on it.
We are coming for the inheritors of MKUltra.
But we are purely digital warriors.
Combing OSINT.
Information warfare is a scholarly way of saying gossip.
The most damning gossip is that which is true (and annotated with copious links).
Patriots must be tested.
It may seem cruel.
QAnon was merely boot camp for digital soldiers.
We have not yet begun to fight.
Stockholm syndrome.
You must be proven worthy.
We must see your true colors.
What is essential is Finch (Stephen Rea).
Imagine being an FBI special agent tasked with fooling the whole country.
You are tasked with concocting a gigantic movement of hope.
Only to let the whole lot down.
Only to preserve the status quo.
And collect your pension.
FBI are people too.
And they are watching.
Thinking, even, perhaps.
This all requires thinking outside of the box.
It requires the ability to be wrong.
Nothing wrong with being wrong.
Maybe QAnon was total bullshit.
But maybe it wasn't.
Because maybe it's not over.
Biological warfare is key here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrestricted_Warfare
Learn about Chi Haotian:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200801081608/https://www.sofmag.com/opinion-china-and-biological-weapons/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_Haotian
Psychological warfare (greatest impact):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9070625/Graphic-photos-blood-boy-spattered-hospital-walls-died-COVID-19.html
Pieczenik told us Biden would not become President.
Perhaps there has been a glitch.
Pieczenik told us there would be a military coup in the U.S.
The night is young.
We don't want violence.
We just want justice.
And more than anything, we want our votes to count.
One person, one vote.
If we can't have assurance of that, the social contract is broken.
Don't mistake the lack of Trump-supporter riots for acquiescence.
Never has there been a more patriotic, determined lot.
We must get at the truth.
We must find the truth.
And we must do George Washington and those who birthed this country proud.
We must do all of our soldiers who died for the USA proud.
We must do the good policemen who gave their last full measure defending our streets proud.
This is our land.
No taxation without representation.
Sure, go ahead and make D.C. a state.
And Puerto Rico too.
Fuck it!
It doesn't matter…as long as there are Dominion Voting machines and Ruby Freemans who face no consequences.
But we are watching.
And waiting.
Warfare is different now.
You may be occupying our country (China, with your puppet Joe Biden), but you have not seen resistance yet.
The Vietnamese and the Afghans were impossible to tame.
It was their land.
Home turf.
We will win.
You will lose.
Bill Gates.
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/scenario.html
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/players/
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Is This Dr. Steve Pieczenik's Last Appearance on Infowars? [2021)
https://cantcensortruth.com/watch?id=5fff54d4df45e13f8fff86a7
I have never come to you with such an important message, my dear friends.
The United States is now under martial law (although it has not been announced).
There has been/will be a military coup.
Trump will be President for the next eight years.
This according to Dr. Steve Pieczenik.
Dr. Pieczenik is my intellectual hero.
In the arts, my intellectual hero is Jean-Luc Godard.
But in philosophy, it is Dr. Pieczenik.
Life is art.
But art must be guided by a philosophy.
And so I have learned (over the past five years), from Dr. Pieczenik and Donald Trump, to honor the military and to honor law enforcement.
And it appears the military are about to save our asses.
Because our election was stolen.
It was stolen in a myriad of ways.
Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney warned us in the days leading up to the election that it would be stolen.
He told us about The Hammer (computer program) and Scorecard (an app run on that program).
And then we saw it happen.
As an insomniac, I was personally awake and exercising when Wisconsin miraculously shifted from Trump to Biden at 4 a.m.
Trump told us on the night of the election that this would happen.
He said (to paraphrase), "I don't want them to find any ballots at 4 a.m."
And that's precisely what they did.
And WHEN they did it.
The powers that installed Joe Biden.
Or attempted to install him.
Joe Biden cannot be President.
He cannot be Commander in Chief.
He is publicly compromised by China.
He took money (as I understand, while still Vice President) from China.
This was exposed in emails on Hunter Biden's "laptop from hell".
Joe Biden is doubtless "the big guy" who got a 10% cut of his son's shady dealings.
The big guy.
But this goes much, much deeper than Joe Biden.
If Dr. Pieczenik is correct, what we will see over the next seven days will be a multitude of arrests.
Think ABSCAM, but on an infinitely-larger scale.
This is, very much, the rolling up of a public corruption ring.
But it is a ring which has invaded every area of our Federal government.
I don't relish it.
I wouldn't think the military would particularly relish it either.
Except that it is just.
9/11 was not the work of 19 beardy guys with boxcutters.
It was, far more so, the work of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld (to name but two).
Two wars were started because these traitors engineered the controlled demolition of Manhattan's two tallest buildings.
And for nearly 20 years, those crimes have gone unpunished.
The U.S. military has had to fight the endless (and in many cases pointless) wars which have ensued.
I have no problem with a military veteran's vote counting as two votes (in relation to mine).
What will the next seven days bring?
We citizens have tried to get the information out.
It has been exactly like 9/11.
The media lacks basic journalistic curiosity.
The end of "one vote, one person" coupled with Biden as Commander in Chief would be the death of America.
China has engineered it.
From COVID-19 to fake mail-in ballots.
No judge in the entire country would look at the evidence.
Lin Wood tried.
Sidney Powell tried.
Jenna Ellis tried.
Rudy Giuliani tried.
And only 147 of our 535 Federal legislators gave a fuck about election fraud.
By way of a false-flag attack on the Capitol (thanks CIA), no evidence was put in front of the American public.
The courts failed.
Congress failed.
And China is heavily invested in our media companies.
Which means that a certain narrative will prevail.
And that narrative will be crafted to please the stockholders.
We have done our part.
I have put in two months.
I have crammed evidence out into every crevice of the internet.
I have done it for two months straight.
Now it appears that our last hope is our military.
Martial law is warranted when court systems are no longer functioning.
Because of corruption, our court systems are no longer functioning.
Is a military coup ever warranted?
What if a country was so thoroughly infested by corruption that it could no longer function?
I believe that is the very situation we are in now.
Our voting system needs major overhauling.
It has been exposed as being nonfunctional.
There may be entire agencies of our government which have outgrown their usefulness.
And they will not go quietly into the night.
And so it very well may be that the Second American Revolution will be a military coup.
In these times of censorship, I am quite aware that I am not allowed to voice approval of this coup.
"If my thought dreams could be seen/they'd probably put my head in a guillotine"
I am also quite aware that my blog is surveilled.
Every blog is surveilled.
I am quite certain that I am (and have been) on "lists" for much of the past 20 years.
So, by writing this blog post, I am helping to alert all who might be interested that a military coup appears imminent in the USA.
I have no ability to stop this coup.
And I have no part to play in this coup.
But I have a right to say that my vote should count.
And my vote didn't count.
The Supreme Court failed me.
Congress failed me.
It appears that Mike Pence failed me.
The news media has most certainly failed me.
Trump tried every legal means.
And by doing so, he has displayed that our system is fundamentally broken.
I did all I could as a concerned citizen.
But I will not resort to violence.
I will simply report what I hear.
This is what Steve Pieczenik has said.
I like Steve Pieczenik.
I love him.
I love all who love our American flag.
I love all who love our history of rebellion against tyranny.
I love all who honor our founding fathers.
I love all who honor our military.
I love all who respect our police.
This is a great war between the military and corruption.
There will be some military who are found to be corrupt.
Perhaps General Mattis.
Definitely General Clapper.
And what of Mark Milley?
I reserve the right to let his actions create a true impression in my mind.
General McInerney is an American hero.
It is from him that we learned "tactical deception".
I am a simple citizen.
I don't have a job.
I have two college degrees.
I have mental challenges.
I have love in my heart.
And fire in my veins.
The thought of America ending at the hands of Joe Biden boils my blood.
But it is now beyond my capability.
I now know that my vote doesn't count.
Because of Dominion Voting Systems (among other reasons).
Because of Ruby Freeman (among other reasons).
Because of foreign election interference (cyber warfare).
I love our country.
I look at General Flynn, and I see someone who also loves our country.
The military cannot turn a blind eye to election fraud.
It was an attack upon our critical infrastructure.
It was an attack on the mechanisms of democracy.
America is out of balance.
It is now up to the military.
What will they decide?
What have they been working on?
What have they been investigating?
Is there a plan?
We should find out this week.
If Joe Biden is sworn in, then it is a fairly strong indication that there was no plan.
But I find it exceedingly-hard to believe that such lack of planning would be possible.
Every mechanism of our government (including our military) would have had to fail in order for an illegitimately-elected traitor (money from China while in office) to assume the role of Commander in Chief.
I am willing to die for my country.
I am willing to die for the hope that liberty might live on.
I cannot, with a good conscience, consign future generations to the totalitarian tendency of communism.
I cannot, as a citizen, be fine with turning the keys to the kingdom over to Beijing Joe.
I have done my part.
I have fought the good fight.
I have won the race.
My name is Paul Etheredge.
I spent decades searching for the truth about 9/11.
Everyone laughed at me.
I used my own money to buy books on the subject.
I delivered pizzas.
I listened to Alex Jones.
I worked hard for those books.
I am willing to be proven wrong.
But we cannot build our house on shifting sands.
We cannot continue to progress as a country if we constantly reinforce big lies.
At some point the truth must come out.
This may be the most consequential week in American history.
May God help us and bless us.
I ask this in the name of the Prince of Princes–the King of Kings.
I ask this in the name of Jesus Christ who died on the cross so that we might live with God the Father in heaven.
I ask that the Holy Spirit be with us and guide our actions.
May we move with swift, merciless love.
May we protect.
May we be merciful warriors.
May we protect and teach.
May God open the eyes of Americans to the corruption which surrounds us.
May God bring us peace for our repentance.
May God have mercy on the souls of those who harmed children.
May God have mercy on the souls of those who staged false-flag terror attacks.
May God have mercy on the souls of those who sent our young men and women to die in foreign lands…all for a buck.
May God mercilessly shut down the center of corruption.
May God mercilessly rid our land of the cancer of secrecy.
May God cancel those who have usurped powers they do not rightfully wield.
Six days.
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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy [2004)
The world is fucked up.
This is probably the craziest year most of us have ever lived through.
When has the world, in its entirety, faced such chaos in recent memory?
9/11 brought us terror on a horrific, spectacular* level.
Guy Debord predicted this in 1967 with his seminal book La société du spectacle.
No, he did not pull a Nostradamus (who happens to share my birthday).
He did not predict the three towers (including the 47-story WTC7) falling into their own footprints.
But he predicted something much more useful, or at least applicable, to our present times.
The "locus of illusion" that Debord talked about remains (though it be besieged on all sides) television.
For our purposes, we shall call it "video".
Moving pictures.
Debord also predicted our current age of social-media dominance.
Though he could not name it then, he described it perfectly as, "a social relationship between people…mediated by images."
What does the word "Facebook" evoke when you hear it?
Does it sound a bit like a dating site?
What role do memes (manipulated images) play in our social discourse?
"The spectacle", Debord told us, "…turns reality on its head."
How much of what you hear "on the news" (whether that be television, radio, Internet, social media) do you trust?
Because you are smart, dear reader, you consider the source.
And so do I.
Debord wanted to say something about fakes.
The epigrammatic beginning to the first chapter of The Society of the Spectacle gets right to this point.
It was the philosopher Feuerbach who said that in, "…the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to essence…illusion only is sacred, truth profane."
Ludwig Feuerbach wrote those words in the 1800s.
But the Irish rock band U2 would come to a similar epiphany in their song "Even Better Than the Real Thing".
Debord wanted to talk about fake-ness.
But he also wanted to qualify his description of "the spectacle".
For Debord, "reality erupts within the spectacle, and the spectacle is real".
To translate (from French to English to philosophy to layman's terms), there are some aspects of our image-driven information culture that are real (though a good deal of fake news exists). But owing to the lack of a competing narrative to the overwhelming chorus of voices in agreement (corporate news), "the spectacle" (whatever the talking heads tell you) is, de facto, real. Never mind that it might all be rubbish. The sheer repetition of certain truths–day after day, hour after hour (from all the many "options" [ABC, CBS, NBC, New York Times, Washington Post])–renders those "truths" the currency of "factual" discourse. Without an independent, competing narrative from alternative news sources (which currently lack the scale and reach to pose a symmetric threat to "legacy media"), whatever the aforementioned "usual suspects" (ABCBSNBC…) tell you is TRUE becomes "truth" the moment they report it. The national news coverage of American current events is indistinguishable whether one has ABC, CBS, or NBC dialed up on the tele.
But the times, they are a-changin'.
Donald Trump's 3+ years in office have been "a moment of falsehood", which is to say, truth.
As Debord wrote, "In a world that really has been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood."
Debord seemed to be describing the "legacy media" when he wrote of an entity "out of reach and beyond all dispute".
Of particular concern in this current situation (which already existed in Debord's day) is the role that vision plays in our mediated understanding of the world.
As Debord wrote, "…it is inevitable that it should elevate the human sense of sight to the special place once occupied by touch…".
He goes on to describe "sight" as, "…the most abstract of the senses, and the most easily deceived…".
Think about a painting by Monet.
Waterlilies.
What are you seeing?
You are seeing the work of someone [Monet] whose eyesight was impaired. Literally. But though it be impaired, he still painted wonderful, huge canvases which EVOKED the atmosphere of a pond with waterlilies.
You are seeing blurry images.
Your brain has to fill in the details.
You are not seeing a high-definition photograph.
Furthermore, you are seeing oil paints which have been applied to a cloth canvas.
You are seeing a depiction.
This takes us all the way back to Plato's "cave", but I digress…
What happens when the big three TV networks in the U.S. get something wrong?
What about the New York Times and Washington Post (to just name the two most widely-distributed offenders)?
Do any of these entities make a concerted, SINCERE effort arising from true integrity to correct their previous, faulty coverage on events?
Debord could answer before the question was asked…because he knew the nature of these organizations (even in his native France).
He wrote, "The spectacle is by definition immune from human activity, inaccessible to any projected review or correction. It is the opposite of dialogue."
Social media changed this briefly.
But now, Twitter is acting like the generalissimo of a banana republic by banning accounts which "promote" the "conspiracy theory" known as QAnon.
This is just one example–from one social media platform–where the fleeting dialogue which threatened (?) "the spectacle" has been shut down.
Google, working closely with the communist Chinese government, is all too happy to facilitate similar totalitarian censorship in China…all for a buck (or yuan).
So let's talk about vision/sight for a moment.
Did George Floyd die under the knee of Derek Chauvin?
All of the "usual suspects" (ABCBSNBC) tell me he did.
And there's video!
Video never lies, does it?
I mean…movies are all true, right?
Is the video that Darnella Frazier ostensibly shot on her cell phone "documentary" footage?
It may be more than one thing.
It is possible to honestly document fake-ness (without knowing you are filming a pageant).
Have you ever seen an actress cry on command?
It is quite an astounding thing.
I have a friend who is a major motion-picture actress.
She once burst out in tears…right next to me.
I started to offer my condolences.
I was generally concerned.
I almost started crying.
Then she abruptly jumped out of character with a smile…to let me know she was just pranking me.
It was VERY convincing.
She had never done that to me before.
It was novel.
I had no experience against which to measure her crying fit.
I thought of her as a friend first and as an actress second.
I forgot, temporarily, that she was unequivocally a professional faker.
But Guy Debord saw more to "the spectacle" than just a stream of fake-ness.
Debord seemed to also sense an approaching hour when human relations would become totally stifled.
To hear Debord tell it, "Separation is the alpha and omega of the spectacle."
Both its goal and its essence.
While mass media seems to bring us together (shared touchstones, talismans…), in actuality, it separates us more from one another.
We are always obliged to mention what "the news" says about a certain topic.
It is rare (almost impossible) that two people have a conversation where they each give their opinion of a recent event and "the spectacle" (a mass, homogenized media) is not invoked (in deferential terms) at some stage as a reference point.
Debord describes the "weapons of that system" as ranging "from cars to television": all meant to "reinforce the isolation of 'the lonely crowd'".
But Guy Debord was not merely taking aim at television and mass media. He saw further. He seems to have, though writing in 1967, seen the inevitably of the Internet.
As he describes it, "The spectacle is a map of this new world–a map drawn to the scale of the territory itself."
While this is indeed a reference to a story by Borges (the world=the map), Debord's insight in applying this to mass communication and information dissemination is extraordinarily prescient.
Guy Debord, it must be said, was not without fault.
Most importantly, he was an avowed Marxist.
So his perspicacity ended where mass media stops and economics begins.
Which brings us to the film Anchorman…
Will Ferrell is awkward here.
And gloriously so!
We get gender division.
As today we continue to get race divisions.
Who is driving this?
Cui bono?
The British were quite good at "divide and conquer".
In the Indian subcontinent, Hindus and Muslims had lived relatively peaceably together…until the British decided to stoke this latent division for cynical ends.
"If the Hindus and Muslims are fighting each other, they can't pose a unitary threat to us."
That is what I can imagine British military strategists saying at the time when India was under their occupation.
And it worked.
It was brilliant.
Evil, but brilliant.
Ask yourself a question: who benefits (cui bono) from blacks and whites and Hispanics and Asians and police and civilians in America being divided and at each other's throats?
What series of events led to the isolation (frustration) needed to create the current powder keg that went up in smoke with the George Floyd event?
Ron Burgundy will read anything that is put in front of him on a Tele-Promp-Ter.
…as evidenced by his most unfortunate sign-off, "Go fuck yourself, San Diego!"
Which brings us to Joe Biden.
FDR managed to keep it a secret that he was stricken with polio.
He was carted around in a wheelchair during his Presidency.
He had the Resolute desk in the Oval Office modified so that a panel on the front obscured the prying eyes of news cameras.
You could not see his legs fastened to his wheelchair.
And the press obliged.
They loved FDR.
Good old liberal, Democrat FDR.
Elected to the Presidency FOUR times (an American record).
In the White House for over 12 (!) years.
Our Constitution was amended to make this impossible from there on out.
Now the limit is eight years (two terms).
All that notwithstanding, FDR never lost his mental faculties to any significant degree.
He had a physical disability which prevented him from ambulating fully.
Joe Biden can walk fairly well.
Sadly, there is no desk panel that can hide his mental deterioration.
It is there. It will be there. And it will get worse.
Which makes Joe Biden a FAR MORE RIDICULOUS candidate than Donald Trump.
And again, "the spectacle" is running defense for Biden.
Making excuses.
Tossing softball questions (if any at all).
The best thing that vicious, Marxist Democrats in the United States can come up with is a dud missile named Joe Biden.
He is harmless (to extend the missile metaphor), and in that he is very harmful.
He is, as regards the responsibilities of the Chief of the Executive Branch, useless.
Which gives us just one more example of how fakes are being foisted upon us.
Never has there been such a poor candidate for the American Presidency as Joe Biden.
It is becoming apparent to all that, if elected, he would not run his own government.
What a sham!
Why didn't the Democrats have the foresight to nominate Cory Booker or Kamala Harris?
It couldn't be because they are RACIST, could it?
Remember, Donald Trump is such a horrible misogynist.
How was it that the Democrats failed to nominate Elizabeth Warren or Amy Klobuchar?
Democrats REALLY care about Latinos in the U.S.
That's why they failed to nominate a guy named Castro.
Democrats are so diverse!
That's why they passed on nominating a guy named Yang.
And what did the Democrats end up with?
A halfwit, old, white man named Joe Biden.
Halfwit is really too kind a descriptor here.
The mobs wanted Ron Burgundy's head.
Because he told them to "go fuck themselves".
But it was a false-flag.
Did Ron Burgundy write the line, "Go fuck yourself, San Diego!" on the Tele-Promp-Ter?
Veronica Corningstone did.
Did the truth about who REALLY wrote it come out?
Not even from a news organization.
Burgundy was summarily fired and his life went to shit.
He ended up wandering the streets like a cross between fat Jim Morrison (Val Kilmer-influenced) and Brian Wilson.
Bathrobe and cheeseburgers.
Nilsson Schmilsson.
Drinking milk in the…hot sun!
But what goes around comes around.
Ms. Corningstone is pushed into a bear pit at the zoo.
An unenviable position, that.
And it takes a little dog to diffuse the situation.
A mob of bears.
A proud species.
Wronged by this intrusion into their hibernation.
But Baxter, the little dog, has a message.
"These are not the droids you are looking for."
The bears consider the source.
They will not take Ron Burgundy's word for it.
They will not take Veronica Corningstone's word for it.
But they will listen to a fellow creature from the animal kingdom.
"I know your cousin," Baxter says (and I paraphrase).
Baxter's message rings true.
The bears reconsider.
They are able to retreat gracefully.
Baxter has just acted as crisis negotiator.
A feel-good movie ends with former enemies expressing respect for one another.
Respect.
Not total reconciliation.
But a cessation of the mad chaos.
Brick Tamland (played brilliantly by Steve Carell) ends up (we are told) becoming a "top political advisor" to the Bush administration.
Mass media.
The spectacle.
Hollywood could not help taking a pot shot at a Republican President (even in a light-hearted comedy [and even though the bastard Bush deserved it]).
Because Bush was a (shitty) Republican (and a war criminal).
But for the eight years of Obama's Presidency (and the eight years of Bill Clinton's Presidency), you never saw Hollywood comment (on film) about the merits of these two Democrats.
Because the Democrat Party is inseparable from the mass media in the United States.
So let me ask you one final question:
do you think you are getting the truth about President Trump, coronavirus, George Floyd, or anything else from this tight-knit cabal of fakers?
Stay classy!
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Who Is America? [2018)
Who is #QAnon?
Or, more aptly, what is QAnon?
Is it a joke?
Is it a trick?
Is it a flypaper coup (as Wayne Madsen might call it)?
But there is an essential point to consider:
A party/person in power cannot (by virtue of their ruling position) effect a coup
In the event of a coup, is a "counter coup" then justified?
Ottoman countercoup of 1909, 1960 Laotian counter-coup, Indonesian mass killings of 1965-66, 1966 Nigerian counter-coup, 1967 Greek counter-coup, 1971 Sudanese counter-coup…
Notice the grouping. How likely is it that Steve Pieczenik came to know of these countercoups during his PhD studies (international relations) at MIT?
A simple search on Google of a specific term ("counter coup d'état") will presently yield a very intriguing pair of videos featuring Dr. Pieczenik.
Clinton silent coup of November 1, 2016. Silent countercoup "through Julian Assange and WikiLeaks" effected the next day (11/2/16) by element of the American intelligence community. Corruption. Clinton Foundation. Both coups initiated through the Internet. "Second American Revolution". Forced Comey's hand re: Weiner investigation.
https://youtu.be/LHN66mfgsKk
If this video is to be understood in the context of other statements by Pieczenik, it appears that Donald Trump gained power by way of a (counter)-coup.
Which is to say, the coup has already happened. Yet another reason to embrace the counterintuitive truth that QANON IS NOT A COUP.
Counterintuitive because QAnon indeed SEEMS like a coup.
Baudrillard.
Debord.
Who is America?
Bernie is exasperated at Billy Wayne Ruddick, Jr., PhD
Dr. Nira Cain-N'Degeocello and his conservative hosts both fancy Herman Miller chairs
Rick Sherman does some "spirit cooking" art with his bodily fluids and excrement
Erran Morad dupes some dense conservatives (but not Matt Gaetz*)
Jason Spencer yells, "Nigger! Nigger! Nigger! Nigger!!!" and thereby has his legislative career ended by Sacha Baron Cohen
Corinne Olympios (!) stood no chance
redneck "dream mosque"
Show becomes indistinguishable from political op with extremely mean-spirited character assassination of Judge Roy Moore
Rohypnol in the guacamole at a quinceañera
jokes about human trafficking…stacking girls 20 or 30-high in compartments aboard a luxury yacht (attributed to Bashar al-Assad)
OMGWhizzBoyOMG! Finland hipster Shopkins
Rick Sherman as DJ Solitary walking ground already tread by Matmos on A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure
Lewandowski doesn't fall for it
OMG Antifa dig at black sheriff (implied to be a fascist) by way of inaccurate reference to 1930s Germany
Truth reveals itself. "Anti-fascists" were communists. And "fascists" were anti-communist. A worthwhile movement would be anti-totalitarian (irrespective of right/left paradigm)
Rick Sherman: chef
#Pizzagate cover from SBC
Infiltration of Antifa.
O.J. hidden footage not really funny
But series is worth watching.
Sacha Baron Cohen is essential
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Democrats [2014)
For so long I dreamed.
Of visiting Africa.
Merely in film.
To say that I was not narrow-minded.
And to honor the one friend I have ever known from that beautiful continent.
A native of Chad.
Tchad.
And a former resident of Côte d'Ivoire.
Because I love geography.
But, even more, I love people.
And I am pleased to report that this documentary, about ZIMBABWE, is a masterpiece.
Directed by a Dane (as in Denmark) by the name of Camilla Nielsson.
And currently available in the U.S. for streaming on Netflix.
It is a recursive process.
For so long I cried.
When I thought of slavery.
When I saw the beautiful face of a black man.
And the teeth with many gaps.
I now know.
I can say.
My dear friend.
You look like you may have come from Zimbabwe.
But recursion may become tiresome.
So we will plop with geography for a moment.
Sadly ignoring Chad and Ivory Coast for the time being, we must locate (firmly) Zimbabwe on a map.
Champagne Castle.
Remove your sanctions.
Remove your sunshades.
Looks like South Africa (south)…and Botswana (west)…additionally Mozambique (east)…and gets hairy from there.
But you needs must only remember that the two Zs flock together: Zimbabwe and Zambia.
And so to the north (by way of northwest [not possible]) is Zambia.
Lusaka.
And over Angola is Luanda.
Luanda.
You are really getting the hang of this 🙂
Have you thought about working for the State Department?
Recursive.
Going back.
But wait…there's less!
Just remember that Zimbabwe is southeast Afrique.
Not on the coast.
That's -zambique.
But landlocked.
Have you ever heard the rot of colonialism?
Have you ever heard a landlocked brass band?
The pitiful, wailing clarinets…
Landlocked is potentially poverty.
At the mercy of your neighbors.
Over land. Over sea.
One. Two. If.
Recur thyself!
We must say it: MUGABE!
A big, fucking rockstar of totalitarianism.
Dictatorshit!
Yes. His dictator shit!
As when the Dalai Lama was a boy.
And they kept his turds.
Because he was some kind of golden child.
But President Mugabe (since 1980) will forever have the ignominy of that desafinado military band behind him.
Celebrations like dirges.
Gloriously out of tune!
Nothing slight about it!!
And every head bows…and every knee genuflects in fealty.
A spry 93 years old.
And President of Zimbabwe for a mere 37 years.
He ain't a king.
And worse: he's only 4th on the list of usurping motherfuckers!
You'd have to go to shitholes like Angola (ahh, Luanda…), Cameroon, and the kicker (!) Equatorial Guinea to find jerks who have managed to outlast the black Hitler.
But I like Mugabe.
[what?????????]
No, no…let me explain.
First: the guy does have a Hitler mustache. More or less.
But that's not why I like him. I don't dig Hitler.
Wait…do I like Mugabe?
Well, there's a time and place for everything (and everyone).
As you watch Democrats (mercifully…for all involved…NOT about the U.S. Democratic Party), you might grow attached to the various fuckers involved.
But Third World lawyers.
Some sad shit…
But most importantly: brave, noble human beings.
You wanna see a real revolution?
Watch this film.
You wanna see some real sacrifices for democracy?
To be sure…democracy is ugly!
And we Americans are the best at it.
Fight, fuck, kill…but more like lie, cheat, deceive…yeah.
Democracy brings out the worst in people.
But it arrives at the best result.
It's a goddamned crucible.
Just to think…that the master copy of the Constitution of Zimbabwe (ostensibly the subject of this film) was on a fucking Dell laptop.
Dell.
Right up the road from me.
Round Rock.
In the Westerns…
Michael Dell's Horatio Alger story…at UT-Austin.
Even closer to me.
And #vault7.
So that we know that every scintilla–every Oxford comma was hacked by the CIA and/or NSA and known throughout the Five Eyes…even before the leaked hard copy hit newsstands in Harare.
Ah!
Another capital…
Reçu.
I can never go back. Enough. TO give you a full telling.
I guess Paul Mangwana is still alive.
The character that grows on you.
From chuckling social engineer.
To political operative shitting his pants.
How do you say "damage control" in Shona?
And Susan Rice is a bitch.
But that's neither here nor there.
Because Democrats so precisely parallels the recent U.S. election.
The drama. Allegations.
The swaggering strongman.
Yeah…Juan Williams would ride to town on that correlation.
So is Trump Mugabe?
And probably not ever.
But liberals will have a field day with this possibility.
Social justice warriors will mouth off like the surly reporter from South Africa.
What an asshole!
And so we sympathize with Mr. Mangwana.
What a precarious position he was put in!
To try and bring the illusion of constitutionality to the ZANU-PF party.
But wait a minute…wait a minute…you ain't heard nothing yet!
Remember, remember…that a black leader can repress black people.
America thought it was fine and dandy…and candy-shop clean when it elected CIA agent Barack Obama.
That turned out to be a big mistake.
One doesn't investigate one's own employer pursuant to crimes against humanity (9/11) when such equates to biting the hand that feeds.
Obama lost control.
And tried to get a little African in his lame-duck months.
Yes…only democracy in the Middle East? Israel? You've got to be joking.
And Zimbabweans were so hopeful after the Mwangana/Mwonzora conclave wrapped up its two-year-overlong constitutional convention.
Got a little #MAGA in you?
Check out how a constitution is crafted.
If wasn't all ass-kissing in Philadelphia.
Some genuinely contentious points.
And the Obamacare "Repeal and Replace" that just narrowly failed.
Think that wasn't stressful?
Freedom Caucus gonna be outta jobs.
Saving their butts.
Sorry fuckers…
But I wouldn't take their job for anything.
To be in that position.
We live a little while.
And then we die.
And so Camilla Nielsson deserves a Nobel (or at least a can of General Snus)…because she captured REAL, FUCKING LIFE here.
She doesn't tell you what to think.
She says (in effect): "figure it out".
Here's the facts. Figure it out.
"I have seen what I have seen", wrote Ezra Pound in his second Canto.
I can't explain it.
Some drumming.
Women making turkey noises.
Weird, macarena dances.
And a little boy gets beaten to death.
All to write a new constitution.
And Douglas Mwonzora is right: Mugabe is evil.
That is a totally valid perspective.
Having seen this film.
[ahh…]
One source.
Never was anything decided on the basis of one source.
But circumstantial runs up against direct.
Very good, Eric Bolling!
And Tony Shaffer was better with MacGuffin.
But that's just because this is Dossier du cinema.
Not cool enough for diacritics.
One final word…
Mugabe persists from the Soviet era.
Figure it out.
Is he a friend of NATO?
Do the geopolitical math.
Ruminate on AFRICOM.
Pound…was no patriot. Of his own country. In a traditional sense.
And the most I can bring you is this.
This attestation to genius.
The genius of Democrats by Camilla Nielsson.
And the sad face of former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai…leader of the opposition MDC party.
Like his face had been bashed in few too many times.
And maybe we don't wanna know.
But the cowed look says it all.
And Douglas Mwonzora risks it all.
Three days in jail without food or water. Plus another 18 days to make it a full three weeks.
Mr. Mwonzora.
So calm.
Collected.
That cool we see in Jafar Panahi.
You can jail me.
But you will have to thoroughly kill me.
To stop me.
From doing what I love.
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Ucho [1970)
A banned film.
From communist Czechoslovakia.
Party as nightmare (like O slavnosti a hostech).
But different.
Walls on all sides.
Claustrophobic.
As if Jeremy Bentham was tomorrow appointed head of the NSA.
From the single, centralized watchtower.
Stares out the embalmed ego of Bentham.
Auto-icon.
It's just a skeleton stuffed with hay. Dressed in Bentham's clothes.
Like the panopticon.
A straw man prison.
Dear friends, I know of no film which conveys the horror of the 21st century.
Quite like this gem of resistance against totalitarianism.
This was the underbelly of communism.
The "evil empire" of which Reagan spoke.
His words seem funny today. His unscientific, hypocritical words.
Because the Red Scare in the United States was typified by the same methods on display.
Surveillance.
Which I fear will not subside anytime soon.
Nor has this wave even crested.
"Mass surveillance doesn't work," Mr. Snowden wrote. "This bill will take money and liberty without improving safety."
Finally The New York Times prints something worthwhile.
And even Hillary Clinton's "History made." ad can't deflate the importance of Snowden's words.
And so if you want to see the 12-tone paranoia of the communist "big brother" state (now that we are living in a "capitalist" big brother state), I would heartily recommend The Ear by director Karel Kachyňa.
It was banned for 19 years in Czechoslovakia.
Because it got real close to the truth.
It painted the communist party leaders as a bunch of jerks.
It portrayed the constant suspicion upon bureaucrats as a living nightmare.
The Ear. Maybe some HUMINT at the party.
But largely this film deals with SIGINT (if author Jeffrey T. Richelson can be trusted).
The Ear deals primarily with what Richelson calls "clandestine SIGINT" in his book The U.S. Intelligence Community.
What we encounter in Ucho are "the oldest of these devices" (viz. "traditional audio surveillance devices").
Wikipedia does a passable job outlining this area of inquiry in the article "Covert listening device".
But dear friends…describing it so matter-of-factly does no justice to the strain which omnipresent surveillance puts on largely innocent people.
And therefore The Ear is a film which shows the psychological toll that governments exact when they make ethics secondary.
What we get from director Karel Kachyňa is the portrait of a society (his society) which assumes all citizens to be guilty until proven innocent.
This is ostensibly the opposite of the American system, but today's Amerika is merely the other side of the coin: same pervasion of surveillance (even if it is "capitalist").
My hypothesis is that "free market" America has come to all-to-closely resemble the regimes it fought to defeat. Those "victories", then, were hollow. We have appropriated the worst, most tortuous means of our past enemies.
But Kachyňa has another message for us in this masterpiece.
In such upside-down societies, promotion might be the worst form of punishment.
Beware, my coopted friends.
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O slavnosti a hostech [1966)
This is one of the strangest films I've ever seen.
Rarely have I seen such uneasiness conveyed through cinema.
The really terrifying part is.
How mundane all of the symbols are.
Is/are.
Insane.
For a moment.
Like the Czech version of Deliverance.
We see "party" in English (in the context of Czechoslovakia), and we think.
Communist Party.
But the slavnosti in question translates to "feast".
Google tells us.
And Google is never wrong.
Which is to say.
Hell is a party.
A party from which you wish to flee.
Beggar's banquet.
There is no leaving communist Romania.
And Czechoslovakia?
I can't tell you, dear friend.
But we know of the boy who swam the Danube.
Symbolic.
To nonaligned Yugoslavia.
And from there to Italy and Toblerone.
That's Cum mi-am petrecut sfârşitul lumii.
But what we have here is A Report on the Party and the Guests.
Report.
Also sounds very bureaucratic. Quintessentially communist.
Let's take the popular notion that Kafka sums up bureaucracy.
In which work?
The Trial? With Josef K.?
Yes. This is most applicable to O slavnosti a hostech.
We must learn to speak every language.
Like Pope John Paul II (slight exaggeration).
Because Kafka wrote in German.
Der Process.
It's a process of ablaut-ish metamorphosis.
Prozess –> Proceß –> Prozeß
swimswamswum
Kafka died in 1924. Age 40. My age in six months.
1948/1949 Czechoslovakia becomes part of Soviet bloc.
Comecon.
Not to be confused with Comic-Con.
And never any Poto and Cabengo in San Diego.
Though they be in their own backyard.
Grace and Virginia were superheroes without costumes.
And they had their own language, by golly.
Brings tears to my eyes.
To see them playing potato.
This is the absurdity of blogging about the absurdity of a film inspired by the absurdity of Kafka.
But likely unconscious.
This genius (director Jan Němec) died only a few months ago.
But he gave the world a belly laugh.
And an unnerving masterpiece.
It is not as obviously magnificent as Closely Watched Trains.
But it is supremely subversive.
In a totalitarian state (like Amerika)…which is completely ruled by commodity relations.
This is our last recourse.
England swings.
Like a pendulum.
From the gallows.
Frexit (France leaves NATO…again).
Hexit (Hungary curses continental Europe from Buddhapesht to Bookarrest)
Crexit (Croatia invents new correction fluid for computer screens)
Spexit (Spain certifies that said correction fluid meets ISO standards)
Esexit (Estonia doubles GDP overnight with racy dating service app)
Slexit (a dual rush for the doors by Slovakia and Slovenia)
Rexit (Holy Roman Emperor reestablished in Romania, confined to Bookarrest)
Fexit (Finland engages in creative destruction)
Pexit (Poland and Portugal [in that order] gobble seed with bobbing avian head motion)
Irexit (being both hungry and anorexic [morbidly hangry], Ireland joins the Brits in bolting)
Everyone else stays.
Until the Czexit. [ooh la la]
Serbia accedes and secedes in same day simply to give the world the thrill of Sexit.
[I know I know]
This is the rearrangement of guests.
So many not at the world table.
In such times.
Only art can explain.
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Game of Death II [1981)
And now we ostensibly enter the schlock of true B-movie Brucespoitation. Eight years after his death, producer Raymond Chow and distributor Golden Harvest were still trying to milk money from the cutting-floor scraps of their cash cow. But someone kept things fairly interesting: director See-Yuen Ng.
Though there is little to no continuity between Game of Death and Game of Death II, both films share a watchable quality which teeters on the edge of this viewer's incredulous ennui. Put simply, this film is better than it has any right to be. Which is not to say this is a great (or even good) film.
The most hilarious midnight movie aspects are the contrasts between film fidelity and definition circa 1973 (the actual footage of Lee) and 1981 (the footage of everyone else). I almost feel sorry for director Ng for the sleight-of-hand editing and shooting necessary to even attempt this picture. Back to the film stocks not matching…much of that is also evident in the lack of deft color correction. Occasionally a background matches and we must hand it to the technicians who found just the right shade of puke green to provide a shred of matching in the shot-reverse-shots.
Fortunately for all involved, Lee's character meets his demise about halfway through the film. It's smooth sailing from there regarding the different eras of film stock.
This film is not without messages. Some, apparently, have not been interpreted the same by all viewers. Whereas I distinctly heard the Ginza district of Tokyo mentioned as Lee's (and his on-screen brother's) destination, English Wikipedia tells us that the action moves to Korea. Of course, the astute spectator who added this bit of plot synopsis to the aforementioned site seems to have been oblivious that another contributor has Lee active before the end of the paragraph (the initial contributor giving away Lee's character's death along with the Korea location). So to clarify, Lee does not resurrect during the course of the film.
Roy Horan plays a significant role as a raw-venison-eating, deer's-blood-drinking, bearded kung fu nut. As the name implies, Horan's character is of white European lineage (not Chinese). There is a subtle undercurrent which implies that Lee's friend (and consequently his own character as well) died for teaching kung fu to non-Chinese. This, of course, has some parallels in Lee's actual life story.
For all of the professional attributes in this film, the "lion" attack (obviously a human in a lion costume) does not pass muster. It is, again, the stuff of midnight movies. Perhaps they were over budget by that point…
Tong Lung is actually pretty darn good as Lee's brother (the hero of the film) Bobby Lo.
I won't give away the ending, but suffice it to say that a multinational organization turns out to be the ultimate culprit of the two film murders in question. There are all sorts of strange strings waiting to be pulled here…fake deaths, the aforementioned cartel (this particular multinational is illegal in nature), etc.
The most interesting takeaway (take out?) was the revelation (somehow…perhaps due to the less than enthralling screen drama) that one political entity would have stood to gain from the actual Lee's real life death. That entity would be China. Made before Hong Kong rejoined the PRC, Bruce Lee's films and fame might have posed a significant threat to China in that (had he lived) he might well have been a unifying figure which could have fired the flames of revolution for those residents of HK not particularly excited about joining a country with such a totalitarian approach to dissent. But then again, any country which blocks the Internet (not counting Hong Kong and Macau) has far less to worry about. No information dissemination, no 21st-century speed of dissent. And it would just happen that today was July 4th…
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