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Extremely niche post maybe, but if you're anti-civ and noided (parapolitics) this may interest you.
Do you remember Alexander Reid Ross? After publishing a book via AK Press in 2017 he solidified himself as being the anarchist authority on fascism, but then it turned a lot of his research was bunk and ended up being retracted by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Pretty embarrassing. His whole deal is basically saying both leftwing and right-wing extremism are the same (it's awful.)
I was reading a post by all-things-are-nothing-to-me who wrote that ARR was also responsible for labeling the environmental group ITS as "nazis" - fashjacketing them:
So this guy has a history of falsely equating left and rightwing extremism. Wonder who benefits from that analysis? The media class and government agencies looking to label forest defenders as "terrorists." And yes, ARR has worked for some pretty spooky organizations, like the National Contagion Research Institute, that researches "political extremism" and has ex-cops and former Department of Homeland Security agents on its board:
He also gives talks at NATO events:
And if all that isn't weird enough, he is also a writer at Bellingcat. Bellingcat receives funding from known CIA cutout the National Endowment for Democracy:
But even if you don't find that detail sus, you may remember that last year a Bellingcat journalist used facial recognition technology to snitch out and help arrest Daniela Klette, a Red Army Faction / Baader-Meinhof Member:
Using spy-tech to help arrest an aging communist is kind of a weird thing for a leftist "open source" truth-seeking newspaper to do?
All in all Alexander Reid Ross is colleagues with federal agents, cops, works for mysteriously funded conservative think tanks and newspapers that help arrest communists on their free time. And his research focuses on equating green anarchists and communists with fascists. Strange resume for an anarchist!
Hi just a note to let you guys know this is a new side blog of mine about The Beatles (and Beatles adjacent stuff). I may follow you from a blog called @amerkindream which isn't terribly active now, but I'd reblog here. Meandering overlong intro message under the cut if you are so inclined------>
TL;DR Version- This is a Beatles fan blog, but she's a little different from the other girls. I will be posting Beatles conspiracy/parapolitical material sometimes, but I'm not going to be distasteful about it, or throw around any wild baseless theories, or peddle misinformation like the stuff you might see on Beatlestok.
As such, it seems quite likely that these networks were connected by that decade. What's more, this gives Maxwell's 1989 party an air of a meeting of the Five Families of the Pedophocracy, with Captain Bob representing the Tory wing (and likely KGB and Mossad as well) and Trump and Bolan representing the Cohn wing. What I seem to be describing here is a network of what the great David Teacher dubbed "rogue agents," intelligence assets from the US, UK, Israel, and the Soviet Union, among others, who came to a realization during the waning years of the Cold War that their continued power and influence in the new era would depend on pulling their resources. Access to damning evidence on an international VIP pedophile ring would certainly go a long way towards comprising their respective governments to be sure. And perhaps a new stage of this plot was launched around the time of that 1989 party. Ghislaine Maxwell attended this party and would continue to have dealings with Trump even after her father's death in 1991. By 1993, she appears to have made contact with Epstein. By the end of the decade, she is alleged to have recruited girls for him at Mar-a-Lago.
Recluse at VISUP (2019). Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Following conpisracy theories is hard work. I'm too lazy and not too smart. At the store where I work one day, pre-Covid, I spotted a guy wearing a Q-themed t-shirt and sporting a side arm. It is very unusual to see people open carry guns in the store. Something about that image stick out. With Q I developed an allergy to conspiracy theory and have avoided them.
The important thing about Trump and his administration's own-play on Epstein is a crack in the invicibilty shield Trumps wields. Parapolitics is real, but the field is arrayed with deep rabbit holes.
I am uncertain how to manage my allergic responses.
What do you think our lords and masters at the CIA are up to with all this talk of "disclosure" (usually from "ex"-CIA people), and possibly relatedly, the veritable mainstreaming of the idea of the deep state?
I really don't know. My impression is that the CIA is a bit like the academic humanities: the personnel these days are naive, neurotic true believers, not like the more hard-bitten and cunning ironists who'd founded the institution. (This just a feeling I get from what I see in the news, not the product of any insider information!) The deep state exists, but its rather crude and in the event ineffectual attempts to stop Trump, though it did derail aspects of his first administration, indicate that its mainstreaming has come in a moment of weakness—or maybe the mainstreaming is evidence of its weakness. Weak or not, the parapolitics term for what an institution does when it "discloses" on itself is "limited hangout." Theoretically, the disclosure helps the institution by rebuilding its credit with its constituents and its publics, as well as suggesting that what the institution damaged only the institution can repair. This can backfire, however—see again the academic humanities.
"[Think tanks] exert definite and even considerable influence on the process of elaborating and making political decisions. It is connected with the fact that ... leaders of such centers have as a rule personal close links with the [government]. Second, the centers are created in order to prepare and adopt the major political decisions in the shade, far from public. Third, such analytical and expert centers really accumulate the best intellectual forces of the country and fourth, not always but rather often, the centers were founded simply to provide jobs to [retired] politicians.
1999, Yuri Pivovarov, 'Power Institutions in Post-Communist Russia: Official Forms and Hidden Transcripts,' p. 18 (NATO library). The influence of Russian think tanks on the executive body seems to be many times less than is the case in the United States, but the reasons for their existence seem to be the same.
a list of possible posts to make in the future:
the difference between politics and what I call ‘parapolitics’, and why it’s important
a brief list of pro-life arguments, and the principles behind them (aka: why “it’s a parasite!” doesn’t work as an argument)
possibly a brief look at the history of American conservative anticommunism? and how that affects, well, the everything
an oral history (i was there, Gandalf) of the Tea Party, how it got American conservativism to the point where Trump could get elected, and what we can learn from it
Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, why people listen to them (hint: word salad has a lot to do with it), and what you can do about it; ditto Fox News, though I’m less of an expert there
“Pokemon/Harry Potter/Disney is evil!” - and where this comes from
seriously I’m going to write the parapolitics thing