I am winding down now on my second pass through Frances Stonor Saunders’ The Cultural Cold War, befuddled at how new the book seems new to me even as I read it well in 2019 and even took notes.
My original impressions were of how the art world was affected, with the likes of Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol replacing real artists. Warhol is not mentioned, oddly. Could it be that he is left out due to his transparent nature? His work was hardly worthy of mention in the circles of real art, yet he stole the show in the 60s and 70s, Wikipedia now calling him “…one of the most important artists of the 20th century.”
(Warhol became prominent due to an obviously staged event, a shooting by a feminist who advocated the elimination of men, Valerie Solanas. Sometimes it takes a fake major event to garner headlines and usher a fake, a charlatan into the public consciousness.)
In Saunders’ tract, Warhol should be as prominent as Pollock or Georgia O’Keefe, but is absent. Odd.
But enough about that. I have so many other questions. As I have pored through chapter after chapter, I am amazed at how familiar I am with so many of the prominent names … Nicholas Nabokov, Tom Braden, William Kristol, Michael and Diane Josselson, Nelson Rockefeller, William Colby, Frank Wisner, Allen Dulles, Mary McCarthy, Hannah Arendt, and even William F. Buckley (mentioned only as a CIA agent stationed in Mexico). The list goes on and on, all prominent people, products of our finest schools. Two foundations, Ford and (now defunct) Farfield, financed everybody, probably fronting for CIA money (which, incidentally, in the early years was skimmed off the top of Marshall Plan funds). Does Ford carry on the same function to this day, along with Gates? I suspect so.
The end product of the activities of the people named above and others was called the Committee on Cultural Freedom, and its mission appeared to be to advance the idea of a “Cold War” between the USSR and the US. The idea advanced was that the Soviets represented a closed society while the US (and “the West” in general) were open and free. With the idea that the Soviets stole US atomic secrets and developed their own nuclear arsenal, fear was taken a notch higher. The execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sealed the deal, as it was they, we are told, who helped the Soviets.
Far more likely, the Rosenberg’s committed no crimes, and were not executed. They changed their names and location. The Soviets did not steal anything, as there was nothing to steal. The US had no bomb. The Manhattan Project was something, but what exactly I cannot tell. Was it set up merely to convey the impression of a bomb? Or was it doing other research, using the bomb for misdirection?
I was alive in the 1950s, a decade I would never want to repeat. I knew about Commies under the bed and passing microfilm in fake coins. I stood by my family in our front yard and peered into the sky to see if we could see Sputnik. Our government was doing all in its power to scare us, highlighting kids as a prime target. Is that anything new? It’s being repeated today in the form of Covid and Climate Change, just more fearmongering with kids as the primary target. (In my youth we had some neighbors down the street, the R’s, who took it all to heart and build a fallout shelter. In it along with food and water, we surmised, was a gun, as people were told that it might be necessary to shoot others trying to get in when the bombs were dropped.)
It worked on me. I was well into my thirties when that bubble finally popped. I remember reading some book or another [The Fish is Red, by Warren Hinkle and William Turner] the late 1980s while sitting on our family room couch. For whatever reason, whatever it was I read, I suddenly came to realize that the Soviets were no threat. The weight of the world was lifted. They were not out to destroy us. In fact, I later surmised, the Soviets were active participants in the Cold War hoax, willing to play the bad guys, an essential plot element. Some of you might remember Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounding his shoe on his desk at the United Nations. He was just doing his part. Later he said “We will bury you.” That put a chill on things. Later would come the Cuban Missile Crisis, another hoax perpetuated by CIA with active participation from (according to MM, American agent) Fidel Castro playing his part as well. All to scare us.
Most of Saunders’ book is about the overly-energetic attempts to establish beachheads in intellectual journals of Europe and elsewhere. It all strikes me as a tempest in a teapot, as all of the wrestling is carried on in high-falutin’ journals like Encounter, which every reader of this post will not know about. The Congress for Cultural Freedom, a CIA front, was set up to disburse funds and reach intellectual and artists abroad to convince them that the Cold War was real (and spectacular). It sought to convince us all of the basic evil of the Soviets. Those false front ideas would reach deeply into our society, even becoming the raison d’être for police actions in Korea and Vietnam. In either of these wars, I do not know the true purpose or true extent of fighting, or the level of complicity of our supposed enemies. One thing they were not about … communism. Nothing was ever about that. It is said that at the time the American Communist Party had in its membership more FBI agents than communists.
Saunders has access to immense volumes of material for her book, including personal correspondence among the parties. She says at the outset that there is no substitute for real research examining paper documents. The book was written in 1999, when much of it would still be classified. That is why I titled this post “Now it can be told.” That’s a basic facet of journalism in America, that the news media, historians, and other researchers will remain silent on any given subject until danger passes, and it can be revealed as fait accompli. As with Carroll Quigley and Tragedy and Hope, I get the sense that Saunders was given access to a trove of once classified documents, but only allowed to write about certain parts. Her manuscript was surely vetted.
Here’s an oddity – in 1954 television was new and its use was spreading, but it was not in every household. Picture quality and sound were poor, and of course, black and white only. Yet the hearings of Senator Joe McCarthy that year were televised nationally, from April 22 to June 17. McCarthy was leveling accusations and insinuations against many people that they were either communists or fellow travelers. According to the common wisdom (this from AI),
“The televised hearings were a significant departure from previous congressional investigations, which were typically held behind closed doors. The televised format allowed the public to witness the proceedings firsthand, ultimately contributing to a shift in public opinion against McCarthy and his methods.”
I beg to differ. The early 1950s were known as a period of “Red Scare”, and McCarthy contributed to that fear. But more so did the TV networks by televising the hearings. And it is here that I think the intention was not as stated. The purpose of televising the hearings was probably more to insert the idea in the public mind of communists under every bed. Sure, McCarthy was a little off kilter and certainly off base in his accusations, and he would be dead within three years. But I think he had his desired effect. He put fear and suspicion in many hearts. (Not too far down the road (1958) came the John Birch Society doing the same, insinuating that communists were in government, and even accusing President Dwight Eisenhower of being one.)
The book Cultural Cold War delves on the McCarthy era and the behind the scenes activities of official and the CIA front Congress for Cultural Freedom, which at one time sponsored more than twenty journals in various places, including Europe, Latin America and India. No doubt here in the US, even as it is against their charter, it sponsored my favorite journal of the 1970-80s, Bill Buckley’s National Review. Once yearly that journal would put out a long begging letter, as many as twelve pages long, asking for money from subscribers. I suspect that activity was misdirection from their real funding. (I still subscribe, still enjoy it. I’ve not received a begging letter lately.)
I am going to return now to my normal writing haunts, like Climate Alarmism and fake events and anything else that crosses this debauched mind. I hope some of you take time to read The Cultural Cold War. I’m older than most of you, so it touched on many areas familiar to me from my younger years. (By the way, did I mention that in the process of all else, the Congress for Cultural Freedom also destroyed art?)
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Mark, I really liked this column. I think your writing is getting better. I will say more after this comment goes through.
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So I too grew up in the era of the cold war, specifically of the climax of the cold war: the Reagan era. For those who think that decade was all BMWs and yuppies, let me correct that impression. As someone born in 1970, and living next to an air force base (Pease in Portsmouth, NH), I was subject to near constant bomber takeoffs, war games. KAL007 shootdown, Reagan playing the loose cannon. I had a lot of nightmares of nuclear war growing up. Thanks a million. Pure BS in retrospect.
As a principal, I follow the false once, false always theory. Meaning, if you have highly convincing evidence that one part of a story is fake, then all is fake. In other words, one does not have to answer all part of a story to know it is false, and by insinuation a planned event/hoax.
Using these principals, I was thinking of making a list of concepts/events based on highest hoax probability, to least. Although this is difficult, because only a small portion of what we know is factual, due to principals of basic science and engineering, and our senses.
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Add climate change hoax … Roy Spencer is working (in progress) on a study of urban heat islands, and is timidly finding that once removed from global temperatures, the planet has not warmed since 1850. The UN refuses to acknowledge the UHI effect, for obvious reasons.
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Oh yeah, there’s a million ways to manipulate temperature measurements. As an analytical chemist it makes me sad so many idiot fellow scientists can’t see that one degree of warming in 100 years in well within the margin of error, NOT INCLUDING INTENTIONAL BIAS!
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Those behind the movement know what you know, and know that CO2 is a harmless fertilizer. They have … ulterior … motives.
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Mark, what do you think about project 2025? When I heard some of the ideas they seemed way too good to be true? End climate change research? When i heard that I thought i was dreaming.
It does make me wonder if they may roll back the climate change regulations because 99+% of the public would hate them in practice. And they have so many dystopian ideas that dropping one is no big deal. Because ultimately they are all about maintaining the status quo. They only use “revolutionary” change to keep people off balance for a period of time when necessary for societal reboot. Fascism is static totalitarianism, whereas communism is progressive totalitarianism: where there are no more rules to society or institutions, allowing them to be remolded constantly, to break a people and put them under subjugation. However, the human spirit, often roars back with a vengeance after a period of oppression – witness the Rennaissance of Russia and Eastern Europe, especially compared to the moral bankruptcy of America and Western Europe.
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Project 2025? First I’ve heard of it. Your comment here gives me optimism. Thank you and I will look into it. Any links welcome.
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What I find interesting is that if I believe something to be true the more I look at the evidence whether deliberately or by chance the more it will confirm my belief. I don’t think this is confirmation bias but simply the nature of reality that if something’s true then everything will confirm it to be true.
The more I look at the moon landings, the more the evidence confirms my belief that they happened. I just came across the site, The First Men on the Moon, which is an online interactive featuring the Eagle lunar landing (from 18 minutes before touchdown). The presentation includes original Apollo 11 spaceflight video footage, communication audio, mission control room conversations, text transcripts, and telemetry data, all synchronized into an integrated audio-visual experience.
What I didn’t realise before is that there are 15 people people speaking in these last 18 minutes split into two communication loops – the three astronauts plus the Capsule Communicator, Charlie Duke, on the Air-to-Ground loop and the rest on the Flight Director’s loop.
The notion that all these people are scripted or have been set up to act out an improvised performance is simply ludicrous to me.
Anyway, I invite you to take a look. I think it’s awesome.
https://www.firstmenonthemoon.com/
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Just to say that, of course, if I believe something to be true and something comes along and says it isn’t I’ll change my mind accordingly.
Cannot believe that for 10 years (I never really looked before then) I’ve believed the footage of the destructions of the twin towers and WTC-7 was real when Simon Shack et al worked out at least as early as 2010 that it wasn’t.
Unbelievable.
https://petraliverani.substack.com/p/911-the-movie
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Petra – if you don’t mind me asking what country are you in? I’m curious because it sounds Italian. I ask because my mothers family came from Monte Cassino, the famous monastery, which was a temple to Apollo before the Catholics took it over around 650. So I find it interesting they called the mission Apollo, an old pagan God, who required human sacrifice from the people.
I used to find the moon landings fascinating, no longer. First, there was no reason to go there except as massive distraction and PR campaign. Partly to cover up one of the worst genocides in history taking place in Southeast Asia, and instill a silly fascination with space. These so called hero astronauts, if not liars, were stupid lab rats to have taken such an incredibly risky journey. But those clowns never went anywhere. Why? Because by any objective analysis the chances of survival would be about 1%. No reason to have people go there, they could have sent unmanned drones first to collect data and rocks. No reason to risk human life and spend all that extra money to have it manned. So to ensure success (6 out of 6 successful missions!) they scripted it.
Have you looked at a full moon? It’s so bright it hurts your eyes to look at it for more than a minute. It looks almost like a silver mirror, yet look at the photos – dull cement gray. Also radiation, living in outer space for 7 days in something smaller than a VW bus with aluminum panels as thin as car door?
I hope you read Ralph Renes and Bill Kaysings books. Not everything they document is correct, but they do provide an airtight case that it is technically impossible to get men there and back.
And I find it a very dangerous deception (or useless waste if real) on America and humanity because it fuels false hope that we can flee earth and live out on other planets. A dream that will never happen, and causes the materialists to think it’s OK to trash the earth because they can just head out to the stars after they trash this place. They supposedly left some bags of crap on next the landing site, next to that stupid flag.
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Petra – if you don’t mind me asking what country are you from? I’m curious because your name sounds Italian. My mothers family came from Monte Cassino, the famous monastery, which was a temple to Apollo before the Catholics took it over around 650. So I find it interesting they called the mission Apollo, an old pagan God, who required human sacrifice from the people.
I used to find the moon landings fascinating, no longer. First, there was no reason to go there except as massive distraction and PR campaign. Partly to cover up one of the worst genocides in history taking place in Southeast Asia, and instill a silly fascination with space. These so called hero astronauts, if not liars, were stupid lab rats to have taken such an incredibly risky journey. But those clowns never went anywhere. Why? Because by any objective analysis the chances of survival would be about 1%. No reason to have people go there, they could have sent unmanned drones first to collect data and rocks. No reason to risk human life and spend all that extra money to have it manned. So to ensure success (6 out of 6 successful missions!) they scripted it.
Have you looked at a full moon? It’s so bright it hurts your eyes to look at it for more than a minute. It looks almost like a silver mirror, yet look at the photos – dull cement gray. Also radiation, living in outer space for 7 days in something smaller than a VW bus with aluminum panels as thin as car door?
I hope you read Ralph Renes and Bill Kaysings books. Not everything they document is correct, but they do provide an airtight case that it is technically impossible to get men there and back.
And I find it a very dangerous deception (or useless waste if real) on America and humanity because it fuels false hope that we can flee earth and live out on other planets. A dream that will never happen, and causes the materialists to think it’s OK to trash the earth because they can just head out to the stars after they trash this place. They supposedly left some bags of crap on next the landing site, next to that stupid flag.
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I love the Miles Davis quote, “Space is White Man’s bullshit”.
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According to google he never said that.
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I read it many years ago. No doubt if he said it it would be memory holed on google because they don’t want one of the best musicians of the 20th century putting NASA in it’s place.
But seriously science fiction has really fucked up Western minds and filled us with fake science and doomsday scenarios. I have too many friends who love sci fi. Science fiction is a very deceptive insidious format, along with fantasy. Because we know nukes, space, contagions, and alien invasions are accepted as fact by most Americans from years of Hollywood propagandandizing.
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I’ve heard of Monte Cassino but didn’t know anything about it. Yes, my father was Italian and came from a village in the Apennines, Marradi, between Florence and Faenza, known for its annual chestnut festival.
My two rules of critical thinking are:
— aim to prove your hypothesis wrong – this means giving the other side of the argument a very good look
— focus on the most relevant, incontrovertible facts in the first instance
Those who disbelieve the moon landings do not follow those rules.
You say: “Have you looked at a full moon? It’s so bright it hurts your eyes to look at it for more than a minute. It looks almost like a silver mirror, yet look at the photos – dull cement gray.”
Did you know that the astronauts went to the moon at lunar dawn? A lunar day is about 28 earth days. Perhaps that meant the moon wasn’t as bright as it might have been at a different time. When you make this statement you are not coming from any kind of real knowledge about what the brightness of the moon should or shouldn’t be. You’re using a common sense reasoning that simply does not cut it for an astronomical situation that you are not well-versed in.
Also, to my eyes some of the images have the surface of the moon looking extremely bright … totally expected of sunlight but not of artificial light. The moon sky is black day and night and there is no atmosphere to scatter the light which makes a difference to the quality.
There is nothing in what any of the prominent moonhoaxers (Dave McGowan, Bart Sibrel, Massimo Mazzucco, Bill Kaysing and a few others) say that refutes the reality of the moon landings. If you think that anything that any of them says refutes them, Ray, please tell me what it is.
I have a page, The “moonhoax” psyop. I invite you to take a look.
https://petraliverani.substack.com/p/moon-landings-hoax-psyop
The moon landings “hoax” is a psyop just like the Flat Earth psyop.
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Thanks Petra. I am just slightly puzzled that you as revisonist historian are so convinced on the moon landings, with no doubt. I was a big fan of the moon landings most of my life, so I do know the official story, more or less. Based on my lifetime experience, I don’t believe anything I am told by any government or religion, their MO is to deceive and control.
So anyway lets just assume the moon landings were real. Have any space “stories” been a hoax? If you accept the moon landings, then everything from Sputnik to the ISS to the absurd landings on asteroids, to the recent extremely hokie moon landings by India etc. must be real, as no space agency is calling them fake. I think it’s likely all lies. They may be trying to do things in “space”, something we know almost nothing about on earth, unless you trust government scientists. And if they do put things in space it’s definitely not for anyones benefit. These are the same psychopaths who thought nothing of firebombing innocent civilians from the air.
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Like you, I certainly never believe anything told to us by the authorities by default anymore, especially since covid. What an eyeopener the scamdemic has been in relation to the completely faux sciences of virology and vaccinology and healthcare in general.
However, I will believe things when I look at them carefully and find no fault with the presentation of evidence as with the moon landings. Moreover, there’s the EXTRA with the moon landings that Bill Kaysing, Dave McGowan et al are clearly agents whose purpose is to mislead us about them. There is NOTHING that any of them says that refutes their reality … and I challenge you to provide just one thing. If we really didn’t go to the moon, agent or not, there would be ONE thing from the wealth of propaganda they have spouted that would stand up but not a single thing from ANY of them does.
With regard to the rest of space, the Challenger disaster, is, of course, the most brazen psyop of all time with the alleged astronauts (who the term astro-not really can apply to because most of them had backgrounds alien to space flight) still walking around with identical or very similar names. I haven’t really looked at the ISS – too scared – but with relation to the unmanned landings they look pretty real to me so I wonder what it is about India’s latest landing that you think is hokey – I haven’t looked at the latest one just a few unmanned landings in the past.
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And just to let you know where I’m from – Australia. My father was Italian and my mother Scottish.
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I presume everyone has seen the press conference of the astronauts 1-2 weeks, after quarantining to ensure they didn’t have any space germs, they had to work in another psyop – space viruses. Anyhow their performance was so bad and bizzarre its difficult to believe they couldn’t train these guys in how to give a press conference and a decent script. I believe they may have done this to make the astronauts seem stupid, or perhaps hiding a secret, to ensure the press didn’t ask a lot of technical questions about how they got there, like navigation with a sextant looking out the port window of the capsule! That’s how they navigated, no computers, no GPS, just looking out the window.
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Do people remember the advertisements for “X-ray Spex” in the comic books way back in the 1970s, and likely before. They were supposed to allow the user to see through clothes, basically targeting pervs who wanted to see through womens clothes.
Anyhow, my point is I feel like I have X-ray Spex when I watch the news, or view historical photos now. One look at that Rosenberg photo and I’m rolling around on the floor LMAO. Can it be any more staged? Once you know their Modus Operandi, you can spot a fake in less than one second, and I am not exaggerating. Which is the reason you see them putting massive resources into propping up every single G-Damn hoax, and never fessing up, except in exceptional circumstances, like the book Mark recommends. One can visualize such efforts as the equivalent of a pressure relief valve, where if the pressure gets too high in a vessel, it is relieved into the atmosphere to prevent the vessel from exploding.
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I resent being called a perv. I was just a kid!
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Those damned comic Books!…I had a feeling those glasses were a “Rip-Off”. Glad I didn’t get ’em. YOUCANCALLME-X-RAY.
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FYI Warhol also became famous for an apocryphal quote, that in the future everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. Is there proof this happened? Because the media loves to drag out this quote as if it was divine prophecy. In reality this supposed quote is just red meat for the sad masses, who would give anything to achieve the goal of being famous for 15 minutes.
And if the media is actually providing a valuable service to the public, then why are the details of Jeffery Dahmers supposed crimes more famous than Linus Paulings work on electronegativity of the various elements, and how this research was done? I am just using this as an example of propaganda vs actual science and how this is covered in mass media.
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One last comment as I read Marks column one more time. There is a popular notion that Communism is a psyop, a distraction, not a real goal, a hoax (e.g. MM’s take). I most certainly disagree. I have talked to way too many people who lived under communism, from my grandfather (where commie agents were going door to door in the 1920s telling farmers how many people they could support on their farms, which was enough for my great-grandfather to know it was time to get-the-fuck out of Italy), to many Russian and Eastern bloc scientists (as an example from people I know well as a scientist) who lived through the pure hell of Soviet communism. Those who say it is just a distraction are lying, it IS THE GOAL of these lying POS, the people with no souls.
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It was totalitarianism, not some special form of philosophy with special evil. One aspect of the book I did not address was that the US, in the view of Europeans, after Korea and Vietnam, was not that shining city on the hill. It behaved like a totalitarian state. Add all our fake events and deaths, like Jonestown and Columbine and 911, AIDS, Covid and Climate Change, on and on, and we lose our aura of anything special, just another totalitarian state, but one that does propaganda better than anybody before. The Soviets, when it came to propaganda, were ham handed.
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Mark I agree with your point. I wrote a joke to summarize it in the style of Yakov Smirnoff (remember him)?
What is difference between lying facist and honest communist?
Nothing.
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I do remember Yakov Smirnoff, but had to look him up to remember why. He was very funny as I recall.
Speaking of very funny and off the wall, have you seen Jerry Seinfeld’s Unfrosted? It’s a feast for anyone who loves comedy. Jim Gaffigan, playing the head of Kellogg’s, is reading a paper and says something like “Hmmm, US going to war in Vietnam .. that might be a good idea!” Turns out it was an adlib. Most of the cast is unannounced, just showing up as various characters. At one point a lower level worker got incensed at someone and yelled at him, and Seinfeld intervened and said “This is a movie about Pop Tarts!” No one should be angry about anything.
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This weekend I was driving to Seacoast New Hampshire and got sidetracked into Haverhill, MA off I495 North. As I was driving on 110 North I see a Phoenician Restaurant! Almost drove off the road. So the Phoenicians did survive! I need to check the place out sometime, it supposedly makes great Middle Eastern food.
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I agreed to view this with Wifey.
Netflix garbage. Pedestrian. Cliche. Predictable. A couple of [product] laughs. The usual suspects cashing a check, which is disappointing because I once laughed very hard to Gaffigan’s “hot pocket” bit. 60s, yes? From blue collar to execs. Did you get a look at the [fraudulent] racial diversity shoved down your throat? If I remember correctly, there was also a large slice of fattfukks too – quite inaccurate for humans back then.
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Lorne Michaels said once that there are only 900 funny people on the planet. Steve Martin said that he noticed early on that there were a lot of comedians who did setups and punch lines, but not many of them were funny. Comedy, says Seinfeld, is indefinable. You know it’s good when you experience it. You cannot learn it. You have it or not. Not much to say about it. I know who I like, who not. Demetri Martin, for instance, who noticed that horses have mullets.
A large part of our obesity problem stems from French fries and breakfast cereal, and treats like Pop Tarts. They are carbohydrate intensive.
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Maybe everyone’s heard this idea, but I would hypothesize that the main network of ruling families – whether they’re Jewish or Ashkenazi or Phoenician or whatever – used intermarriage with local elites as part of its technique of colonization. Then the offspring formed a mixed race ruling caste for that local region. And each country would serve as a laboratory of applied social engineering and herd management – constrained by local “stock” and historical conditions, but somewhat generalizable. US and Russia being two major “laboratories” of course, as they are quite similar in many respects. Even “industrial capitalism” was quite similar to “industrial communism,” but one with the individual consumer emphasis and the other with group ideals and disdain for frivolity… As I understand it.
Has anyone seen The Americans? I would recommend it, for its interesting premise.. though I didn’t stick with it to the end of the series myself.
Also I used to take my car to a Russian mechanic who had lived under communism. Exactly what you’d expect – Dmitri by name, he was tough, cynical, direct, and saw the US citizenry as soft and naive about where they were headed (not unlike many other native born small business men.) He sold the shop and works last I heard for some device manufacturer or something, maybe I have his card somewhere, one of those ambiguous companies.
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“Then the offspring formed a mixed race ruling caste for that local region” That describes my local town spot on. The Lebanese somehow attained a hegemony in this area. The older ones were Catholics, always had money to open businesses. Now their children inherited everything.
I had a Russian supervisor who told me they learn our advanced high school courses in their grade school program. Many Russians work here in the USA and own ALOT of property, they don’t need to drop bombs and invade, they are already here.
In some ways every dog has it’s day, and gets 15 minutes of fame. Whether online, within our community, at work, and it doesn’t have to be good fame, such as the commitment reports. Misdemeanors or petty crimes can give someone a reputation.
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I meant the global ruling families would interbreed with local elites as a strategy of colonizing.. the offspring would have strong family ties to their super elite cousins, but “look like” the locals. I’m not clear on the connection to the Lebanese in your area? Do you mean they were using a similar system of intermarriage with locals? Or that they were a branch of the wealthiest global families?
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Yes, and every kid of the elite attends Harvard. I had a revelation several years ago that there was zero chance of Boston being attacked by anyone ever, with all the damn rich elite running around attending the various schools and learning to be “globalized”.
As an example, the Thai King Rama 9, Bhumibol Adalyadej, was born in Cambridge to a father who was a Harvard Trained doctor. In fact part of Harvard Sqaure is named for him, the most popular Monarch in Thai history. And educated in elite Swiss high schools, like all the North Koreans, Thais, every elite – elite schools, then Harvard.
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This is fascinating. It could explain much, including Barry Sotero’s supposed stint at Harvard, for which no records were ever made public.
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My boss Nikolai, when I did my postdoc research, was from Belorussia, and a really excellent chemist who could do great experiments on a shoestring budget. He taught me to be extremely skeptical as a scientist, he never trusted anyones data except his own. He caught several cheaters in our lab. It took me a year and half to gain his respect sufficiently to know I was not a soft, stupid, cheating American scientist. He even offered to loan me money at one point to pay my bills when our tyrannical boss was jerking my salary around. Real salt of the earth, great guy. Could drink anyone under the table, twice over.
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This might be of interest, a new book critiquing modern medicine –
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/11/book-review-why-the-medical-establishment-often-gets-it-wrong.html
The review gives a useful background on the author, Marty Makary – another MM, and doubles throughout the name. He has a history of agitating for some change, and then a few years later it gets adopted by the mainstream. Which to me makes him sound like a project, an asset for intelligence or some group, using him as a front to push through agendas they desire. A technocratic cat’s paw. Many of his ideas sound good on one level, but I can also see how they might be aimed at a more managerialist approach, removing independence from doctors, making it all top-down rule by experts.
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Anyone else looking forward to the mass flake out after election results are announced? I’m loving a big old helping of schadenfreude on all the people who voted for the loser. Because anyone who thinks voting does anything deserves nothing but contempt.
I wanted to make a button that says “I’m proud to have not voted” with a middle finger imposed on an American flag. Too late now, and too many idiots would take it the wrong way.
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With regard to the “Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962, I have been aware the following documenrary made by Nomad Films International, for more tha 2 decades. The “gold” is from 13:06-14:37 approximately.
The documentary is: “Eye in the Sky – the story of aerial reconnaissance.”
I have tried without any success to link/embed from youtube where it can be viewed if you type that title. The comment of interest from Major General George J. Keegan Jr. The assistant chief of staff, Intelligence, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.
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