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The CIA vs. L. Ron Hubbard

Reference: The Deep State and Scientology

As covered in The Deep State and Scientology the first prominent ‘expert’ detractors of L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology in the early 1950s were leading members of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and World Psychiatric Association (WPA).  They also happened to be serving the CIA as MK Ultra* shock-drug-hypnosis experimenters and operatives.  They in turn – through the original establishment evaluations of Hubbard, Dianetics and Scientology – influenced media and government agencies to launch forever attacks on Hubbard and his research into the mind and spirit. Their motives were clear; Hubbard had exposed their secret programs.

If you compare the fundamentals of what Hubbard was practicing with Dianetics (the precursor to Scientology) and what the MK Ultra shock docs were up to there is no surprise why Hubbard became public enemy number one and he and Scientology remained so for rest of his life and beyond.

Dianetics and Scientology were predicated on the idea that humans were adversely affected by their reactive minds. That portion of the mind that unbeknownst to the individual continued to record during moments of pain and unconsciousness (or lowered consciousness such as that  induced by hypnosis), including such moments caused by or combined with drugs. During those incidents the reactive mind records words around the person, takes them literally, and they later act as post hypnotic suggestions, below the level of the person’s conscious awareness. This mechanism is the source of painful and illogical conduct by the individual. Dianetics reached those unconscious moments, brought them back to the conscious awareness of the individual thus erasing their unknowing post-hypnotic influence.  By doing so, the Scientologist restores and strengthens the individual’s self-determinism and he advances spiritually.

MK Ultra’s written objectives were precisely the opposite.  In their own words “to obtain control of the future activities (physical and mental) of any individual, willing or unwilling with a guarantee of amnesia.” MK Ultra sought to implant post hypnotic commands through hypnosis, drugs and pain.  The expressed idea was to strip the self-determinism of the individual and replace it with that of the CIA operator.  A critical part of their goal was to create amnesia so that the directed crime committed by the programmed agent could never be traced back to the CIA. 

Clearly, no one could be more diametrically opposed to the CIA’s MK Ultra in principle and in practice than L. Ron Hubbard. Nor could anyone pose more of a threat to that clandestine operation due to his unique discoveries providing ability to undo its effects.

Naturally, when the victims of MK Ultra later happened upon Dianetics and Scientology, Hubbard’s discoveries uncovered those intentionally implanted moments of pain and unconsciousness and released their power over the individuals affected, and worse from the CIA’s perspective, restored the memory of those individuals.

When Hubbard published this fact in the 1951 book Science of Survival the need arose to discredit Hubbard and Dianetics (and later Scientology). Virtually every federal agency and every corporate media outlet were pressed into service to churn out perpetual anti Hubbard and Scientology harassment and propaganda. It took extraordinary measures to maintain secrecy.  In fact, it was not until the late seventies that anyone else outside of the CIA MK Ultra inner circle had any inkling of the atrocities. The most notoriously corrupt and criminal CIA heads – Allen Dulles (1953-1961, effectively 1947-late sixties) and Richard Helms (1963-1976) – had even carefully kept every President from Truman through Ford in the dark about these affairs. Helms ordered the destruction of every single piece of paper connected with MK Ultra in 1973 just when congressional Watergate investigations threatened more probing into the CIA’s workings.  

It was rather common then for the CIA to control the important news flows of the day. To illustrate just how cozy and influential the CIA was with media heads in America, consider CIA Director Allen Dulles’ relationship with his personal friends Henry and Claire Booth Luce. Luce was the publisher of the world’s most influential 1950s-1990s publication, Time magazine. The CIA supplied both Luces with LSD which they regularly ingested. Realize, the LSD was supplied while Dulles a) was directing them on a daily basis, and b) LSD was being used by Dulles’ MK Ultra operation to eliminate the free will in unwitting dupes who then carried out the CIA’s mind control ops. There is documented history of the Luce’s many times flanking CIA/State Department plots to topple governments and deceive the American people (see e.g., The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government; David Talbot, Harper 2015).

Between 1950 and 1991 Time was the tip of the battering-ram spear that instigated a host of major attacks upon Scientology. The assault instigated by the Luce/Dulles/CIA Global Security State consortium culminated over 32 years of continuous propaganda hammering with a Time magazine cover in 1991 which proclaimed in bold scare headlines and grotesque cartoonish art: Scientology was the “Cult of Power and Greed.” It was the epitome of the sociopathic attribute of accusing others of one’s own sordid conduct and motives. (More on this in upcoming installments on Scientology and Lawfare, including its timing hoping to forever preclude Scientology from being recognized as a tax-exempt religious and charitable organization).

The interconnection between MK Ultra and anti-Scientology propagandists was so close that it seemed that to be deemed an “authoritative” Hubbard/Scientology detractor required a several year CIA MK Ultra torturer apprenticeship. So it was with the likes of Winfred Overholser (the original Hubbard/Dianetics denouncer and leading member of MK Ultra’s predecessor operations Bluebird and Artichoke; President APA). Another was Ewen Cameron (a most prolific and sadistic MK Ultra experimenter as well as the APA and WPA head when they established their anti-Hubbard, anti-Scientology policies). In the late sixties, the man they passed the anti-Scientology torch to had outdone even their MK Ultra exploits.

This MK Ultra/Anti-Scientology successor played a critical role in covering up the CIA’s program when Congress looked into it in the seventies.  He played central roles in two of the 20th Century’s most traumatic blows to the collective psyche of the American people. Ultimately, unwittingly and posthumously, he supplied evidence that throws into question the to-date successful CIA denials of involvement in every significant assassination and assassination attempt in America from John F. Kennedy, through Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Robert F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and even Donald Trump. 

Stay tuned.

*MK Ultra is the CIA mind control program, MK an arbitrary prefix and Ultra an arbitrary word used to name this project. – The Search for the Manchurian Candidate; John Marks 1979

Sources:

  1. The Search for the Manchurian Candidate; John Marks 1979
  2. Operation Mind Control; Walter Bowart 1978
  3. The Devil’s Chessboard; David Talbot 2015
  4. CIA reading room, https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/home
  5. Science of Survival: Prediction of Human Behavior; L. Ron Hubbard 1951

Operation Mockingbird: CIA mind/behavior control program

The CIA Mind Control program (MK Ultra) was largely secret until journalist Seymour Hersch shamed Congress into investigating CIA domestic ops in the mid-seventies (albeit some thirty plus years after L. Ron Hubbard originally exposed it). One of the subsequent Senate Committees barely touched upon a broader mind control program the CIA had been cultivating on the heels of MK Ultra. That was Operation Mockingbird, designed to weaponize the U.S. media to control the minds of Americans on a mass scale. The Committee found “fifty journalists who had official, but secret, relationships with the CIA” to influence media.

This aligned with the CIA’s apparent intent to use propaganda as a more “acceptable” form of mass ‘behavior control.” That is detailed in a 1973 CIA memo summarizing control techniques:

“[T]he most innocuous, most effective and acceptable means of effecting behavioral control or change is education. The educative process which includes propaganda techniques, does not merely transmit information but a belief or value system as well. It is the latter which often provides the impetus to dramatic and difficult to understand behavior, e.g., suicidal terrorist activities.” (The document)

We are learning in real time that despite representations to the contrary those programs to control our minds with misinformation and disinformation were expanded and are apparently in full force today. Our current Director of National Intelligence, decidedly senior to the CIA and its alphabet soup, expanding network of US intelligence agencies, has recently been alerting the American public to current clandestine propaganda operations that make Operation Mockingbird look like child’s play. This is big news over alternative, citizen media. Tellingly, very little of it is in corporate media. Here is a short sum up:

The Trump administration weathered several months of nationwide violent riots, sponsored by leftwing nonpolitical groups largely funded by our own government (coordinated by CIA through USAID and the thousands of NGO’s – non government political fronts – it funds). Their issue? The cancellation of your tax dollars being used to create such destruction of property and persons. How could this be happening in real time, against the titular head of all US intelligence and in defiance of the sitting United States President? CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou answers that question in a lengthy interview with Tucker Carlson. He describes how CIA veterans have innumerable means of non complying with a Commander in Chief who thinks he is senior to them. They use banks of psychiatrists and psychologists to analyze and coach the CIA on how to manipulate and confuse sitting presidents. They reckon they can conduct business as usual before even an energetic President can get to the bottom of their clandestine ops. These are short segments within a lengthy interview. If you care about your presidential vote being meaningful, you may want to hear the whole thing: Carlson with John Kireakou.

The Deep State and Scientology

In recent posts – Government Censors Are Losing Their Minds and Elon Musk and the USSA – we described how prominent US citizens have been transformed from corporate media darlings to heinous villains instantly. All they had to do initially was publicly object to deep-state censorship strong arm tactics and begin to peek behind the deep state curtain of Oz.  

This deep state is the creation of and the protector of the American plutocracy. Over the past ten years more concentrated effort has been put into creating an all-powerful plutocratic ruling class than in any other ten-year period in American history.  The new unconstitutional 4th branch of government (the sprawling, permanent bureaucracy or deep state) has actively enforced an unprecedented transfer of wealth from the many to the few. In no commensurate period has income inequality increased so rapidly; have censorship measures been more prevalent; has state propaganda been so dutifully churned out by corporate media; has government control and regulation of powerful corporations (including but not limited to media) been so complete; has the entire justice apparatus been used to hunt down, prosecute and persecute populists designated as domestic enemies of the state. Unfortunately for the younger generations, the level of neo mania (all that matters is the now, modern, and unthinking) is so great they have no frame of reference to even notice such fundamental, repressive changes.

Because of the populist landslide results of the 2024 Presidential election we are likely to learn that all of the maladies above – those indicia of the unquestioned plutocrat hegemony being visited upon us – are not new. Such efforts at smashing the Bill of Rights have been part of the ‘deep state’ agenda for many decades. This could soon become more clear, even if only by Trump’s promised release of the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassination files. The long duration of this erosion of rights is not understood by many. That in part is due to the neo-maniacal trend in this society. That is all attention by the plutocracy is driven to the present and ever-present future “threats”; the idea being to keep people distracted and unaware of the gradual erosion of their rights. In order to overcome the Orwellian neo-maniacal erasure of history from the collective consciousness, some study of history is in order. 

One history I am intimately familiar with is that of the relationship between the church of Scientology and the US deep-security state. It so happens that that history provides a helpful backdrop against which to better appreciate the recent Bill of Rights cancellation craze in America. Virtually all tactics we are witnessing of late have been applied with force and passion against Scientology for several decades.

Scientology’s founder L. Ron Hubbard came into American consciousness in 1950 with his bestselling book Dianetics; The Modern Science of Mental Health. It was a handbook for regular people to straighten out their own minds and lives through a prescribed self-help regimen. Prior to Dianetics, regression type therapy (that is, resolving one’s past through revisiting it) was practiced mainly under the auspices of the government (to wit, WW II PTSD cases) and almost always with the ‘aid’ of mind-altering drugs. Hubbard introduced the idea of freeing the mind without the use of drugs, which he viewed as exacerbating the conditions meant to be relieved. He was immediately set upon by the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, The American Psychological Association, The Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Association, the Food and Drug Administration and virtually every federal law enforcement and intelligence agency. It took several decades of liberal use of Freedom of Information laws and coast to coast litigation in order to a) survive the attacks and b) learn of its extraordinary extent and intensity.

Paradoxically, the hundreds of thousands of subsequently revealed documents were really unnecessary to understanding why Ron Hubbard seemed to pose such an earth-shaking threat to the keepers of America’s deepest, dark secrets.  Instead, a short passage in Hubbard’s second major book on the mind told one all he needed to know about why the deep, security state mustered all its forces against him.

In 1951 Hubbard’s Science of Survival: The Prediction of Human Behavior hit the market. The book expanded on Dianetics counselling techniques and provided a manual for predicting human behavior. In the course of doing so, Hubbard revealed something that – in spite of his efforts – the world at large would remain ignorant of for more than two decades.  

The offending passage:

There is another form of hypnotism which falls between the surgical operation and straight hypnotism without physical pain. This form of hypnotism has been a carefully guarded secret of certain military and intelligence organizations. It is a vicious war weapon and may be of considerable more use in conquering a society than the atom bomb. This is no exaggeration. The extensiveness of the use of this form of hypnotism in espionage work is so wide today that it is long past the time when people should have become alarmed about it. 

It required Dianetic processing to uncover “pain-drug-hypnosis.”  Otherwise pain-drug-hypnosis was out of sight, unsuspected and unknown.

Hubbard claimed that agents of the agencies so exposed made attempts on his life later in 1951.  Their methods of course made proving such impossible. And the public brushed it off since the leading lights of American corporate media (including Time Magazine, the New York Times and CBS) went to extraordinary lengths at the behest of their deep-security state masters attempting to paint Hubbard in as unfavorable a light as possible.

In fact, it was not until the mid-1970s that Pain-drug-hypnosis (PDH) received any significant attention. That was when Senator Frank Church’s Intelligence Oversight Congressional Committee probed the dirty work of the CIA. That committee (and subsequent Congressional investigations) released documents and testimony proving that what L. Ron Hubbard stated as fact in 1951 was indeed irrefutable fact. The Church committee revealed that at the time (1951) of Hubbard’s revelations US Naval Intelligence and the CIA had been working for at least eight years on enhancing interrogation and torture techniques with drugs and hypnosis. In the early 50’s the CIA formally took the lead in all such operations under the rubric MK (Mind Control) Ultra.  1952 documents labelled Project Bluebird, a part of MK Ultra, spelled out the aims of their then ongoing experimentation with PDH:

“Can we obtain control of the future activities (physical and mental) of any given individual, willing or unwilling by application of SI (sensory isolation) and H (hypnosis) techniques?”

“Can we in a matter of an hour, two hours, one day, etc., induce an H (hypnotic) condition in an unwilling subject to such an extent that he will perform an act for our benefit? (long range)”

“Can we create by post-H (hypnotic) suggestion an action contrary to an individual’s basic moral principals?” 

“Can we devise a system for making unwilling subjects into willing agents and then transfer that control to untrained agency agents in the field by use of codes or identifying signs or credentials?”

“Can we obtain control of the future activities (physical and mental) of any individual, willing or unwilling with a guarantee of amnesia?”

“Can an individual be made to perform an act of attempted assassination?”

And finally, for some comedic relief, the CIA asked a question indicating their Keystone Kops level of incompetence:

“Can we detect SI and H by use of SI an H (regression)?”

Link to original CIA document

As noted above L. Ron Hubbard had already been regularly ‘detecting’ SI and H (or pdh) through the decidedly drug and hypnosis free Dianetics. He’d even published the fact in a widely distributed book – and their own agency along with several others were pursuing Hubbard with considerable resources and ardor for having done so. I personally have so detected and uncovered SI and H (and PDH) application – along with relieving the damage originally done – by use of Dianetics and Scientology techniques. 

Hubbard’s 1951 revelation would make him and his creation Scientology a “national security risk”, a priority target for discrediting and destruction by the government-friendly corporate media and numerous federal agencies.

While having some measure of success in getting the public to disbelieve such claims, they failed to stop Hubbard and his techniques. He and Scientology became long-terms targets of what we today call a “whole of society” approach to undermining Hubbard and his work. That is numerous federal agencies set out to frame and prosecute Hubbard and Scientology by any means necessary, all flanked by coordinating smears by corporate media and non-governmental organizations such as the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Association, and the American Medical Association. Having been a front-line defender against such techniques for years, I too was targeted by a US Department of Justice FBI sting operation. When confronted with Freedom of Information Act documents proving the attempted frame up, the FBI agent in charge sheepishly admitted, “we tried our best, but you didn’t take the bait.”

The anti-Hubbard/Scientology propaganda campaign required authoritative figures to provide the ‘proof’ of their smears. Who were the leading lights utilized to smash Hubbard and Scientology? The heads of the American Psychiatric Association and the World Psychiatric Association. They and their minions presented themselves as the preeminent experts on ‘Mind Control”.  They testified publicly in the media, legally in courts and parliaments, doing everything possible to make Hubbard appear disreputable and to position Scientology as a “cult.” Their expertise was accepted and forwarded by literally every corporate media outlet and every intelligence and law enforcement agency in the western world. For forty years.

After all these decades later, after much smoke has cleared, after many relevant characters have long since passed and their papers became available, and tomes of classified government files have lost their classified status, let’s revisit who the authorities on Mind Control Cults  – and the basis of their authority – were. In short, they were the epitome of the APA affliction known as “projection” (that is accusing others of your own sordid intentions and actions). 

Dr. Winfred Overholser was the first ‘authority’ to strike out at Hubbard. Overholser was President of the APA 1947-48.  Decades of research were required to finally prove that from 1949 through the early fifties, L. Ron Hubbard and his Dianetics presented a clear and present danger to Overholser personally. Just after Overholser’s stint as APA President Hubbard presented Dianetics to a group of psychiatrists at the Overholser-led Washington D.C.  St Elizabeth Hospital. Hospital psychiatrists there eagerly adopted Dianetics methods as they experienced initial success. That was only until Overholser caught wind of it. He prohibited its use and denounced Hubbard and his techniques as a “fraud.”  That would be its original, official branding. Why was Oversholser so intolerant in the face of his underlings’ successes? Decades later it was learned that throughout the forties and fifties Oversholser was experimenting on unwitting patient-victims with LSD, electroshock treatment and hypnosis (yes, PDH) at St Elizabeth’s. Oversholser was one of the founding CIA shock/torture doctors furthering Mind Control experiments in America; the same line of experiments begun in Nazi Germany under the infamous Dr. Joseph Mengele. 

Dr. Ewen Cameron was an Overholser successor as  President of the American Psychiatric Association during the critical years 1952-1953, a year after Hubbard published his expose on government Pain-Drug-Hypnosis practices. They were also the same years the CIA formalized years of such practices under the rubric MK Ultra (Mind Control Ultra); the program quoted from above. Those were also the years when the APA became the lead grand inquisitor against Hubbard and Scientology, a duty it carried out for another 30 years, until the APA’s condemnation became more like a badge of honor as far as decent people were concerned. Cameron was also the head of the World Psychiatric Association from 1961-67, the years it worked hand-in-glove with the CIA to instigate attempted bannings of Scientology internationally, from the U.K. to Australia.

 What we learned from the 70s (from the Church Committee, and subsequent committee, hearings) to the present is that Cameron was a leading MK Ultra experimenter throughout the 1950’s and 1960’s.  He was in direct communication with MK Ultra’s American Mengele, Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, poisoner and torturer in Chief of the CIA.  The most thorough treatment on the sinister nature of the mass tortures Cameron personally performed and directed can be found in Naomi Klein’s best-selling book The Shock Doctrine (2007, Knopf Canada). After exhaustive research from extensive Freedom of Information Act releases over thirty years, Ms. Klein demonstrated with ample fact references that while Cameron’s organization was condemning Hubbard and Scientology for alleged “mind control” Cameron himself was regularly drugging, poisoning, electroshocking, erasing the memories of, planting false memories in, and implanting commands into the brains of hundreds of unwitting human guinea pigs. Cameron’s victims were drugged beyond consciousness without their consent and then tortured and hypnotized, some for months on end. All hidden behind the cloak of the literal head of national and international institutions responsible for the betterment of human mental health. That is what made him an “expert” on Mind Control.

This is only the beginning of a story that would defy belief for many decades – until sufficient documentation could finally be obtained to prove it. Hopefully, it gives you some context from which to process the mind-numbing attacks, nullifications, brandings, and targeting being meted out by the deep state/corporate media cartel of late (witness Trump, Musk, Patel, RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard, to name a few).  There is more TO THE SCIENTOLOGY STORY. And at least one of the central characters makes Overholser and Cameron look like choir boys by comparison.

USAID, CIA and the Truman Show revealed

Reference: The Battle For Your Mind Is On

More on USAID, the CIA black ops and DNC grift bank, that spends a great deal of your tax money on evil and waste. Yeah, the audit of which leading democrats are attempting to cause an insurrection over.

From Mike Benz, today’s foremost whistleblower/researcher on government corruption:

Before you look at the next one, reminder. Politico was the “news” outlet that Joe Biden’s people chose to release the phony-CIA-created story that the Hunter Biden laptop (documenting Biden’s multi million dollar grift in the pay of the Chinese and Ukrainians) was a creation of Russian intelligence:

and this…

For particulars on the atrocious nature of the waste (and destruction caused by) of your taxpayer dollars see the full post remarked on here:

Senator Mike Lee weighs in on why USAID is giving 68 Million US taxpayer dollars to a group of plutocrat globalists in Switzerland:

Even spending on election rigging – ala communist autocracy:

Are you seeing much of these facts in your corporate media coverage of numbskull, corrupt politicians screaming that the end of the world is neigh because we are finally going to get a US government audit? Of course not, your taxpayer dollars are going toward paying corporate media NOT to show you the facts. Here is what corporate media is showing vs. what they didn’t show you during the last three major, mishandled natural disasters:

Here’s another take on the reason corporate media is keeping its cult following in the dark:

And they are still trying to write off RFK Jr as a ‘conspiracy theorist.’ We now have the receipts.

Election 2024 – Peaceful Protests or Insurrections?

In the spring of 1959 Edward Hunter, an intelligence agent posing as a journalist, described to a Senate committee the discovery of a then-unknown technique called “mind attack” – a method for changing people’s minds to make them love things they once hated and/or hate things they once loved.  Mind attack (or mind control) tactics were further exposed in the 1970’s by L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology and a former U.S. naval office familiar with intelligence techniques. He published an essay in the 1970s that warned of a dastardly government intelligence trick of thought control through censorship and propaganda. He suggested the Intelligence Community (IC) had been utilizing this method for years and that unchecked it could have detrimental effects on society. The technique was propaganda execution by way of redefining words (Orwellian Newspeak if you will).  At that very time, Scientology was a recognized religion and was in the process of being redefined by Big Pharma and the IC as a ‘cult’. With that label comes suspension of civil rights and human liberties. Because it wasn’t other folks’ ox being obviously gored, few paid attention to the process but accepted the result. If you look you will learn that such techniques are being applied far more broadly today. Unless the level of state media and internet control is reversed, some of our most important societal leaders will ultimately be dismissed as quacks and cult members. Central to the operation is propaganda by redefinition of words.

The Neo Liberal Orders’ Censorship/Propaganda Industrial Complex (CPIC) is playing out George Orwell’s 1984 by implementing Newspeak. In 1984 Newspeak sums up as WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.  Today we add to the lexicon, PLUTOCRACY IS DEMOCRACY, CENSORSHIP IS FREEDOM OF SPEECH, VIOLENCE/VANDALISM IS LAW/ORDER.

Many are seeing this, including heads of the sovereign states remaining defiant against the Neo Liberal Order push for global autocratic rule.  Here is Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban alerting to it earlier this year:

“In the past the communists employed a five-step procedure to subjugate us by stealth. Now the progressives are emulating them. With these five steps they are turning the organs of the state into tools of oppression.

First, they reformulate norms. George Orwell saw this, and described it thus: “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” The first step in the progressive liberals’ program of oppression is to take a norm and give it the precisely opposite meaning. “War is peace” is something that progressives also say today. “Peace facility”: this is the name of the Brussels financial fund from which they send the most destructive weapons to the front. “Migration is a resource”, they say—while crime rises, the threat of terrorism increases, and trust is drained from our societies.”

 A lot of this sinister word play is already firmly entrenched in the corporate media and organized education in America.  For example, a couple years ago we were overwhelmed with scare tactics to drop objections to the Biden Administration’s INFLATION REDUCTION ACT. Yet, since its shotgun passage, inflation has continued to be a scourge to all but the top .1 %. To those in the know, the result was obvious since the bill accelerated already out of control government spending. Recently a former Federal Reserve Bank governor was asked what can we possibly do to scale back runaway inflation. His only answer was to reign in the INFLATION REDUCTION ACT. I other words, what the establishment serves to us as the solution, in fact is the problem  Propaganda by redefinition of words at work. You see government stooges (from New Times columnists to all network talking head “experts”) scolding the masses that they can’t get it through their thick skulls “Bidenomics is killing it”, while increasing portions of the population go under to rising inflation and fewer job advancement opportunities. 

Today Big Brother, through its CPIC, is literally peddling STUPIDITY IS LITERACY. And they are coming for your children. The government is doing it through Orwellian titled “media literacy” programs. They are designed to inculcate school children with the idea that the only true information is Big Brother authorized information. In other words, discouraging curiosity, exploration, research, and critical thinking. They are trying to force kids to accept information only from the folks who tell them that they must agree to the INFLATION REDUCTION ACT while its implementation eats away their paychecks with more spiraling inflation. They are telling them that the only truth is what they are fed through government agencies, or their fully controlled news organs, to wit, Wikipedia, and the “legacy” or “mainstream” corporate media.

It is spreading like a cancer. Preeminent CPIC expert Mike Benz explains:

Hence, Ignorance is Literacy.

Remember the NLO (New Liberal Order) intelligentsia’s constant lament a few years ago: “how are we ever going to progress if we don’t agree on the facts?” (as they see them of course). Thus, the rise of the CPIC.  Censorship and Propaganda in unprecedented quantities notwithstanding, the NLO still can’t control minds sufficiently to stay in power. Thus, the need to reprogram our minds by rewriting the very language we’ve slowly and surely developed and become accustomed to over the past 10,000 years. At what point does enough become enough?

The other 4 Steps of modern-day mind control that Prime Minister Orban refers to above are also instructive:

The second step is to use the instruments of the state to start spreading this inverted normality. Anyone who thinks otherwise is problematic: there is something wrong with them. Anyone who thinks otherwise is either ignorant or insane. The perception must be created that listening to them would lead to some fatal catastrophe.

Then comes the third step, when they spread the word that because you hold dangerous views, you are also a security risk. They set some sort of fact-checker or democracy watchdog on you, and it is established that you do not share the views of normality that they preach, and that therefore you are a radical whose freedom of speech they need not hesitate to restrict.

Then, in the fourth step, they incite the liberal press to attack you. Activists are mobilized, and then you are silenced through litigation. This leads to the sphere of fake depictions of you on the internet, denunciation on social media, and a horde of civil society entities bombarding the courts and state bodies with accusations against you.

And if you survive all that, the fifth step is for state bodies to spring into action. They have received so many complaints and accusations that they are obliged to investigate you. This is how public bodies become the private institutions of the progressives. They find that the accusations in the media and the concerns of the watchdogs are well founded, they indict you, and in the end state bodies are used to silence you. This is what they do to Hungary in Brussels, and this is what they do to conservatives in progressive liberal European capitals. The same thing is happening in the United States, where court proceedings are being used to try to remove President Donald Trump from the ballot. This is what happened in the European Union when they tried to use administrative procedures to impose a travel ban on Tucker Carlson. It is happening in Germany, where political parties are being monitored by the intelligence services. And it happened in Finland, when they wanted to prosecute a politician and a bishop for quoting Scripture.

As it happens Orban turns out to be pretty accurate. What he did not predict was what comes next when all of the above doesn’t work. Well, we have now seen that too.

After the United States government (with its compliant corporate media) applied steps 1-5 above toward front-running candidate, former-president Donald Trump, they tried to murder him in cold blood on national television:

Two months later, with virtually no accountability assumed for its abject failures during the first assassination attempt, they tried again:

The first assassin had unexplained connections to the FBI: First Assassin .

The second assassin had unexplained connections to the CIA:

Short take:  Second Assassin summary

More in-depth take: Second Assassin more in-depth

One could call these connections ‘conspiracy  theories’, but that would be incorrect. They are far more concrete and factual than any explanation (or lack thereof) that government agencies have provided on the assassination attempts to date. 

Acting like a third world banana republic dictatorship, the United States government and its lapdog corporate media has all but buried the stories of back to back assassination attempts on President Trump, while they continue to promote further attempts.

On the eve of perhaps the most hotly contested Presidential election in United States history, what is next? 

The grand inquisitor of the infamous congressional J6 committee (Jamie Raskin) promises to deny the will of the people should they favor Trump on election day. Consequently, he contends the D.C. oligarchy is preparing for “Civil War conditions” (by the way difficult to find on Youtube or Bing videos):

Never mind that Raskin promises to do what he and the corporate media falsely tried and convicted Trump of in the J6 show trials. All of this hypocritical hocus pocus is possible only in an Orwellian world where the very definitions of words are fungible, depending on one’s political beliefs or affiliation. Should the left lose and CIA rent-a-riot squads take to the streets (ala summer of 2020, BLM/Antifa) extreme property destruction and violence will be called “mostly peaceful demonstrations.”  Should the left lose, if there is any completely peaceable conservative acts of protest the corporate media will call them “violent insurrection.”  In the official D.C. vernacular Insurrection will become Law and Order and vice versa depending on which train of thought prevails. 

To ensure that both sides of the aisle are equally incensed come election day, corporate media has come up with a far-fetched, pearl-clutching theory. On the eve of the election the New York Times (flanked by the Washington Post) issued a heavily promoted “story” that declared that conservatives expressing doubt of the fairness of the 2020 election undermines public confidence in the 2024 election. They conclude such views should have been censored by YouTube and because they were not, the 2024 election has somehow been compromised.

No matter what side you are on, brace yourself.  Big Brother’s colossal mismanagement of affairs guarantees that whichever side loses will believe and behave as if it were cheated. 

Whistleblower Character Assassin

Filmmaker Alex Gibney

When asked about Alex Gibney’s in-progress documentary on himself, Elon Musk replied, “It’s a hit piece.”  Gibney’s reaction to that was, “How would you know?”

The answer is more than apparent on this blog.  Musk has done more than any other person to date to dismantle the burgeoning Censorship/Propaganda Industrial Complex. The very industry Gibney sucks the hind tit of for a living. Look no further than what Gibney did to Julian Assange and Wikileaks when they were at the forefront of restoring transparency and accountability to Big Brother.

When Wikileaks founder Assange exposed the sinister side of American empire in 2010, the national security state came unglued. Perhaps no one more accurately represented the security state (also known as IC “intelligence community”) at that time than Michael Hayden. Between 1998 and 2009 he had served on the three top spy positions on the planet, the head of the National Security Agency (NSA), the Director of the CIA and as the 1st Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence. Under his guidance the national security state was formed, including the passage of the Patriot Act and its systematic stripping of our civil rights. Incidentally, he remains atop the Big Brother console to this day as head of the Atlantic Council’s Censorship/Propaganda Industrial Complex. 

Who did Hayden and company call upon when Assange and Wikileaks were awakening the world to the atrocities of the unbridled security state/IC? The documentarian who would give the head of the security state the platform from which to justify the horrendous conduct revealed by Wikileaks, while also viciously assassinating the character of Assange. The same guy who did principal Big Brother propaganda work for the COVID-19 roll out: Alex Gibney. 

Nothing more graphically represented the importance of the 2010 Wikileaks disclosures than the following video. It captures US military personnel gunning down several innocent civilians, including a Reuter’s news agency employee a rescue worker and his two children. See,

The nation was shocked. And Gibney gave it his all to get the masses to cool their jets with his documentary “We Steal Secrets.”  He featured Michael Hayden himself to tell us how to view this very leaked film. Haydn said he could understand how such abuses of imperial power bothers some people but not someone in the know like himself: “You’ve got this scene, some are evidently troubled by the scene – frankly, I’m not.”  Gibney then invites Hayden to explain how Assange put so many more lives at risk than were wiped out in the video, that there really is nothing to see here folks. Clearly, Gibney wholeheartedly agrees with his master as he fails to even once push back on the single person most responsible for the conduct Wikileaks exposed. 

And as is Gibney’s wont (see Big Brother Storyteller), he is so anxious to be the first to get the deep state’s spin released he doesn’t bother to examine any harm that Hayden alleges Assange’s releases will certainly do. In the final analysis, no one ever produced a single sliver of evidence that a single hair on a single head was harmed as a result of Wikileaks’ exposes. To the contrary one could easily imagine tens of thousands of lives being saved by the disclosures, by having its intended reform effect on the offenders. 

Thus self-blinded, Gibney sets out to destroy the reputation of Assange. He strings together a chorus of clips from his favorite politicians toeing the CIA/NSA/Hayden line literally calling for Assange to be hung to death or assassinated. 

The film largely consists of Gibney belittling and condemning Assange as a sociopath who might well be entitled to such treatment. In doing so, he also does a number on Chelsea (aka Bradley) Manning who was the military whistleblower who forwarded the leaked material to Wikileaks for publication. Gibney is a proud woke mind virus carrier. Nonetheless, he hypocritically devotes a great deal of time trying to smear Manning with his struggle over gender identity. Gibney ruthlessly paints Manning – a genuine American hero on the order of Daniel Ellsberg – as a psychotic sexual deviant. Gibney does so in order to create the invented picture that Assange took advantage of Manning and set him up to take the rap for the leak while hogging all the glory to himself.  In doing so, Gibney kills two Ellsbergs with one stone.

Through outright sleaze and cheesy propaganda techniques Gibney invents the narrative that Assange baited Manning into releasing the material to Wikileaks. In reality, the New York Times and the Washington Post (the “liberal” fronts for Empire fuckery) turned down approaches from Manning before he turned to Wikileaks. Yet, Gibney’s expert use of the dark arts makes it appear as though if not for Assange’s fraudulent preying upon a weak, perverted mind, Manning never would be in the deep trouble he was by then in (in solitary confinement awaiting trial for Treason and worse before a US military tribunal).  

The same techniques used to assassinate Manning’s character are applied by Gibney in pursuing Assange as prey.  He ruthlessly explores Assange’s private sex life and goes to great length to indict and convict him for the alleged crime of intentionally breaking his condom during sex with more than willing partners (perhaps even sexual predators pursuing Assange). If you are wondering how that might constitute a prosecutable crime, Gibney’s invents the speculation that it would be a crime if Assange happened to knowingly be carrying around the AIDS virus. While the entire premise of Gibney’s prosecution (justification for the Swedish government pursuing Assange) hinged on that one invented possibility, Gibney (and no one else in the 14 years since) never presented a scintilla of evidence such was the actual case. Yet, through master use of the dark arts of cinematographic deception Gibney presents the picture of an AIDs ravaged madman travelling the world seeking to kill through sex.  

With those false premises established, Gibney then virtually lobbies for the criminal punishment of Julian Assange.  He accuses Assange of paranoia for suggesting that the U.S. government has Assange in its sights for the same treatment they were meting out to Chelsea Manning.  Gibney appears to want Assange to take the punishment Manning is taking; all the while calling Assange paranoid for sensing that is exactly the intent of Gibney and his deep state sponsors. 

The utter falsity of Gibney’s “paranoia” claims were more than proven over the next several years as the US ruthlessly pursued Assange through extradition (while its CIA director called for Assange’s assassination).  Completely contrary to the entire premise of Gibney’s invented outrage, Assange would wind up spending more time in confinement than Manning did (without ever being convicted of a single crime). Of course, Gibney helped accomplish this feat by virtue of other state-controlled media parroting Gibney’s deep-state smear for years. 

There is a pattern of Gibney’s over-anxious, impatient attack-dog work on behalf of the deep state.  He did the very same thing concerning the COVID-19 pandemic panic (see Big Brother Storyteller).  A rush to release the definitive government/big pharma COVID 19 narrative, followed by several years of the truth unfolding proving all his major premises to be wrong. He did the same with the Scientologists, tirelessly using his ‘documentary’ on them to lobby for removal of their IRS tax exemption, only for time to tell his invented premises for such draconian measures were fabrications. I have described before the fraud perpetuated and promoted by Larry Wright and Alex Gibney on that subject. (see blog posts between June 6 2017 through June 19 2017 and from July 16 2017 and August 8 2017).

As we shall later see, Gibney did the same with the Russia Hoax. The technique is, when chaos hits be the first to create a “documentary” to “prove” the deep state’s propaganda lines. Make the big lies look like truth through overboard dramatization in the guise of documentary film making. Use the ‘fact’ of the documentary to take designated targets down hard. While the facts begin to arise demonstrating the falsity of your work, dive into the next deep state crisis and rinse and repeat.

To demonstrate the 100% love, devotion and surrender nature of the deep state suck up, consider these facts. If the Manning/Assange leak were as expansive and potentially destructive as Gibney’s film claims, and Gibney is the flag-waving patriot he purports to be, then why did Gibney not investigate how two allegedly mentally ill, sex deviants managed to put the entire free world at risk all on their little lonesomes? That is, how could such alleged supermen as Michael Hayden be capable of such incompetent, treasonous insecurity?  That, Gibney does not investigate. Instead, he only covers deep-state ass. Again, he turns to his master Hayden to explain away the pesky matter of how on earth such a massive breach could occur. Hayden blames reforms imposed in response to the deep state’s colossal incompetence (at best) demonstrated during the events leading to 911. 

Hayden:

“After 9/11 we were accused of not being willing to share information rapidly and facilely enough and we’ve pushed that very far forward. In terms of our focus the default option in a practical sense has been to share it, rather than caging in information and making it more difficult to flow.”

In other words, “any attempt to point out an error on the Intelligence Community will be met with glue meeting rubber. That is, your catching us out on a mistake will result in you being guilty of our next crime.”

Remarkably, not only does Gibney not push back on such haughty arrogance, he lets Hayden shore up alleged CIA infallibility with this:

“When they catch us making a mistake, we admit it. When they have a valid point—even when it’s buried deep below a heap of not-so-valid points—we try to pull it out, brush it off, and address it.”

With that Gibney enters the Orwellian ranks, “war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.”

State-controlled media would of course cloyingly go along for the ride as per usual.

And that of course buried any dissent to Gibney’s propaganda work.  But, at the time of its release many credible sources expressed outrage at Gibney’s servile cowardice. 

The Nation had the following to say of “We Steal Secrets”:

“Unfortunately, just as today’s debate is already being diluted by focusing on Snowden’s psychology and motives, We Steal Secrets gets sidetracked by character issues… The debate that the film has stirred up consists mainly of an exchange of invective between Gibney and Assange, in which Gibney and his allies compare the WikiLeaks creator to a cult leader, while Assange and his allies accuse the director of mounting a smear campaign that benefits the US government. The upshot is that we have gotten neither the film nor the debate we need.”

Award winning researcher and journalist Alexa O’Brien wrote:

“What was Gibney relying on for his costly ‘string of pearls’ reportage, beyond his hackneyed entourage of unexamined glory-boats, bearing witness on the silver screen to their privileged punditry—that is, talking about themselves amongst themselves for their own benefit– certainly not the public’s—or future generations?”

“Gibney’s exercise discovers nothing, and reveals nothing. His tabloid motion graphic is a regurgitation of stock footage, unsubstantiated innuendo, and unexamined allegation.”

“What Gibney has done here is not art; it is a cheap trick.”

And veteran war correspondent Chris Hedges wrote the following:

“Alex Gibney’s new film, “We Steal Secrets,” is about WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. It dutifully peddles the state’s contention that WikiLeaks is not a legitimate publisher and that Bradley Manning, who allegedly passed half a million classified Pentagon and State Department documents to WikiLeaks, is not a legitimate whistle-blower. It interprets acts of conscience and heroism by Assange and Manning as misguided or criminal. It holds up the powerful—who are responsible for the plethora of war crimes Manning and Assange exposed–as, by comparison, trustworthy and reasonable.”

“The film at many points is a trashy exercise in tabloid journalism. Gibney panders to popular culture’s taste for cheap pop psychology and obsession with sex, salacious gossip and trivia.”

Finally, Hedges recognizes the illness underlying the propaganda techniques employed:

“The vast structural sin Assange and Manning fought is ignored. The primacy of personal piety over justice is the inversion of morality. It is the sickness of our age.”

Remarkably, on this rare occasion when Gibney was held to account for his demonstration of the sickness of our age he petulantly defended his tabloid appetites. Unfortunately for him he protested too much and as much as admitted to the truth of what the Nation, O’Brien and Hedges pointed out:

“Just because someone tries to right a wrong or just because somebody tries to hold powerful people to account, it doesn’t mean that person is above the law.” – Alex Gibney

Under that ‘rationale’, Gibney is free to pursue whistleblowers into their prison cells and beyond.  

Given how Gibney approached whistleblowers Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange, what are the odds he’ll take a deep dive into Elon Musk’s sex life?  One thing is certain, Gibney will make the gullible afraid of Mr. Musk, very afraid. 

I have seen up close and personal how deftly Gibney wields the art of cinematography to create realities that do no exist, and to dramatize them to the point of creating revulsion and terror in viewers. For a short lesson on Gibney’s trickery, see what he did to the Scientologists; creating a “guttural, deep emotional fear and terror of something that does not exist”, Going Clear Movie.

Censorship and Propaganda Authorities

Censorship Mind Control as currently practiced by the organs of the Neo Liberal Order is essentially a three-step operation. First, effectively censor dissident voices. Second, if censorship alone cannot silence effective voices then smear them to the point where no one will listen to what they say. Third, which is often run concurrent with 2 and 3, roll out the elite’s chosen narratives as related by authoritative figures; incessantly and everywhere at once. The narrative roll out is all important as it contains the untruths Big Brother wishes to implant in our minds. The “authority” in “authoritative figures” as narrators comes at the privilege of the elite of the Neo Liberal Order; judged by his/her willingness and ability to relay what he or she is told to say and write, and decidedly not by merit. 

For example, the effective author and spokesman for the roll out of the Greatest Hoax of the 21st Century (see Jacob Siegel’s Invasion of the Fact Checkers) was former FBI agent  Clint Watts. That he deserves that sobriquet is not my opinion. It is that of perhaps the most powerful figure in today’s entire Global Intelligence (IC) network, former CIA and NSA head and current director of Censorship Industrial Complex Operations at the Atlantic Council, Michael Hayden.  Watts was the first ‘credentialed’ public promoter of the Russia scare – the crude, but effective return to 1950’ish McCarthyist Red Scare days. Fear all that is “them” (read Russian) as it secretly permeates our precious bodily fluids. Watts was the chosen narrator of the propaganda narrative that we must shut our ears and eyes to any information designated as ‘Russian”.  Of course, the ugly trick was to label anything and everything that didn’t fit the Neo Liberal Order’s dozens of propaganda narratives as “Russian”. Absurd as it was, roughly fifty percent of the U.S. population went along for the ride. The once “progressive” wings of the Mainstream Media (MSM), CNBC/CNN, became literally obsessed with this mind-programming complex front man Watts.  He appeared out of nowhere as the authority on all Russian Hoax matter and was omnipresent in all major government-compliant mainstream media.

What qualified Watts for this job?  Was it that he was part of the failed and discredited pre-911 U.S. government anti-terror apparatus?  Was it his several years of cashing in on the Security Industrial Complex cottage industry that arose after 911 in spite of the fact it was the result of the pre-911 failures of the likes of Watts?  Nothing in his overt, officially listed background would seem to qualify him as a CIA storyteller, least of all on the matter of “Russian Misinformation.” And yet, having been exposed as a rank peddler of the Russia Hoax, Watts just keeps skipping from one high paying propagandist gig after another. Here is the latest, from a recent piece by William A. Jacobson (Founder of the Equal Protection Project) in the NY Post:

In another bad omen, Clint Watts, the FBI special agent and MSNBC contributor who founded the Hamilton 68 dashboard, has been hired by Microsoft to run their disinformation unit during the upcoming election.

If Hamilton 68 isn’t ringing any bells, it was the left-wing think tank notorious for accusing legitimate right-leaning accounts of being Russian bots. It pushed the false narrative of massive Russian influence that was heavily relied upon by many mainstream media outlets and possibly even swayed the 2020 election.

And now this same guy is in charge of monitoring disinformation for Microsoft during the next election. What possibly could go wrong? Everything. 

With Google Jigsaw in firm Censorship Industrial Complex control, (see Mike Benz’ Google Jigsaw’s Plan to Vaccinate Your Mind) most traditional channels of communication have been seized by Big Brother leading up to election day 2024.

So, how does a backbencher security hack become an omnipresent front man for the Censorship Industrial complex? While his official biography doesn’t give a clue, his own words do.  According to him, Watts’ “mentor” in the storytelling craft is the man who wrote the official record of the alleged events leading up to 911. Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower covered up so well for the CIA/FBI Pre-911 negligence (or treason?) that according to Watts the head of the FBI (Robert Muller, who was appointed to mop up the severe FBI/CIA post 911 PR damage) instructed supervisors like Watts to “make sure everyone gets one of these books.”  And Watts eagerly complied, saying he bought “boxes” of the book and distributed them to “all my colleagues.”

Think about it – the largest law enforcement/intelligence agency in the world needs an ‘outside’ author to school its members on the most colossal failure of any government agency in world history?  Why?  Perhaps because the primary, glaring criticism of Wright’s book was his justification of the CIA’s withholding of critical intelligence from the FBI (and the FBI’s own serial fumbles) that clearly prevented law enforcement from foiling the well pre-broadcast 911 catastrophe? Wright’s authoritative answer to why the problems was that the CIA and FBI were overworked and underpaid. As we shall see, Wright is an expert at personalizing societal catastrophes, and elevating villains to hero status in order sell rotten New Liberal Order false narratives.

In either event, the cloying cult member like adoration a head of a major counter terrorism department directs toward a ‘citizen’ author is remarkable. That Counter Terrorism head, Watts, reminisced during a 2022 podcast that he “had the great fortune of being his (Wright’s) driver between airports and auditoriums” during his book promotional tour; and this is where his mentor schooled him on becoming a professional storyteller. Said Watts, Wright “provided much needed guidance to me.” 

Coincidentally, during that same podcast Watts and Wright neatly lay the groundwork justification for the CIA and FBI to turn their outward facing powers inward toward American Citizens.  While Middle Eastern terrorists pour over our Southern Border in unprecedented numbers, Wright and Watts seem to concur that intelligence and law enforcement ought instead be going after Trump supporters. According to Watts, it “is a sure thing” that domestic terrorists have “biological weapons…very much on their minds.”  

Referring to Wright’s epic apologia to Anthony Fauci, Pfizer, NIH, and the Biden Administration (the book Plague Year, so chock full of since-discredited big pharma/government propaganda to warrant its own post), Watts and Wright continue to pimp government  COVID-19 myths that were long-since proven phony by the time of the 2022 podcast.

Thus, Wright laments (with Watts agreeing like a bobbing head doll) that what went wrong with the pandemic and what is most crucially wrong with America today is: “What we didn’t have was the trust we needed to have in our government institutions. We just don’t rate on that scale at all.” 

As this blog has detailed, these ‘love, devotion, and surrender’ (to Big Brother) demands were being made just as the Biden administration was unleashing the largest roll back in civil rights in American history. Wright said Americans are just plain backward as compared to “Angolans” and “Latvians” in their unwillingness to put full faith into government agencies, at the very moment those agencies were betraying Americans like never before.

Did Larry mean we should have dropped to our knees and demonstrated cultlike compliance to the NIH/Mainstream media’s anointed Mr. Science? The guy who was so infallible that to question him was to question science itself?  The guy who is now being exposed by documents as the kingpin of perhaps the most harmful and deadly fraud ever perpetrated on the American people; this guy? See, Fauci Kingpin in Massive Cover up. 

Among other things, here is what Fauci sought to cover up: Fauci Cover-up

As we shall see, that is precisely what Big Brother narrator supreme Lawrence Wright means. 

The Problem with Artificial Intelligence

First, all the recent chatter about Artificial Intelligence is primarily this: Wall Street stock pump hype. That machine churns out much of our economic “news” through mainstream media outlets such as Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and others.  Since last June when the “AI is upon us” campaign began Wall Street’s biggest have profited in the trillions; all the while economic conditions have deteriorated for all working Americans. The mainstream propaganda arms have been concurrently running a campaign that anyone who complains (read 98% of Americans who are being crippled by inflation) are numbskull country bumpkins (with white supremacist leanings – even those of color) who don’t understand the daily stream of cooked, false economic statistics the Biden administration churns out.  Yes, everyone on Wall Street (including those who ‘cover’ it for the Times, Journal, Bloomberg, etc) know that those statistics are as phony as a three dollar bill without any shadow of a doubt.  They couldn’t do their job if they did not.  Their job being to justify the worst economic disaster in human history.  That is a $34,000,000,000 national debt that is increasing by a trillion dollars every one hundred days. 

So how is AI news stock pump hype? The lie is this, AI is not coming.  AI is here and has been here for decades.  It is called collection, analysis and distribution of data through algorithms.  Why America has never been dumber (and ALL available statistics says that it is) is because for the past twenty-five years it has been educated and conditioned by a data system algorithm that measures truth by quantity, that is, popularity.  Group think has ruled the day for the past two decades through implementation of an artificial intelligence that gives people the highest rated (most popular) item they inquire about.  It doesn’t take much understanding of history to recognize how morally and intellectually destructive this is. In science, governance, business, and technology (to name a few important fields) positive, important breakthroughs and advancement are always and only achieved through individual, creative thought that goes diametrically opposed to group think of the day (whether that day be 10,000 b.c. or 2024). One does not increase one’s intelligence by continually basking in self-affirming feedback.  One advances in intelligence and character by exposing oneself to a wide diversity of information, investigating and continually increasing one’s ability to rationally and morally evaluate it to solve problems.

The first major ‘leap’ in artificial intelligence – between 2008 and the present – was to add  a crippling virus to an already sick infected body.  That is, Big Tech stole all your browsing , email and text information to tailor advertising for you and pummels you with it.  This was a scandal for about 6 months a few years back. But, the constantly imposed, digital neo maniacal distraction machine rapidly diverted Americans’ attention off of doing anything about that. 

We are in the midst of the second major ‘leap’ in AI – that of the imposition of the Censorship Industrial Complex upon our minds. That is the entire subject of this blog since March of 2024.  This is the existential battle for free thought and expression we find ourselves in. 

The lastest ’advancement’ in Artificial Intelligence, the intelligentsia will tell you, is that that very destructive reverse learning process described above can now go on automatic pilot and ‘teach’ itself to solve more and more problems.  The “breakthrough” that literally mints new billionaires by the week on Wall Street is that this process is expected to replace all working people.  No lie. Look at any given day on Wall Street. Many dozens of major corporation over the past year have announced mass layoffs attributable to AI.  Each announcement is accompanied by a massive pump up of the given corporations’ stock price.  In the odd event that a company announces more hiring, or even in most cases more investment in production facilities, Wall Street promptly sells its stock sending its overall ‘value’ spiraling downward.  And so the New Liberal Order (whose individual members are 90% funded by stock portfolios auto-inflation) pushes this carrot and stick propaganda routine:  Carrot, go with the flow and you will live in a paradise where no one works and everyone lives in his or her own dream world (ala The Matrix), or resist and be labelled a terrorist and die a violent, degrading death. 

The real “breakthrough” with AI is this.  The ‘greatest’ minds at Google (a CIA/Military Industrial Complex startup) and its brethren at Microsoft, Apple, and Meta have decided they can replicate those minds into an omnipotent, omnipresent autopilot.  You can see it already.

Exhibit one, Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence vehicle. During its roll out early this year, it became apparent the entire system was infected with the woke mind virus carried by its creators. Gemini was unwilling to, even incapable of, generating an image of a white historical figure. It would give you a native American Thomas Jefferson, an Asian George Washington, but not a single white man among the founding fathers. Oh, there was a spate of outrage.  Vivek Ramswamy prematurely crowed how Google was paying the “go woke, go broke” price because its stock price faltered for a couple days. Turns out, it faltered for 7 days total. That is how long it took for our neo maniacal, digital driven distraction culture to forget the flap.  3 months later and the stock is up 33% way above all time highs. It is business as usual.

Exhibit two, Microsoft’s AI vehicle “CoPilot.”   Experiment with it yourself.  First, the Edge search engine defaults to the top ten ‘trending’ news items of the day.  As testimony to paragraph 2 above on enforced group think  – 60-70% of those items are utterly pointless distraction, with little to no value to intelligent thought.  For example, for many months its number one item every day was the latest revealing breast shots of Paige Spiranac – so much for Microsoft’s  ‘anti-sexist’ woke virtue culture. It is always populated with one or more celebrity gossip items. It’s the lowest common denominator trash you can find.  What is more disconcerting is AI’s “improvement” on the remaining 30-40 percent of hard news items.  Rather than allow one to browse the news results  and determine the reason for its popularity yourself, Microsoft now insists on mansplaing* it to you.  And those condescending explanations are always preaching the Neo Liberal (read socialist/communist)  talking points interpretation.  Thus, any flap of the big spending, war mongering, morals degenerating variety is immediately and authoritatively justified as “trending” only because, racist, right wing militia oriented Q anon types are overreacting. Test it yourself. It is mind numbing. 

Only the most immoral, entitled, arrogant elite in world history benefit from this; and even then only in the short run.  The arrogant, privileged elite impose their minds upon the workings of every aspect of society through their now omnipresent digital networks; and there is no human there to suffer any of the negative consequences.  It is “artificial” intelligence – so when the rubber meets the road and this society degenerates into a Mad Max dog-eat-dog scramble for subsistence, there is no one there to hold to account, no one who can be made to have a change of heart, a realization leading to a change of course. No, it is automatic pilot and their ain’t anything anyone can do about it.  Unless, more folks start doing something about it before the rubber does meet the road. 

While Big Tech gleefully predicts an AI run world where no one works, consider this: thousands of studies have demonstrated conclusively that the end of work equals the end of life.  Happiness itself is defined as overcoming obstacles to achieve accomplishment; the very definition of work (read for example Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi).  The only thing worse than a communist worker’s paradise is a Big Brother no work permitted matrix. 

*Mansplaining. Why use “mansplaining”?  Because it is the perfect demonstration of the hypocrisy of the Neo Liberal Order woke mind culture.  That culture insists on systematically degrading women by  replacing them with men pretending to be women. Military spokespeople, College athletes, the White House giving out an award for advancement of women’s rights to a man wearing a dress, and just now Cannes awarding best actress to a biological man. Meanwhile, Western fertility rates hit their lowest ever. Ever think about why?

Incidentally, Noam Chomsky on AI: