Thursday, August 20, 2020
Subverting Reform In 1893!!
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Dogged Determination in the face of Totalitarianism
In 2016, I saw the reality we were up against authoritarianism and totalitarian tactics. But I didn't want to even concede it might prevail. So I focused my energy on fact checking, fighting trolls. I even made phone calls. On election day I worked as a poll worker, despite knowing my town, Brunswick would likely go to Trump. Maryland went to Hillary and the benefit of helping everyone else vote, was I was too tired to watch TV all night. I went to sleep relieved. Woke up alarmed and depressed. Don't want that to happen this year.
TRUMPISM AS A TOTALITARIAN MOVEMENT
The thing is, Trumpism is a totalitarian movement that seeks total control of humans, often globally. Totalitarianism seeks total domination. It is a movement that uses terrorism to control whole populations, starting with a mob and then applying terror to paralyze and inflame followers and enemies alike. One can argue that Trump runs a totalitarian movement.
He certainly is succeeding in terrorizing his enemies. But he also terrorizes his friends. He uses fear of "the other" to mobilize fearful followers and inflame their racism. He is replacing a professionalized military with a militarized police. And he is using legitimate and illegitimate means to grab for totalitarian power.
And he was open about intentions in 2015.
TOTALITARIANISM IS ALIVE
The trouble with both fascism and communisim was they were totalitarian. China and Russia dumped their claimed ideologies, but have kept their use of terrorism as a means of control. In other formerly totalitarianism countries the former totalitarian governments receded into movements, political parties and mafias. Usually some went to jail.
Often the fearless leader dies and becomes a totem for popular movements. In some cases, when the movement was less ideological than fan based, the movement splits between left and right. That happened to Peronism.
Arendt saw totalitarianism as a novel form of government, but seeking total control is the goal of most utopian movements and nearly all tyrants. Perhaps such movements are a spectrum of terror enabled by mass media. In any case fear is dangerous, because as Frank Herbert put it, it's the mind killer. The antidote is awakening the brain.
Trump is a dark, totalitarian wannabe. He's explicitly oriented to Vladimir, and owned by, Putin. The Senate Intel committee released vol 5 of its intel report yesterday, confirming that Konstantin Kilimnik is a Russian operative, his former employee Manafort, also, and Trump a Russian asset. What is going on in Belarus shows we need to march and vote.
Sources and further reading
Friday, August 14, 2020
Tyranny - Madison
Madison defined Tyranny as:
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” - James Madison
This follows the definition John Locke gave for tyranny.
Sources and Related Posts
Thursday, August 13, 2020
Is QAnon an FSB active measure?
Not Crazy - August 13 2020
QAnon are not crazy. They are fascist, totalitarian & subversive. Everything Q outputs is propaganda crafted to indoctrinate their followers, reinforce their fanaticism & divert attention from REAL CRIMES! I believe Q is probably an active measure from GRU/FSB & GOP operatives!!!
Q as Propaganda
Propaganda uses the technique of repetition and amplification to create a band wagon effect. Q gives credibility to rw propaganda and those sucked into it, in order to create a bandwagon more people are sucked into!
History of QAnon
Anonymous had been an alliance between left and right libertarians. They hacked into government agencies who were abusing power. And famously had, allegedly intervened in an election by preventing Karl Rove changing votes in 2012.
A lot of young people were attracted to various news groups, including one called 4 Chan. That group mostly attracted gamers. It became a place of conspiracy theories and grievence. The FSB & GRU saw potential before the 2015 election.
The first step to recruitment was to feed existing conspiracy theorists new or slightly tweekes conspiracy theories, some amptly founded on official misconduct and obtuseness - others manufactured out of whole cloth. Right Wing [RW] conspiracies recruit on grievence. The Trolls built up stories aimed at Obama and the Clinton. 4chan amplified and helped launder planted stories over to the mainstream media thru a network of semi legitimate journalists and talk radio/video stars.
In 2016 they circulated stories loosely based on hacked emails and mostly on psychological profiling creating trafficking allegations against the Clintons. That and other alleged crimes were tied to an imaginary conspiracy. They alleged a Pizza store was putting young women in a non existent basement.
The deep state was born.
This Pizza Gate narrative gained wildfire spread. The FSB/GOP folks behind Pizza gate saw they needed a more credible and plausible sounding source than Cosy Bear so they invented Q, an omniscient source who could lay out "the real issues." Anonymous had been an army of individual hackers who sometimes played vigilante. Q is designed to mobilize a RW army with accusations and slander.
But not liberal.
The Anonymous folks had been resisting efforts to shut down free speech, interfere in elections, etc... for years.
It was a simple thing to hijack résistance on behalf of authoritarianism. The "deep state" is a sufficiently abstract entity that was used Aato tie together conspiracies. It recruited younger people enchanted by a Godlike voice.
People in Q August 15
I'm 100% certain in my gut, but only 90% confident, formally, that Q is an active measure. That it actually is, is not easy to prove, so until someone with more resources me acts, I have to hedge a little.
Today's daily Beast provides an insight.
Some main Q sources, disseminators & associates are:
- Timothy Charles Holmseth
- Field McConnell [Able Danger]
- Chris Hallett and
- Kirk Pendergrass [E Claus]
- Tracy Diaz [see update aug 19]
- Paul Furber
- Jerome Corsi
- Coleman Rogers [Pamphlet Anon]
- Fredrick Brennan
- James Arthur Watkins
- His son, Ron Watkins
The Daily beast article profiles some of these. The abc article that came out later suggested 3 more. All of them exemplify the alternative hypothesis that Q is just a collection of 🦇💩 crazy people. But digging deeper one gets clues.
Since I wrote this 3 names popped up
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/men-qanon/story?id=73046374
All of this strengthens my suspicion that Q is an active measure team of a State Actor [probably Russia] working with RW propagandists/agitators who live here. Somebody is paying for those Q Drops.
Able Danger - 911 Conspiracies
Field McConnell was a Naval Academy graduate back in the 60s, flew fighters, then graduated to flying for the airlines. He was fired from the airlines after refusing psychiatric examination for pushing the [insane] theory that the planes used in 911 were on autopilot.
He subsequently advanced conspiracy theories that Hillary was actually behind those 911 attacks. Once in the conspiracy theories, he pivoted to advancing pedophile conspiracies a few years later. They found this Holmseth character, who supposedly had inside knowledge and associated with eclause to organize Q.
Eclause
Is named after an 1810 passed, but never ratified amendment to the emoluments clause that states:
“If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or retain, any title of nobility or honour, or shall, without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them.”
Pendergrass claims in an article written years ago, that it actually in fact, had been ratified. If that were true, I don't see how he could support Trump, but rightwingers never see themselves subject to the same rules. Eclaus is in trouble with the law right now. They don't seem to be on the up and up.
Russia
Field McConnell's connection to Russia goes back to his 911 truther days. A website from the UK Boasts:
“Field McConnell's expertise has been used by Russia, Malaysia and Germany in explaining the four airliners takendown by the illegal modifications, which he first reported on 10 December, 2006.”
The website is obvious propaganda, but Voice of Russia interviewed him in 2014.
Admittedly these are bread crumbs. But if I can find these on a Sunday morning someone with better resources could crack Q's links to Russian FSB with better resources.
August 19th 2020
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna900531?__twitter_impression=true
Postscript
Thursday, July 30, 2020
He wrote the book
My friends and colleagues, Michael Jackson, Toussaint Tyson, Leroy Nesbitt and Andre Carley working in an an ongoing partnership between GABIDDC and the Black Student Fund, are fighting to deal with COVID19 and the economic disaster. Mike, who lives in DC, literally wrote an instruction manual for dealing with COVID-19 and hazardous waste situations. Our partnership between GABIDDC and the Black Student Fund working as much as possible with other allied organizations are all delivering education and training to students and people returning to the workforce. GABIDDC is teaching programming skills in Python this summer and is hoping to do the same thing this fall.
- Manual:
- https://www.gabiddc.org/workersguidehazards/
- Recent Course:
- SPRING COVID 19 MATH TRAINING GRANT SUCCESS
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
The Evils of Slavery between the Lines
Sometimes a historical document looks dry and innocuous. That is until you study it. My daughter came upon these old market bills recently. They recount things of horror.
Bounties on Indigineous
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I want to keep this simple. This first one establishes bounties for killing American Indigineous people. It is evidence of mass murder.
Evidence of Rape
This second one is a bill of sale for slaves. What makes it particularly ugly is that the slaves are portrayed as "mulattos" and "creoles," which in the language of New Orleans of the time, were "mixed breed", it is possible that the master of the children for sale, could even be the children of the owner. This was a horror.
My Daughter got rid of these things. They are vile. It is a vile memory, and it is sad, some of our ancestors did these things, casualty and with no real consciousness of their evil.
I won't be coming back to this subject, I hope.
Friday, July 17, 2020
When Graffiti is Terrorism
refering to 47 straight days of protests, as follows:
“Each night, lawless anarchists destroy and desecrate property, including the federal courthouse, and attack the brave law enforcement officers protecting it,” Post
Except the record is a bit mixed. Most other witnesses say the protests stayed peaceful until Chad's private army attacked them!
Wolf wrote. “A federal courthouse is a symbol of justice – to attack is to attack America.” Post
For his list of assaults?