Around The Nets…

Dec-2010: This is it. I won’t be posting/updating any more. [Note: I've changed the date on a few popular posts so as to place them on the "final" front page of this scrapbooking project.]

Updated [Nov/Dec-2011] I’ve returned to update once more.

——————

• KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov (aka Tomas Schuman) in his ‘Love Letter to America’ [1984]:

The art of duping the masses into doing things to their own disadvantage and making them believe it is “the will of people” is as ancient as mankind itself.

The essence of subversion is best expressed in the famous Marxist slogan, (if you substitute “proletarians” for a more appropriate word): “Useful idiots of the world UNITE!” To achieve the desired effect, the subverter must first make idiots out of normal people, and DIVIDE them, before turning the people into a homogenized mass of useful and united idiots. Tanks and missiles may or may not be needed at final stage. For the time being they are simply the means of terrorizing people into inaction and submission.

[see also: Bezmenov's 1986 book, 'World Thought Police'.]

• Neil Gabler, from ‘Life: the Movie, How Entertainment Conquered Reality’:

“The deliberate application of the techniques of theater to politics, religion, education, literature, commerce, warfare, crime, every thing, has converted everything into branches of show business…”

• “Predictive programming” is the technique whereby a population exposed to ideas in fiction more readily accept (or copy) the ideas, framework, dialectics, events, behaviour, technology (etc) contained in the fictional work. Discussed in ‘Invoking The Beyond’ — Vyzygoth interviews bothers Phillip D. & Paul D. Collins:

[part-2] ['Magicians of Mutability'] [More... more... more... more]

• Dialectics, Vectors & Vector Leaders:

A Vector is a “false construct” created by Information Operations (IO) actors in order to (mis)lead the public down a path that will not allow the public to obstruct the goals of the social planners.

[...] Social manipulators and vector leaders then program and charge-up trigger words for each segment of the public… teaching each segment to speak their own language… which happens to be full of trigger words that trigger a negative reaction to those on the other side of the dialectic or in another vector.

The actual message of a Vector may not necessarily be false, but it deliberately creates a false understanding or view. [...] In many cases, the manipulation is designed so that various audiences, who are all uniquely manipulated, will oppose each other – form a dialectical opposition.

• Jacques Ellul, ‘Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes’ [pdf, 1973]:

[...] Public opinion always rests on problems that do not correspond to reality.

[...] The majority prefers expressing stupidities to not expressing any opinion: this gives them the feeling of participation.

[...] Ultimately, a group subjected to propaganda would not need a leader, but would behave as though it had one.

[...] Propaganda strips the individual, robs him of himself, and makes him live an alien and artificial life, to such an extent that he becomes another person and obeys impulses foreign to him.

[...] What the individual loses is never easy to revive. Once personal judgment and critical faculties have disappeared or have been atrophied, they will not simply reappear when propaganda has been suppressed.

[...] The propagandee, if deprived of one propaganda, will immediately adopt another; this will spare him the agony of finding himself vis-a-vis some event without ready made opinion, and obliged to judge it for himself.

• ‘TechnoCalyps’ — transhumanism documentary, part 1 of 3:

[part 2] [part 3] [full] [site]

• VIDEO: ‘Neuroscience, magic and misdirection’

• Charles Eisenstein:

“The second-hand pseudo-experiences that today’s entertainment media provide assuage our hunger for real experience temporarily, but in the end only intensify that hunger. Like any object of addiction, they are a counterfeit that leaves the real need unmet – a shortcoming that is temporarily disguisable by increasing the dose.”

• ‘Age of Transitions’. Great documentary about eugenics, transhumanism, posthumanity — and the history of the globalist elite’s vision of future slavery:

See also: Filmmaker’s website.

• Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Warning to the West’ [1975]:

[...] there also exists another alliance – at first glance a strange one, a surprising one – but if you think about it, in fact, one which is well grounded and easy to understand. This is the alliance between our Communist leaders and your capitalists. This alliance is not new.

• US Congressman Larry P. McDonald — who died in the KAL 007 shoot-down — in the introduction to ‘The Rockefeller File’ [Gary Allen, 1975]:

The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government, combining super-capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control. [...] Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.

• VIDEO: ‘Uroko’ — piecing together US & World history. Be sure to watch the second half. [2010, 87min, site]:

• VIDEO: ‘The Money Masters’ [215min, 1995]. Long, dry documentary about the history of the transnational banking cartel — not the top of the pyramid, merely it’s financial wing.

[From producers' description] …The success of the central banking scheme developed into a far-reaching plan described by President Clinton’s mentor, Georgetown Professor Carroll Quigley, “to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank … sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the levels of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.”

• VIDEO: G. Edward Griffin’s presentation on Carroll Quigley and ‘The Quigley Formula’ [or as mp3] …see also: ‘Tragedy and Hope’ [small pdf, big pdf, 1966] ‘The Anglo-American Establishment’ [big pdf, 1981], and: Review/commentary on ‘Tragedy and Hope’ by Cleon Skousen: ‘The Naked Capitalist’ [view/download pdf, 1970]. Assorted quotes on the history of banking and money from ‘Tragedy & Hope’ ...related: Goldbugs vs Greenbackers… ‘The Money Changers’… pdf of ‘The Creature from Jeckyl Island’.

Carroll Quigley: “There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so.” [Tragedy & Hope, 1966]

[...and don't forget 'The Pilgrims Society'.]

• ‘Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution’ [1974] by Antony C. Sutton, ‘Wall Street and Franklin D. Roosevelt’ [1975], ‘Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler’ [1976], and ‘America’s Secret Establishment & How The Order Creates War and Revolution’ [1983], ‘The Best Enemy Money Can Buy’ [1986] see also: video interviews: --1-- --2-- --3-- --4--

• Gary Allen, ‘None Dare Call It Conspiracy’ [pdf, 1971]:

In the Bolshevik Revolution we have some of the world’s richest and most powerful men financing a movement which claims its very existence is based on the concept of stripping of their wealth men like the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Schiffs, Warburgs, Morgans, Harrimans, and Milners. But obviously these men have no fear of international Communism. It is only logical to assume that if they financed it and do not fear it, it must be because they control it. Can there be any other explanation that makes sense?

• ‘The Real Geopolitics of the New World Order’ [Ciggy, 2008]:

[...] What the academics need to understand is that geopolitical players have transcended the concept of “nation-state” in an era where the analysts are still thinking in those terms. When a Bush addresses a plan for a new balance of power in the world brokered by a group he represents, he certainly does not necessarily mean the United States. Financial and industrial oligarchies, international interest groups (especially on the environmentalist front), religious groups, and even “secret societies” (which cease to be secret as soon as you learn about them, making their label moot), are quite obviously geopolitical players in the modern world on an equal and sometimes greater footing than the nation-state players.

• ‘Did Communism Fake Its Own Death in 1991?’ — another piece of the puzzle:

In a bizarre 1984 book, ex-KGB Major Anatoliy Golitsyn predicted the liberalization of the Soviet Bloc and claimed that it would be a strategic deception. [...] Put simply, Golitsyn’s argument was that beginning in about 1960, the Soviet Union embarked on a strategy of massive long-range strategic deception which would span several decades and result in the destruction of Western capitalism and the erection of a communist world government. Throughout his works, he refers to this future event as “convergence”.

[See also: Russia's failed coup, 1991 -- a psyop aimed primarily at the West? Golitsyn's memo to CIA, or this. And Golitsyn's 1995 follow-up, 'The Perestroika Deception' as pdf.]

• VIDEO. Christopher Story (Global Analysis) on the “Perestroika Deception” [or see this]:

[part-2] [Story on EU corruption]
Christopher Story dead — allegedly poisoned — in July 2010.

• Dimitry Z. Manulsky, The Lenin School of Political Warfare, 1931:

“War to the hilt between Communism and Capitalism is inevitable. Today, of course, we are not strong enough to attack. Our time will come in 20 or 30 years. To win, we shall need the element of surprise. The bourgeoisie will have to be put to sleep.  So we shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtures and unheard-of concessions. The capitalistic countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate in their own destruction. They will leap at another chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we will smash them with our clenched fist.”

• Mikhail Gorbachev addressing Politburo/Central Committee, in 1989… [I'm trying to confirm this quote and/or find the source]:

“Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no significant internal changes in the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep.”

• Oct-21, 2011:

Former Communist leader Mikhail Gorbachev told an audience at Lafayette College on Wednesday night that the United States’ economic problems heralded the need for a new American “perestroika,” defined by a “new world order” and a system of “global governance”.

[on OWS...] “We cannot leave things as they were before, when we are seeing that these protests are moving to even new countries, that almost all countries are now witnessing such protests, that the people want change,” he said. “As we are addressing these challenges, these problems raised by these protest movements, we will gradually find our way towards a new world order.”

• ‘The Architecture of Modern Political Power’, compiled and edited by Daniel Pouzzner, 2008 [or pdf]… ‘The New World Order: A Critique and Chronology’ [Dennis Cuddy]… ‘Brave New World Revisited’ [pdf, Aldous Huxley, 1958]

• Lord Bertrand Russell (of the Fabian Society and Tavistock Institute), in ‘The Scientific Outlook’ [1931]:

[...] The society of experts will control propaganda and education. It will teach loyalty to the world government, and make nationalism high treason. The government, being an oligarchy, will instill submissiveness into the great bulk of the population, confining initiative and the habit of command to its own members. It is possible that it may invent ingenious ways of concealing its own power, leaving the forms of democracy intact, and allowing the plutocrats to imagine that they are cleverly controlling these forms. Gradually, however, as the plutocrats become stupid through laziness, they will lose their wealth; it will pass more and more into public ownership and be controlled by the government of experts. Thus, whatever the outward forms may be, all real power will come to be concentrated in the hands of those who understand the art of scientific manipulation.
[see also: 'The Impact of Science on Society', 1953, pdf]

• ‘The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution’ [H.G. Wells, 1928]:

The political world of the Open Conspiracy must weaken, efface, incorporate and supersede existing governments. The Open Conspiracy is the natural inheritor of socialist and communist enthusiasms; it may be in control of Moscow before it is in control of New York [...] The character of the Open Conspiracy will then be plainly displayed. It will be a world religion [...] The immediate task before all people, a planned World State, is appearing at a thousand points of light [...] generations of propaganda and education may have to precede it.
[see also: chapter 9 of 'Experiment in Autobiography', 1934... 'The New World Order', 1940.]

• VIDEO. Playwright George Bernard Shaw was another early member of the Fabian Society [and Coefficients Club], an elite revolutionary front which postured as champions of populist democratic socialist politics — they were instrumental in setting up the British Labour Party, for example — while their real agenda was/is a gradual revolution towards totalitarian, eugenicist technocracy. Shaw was quite open about all of this:

Nice, eh? In ‘An Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism’ [1923], Shaw explains what he actually mean by “socialism”:

“You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you liked it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character and industry enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well [...] As far as I know I was the first Socialist writer to whom it occured to state this explicitly as a necessary postulate of permanent civilization.”

• Alice Bailey — Theosophist and founder of Lucis Trust [or this] — was an influential globalist/new-age philosopher, and claimed to channel a Tibetan “ascended master” in her books. From ‘The Externalization of the Heirarchy’, [1934]:

Steps Towards The New World Order:
[...] 1. The new world order must meet the immediate need and not be an attempt to satisfy some distant, idealistic vision.
2. The new world order must be appropriate to a world which has passed through a destructive crisis and to a humanity which is badly shattered by the experience.
3. The new world order must lay the foundation for a future world order which will be possible only after a time of recovery, of reconstruction, and of rebuilding…

[Bailey in 'Education in the New Age', 1954]: “Death is not a disaster to be feared; the Work of the destroyer is not really cruel or undesirable [...] there is much destruction permitted by the Custodians of the Plan and much evil turned into good.”

[see also: 'False Dawn: The United Religions Initiative, Globalism, and the Quest for a One-World Religion' (pdf), Lee Penn, 2005]

Gary Kah:

“Lucis Trust, an organization which Bailey originally founded in the 1920s under the name Lucifer Publishing Company, today boasts a membership of approximately six thousand people. Some of the world’s most renowned financial and political leaders have belonged to this organization; including individuals such as Robert McNamara, Donald Regan, Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller, Paul Volcker, and George Shultz. This is the same group of people that runs the Council on Foreign Relations, the organization responsible for founding the United Nations. It is interesting to note that Lucis Trust was headquartered at United Nations Plaza until recently.”

• The first director-general of UNESCO, Julian Huxley, in ‘UNESCO: Its Purpose and Its Philosophy’ [1946]:

[...] The general philosophy of UNESCO should be a scientific world humanism, global in extent and evolutionary in background.

[...] In its education program it can [...] familiarize all peoples with the implications of the transfer of full sovereignty from separate nations to a world organization.

[...] Tasks for the media division of UNESCO [will be] to promote the growth of a common outlook shared by all nations and cultures… to help the emergence of a single world culture.

[...] although political unification in some sort of world government will be required for the definitive attainment of this stage, unification in the things of the mind is not only also necessary but can pave the way for other types of unification.

[...] Even though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable. [see also this or this.]

• ‘The First Global Revolution’ [Club of Rome, 1991]:

[...] It would seem that humans need a common motivation, namely a common adversary, to organize and act together in the vacuum; such a motivation must be found to bring the divided nations together to face an outside enemy, either a real one or else one invented for the purpose.

[...] In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention [and therefore solutions would require the intervention of a powerful central agency], and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.

[...] Democracy will be made to seem responsible for the lagging economy, the scarcity and uncertainties. The very concept of democracy could then be brought into question and allow for the seizure of power.

• Environmental scaremongering and the elite world revolutionary movement:

“Some colleagues who share some of my doubts argue that the only way to get our society to change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe, and that therefore it is all right and even necessary for scientists to exaggerate.” — Daniel Botkin.

“What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the rich countries? And if the world is to survive, those rich countries would have to sign an agreement reducing their impact on the environment. Will they do it? The group’s conclusion is ‘no’. The rich countries won’t do it. They won’t change. So, in order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?” — Maurice Strong.

“We’ve got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy.” — Timothy Wirth.

• ‘Public Opinion’ [Walter Lippmann, 1922]… and: ‘Propaganda’ [Edward Bernays, 1928]

• ‘Tavistock Institute of Human Relations: Shaping the Moral, Spiritual, Cultural, Political and Economic Decline of the USA’ [pdf, John Coleman, 2005]… audio: Vyzygoth interviews Coleman, 2007.

• ‘Mass Psychological Warfare’ [L. Wolfe, 1997]… Edward Filene’s Seven Techniques of Propaganda.

• VIDEO: ‘Human Resources’ — documentary about social engineering [...jumping in at part 4 of 9]:

• John Taylor Gatto, ‘The Underground History of American Education’ [2001].

• Fletcher Prouty — inspiration for ‘Mr X’ in Stone’s ‘JFK’ — claims oil was falsely classified as a fossil fuel. Also: Engdahl, ‘Confessions of an ex-Peak Oil Believer’… audio: J.F. Kenney interviewed on NPR about the deep ‘abiotic’ oil theory [4mb mp3].

• AUDIO. Phillip & Paul Collins discuss Peak Oil as a deception designed not just to facilitate price gouging and justify imperialism — but ultimately providing a pretext for population control and manufactured famine, as desired by the globalist eugenicists [14mb mp3]:

• Dave McGowan on implications of a manipulated “peak oil” narrative:

[...] the fact that ‘Peak Oil’ is an entirely manufactured construct does not mean that the doomsday scenarios painted by the ‘Peak’ crowd will therefore not become our new reality. This is not just another scam to further pad the pockets of the oil industry and other financial elites. The stakes are much higher than that. Much higher.

[...] The Peakers claim that we will very soon be facing a world where chaos reigns supreme — a world of war, famine and death on a scale unknown in recorded human history. And that does, in fact, appear to be the case. [...] But the Peakers also claim that this global “die off” will be a regrettable, but quite natural, and entirely unavoidable, consequence of the world’s oil taps running dry. And that is the really big lie.

[...] In order to pull off this stunt, all the world’s major oil producing regions must be solidly under the control of the U.S. and it’s co-conspirators, otherwise known as ‘allies.’ In other words, the puppet-masters have to control all the major oil taps, so that they have complete control over the flow of oil — or lack of it. And that, in a nutshell, is the real reason for America’s recent military ventures. The goal, you see, is not to steal Iraq’s oil, or the oil in the ‘Stans, or in the Sudan, or in Venezuela, or anywhere else. [...] What we want to do is sit on the taps so no one else can get to the oil.

• Tribal thinking and the power of denial, [2010]:

[...] In a new study, David Gal and Derek Rucker from Northwestern University have found that when people’s confidence in their beliefs is shaken, they become stronger advocates for those beliefs. The duo carried out three experiments involving issues such as animal testing, dietary preferences, and loyalty towards Macs over PCs. In each one, they subtly manipulated their subjects’ confidence and found the same thing: when faced with doubt, people shout even louder.

Gal and Rucker were inspired by a classic psychological book called When Prophecy Fails. In it, Leon Festinger and colleagues infiltrated an American cult whose leader, Dorothy Martin, convinced her followers that flying saucers would rescue them from an apocalyptic flood. Many believed her, giving up their livelihoods, possessions and loved ones in anticipation of their alien saviours. When the fated moment came and nothing happened, the group decided that their dedication had spared the Earth from destruction. In a reversal of their earlier distaste for publicity, they started to actively proselytise for their beliefs. Far from shattering their faith, the absent UFOs had turned them into zealous evangelists.

• ‘Ignorance is Bliss’. In our society — through media, education, social feedback (etc) — populations are conditioned to be psychologically and emotionally dependent upon perceived authority. The majority are so effectively conditioned that they automatically respond to complex and frightening scenarios (organic or manufactured) by shutting out new information and placing their trust in authority:

The less people know about important complex issues [...] the more they want to avoid becoming well-informed, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.

And the more urgent the issue, the more people want to remain unaware [...] “Instead, people tend to respond by psychologically ‘outsourcing’ the issue to the government, which in turn causes them to trust and feel more dependent on the government. Ultimately, they avoid learning about the issue because that could shatter their faith in the government.”

• ‘Merchants of Magic: Evolution of the Atlantean Meme’ [The Sane Trojan, 2011, pdf]

• “History would be something extraordinary, if only it were true.” — Leo Tolstoy.

• Thomas R. Eddlem [from 1999 introduction to Jan Kozak's, 'And Not a Shot Is Fired': a manual on the revolutionary/authoritarian overthrow of representative democracies -- in the name of "socialism" -- circa 1950-55]:

[...] The use of dialectic meaning in words was and remains a necessary part of any plan to overthrow free governments. Outright announcement of the goals and motivations of revolutionaries would arouse too much alarm among the people and create too much resistance, resulting in the defeat of the conspirators. The use of such double-meaning terms serves as a means of transmitting, indirectly, an action program to fellow conspirators without alarming the general populace. If confronted with the true dialectical meaning of the terms, conspirators can simply claim that it is merely ideological belief, and that the accuser is simply a paranoid who is falsely reading sinister motivations into the revolutionary’s words.

[...] In Communist history, dialectical “code-speech” goes all the way back to the beginning. As far back as 1848, when Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels completed The Communist Manifesto, it was widely condemned as being a conspiratorial document. Few literate men then took seriously Marx and Engels’ preposterous claim that the government-power grab which comprised the ten-plank platform in The Communist Manifesto would lead to what the two later promised as the “withering away” of the state. To claim that the state withers away when you give it more power requires profound stupidity or brazen dishonesty. And, by all accounts, Marx and Engels were not stupid.

[...] The theory for using “pressure from above” and “pressure from below” in order to acquire power, explained in this manual by Kozak, first emerged in the writings of an obscure Italian Communist thinker named Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci had plenty of time for contemplating the reasons why his Communist Party had lost Italy to Benito Mussolini, since he spent the last years of his life in Mussolini’s jails. Gramsci concluded that in order to capture the power in a state, one must first capture the culture.

[...] Belief in God, family, and limited government in the developed nations of the West constitutes a cultural system of “fortresses and earthworks” against revolution, according to Gramsci. A coup d’etat, without having first subverted these “fortresses and earthworks” through the acquisition of political/cultural hegemony, would only be temporary and result in a quick and successful counter revolution. The revolutionaries of today are well aware that their struggle for control of the culture cannot be won overnight.

• Jeffrey Grupp, in 2009:

In the article cited in the video above, Grupp explains [or see this, or this, or this]:

[...] Thesis: the public is being made widely aware of the fake/fragmented New World Order (fNWO), and parts of the world citizenry are being coaxed into revolt against it. By this, eventually, the fNWO will consequently fall, citizens will feel victory, and the real New World Order (rNWO, Brave New World), which was hidden all along, will be introduced as the new society to fill the void.

——————

• R. C. Mowat, ‘Climax of History’ [1951]:

“Our world is on the edge of catastrophe. This is a fact which stares everyone in the face, however much we wish to conceal it. [...] To live with catastrophe we must face it, not try to evade it. Then we will find the purpose of catastrophe — to make us change.”

•

(Old Links From Around The Nets)

• Yuri Bezmenov’s presentation on psychological warfare, destabilization and subversion: “No James Bond nonsense. Most of this activity is overt, legitimate and easily observable if you give yourself time and trouble to observe it.”

[pt-2] [pt-3] [pt-4] [pt-5] [pt-6] [pt-7]

Edward Griffin’s 1984 interview with Bezmenov:

[pt-2] [pt-3] [pt-4] [pt-5] [pt-6] [pt-7] [pt-8] [pt-9]

• VIDEO: ‘What You’ve Been Missing: Exposing The Noble Lie, ep.1′. Plato advocated the fabrication of “magnificent mythology” to dupe the masses… and: fallacies – the most basic tools of deception.

• Fletcher Prouty, from preface to ‘The Secret Team’ [1973]:

[...] There is another category of writer and self-proclaimed authority on the subjects of secrecy, intelligence, and containment. This man is the suave, professional parasite who gains a reputation as a real reporter by disseminating the scraps and “Golden Apples” thrown to him by the great men who use him. This writer seldom knows and rarely cares that many of the scraps from which he draws his material have been planted, that they are controlled leaks, and that he is being used, and glorified as he is being used, by the inside secret intelligence community.

[see also: 'Will the Real Daniel Ellsberg Please Stand Up!', and more.]

• John Young interviewed by NY Observer: “Human activity is built on tricking and being tricked [...] My current shtick is to pretend that I am an opponent of WikiLeaks. It’s called friendly opposition [...] Assange appears to be humorless but I know that he is a very funny guy in private … He loves to poke fun at pretentious people, so I think it’s a good acting job. You have to admire that.” [More Young on WL]

• ‘Wikileaks and Plausable Lies’… Wikileaks/State Dept cables word-frequency cloud shows first 292 (of 250k) cables released focused largely on Iran… Mirza Aslam Beg on WL… ‘Wikileaks: Play ball, not man – and check who’s kicking it’… Possible CIA connect in Assange “rape” narrative: extremely obvious smear, or pure simulation — i.e. the construction of a credible oppositional relationship between WL and US Govt? …more WL skepticism… ‘Syria Truth’ blog claims Domscheit-Berg told them Assange made deal with Israel not to release certain cables — fake journalist Gordon Duff is treating this as verified. Domscheit-Berg denies. As Nietzsche notes, “The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.” …Update: ‘An Open Letter to Glenn Greenwald on the Subject of Wikileaks: Just… Stop.’

• ‘Rap News’ video: alt-media infotainment mocks suspicions that Wikileaks is disseminating disinfo and propaganda by caricaturing a ranting Alex Jones. [Is this the real function of the Alex Jones brand?]

• VIDEO: ‘Please Vote For Me’ — great doco about a “democracy” experiment in a Chinese elementary school:

• AUDIO: 1997 interview with Christopher Simpson [author of 'The Science of Coercion' - excerpt] on mass communication & psychological warfare, plus transcript. [1998 follow-up.]

• VIDEO. Alan Watts: “Man is a hoax” [part-2... big torrent collection... also: 1958 essay ‘Beat Zen, Square Zen, and Zen’.]

Video: Reporter Accidentally Destroys Ice Sculpture…

This one goes out to everyone working in professional media… “We’ll talk to management. We’ll get this taken care of.”

[longer clip]

Shot at the 2010 Orange County Fair, first upped to YT on 30-July.

Angriest Man on YouTube? Kevin Rowland / Walstreetpro2

The best economic commentator on YouTube. Sir, you are an artistic genius:

Posted his last vid in August 2009. In his YT profile, he lists his influences as: “HIGH GRADE MARIJUANA TRADING STOCKS”…

[...] lets MOB UP!!!!! MADE IN U.S.A. WE GOTTA TAKE THE PHUCKING POWER BACK GET OUR MONEY OUT OF THE HANDS OF THIS CORRUPT GOVERMENT AND INTO THE HANDS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE [...]

David Simon (‘The Wire’) on Citizen Journalism and New Media: “The Parasite Is Slowly Killing The Host” [VIDEO]

Creator of ‘The Wire’, David Simon, worked as a police reporter at the Baltimore Sun from ’82 to ’95. Here he is before the Senate Hearing on the Future of Journalism, in May 2009:

David Simon: “High end journalism is dying in America. And unless a new economic model is achieved it will not be reborn on the web or anywhere else. The internet is a marvelous tool [...] but thus far it does not deliver much first-generation reporting. Instead it leaches that reporting from mainstream news publications whereupon aggregating websites and bloggers contribute little more than repetition, commentary and froth. Meanwhile readers aquire news from aggregators, and abandon its point of origin — namely the newspapers themselves. In short, the parasite is slowly killing the host. It’s nice to get stuff for free, of course, and it’s nice that more people can have their say in new media. And while some of our internet community is rampantly ideological, ridiculously inaccurate, and occasionally  juvenile — some of it’s also quite good, even original. Understand I’m not making a luddite argument against the internet and all that it offers, but you do not (in my city) run into bloggers or so-called ‘citizen journalists’ at City Hall, or in the court house hallways, or at the bars where police officers gather. You don’t see them consistently nurturing and then pressing sources. You don’t see them holding institutions accountable on a daily basis. Why? Because high-end journalism is a profession. It requires daily full-time commitment by trained men and women who return to the same beats day-in and day-out.”

‘THE WIRE’

If you don’t know about it: ‘The Wire’ is the Mona Lisa of crime shows. Whistleblowing alt-media darling Catherine Austin Fitts even recommended it in a recent interview, and says it’s a good way to understand how the covert drug economy functions on a local level. (Fitts also exhibits one of the tell-tale signs of ‘Wire’ fandom — a creeping tendency to talk about everything in terms of “the game”):

Most people don’t see the system, they don’t see the game, and so they are easily manipulated and tricked. And so you can have very decent well meaning people who just get sucked into the game. [...] We make the mistake of thinking our ethical actions are “what we do”, rather than “what we finance”.

Update. Oct 2010, Fitts on various topics:

Update. Scenes from ‘The Wire’. First up — Bunk: “The bigger the lie, the more they believe”…

“The king stay the king.”

Omar takes the stand:

See also:

• VIDEO: ‘The Role of Barter in the New Economy’ [2008, 84min]
• Fitts’ 2001 series of articles ‘Narco Dollars For Beginners: How the Money Works in the Illicit Drug Trade’.
• ‘The Myth of the Rule of Law’ / The Destruction of Hamilton Securities Group, [pdf, 2001] by Fitts.
• Fitts on ‘Tapeworm Economics’.
• The Wire: ‘Macroeconomics and the Street’ [Mutually Occluded blog]

Update. Fitts interviewed by German/English blog ‘Chaostheorien’ [published 29-Aug]:

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) had a large portfolio of defaulted mortgages. These were mortgages on homes and apartment buildings. The owners had defaulted on their mortgage, and the question was what to do with those mortgages. Within that portfolio there were a significant number of mortgages that had been fraudulently issued. Within the portfolio there were neighbourhoods in South Central, L.A., which was the topic of Gary Webb’s “Dark Alliance” series on drug running by the American intelligence community – you see neighbourhoods where you’re bring in drugs and then you increase your profit by laundering it through HUD-financed properties which you can leverage with all sorts of mortgage securities fraud. I can turn a dollar of drug money into twenty dollars after I get through with all the mortgage fraud and the mortgage securities frauds. [...]

Julian Assange on Gaming MSM, Crowdsourced Analysis, Wikipedia and Bloggers… [VIDEO]

“People write about things, in general (if it’s not part
of their career), because they want to display
their values to their peers who are already
in the same group. Actually they don’t
give a fuck about the material.”
– Julian Assange, April 2010.

In this vid, Assange talks about how disclosure which relies entirely on community analysis is “bullshit”, why it’s necessary to provide some context/packaging for the info, and a little about gaming MSM:

Recorded in April 18, 2010 at UC Berkeley J-School.

[Posted 9 August 2010; updated] Hmm. While I love the ideals of crowdsourcing (and the simplicity of “letting the info speak for itself”), I’m practical and cynical enough to agree with Assange that there’s too much community noise, and that most community analysis is values-based. Thus we arrive at the strategy of gaming MSM. (Given its dominance in shaping mainstream opinion, you’d be fighting an even more intense “spiral of silence” without attempting to use them.)

My problem with WL: I didn’t like the packaging and context of their Afghan/DoD release. It was… sell-outy, and smelt bad. I mean, c’mon — “A complete picture of the war”? Nothing from CIA (etc), nothing from special forces, nothing from contractors, subcontractors. Is DoD going to leave anything that incriminating on SIPRnet? And how accurate and honest is the info that is on SIPRnet? Gah. Left bought off with moral outrage, right enraged by “treason”, the boundaries are set, and WL is the big winner.

Here’s the thing… giving Wikileaks the benefit of the doubt — assuming for a moment that it’s independent — I could forgive Assange this media manipulation (and the “conspiracy” gatekeeping) if his play for mainstream cred was part of a longer game. How foolish that assumption is will become apparent in time… because for it to be remotely realistic, the sequels to the Afghan Logs will need to be bigger, wider and more challenging — building to an endgame which will, presumably, blow our fucking minds. The real goal of WL should be that sort of sudden, relevatory mimetic intervention which results in an expansion of the mainstream’s limits of understanding… not self-promotion for the sake of exposing low-level war crimes and the double-edged concept of a “failing war”. [And certainly not this ridiculous idea that the threat of high-profile leaks will force governmental & corporate conspirators to behave in a more ethical manner.] Unless things start moving in that direction, after all this hype, the Wikileaks project will begin to look more and more like a farce.

Complete talk at FORA. More on the problems of community analysis in Chapter 16.

See also: [3-August] Webster Tarpley’s “analysis” includes calling Assange “bloodless, emotionless, psychologically unusual” — and an MK-Ultra “mind control victim”! [This sort of thing -- along with unsubstantiated assertions that Wikileaks is controlled by Mossad -- is helping to marginalize legitimate criticism of WL & the presentation of their releases. Meanwhile, the seemingly stage-managed 'Assange-as-rapist' angle is providing ample tabloid-level distraction.]

Update. Michael Moynihan’s attack on Assange concludes with some reasonable demands: more openness, more leaks. Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit: “I think he’s a tool. But whose?”

Update. Lol! Cryptome’s John Young responds to an email asking for info connecting Wikileaks to Soros/Open Society Institute — by asking OSI himself. He then writes to CIA requesting information on WL under FOIA! [See earlier Young/Cryptome post.]

Update. Left generic narrative (“heroic journalism”) vs Right generic narrative (“treason”) on RT:

Update. Earlier coverage: New Yorker article, 7-June. Wikileaks calls itself an “intelligence service of the people”. It’s a sexy angle which — in the competitive world of attention-farming — is almost impossible not to play up. [See video below] And it raises the question: what is there to stop other intelligence groups — those with more ruthless and coercive means — from coopting WL?

Update. Israeli disinfo. The notorious DEBKAfile says the DoD files were actually leaked by the British Govt, or a faction therein. JDZ at Never Yet Melted writes, [4-Aug]:

Their arguments are that only US reports were leaked, indicating that the US was specifically being targeted. The (British) Guardian played the lead role in coordinating publication of a prefabricated storyline leveling several damaging accusations against the US and casting Julian Assange as a persecuted victim. The Guardian, New York Times, and Der Speigel all agreed to run the story as proposed and accepted the July 25 publication deadline without having actually read more than 2% of the documents.

DEBKA notes that all the leak documents cover six-year period ending in December 2009, their interval terminating at the point at which President Obama announced his new Afghanistan War strategy. DEBKA contends that the end point is deliberate, sparing Obama specific association with accusations arising from the leaked documents, but also implicitly warning that the next batch could be aimed his way.

The British motivation, according to DEBKAfile, would be Barack Obama’s systematic downgrading of the British-American special relationship on the basis of personal and ideological anti-colonialist resentments, specifically exacerbated by the administration’s vilifying BP over an unfortunate accident followed by accusations in the US Congress that BP played a role in securing the Lockerbie bomber’s release. Retired senior official from MI5 and MI6 are rumored to hold positions on BP’s board of directors.

Previously: Julian Assange’s blog, 2006-07… skeptical reactions to WL’s release of DoD Afghan files — some netizens fear WL is controlled opposition… more skepticism following WL release of CIA Red Cell memo.

Watch ‘The Pitch, Poker & The Public’ (Documentary)…

Great doco about PT Barnum — the famous showman and hoaxer who, it turns out, never actually said “there’s a sucker born every minute.” [Link] 32 minutes. ‘Zube’ writes:

[...] There are five interviews with men who create perceptions (and read others perceptions) for a living. They talk about what they do, and how they do it so well. Marketing, Poker, Trade shows and the music industry are discussed by professionals within those fields.

• Mike Caro- Worlds most famous draw poker player and founder of Mike Caro University.
• Joel Bauer- Worlds most effective trade show performer and pitchman.
• Jay Levinson- Super ad man, created the Marlboro man and the jolly green giant. Also the originator of guerrilla marketing.
• Howard Bloom- Author and PR man to most of the most famous rock bands in the 70′s and 80′s. (He discusses the process of launching joan jett’s career.)
• Ben Mack- Account Planner and Brand planner for the largest advertising company in the south east.

They have all been in the business for decades, and they have all learned some very interesting things about what is important in the face of creating perceptions in order to turn a profit. The film explores their knowings and revelations through the frame of the greatest in their fields to date; PT Barnum. [...]

Update. Doug Stanhope on human-interest stories and “freak shows”…

…and on the market for fear and shock:

Cryptome’s John Young: Internet is a “Vast Spying Machine” [VIDEO]

John Young (in April): “The so-called privacy policies that all ISPs put up (and websites) are completely phony and deceptive. There’s no such thing as privacy on the internet, of any kind. Because it starts with your signing up for the service. And so the data collection begins the instant you sign on to the internet, and if you’ve been on it for at least a year, there’s nothing about you that’s not known. [...] All this data is accessible to these authoritative institutions. They share it amongst themselves. That is what the internet is used for, it’s a vast spying machine.”

[about 8-min...] “‘Top Secret’ is no longer “top secret”, ‘Secret’ is no longer “secret”, these are now throw-away terms. There’s something called ‘National Security Information’ that does not get out, and you will not see it on the internet. [...] Governments are the biggest leakers in the world, the US government leaks far more information than Wikileaks will ever be able to handle. Leakage is now a policy, and it is meant to divert attention from the other stuff — of “the dark side” I call it — which you will not ever see on my site or on Wikileaks. [...] There are some things that are so classified that you don’t even know how they’re classified, you don’t know the terms that are used to classify them.”

Update. 2-Aug podcast: Young interviewed by Jack Blood (Austin TX, alt-media)… [mp3]

Young on CIA/Soros/OSI & Wikileaks: [50:30] “I said they were behaving LIKE such people. I know others have interpreted that to mean I’m accusing them of that. Around New York, these kind of accusations are jokes [...] these things are kind of like trash talk. And too much has been made of that, indeed coming from me. Others may have better evidence. From me it’s just an epithet.”

Young on Wikileaks media games: [32-min] “I think some of the allegations — both about their aspirations to take down governments, as well as their threats — are exaggerated. To think that a small group like that could take down a government is silly. It just makes them look rather juvenile. And to play this secrecy too much also makes them appear to be juvenile. [...] On one of the mail lists, where an insider was talking, they said they wanted to be anonymous because it makes the press want to get into them more, it makes them appeal to the press better. So they know what they’re doing. This anonymity is a kind of perfume they’re wearing.

Update. 13-March ’09: Young on Sibel Edmonds’ & Peter Collins’ podcast at Boiling Frogs blog… I’d recommend you listen to the whole thing. [mp3]

Young on privacy and disinfo: [16-min] “[...] Data Farms [...] these huge collections of servers of the internet. It is so easy to tap information from the digital world, much easier than in the wired world. [...] Since these companies are paid to allow this happen, it’s very lucrative business as well. And so the digital system is the easiest spy mechanism that’s ever been invented. One thing I know about the spy people, though, they’re always setting up fake operations to divert attention from what they’re really doing… They do it all the time, it’s “standard tradecraft” they call it. If the public pays a lot of attention, they say “got’im!” [...] “Now please don’t anyone possibly tell them what we’re doing down in Saint Louis or Virginia or in the Virgin Islands. Let them hang around in San Francisco, ’cause there it’s a seed bed of government opposition so let’s just dangle something in front of them.”

Young on honey traps and fake whistleblowers: [22:20] “You gotta test that source, because there are honey pots out there. And these are very tricky, deceptive people who will set up a fake site like Cryptome to invite people to come in. So you do need to test the water before you go whole hog.”

[23:30] “One of the things that I don’t worry about is being hoodwinked. I did in the early days, [...] but now I don’t worry about that any more. I expect to be tricked. But I tell our readers don’t trust our site, make up your own mind, don’t think anyone is an authoritative source. So I would say that to a whistleblower or a leaker: put your stuff out there with some care, and recognize that at any point even a reputable site — say if I had a good reputation, which I don’t I hope, I could be turned at any time into something that I’m not, and that’s done. [...] I didn’t know all this 15 years ago [...]“

[25-min] “I think the Whistleblowers and leakers should have an air-gap of some kind. Don’t be stupid and go out there and put yourself up and sacrifice yourself and your family without doing some very careful checking [...] I know there are fake whistleblowers out there, because that is used to contaminate the stream, and to put some crazies out… they’re paid to be crazy, they’re paid to be conspiracy theorists. And so what they’re trying to do is to make you distrust whistleblowers. That too is “standard tradecraft” and it’s just part of the business that they’re in.”

Young on limited hang outs, [43:30] “There is a technique of using a shallow version to cover up a deeper version. That’s a PR campaign: “see if they’ll buy this story, if they do, we don’t go any deeper” — or, “we’ll peel another layer off and stop there — but don’t ever go all the way” [...] So you gradually release stuff, that’s how the FOIA program is being used to deceive us. [...] They will count on the public becoming tired of a story [...] They count on that — wearing you down. So that’s why I said you’ve got to be patient [...] and be persistent.”

Update. John Young on Russia Today, 13 Aug… Seems like he’s just selling skepticism and uncertainty — a vital antidote to MSM [and alt-media] idiocy, hype and disinfo:

See also:

• Young’s site, Cryptome.org — it’s not very search-friendly, you could try this for Wikileaks-related pages.

• Wikileak.org: unaffiliated “discussion blog about the ethical and technical issues of the WikiLeakS.org project”.

Previously: Cryptome posts anonymous emails from “Wikileaks insiders”.

Update. ‘More Wikileaks Vapid Media Froth’ [16-Aug] — from Young’s email reply to someone from WSJ:

Here is a fundamental outline of the cypherpunks propectus which inspires Wikileaks, Cryptome and several other initiatives:

Cyphernomicon, by Timothy May, 1994

http://www.cypherpunks.to/faq/cyphernomicron/cyphernomicon.txt

This background has not been explored in the Wikileaks saga. And Wikileaks will never be understood without it.

[i.e. "digest this obscure 1.1MB txt file then get back to me." lol!] …Young’s reply to someone from ABC (Australia):

I hope you will understand that the Wikileaks affair is currently lacking worthwhile content. Nothing new is being provided by Wikileaks or the media, instead only an endless recycling of bombast by Wikileaks and empty idiocy by the media. Wikileaks is dead until it Wikileaks returns to doing what it did for three years, stopped that admirable public service to become a celebrity publicity machine aiming to raise money for nothing. The Afghan releases are fantastically overwrought, much ado about nothing. I do not wish to be trivialized by participating in nonsense, and you might reconsider continuing the charade.

There is a much superior story in the Washington Post series, “Top Secret America,” with genuine substance awaiting further investigation in Australia’s complicity. Wikileaks is silly timewasting by comparison, indeed may be wittingly or unwittingly being used to divert attention from quite grave matters which truly threaten the public’s well-being and safety.

Sorry to say, Wikileaks has become a financial fraud posing as a noble service, a characteristic of criminal NGOs.

It may be that the good deed can be resuscitated, I look forward to that most worthy prospect.

See: WaPo, ‘Top Secret America’.

WTF? 10:10 “No Pressure” Video: Was Climate Propaganda Sabotaged?

Blowing up people who aren’t going along with the “carbon emissions” hysteria. Believe it or not, this video — funded by UK taxpayers — was part of the official propaganda output for 10:10, a “global warming mitigation campaign”…

…until it was pulled. Via 10:10 website:

With climate change becoming increasingly threatening, and decreasingly talked about in the media, we wanted to find a way to bring this critical issue back into the headlines whilst making people laugh. We were therefore delighted when Britain’s leading comedy writer, Richard Curtis – writer of Blackadder, Four Weddings, Notting Hill and many others – agreed to write a short film for the 10:10 campaign. Many people found the resulting film extremely funny, but unfortunately some didn’t and we sincerely apologise to anybody we have offended. [...]

Update. Comment by ‘lordwellington’ at Delingpole’s Telegraph blog post:

I think Curtis just fucked them [...] They just thought they had found the Holy Grail of comedy. I think it just bit their balls off. Could be wrong. Maybe Curtis is an Ecolooney as well. Or maybe he just woke up and didn’t tell them.

‘aphillips’ comments:

[...] Look at the characterisation of the Teacher and the Boss. Richard Curtis is a seasoned screenwriter; he knew exactly what he was doing.

‘dissidentjunk’ writes:

[...] This film is so detrimental to the eco-cause that I wonder if 10:10 have been pwnd, and they just haven’t realised.

It’s the typical “leftie” stereotype of a yoghurt-weaving teacher with 80s glasses, the smug girl being called “Jemima” while the girl who gets blown up is “Tracey”, the repulsive smug David Brent-like boss, the fearful office bods that tentatively put up their hands and are traumatised by the explosion of their colleagues [...]

Update. Richard Curtis is married to Emma Freud, sister of PR mogul Matthew Freud (Freud Communications — now owned by Publicis Groupe), who is married to Rupert Murdoch’s daughter, Elisabeth Murdoch.

Update. Corporate sponsors of C02 hysteria begin to distance themselves from 10:10.

Update. Clip from David Cronenberg’s 1981 film ‘Scanners’:

Update. Via Watts Up With That — collection of editorial excerpts, such as:

[...] The young don’t need religion, as the environment gives them all the certainty they need. Greenery, as a secular religion, has come to dominate not just the curriculum, but the imagination. It’s Blue Peter‘s recycled bottle tops on a grand scale: lessons on the dangers of global warming, projects on endangered species, litter-picking exercises. As any parent will testify, pester power is as often employed these days to guilt Dad into separating out the recyclables as to beg for the latest Transformer. Colleagues who have suffered their children’s eco-scorn assure me that no member of the Inquisition was ever so ruthless, ever so certain of his faith, as their tiny Torquemadas. [Robert Colvile, The Times, 6 October 2010]

[...] Irrespective of where you stand on AGW, it’s clear that its pernickety commandments, most of them involving energy-saving lightbulbs, won’t make any difference to the fate of the planet. But they do have a sacred significance, as do the deaths in the Curtis snuff movie. There’s nothing like the prospect of the ritual slaughter of children to excite prophecy believers, in my experience. [Damian Thompson, Telegraph blog]

Did it work? Andrew Revkin at his NY-Times blog: “Of course the goal might have been buzz more than efficacy.”

Front cover of Act Responsible’s ’09 showcase of atmospheric C02 propaganda (and legit environmental PR) — featuring a hanging child [click for larger]:

Update. Patrick Reis at his NY-Times blog, quotes Marc Morano of Climate Depot:

[...] “I think the idea of a comedy is fine, and even the gore and blood is part of our pop culture,” Morano told Greenwire today. “What is not fine, and what is actually very revealing, is that their impulse — the intellectual strain that runs through the alarmist movement — is to try to silence their critics. They blame a handful of skeptics for ruining all their schemes, and this is them expressing their frustrations,” he said.

Update. IPCC clique removes ‘medieval warm period’ (MWP) in 1998, produces infamous “hockey stick graph” showing flattened temperatures from 1000 AD to the early 1900′s — despite apparent evidence to the contrary. [See also: Medieval Warm Period Project -- or this, or this, or this.]

After criticism, the alarming graph is excluded from the IPCC’s 2007 assessment report — but not before it was widely distributed as part of public education campaigns, and included in the massively-hyped ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ (also released in ’07):

Ross McKitrick on the “hockey stick” controversy:

Recommended: ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’ [2007]:

Update. CBC (Canada), ‘Global Warming Doomsday Called Off’ [2007]:

Previously:

• Manipulation of surface temperature data. See also: Surfacestations.org — crowdsourced audit of US surface temperature stations… and: Chiefio on the GHCN.
• ‘Climategate’ — troubling emails, modeling code, and internal whatnot leaked from the influential Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at East Anglia University (UK) in Nov ’09. Amongst other revelations, elite climatologists appear to privately admit their computer models are shitty and require manipulation to achieve the “correct” results. [Nov 2011: A second leak of insider emails: Climategate 2.0]
• ‘Glaciergate’ — IPCC admits including alarming, incorrect, non-reviewed material in their Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) — which they had promoted as 100% peer-reviewed and fastidiously error-checked.
• Freeman Dyson on climate models: “I believe global warming is grossly exaggerated as a problem. It’s a real problem, but it’s nothing like as serious as people are led to believe. The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm. [...] It’s not so much to do about science. It’s really a political question.”

See also:

• Conning the Climate: Inside the Carbon Trading Shell Game. [Harpers, Feb '10]
• Aug ’09 — CRU’s staggering admission: “The world’s source for global temperature record admits it’s lost or destroyed all the original data that would allow a third party to construct a global temperature record.”

Matthew Freud (Clement’s son), public relations mogul, head of Freud Communications, married to Rupert Murdoch’s daughter

Wikileaks & Mindrape! John Young’s on “Verificationists”…

After Wikileaks released the Afghan DoD files (in July), I started blogspamming some interesting info on WL… compiling quotes, links, etc. Before I posted some excerpts from the self-proclaimed “Wikileaks Insiders” who were emailing John Young (Cryptome.org), I asked him whether these messages were verified in any way… and received this reply:

Your verification request for publication:

No verification. Cryptome does not do that. Up to the reader to do it. Our view is that all verification is suspicious unless done by yourself. You want it, do it. Beware of self-deception above all else.

Verificationists count on you doing their mindrape at home, on your knees with your kiddies, gazing at the tube, betting your dollar donation to the verifiers will free you from I’m so lonely hell.

Willing suspension of disbelief is so prevalant, taught, demanded, ordered, tricked, peddled, it’s a wonder anyone on earth is not under the spell induced by manufactured anxiety and fear and I’m so ugly.

Blind-faith-based authentication is very ancient, and it is that which accounts for the longevity of authoritatives: salvation, nations of laws, higher education, devoted parents, mentors, us-against-them cults, must-see entertainment, brain miswiring Internet herding. We all need guidance, right?

Wikileaks advertizes itself as an authoritative, thus requiring suspension of disbelief. All of its supporters are insiders, get it, they are One against outsiders. Eating each other’s liver.

Ahem.

Amen.

[Possibly this is not a personalized response from Mr Young -- perhaps this text is pasted in reply to anyone asking about verification...]

See also:

• John Young comments on Wikileaks, fake whistleblowers, limited hang-outs, and the internets as surveillance apparatus. More Young links/quotes.
• ‘Crypto-Troll John Young Eats Journalists For Breakfast.’