#150: False Flag – Russia AND Ukraine

Russian - Ukraine
Ukraine - Russia
2018

“Russia has been accused of false flag operations in Ukraine , including an arson attack on a Hungarian cultural centre in Uzhhorod, Ukraine [2018], which was blamed on Ukrainian nationalists: a Polish neo-nazi testified that he had been paid to launch the attack by a German journalist with links to Russia and far-right German party AfD.[3] On the other hand, Ukraine in 2018 staged the murder of a journalist which they blamed on Russian assassins; it turned out he wasn't dead after all.”

[How long till we clue in that false flags are ubiquitous throughout history by all sides and that false flag considerations and investigations should always have high priority in every “incident”?]

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*https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/False_flag_operation
https://khpg.org/en/1547000188
https://vsquare.org/zakarpattia-western-ukraine-burning-how-russia-sets-fire-to-the-eus-external-border/

#149: Good Man or Bad?

[A 400s BC message to resisters.]

“Some one will say: And are you not ashamed, Socrates, of a course of life which is likely to bring you to an untimely end? To him I may fairly answer: There you are mistaken: a man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong—acting the part of a good man or of a bad.”

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Plato. Apology (p. 19). Kindle Edition.

Socrates ... Ancient Greek: ... c. 470 – 399 BC[3][4]) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought. ... An enigmatic figure, he authored no texts, and is known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers composing after his lifetime, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates

#148: “When the Leader Says So”

It is quite possible that we are descending into an age in which two plus two will make five when the Leader says so.

[sms: As in PHOs - 2021?]

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From George Orwell's, *Review of Power: A New Social Analysis by Bertrand Russell in The Adelphi (January 1939) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), ... known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic.[3] His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
As a writer, Orwell ... is known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). ... In 2008, The Times ranked George Orwell second among "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian"—describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices—is part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "Two Minutes Hate", "Room 101", "memory hole", "Newspeak", "doublethink", "proles", "unperson", and "thoughtcrime",[9][10] as well as providing direct inspiration for the neologism "groupthink". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell

#147: Journalists Worshipping Public Figures | 1814

Charles Williams** (caricaturist - died 1830)

    “Modern idolatry – or - editors and idols”

[sms: Any 2021 PHO déjà vu?]

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*https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Journalists_worshiping_public_figures_Wellcome_V0050166.jpg
Attribution: Journalists worshiping public figures Wellcome V0050166.jpg

A political cartoon showing well-known journalists sitting at desks in a temple containing statues of public figures. "Modern idolatry - editors and idols"
Iconographic Collections
Keywords: Charles Williams; Satire; Cartoon; Journalist
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

**Charles Williams (died 1830) was a British caricaturist, etcher and illustrator. He was chief caricaturist between 1799 and 1815 for the leading British publisher S. W. Fores. He worked in a style similar to James Gillray. In his earlier works, Williams used the pseudonyms Ansell or Argus; with George Cruikshank and others he illustrated The Every-Day Book by William Hone, edited 1825–26. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Williams_(caricaturist)

#146: “Bully Worship”

“It is not merely that at present the rule of naked force obtains almost everywhere. Probably that has always been the case. Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion ...”*

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*George Orwell's Review of Power: A New Social Analysis by Bertrand Russell in The Adelphi (January 1939) https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), ... known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic.[3] His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
As a writer, Orwell ... is known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). ... In 2008, The Times ranked George Orwell second among "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian"—describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices—is part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "Two Minutes Hate", "Room 101", "memory hole", "Newspeak", "doublethink", "proles", "unperson", and "thoughtcrime",[9][10] as well as providing direct inspiration for the neologism "groupthink". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell

#145: To Discern BOTH Good AND Evil

14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern BOTH good AND evil.*

[sms: Is this our 2021 AD problem? we have failed to discern, expose, and prosecute evil?]

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*New Testament | Hebrews 5:14 (Bold and cap emphasis added.)

The New Testament  [ ... (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and the son of God Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christianity. The New Testament's background, the first division of the Christian Bible, is called the Old Testament, which is based primarily upon the Hebrew Bible; together they are regarded as sacred scripture by Christians.[1]
The New Testament is a collection of Christian texts originally written in the Koine Greek language, at different times by various authors. While the Old Testament canon varies somewhat between different Christian denominations, the 27-book canon of the New Testament has been almost universally recognized within Christianity since at least Late Antiquity. Thus, in almost all Christian traditions today, the New Testament consists of 27 books:
   4 canonical gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John)
   The Acts of the Apostles
   14 Pauline epistles
   7 general epistles, and
   The Book of Revelation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament

#144: Conspiracy Fact - Scribes and Pharisees

To murder Jesus
of Nazareth & Lazarus

14 ¶ Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against [Jesus], how they might destroy him.*

3 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him. ...
59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;***

11 And they [the scribes and pharisees] were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.***

20 And they watched him [Jesus], and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.****

10 ¶ But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;
11 Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.*****

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*New Testament | Matthew 12:14
**New Testament | Matthew 26:3-4, 59
***New Testament | Luke 6:11
****New Testament | Luke 20:20
*****New Testament | John 12:10-11

#143: False Flag – Lavon Affair

1954 - Israel

“The Lavon affair was a failed Israeli covert operation, codenamed Operation Susannah, conducted in Egypt in the summer of 1954. As part of the false flag operation,[1] a group of Egyptian Jews were recruited by Israeli military intelligence to plant bombs inside Egyptian-, American-, and British-owned civilian targets: cinemas, libraries, and American educational centers. The bombs were timed to detonate several hours after closing time. The attacks were to be blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian Communists, "unspecified malcontents", or "local nationalists" with the aim of creating a climate of sufficient violence and instability to induce the British government to retain its occupying troops in Egypt's Suez Canal zone.[2] The operation caused no casualties among the population, but cost the lives of four operatives: two cell members who committed suicide after being captured; and two operatives who were tried, convicted, and executed by the Egyptian authorities.

“The operation ultimately became known as the Lavon affair after the Israeli defense minister Pinhas Lavon, who was forced to resign as a consequence of the incident. Before Lavon's resignation, the incident had been euphemistically referred to in Israel as the "Unfortunate Affair" or "The Bad Business" .... Israel publicly denied any involvement in the incident until 2005, when the surviving agents were awarded certificates of appreciation by Israeli President Moshe Katsav.”*[3]

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*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavon_Affair (Bold emphasis added.)
See also: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/False_flag_operation
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/False_flag

#142: “Between Nation [2021] and Nation [1776]”

“I will own, however, that government makes more fools, and more wise men, than nature makes; and the difference between nation and nation, in point of virtue, sagacity, and arms, arises not from the different genius of the people; which, making very small allowances for the difference of climate, would be the same under the same regulations; but from the different genius of their political constitutions: The one, perhaps, making common sense dangerous, and enquiries criminal; cowing the spirits of men, and rebuking the sallies of virtue; while the other, at the same time, encourages the improvement of the understanding, rewards the discovery of truth, and cultivates, as a virtue, the love of liberty and of one's country.”*

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*https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cato%27s_Letters/Letter_13 (Bold emphasis added.)

Cato's Letters were essays by British writersJohn Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, first published from 1720 to 1723 under the pseudonym of Cato (95–46 BC), the implacable foe of Julius Caesar and a famously stalwart champion of republican principles (mos maiorum).

The Letters are considered a seminal work in the tradition of the Commonwealth men. The 144 essays were published originally in the London Journal, later in the British Journal, condemning corruption and lack of morality within the British political system and warning against tyrannical rule and abuse of power.

“The Letters were collected and printed as Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious.[1] A measure of their influence is attested by six editions printed by 1755. A generation later their arguments immensely influenced the ideals of the American Revolution. According to Peter Karsten's Patriot-Heroes in England and America, Cato's Letters were the most common holdings on the bookcases of the founding fathers.[2]

“These letters also provided inspiration and ideals for the American Revolutionary generation. The essays were distributed widely across the Thirteen Colonies, and frequently quoted in newspapers from Boston to Savannah, Georgia.[3] Renowned historian Clinton Rossiter stated "no one can spend any time on the newspapers, library inventories, and pamphlets of colonial America without realizing that Cato's Letters rather than John Locke's Civil Government was the most popular, quotable, esteemed source for political ideas in the colonial period.”[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato%27s_Letters

“John Trenchard (1662 – 17 December 1723) was an English writer and Commonwealthman. Trenchard belonged to the same Dorset family as the Secretary of State Sir John Trenchard. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and became a lawyer. From 1722 until his death Trenchard was also a member of Parliament for Taunton. He died on 17 December 1723.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Trenchard_%28writer%29

“Thomas Gordon (c. 1691–28 July 1750) was a Scottish writer and Commonwealthman. Along with John Trenchard, he published The Independent Whig, which was a weekly periodical. From 1720 to 1723, Trenchard and Gordon wrote a series of 144 essays entitled Cato's Letters, condemning corruption and lack of morality within the British political system and warning against tyranny.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gordon_(writer)

#141: “A Thousand Times Over”

“There must certainly be a vast fund of stupidity in human nature, else men would not be caught as they are, a thousand times over, by the same snare; and while they yet remember their past misfortunes, go on to court and encourage the causes to which they were owing, and which will again produce them.”*

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*https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cato%27s_Letters/Letter_13

Cato's Letters were essays by British writers, John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, first published from 1720 to 1723 under the pseudonym of Cato (95–46 BC), the implacable foe of Julius Caesar and a famously stalwart champion of republican principles (mos maiorum). The Letters are considered a seminal work in the tradition of the Commonwealth men. The 144 essays were published originally in the London Journal, later in the British Journal, condemning corruption and lack of morality within the British political system and warning against tyrannical rule and abuse of power.

“The Letters were collected and printed as Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious.[1] A measure of their influence is attested by six editions printed by 1755. A generation later their arguments immensely influenced the ideals of the American Revolution. According to Peter Karsten's Patriot-Heroes in England and America, Cato's Letters were the most common holdings on the bookcases of the founding fathers.[2]

“These letters also provided inspiration and ideals for the American Revolutionary generation. The essays were distributed widely across the Thirteen Colonies, and frequently quoted in newspapers from Boston to Savannah, Georgia.[3] Renowned historian Clinton Rossiter stated "no one can spend any time on the newspapers, library inventories, and pamphlets of colonial America without realizing that Cato's Letters rather than John Locke's Civil Government was the most popular, quotable, esteemed source for political ideas in the colonial period.”[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato%27s_Letters

“John Trenchard (1662 – 17 December 1723) was an English writer and Commonwealthman. Trenchard belonged to the same Dorset family as the Secretary of State Sir John Trenchard. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and became a lawyer. From 1722 until his death Trenchard was also a member of Parliament for Taunton. He died on 17 December 1723.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Trenchard_%28writer%29

“Thomas Gordon (c. 1691–28 July 1750) was a Scottish writer and Commonwealthman. Along with John Trenchard, he published The Independent Whig, which was a weekly periodical. From 1720 to 1723, Trenchard and Gordon wrote a series of 144 essays entitled Cato's Letters, condemning corruption and lack of morality within the British political system and warning against tyranny.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gordon_(writer)

#140: Puppetry, Power, & Bawdy Politics

Joseph Ferdinand Keppler* (1889)

The Bosses of the Senate
by Joseph Keppler [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons**
First published in Puck 1889.

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*Joseph Ferdinand Keppler (1 February 1838 Vienna – 19 February 1894 New York) … an Austrian-born American cartoonist and caricaturist, who greatly influenced the growth of satirical cartooning in the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ferdinand_Keppler

**http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Bosses_of_the_Senate_by_Joseph_Keppler.jpg

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#139: Money Woes

Polybius (ca 203-120 BC)
… at Carthage, nothing that results in profit is regarded as disgraceful.*

Cicero (106-43 BC)
Endless money forms the sinews of war.**

Horace (65-8 BC)
Money madness is the basic disease of Rome.***  

Petronius (ca 27-66 AD)
What power has law where only money rules?****

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*Will Durant, The Story of Civilization: Part III, Caesar and Christ, p. 414
**Philippics, Oration V, sc. 5
***Will Durant, The Story of Civilization: Part III, Caesar and Christ, p. 245
**** Satyricon, Cap. XIV

#138: If Sinners Entice Thee

10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

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Old Testament | Proverbs 1:10-19

#137: Conspiracy Fact – Project MK-Ultra

Project MKUltra

“Project MKUltra (or MK-Ultra) is the code name given to a program of experiments on human subjects that were designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), some of which were illegal. ... Experiments on humans were intended to develop procedures and identify drugs such as LSD to be used in interrogations in order to weaken the individual and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. The project was organized through the Office of Scientific Intelligence of the CIA and coordinated with the United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories .... Other code names for drug-related experiments were Project Bluebird and Project Artichoke. ...

“The operation was officially sanctioned in 1953, reduced in scope in 1964 and further curtailed in 1967. It was officially halted in 1973[??]. The program also engaged in illegal activities, ... including the use of U.S. and Canadian citizens as its unwitting test subjects, which led to controversy regarding its legitimacy. ... MKUltra used numerous methods to manipulate its subjects' mental states and brain functions. Techniques included the covert administration of high doses of psychoactive drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals, electroshocks, ... hypnosis, ... sensory deprivation, isolation, and verbal and sexual abuse, in addition to other forms of torture. ...

“The scope of Project MKUltra was broad, with activities carried out under the guise of research at more than 80 institutions, including colleges and universities, hospitals, prisons, and pharmaceutical companies. ... The CIA operated using front organizations, although sometimes top officials at these institutions were aware of the CIA's involvement. ...

“Project MKUltra was first brought to public attention in 1975 by the Church Committee of the United States Congress and Gerald Ford's United States President's Commission on CIA activities within the United States (also known as the Rockefeller Commission).

“Investigative efforts were hampered by CIA Director Richard Helms's order that all MKUltra files be destroyed in 1973; the Church Committee and Rockefeller Commission investigations relied on the sworn testimony of direct participants and on the relatively small number of documents that survived Helms's destruction order. ... In 1977, a Freedom of Information Act request uncovered a cache of 20,000 documents relating to project MKUltra which led to Senate hearings later that year. ... Some surviving information regarding MKUltra was declassified in July 2001. In December 2018, declassified documents included a letter to an unidentified doctor discussing work on six dogs made to run, turn and stop via remote control and brain implants.”*

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*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra (Bold emphasis added.)

#136: False Flag – Agent Provocateurs*

(*Frequent form of false flag used to commit or instigate violence in order to blame others).

“An agent provocateur (French for "inciting agent") is a person who commits or who acts to entice another person to commit an illegal or rash act or falsely implicate them in partaking in an illegal act, so as to ruin the reputation or entice legal action against the target or a group they belong to or are perceived to belong to. They may target any group, such as a peaceful protest or demonstration, a union, a political party or a company.

“In jurisdictions in which conspiracy is a serious crime in itself, it can be sufficient for the agent provocateur to entrap the target into discussing and planning an illegal act. It is not necessary for the illegal act to be carried out or even prepared.

“Prevention of infiltration by agents provocateurs is part of the duty of demonstration marshals, also called stewards, deployed by organizers of large or controversial assemblies. ...

“While the practice is worldwide anciently, modern undercover operations were scaled up in France by Eugène François Vidocq in the early 19th century, and already included use of unlawful tactics against opponents. Later in the same century the police targets included union activists who came to fear plain-clothed policemen (agent de police in French). Hence, the French agent provocateur spread, just as is, to English and German. In accordance with French grammar, the plural form of the term is agents provocateurs.”**

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**https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_provocateur (Bold emphasis added.)

#135: “The Art of Conspiracy”

“In general, the art of the conspiracy is not so much to create movements as to capture existing movements, often innocuous and even admirable in themselves, and turn them to a subversive purpose.”

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Webster, Nesta H.. Secret Societies And Subversive Movements (p. 241). Kindle Edition.

Nesta Helen Webster (24 August 1876 – 16 May 1960) was an English far-right[?] conspiracy ;theorist [analyst], who revived theories [researched facts] about the Illuminati. ... She claimed that the secret society's members were occultists, plotting communist world domination, through a Jewish cabal, the Masons and Jesuits. ... She blamed the group for events including the French Revolution, 1848 Revolution, the First World War, and the Bolshevik Revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesta_Helen_Webster

#134: “No institution so ruinous for men as money”

“There is no institution so ruinous for men as money; money sacks cities, money drives men from their homes! Money by its teaching perverts men’s good minds so that they take to evil actions! Money has shown men how to practise villainy, and taught them impiousness in every action.”

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Sophocles, Creon in Antigone, line 295, Loeb Classical Library, Volume 21, p. 31

Sophocles (... c. 497/6 – winter 406/5 BC) ... is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus; and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote over 120 plays,[3] but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus.[4] For almost fifty years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens which took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. He competed in thirty competitions, won twenty-four, and was never judged lower than second place. ... // The most famous tragedies of Sophocles feature Oedipus and Antigone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophocles

#133: “So Little about Wisdom and Truth”

“Men of Athens, I honour and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy, exhorting any one whom I meet and saying to him after my manner: You, my friend,—a citizen of the great and mighty and wise city of Athens,—are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul, which you never regard or heed at all? ... I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person. But if any one says that this is not my teaching, he is speaking an untruth. Wherefore, O men of Athens, I say to you, do as Anytus bids or not as Anytus bids, and either acquit me or not; but whichever you do, understand that I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.”

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Plato. Apology (pp. 21-22). . Kindle Edition. (Bold emphasis added.)

#132: The Ruin of a Country

“Princes and republics who wish to maintain themselves free from corruption must above all things preserve the purity of all religious observances, and treat them with proper reverence; for there is no greater indication of the ruin of a country than to see religion contemned.”

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Machiavelli, Niccolo. The Complete Works of Niccolo Machiavelli: Thoughts of a Statesman, The Prince, The History of Florence, The Art of War, Diplomatic Missions, and Discources ... (6 Books With Active Table of Contents) (Kindle Locations 20538-20540). Kindle Edition.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli ... 3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was an Italian diplomat, philosopher, politician, historian and writer who lived during the Renaissance. He is best known for The Prince (Il Principe), written about 1513.[5] He has often been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science.[6] For many years he served as a senior official in the Florentine Republic with responsibilities in diplomatic and military affairs. He wrote comedies, carnival songs, and poetry. His personal correspondence is of high importance to historians and scholars.[7] He worked as secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512, when the Medici were out of power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli

For this blogger's view about ideas of expediency attributable to Machiavelli see: https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2014/02/niccolo-mockiavelli.html and consider his words as quoted in Voices: #099 and repeated here:
Machiavelli: “I come now to the last branch of my charge: that I teach princes villainy, and how to enslave. If any man will read over my book … with impartiality and ordinary charity, he will easily perceive that it is not my intention to recommend that government or those men there described to the world, much less to teach men how to trample upon good men, and all that is sacred and venerable upon earth, laws, religion, honesty, and what not. If I have been a little too punctual in describing these monsters in all their lineaments and colours, I hope mankind will know them, the better to avoid them, my treatise being both a satire against them, and a true character of them …” , from a Letter to a Friend. From Burnham, James. The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom (p. 6). Lume Books. Kindle Edition

#131: “Deceitful Meat”

1 WHEN thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.^[*]
3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.**

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*[Including appetites for power, gain, and glory]
**Old Testament | Proverbs 23:1-3

#130: Conspiracy Fact - Project MKNAOMI

MKNAOMI - USA

“MKNAOMI was the code name for a joint Department of Defense/CIA research program lasting from the 1950s through the 1970s. [Undoubtedly, renamed and continued thereafter, in the manner of many science-based crimes and conspiracies???-sms.] Unclassified information about the MKNAOMI program and the related Special Operations Division is scarce. It is generally reported to be a successor to the MKULTRA project focusing on biological projects including biological warfare agents—specifically, to store materials that could either incapacitate or kill a test subject and to develop devices for the diffusion of such materials....

“During its first twenty years, the CIA engaged in projects designed to increase U.S. biological and chemical warfare capabilities. Project MKNAOMI was initiated to provide the CIA with a covert support base to meet its top-secret operational requirements. The goal was to have a robust arsenal of lethal and incapacitating materials within the CIA's Technical Services Division (TSD) . This would enable the TSD to serve as a center for supplying biological and chemical materials.[citation needed] Surveillance, testing, upgrading and the evaluation of special materials and items were provided by MKNAOMI to ensure that no defects or unwanted contingencies emerged during operational conditions. The U.S. Army's Special Operations Command (SOC) was assigned to assist the CIA with development, testing and maintenance procedures for the biological agents and delivery systems (1952). Both the CIA and SOC modified guns to fire special darts coated with biological agents and poisonous pills. The darts could incapacitate guard dogs, allowing agents to infiltrate the area that the dogs were guarding, and would then be used to awaken the dogs upon exiting the facility. In addition, the SOC was designated to research the potential to use biological agents against other animals and crops.[citation needed]

“A 1967 CIA memo which was uncovered by the Church Committee contained evidence of at least three covert techniques for attacking and poisoning crops that had been tested under field conditions. On November 25, 1969, President Richard Nixon banned any military use of biological weapons and Project MKNAOMI was dissolved [?? or just renamed?]. On February 14, 1970, a presidential order outlawed all stockpiles of bacteriological weapons and nonliving toxins. However, despite the presidential order, a CIA scientist was able to acquire an estimated 11 grams of deadly shellfish toxin from SOC personnel at Fort Detrick. The toxin was stored in a CIA laboratory where it remained undetected for over five years.”*

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*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKNAOMI (Bold Emphasis added.)

#129: False Flag – Pogrom Against Greeks by Turkey, 1955

“The Istanbul pogrom, also known as the Istanbul riots or September events (... "Events of 6–7 September"), comprises organized mob attacks directed primarily at Istanbul's Greek minority on 6–7 September 1955. The pogrom was orchestrated by the governing Democratic Party in Turkey in cooperation with various security organizations (Tactical Mobilisation Group, Counter-Guerrilla and National Security Service). ... The events were triggered by the fake news that the day before, Greeks had bombed the Turkish consulate in Thessaloniki, Macedonia — the house where Mustafa Kemal Atatürk had been born in 1881. ... A bomb planted by a Turkish usher at the consulate, who was later arrested and confessed, incited the events. The Turkish press, conveying the news in Turkey, was silent about the arrest and instead insinuated that Greeks had set off the bomb.[6]

“A Turkish mob, most of whom had been trucked into the city in advance, assaulted Istanbul's Greek community for nine hours. Although the mob did not explicitly call for Greeks to be killed, over a dozen people died during or after the attacks as a result of beatings and arson. Armenians and Jews were also harmed.[7] The police remained mostly ineffective, and the violence continued until the government declared martial law in İstanbul and called in the army to put down the riots.[8]

“The pogrom greatly accelerated emigration of ethnic Greeks from Turkey, and the Istanbul region in particular. The Greek population of Turkey declined from 119,822 in 1927,[9] to about 7,000 in 1978.[citation needed] In Istanbul alone, the Greek speaking population decreased from 65,108 to 49,081 between 1955 and 1960.[9] The 2008 figures released by the Turkish Foreign Ministry placed the number of Turkish citizens of Greek descent at 3,000–4,000;[10] while according to the Human Rights Watch (2006) their number was estimated to be 2,500.”*

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*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_pogrom

#128: More on “Shock Testing”

“In the shock testing of an aircraft airframe, the recoil impulse of firing a gun mounted on that airframe causes shock waves in that structure which tell aviation engineers the conditions under which parts of the airplane or the whole airplane or its wings will start to vibrate or flutter like a guitar string, a flute reed, or a tuning fork, and disintegrate or fall apart in flight.

“Economic engineers achieve the same result in studying the behavior of the economy and the consumer public by carefully selecting a staple commodity such as beef, coffee, gasoline, or sugar, and then causing a sudden change or shock in its price or availability, thus kicking everybody's budget and buying habits out of shape. They then observe the shock waves which result by monitoring the changes in advertising, prices, and sales of that and other commodities.

“The objective of such studies is to acquire the know-how to set the public economy into a predictable state of motion or change, even a controlled self-destructive state of motion which will convince the public that certain "expert" people should take control of the money system and reestablish security (rather than liberty and justice) for all. When the subject citizens are rendered unable to control their financial affairs, they, of course, become totally enslaved, a source of cheap labor.”*

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*Cooper, Milton William. Behold! a Pale Horse, by William Cooper: Reprint recomposed, illustrated & annotated for coherence & clarity (Public Cache) (p. 59). Create Space. Kindle Edition. (Bold emphasis added.)

“Milton William "Bill" Cooper  (May 6, 1943 – November 5, 2001) was an American conspiracy theorist [analyst?], radio broadcaster, and author known for his 1991 book Behold a Pale Horse, in which he warned of multiple global conspiracies, some involving extraterrestrial life. ... Cooper also described HIV/AIDS as a man-made disease used to target blacks, Hispanics, and homosexuals, and that a cure was made before it was implemented.[4] He has been described as a "militia theoretician". ... // On November 5, 2001, Apache County sheriff's deputies attempted to arrest Cooper at his Eagar, Arizona home on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and endangerment stemming from disputes with local residents. After an exchange of gunfire during which Cooper shot one of the deputies in the head, Cooper was fatally shot. Federal authorities reported that Cooper had spent years evading execution of the 1998 arrest warrant, and according to a spokesman for the Marshals Service, he vowed that "he would not be taken alive".” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_William_Cooper

Re: moral shock testing, see:

**Stanley Milgram experiments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
See also: https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/04/real-life-milgram-spe.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-global-stanley-milgram-experiment.html

#127: “Shock Testing”

“To use this method of airframe shock testing^[*] in economic engineering, the prices of commodities are shocked, and the public consumer reaction is monitored. The resulting echoes of the economic shock are interpreted theoretically by computers and the psycho-economic structure of the economy is thus discovered. It is by this process that partial differential and difference matrices are discovered that define the family household and make possible its evaluation as an economic industry (dissipative consumer structure). Then the response of the household to future shocks can be predicted and manipulated, and society becomes a well-regulated animal with its reins under the control of a sophisticated computer-regulated social energy bookkeeping system. “Eventually every individual element of the structure comes under computer control through a knowledge of personal preferences, such knowledge guaranteed by computer association of consumer preferences (universal product code — UPC — zebra-stripe pricing codes on packages) with identified consumers (identified via association with the use of a credit card and later a permanent “tatooed” body number [WC emphasis] invisible under normal ambient illumination.…”**

(Also remember the “shock testing” of Stanley Milgram's 1960s experiments***?)

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*“In this process, a projectile is fired from an airframe on the ground and the impulse of the recoil is monitored by vibration transducers connected to the airframe and wired to chart recorders. By studying the echoes or reflections of the recoil impulse in the airframe, it is possible to discover critical vibrations in the structure of the airframe which either vibrations of the engine or aeolian vibrations of the wings, or a combination of the two, might reinforce resulting in a resonant self-destruction of the airframe in flight as an aircraft. From the standpoint of engineering, this means that the strengths and weaknesses of the structure of the airframe in terms of vibrational energy can be discovered and manipulated.” Cooper, Milton William. Behold! a Pale Horse, by William Cooper: Reprint recomposed, illustrated & annotated for coherence & clarity (Public Cache) (p. 51). Create Space. Kindle Edition. (Bold emphasis added.)

**Ibid., (p. 51).  (Bold emphasis added.)

“Milton William "Bill" Cooper (May 6, 1943 – November 5, 2001) was an American conspiracy theorist [analyst?], radio broadcaster, and author known for his 1991 book Behold a Pale Horse, in which he warned of multiple global conspiracies, some involving extraterrestrial life. ... Cooper also described HIV/AIDS as a man-made disease used to target blacks, Hispanics, and homosexuals, and that a cure was made before it was implemented.[4] He has been described as a "militia theoretician". ...
// On November 5, 2001, Apache County sheriff's deputies attempted to arrest Cooper at his Eagar, Arizona home on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and endangerment stemming from disputes with local residents. After an exchange of gunfire during which Cooper shot one of the deputies in the head, Cooper was fatally shot. Federal authorities reported that Cooper had spent years evading execution of the 1998 arrest warrant, and according to a spokesman for the Marshals Service, he vowed that "he would not be taken alive".” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_William_Cooper

***Stanley Milgram experiments: Stanley Milgram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
See also: https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/04/real-life-milgram-spe.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-global-stanley-milgram-experiment.html

#126: “Something Behind All This”?

(Published 1924 AD)

“What indeed should we say of the bacteriologist, who, after killing innumerable patients with a particular serum, were to advertise it as an unqualified success? Should we not brand such a man as an unscrupulous charlatan or at best as a dangerous visionary? If, moreover, we were to find that large bands of agents backed by unlimited funds, were engaged in pressing his remedy upon the public and carefully avoiding all reference to the fatalities it had caused, should we not further conclude that there was "something behind all this"--some powerful company "running" the concern with a view to advancing its own private interests?”* [Any déjà vu?]

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*Webster, Nesta H.. Secret Societies And Subversive Movements (pp. 231-232). Kindle Edition. (Bold emphasis added.)

Nesta Helen Webster (24 August 1876 – 16 May 1960) was an English far-right[?] conspiracy theorist [analyst], who revived theories [researched facts] about the Illuminati. ... She claimed that the secret society's members were occultists, plotting communist world domination, through a Jewish cabal, the Masons and Jesuits. ... She blamed the group for events including the French Revolution, 1848 Revolution, the First World War, and the Bolshevik Revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesta_Helen_Webster

#125: Without the Consent of Those Who Are To Obey

“And what the chief citizens ordain, without procuring the consent of the greater number, is that likewise a violence?” “There is no question of it,” answered Pericles; “and in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.”*

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*Xenophon. The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates (p. 8). Kindle Edition.

“Pericles (... c. 495 – 429 BC) was a Greek statesman and general of Athens during its golden age. Pericles was prominent and influential in Athenian politics, particularly between the Greco-Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War, and was acclaimed by Thucydides, a contemporary historian, as "the first citizen of Athens".[1] He turned the Delian League into an Athenian empire and led his countrymen during the first two years of the Peloponnesian War. The period during which he led Athens, roughly from 461 to 429 BC, is sometimes known as the "Age of Pericles", but the period thus denoted can include times as early as the Persian Wars or as late as the following century.
Pericles promoted the arts and literature, and it is principally through his efforts that Athens acquired the reputation of being the educational and cultural center of the ancient Greek world. He started an ambitious project that generated most of the surviving structures on the Acropolis, including the Parthenon. This project beautified and protected the city, exhibited its glory and gave work to its people.[2] Pericles also fostered Athenian democracy to such an extent that critics call him a populist.[3][4] Pericles was descended, through his mother, from the powerful and historically-influential Alcmaeonid family. He, along with several members of his family, succumbed to the Plague of Athens in 429 BC, which weakened the city-state during a protracted conflict with Sparta.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericles

#124: Shewing Himself That He is God

3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.*

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*New Testament | 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4

#123: Conspiracy Fact – Operation Paperclip

Paperclip - USA

“Operation Paperclip was a secret US intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from former Nazi Germany to the United States for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959. Conducted by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), it was largely carried out by special agents of the US Army's Counterintelligence Corps (CIC). Many of these personnel were former members, and some were former leaders, of the Nazi Party.[1][2]

“The primary purpose for Operation Paperclip was U.S. military advantage in the Soviet–American Cold War, and the Space Race. In a comparable operation, the Soviet Union relocated more than 2,200 German specialists—a total of more than 6,000 people including family members—with Operation Osoaviakhim during one night on October 22, 1946.[3]”*

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*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip (Bold emphasis added.)

#122: False Flag - 27th G8 Summit 2001

The 27th G8 summit was held in Genoa, Italy, on 20–22 July 2001 and is remembered as the peak of the worldwide antiglobalization movement, as well as for human rights crimes against demonstrators. ...

Numerous police officers and local and national officials [were] ordered to stand trial in connection with the event. In one trial, 28 police officials [stood] trial on charges related to the two night raids, charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, use of excessive force and planting evidence. In other proceedings, 45 state officials, including prison guards, police and medics, [were] tried for abusing detainees in their custody at Bolzaneto who were arrested during the raid. Detainees reported being spat at, verbally and physically humiliated, and threatened with rape.[13]

Police conducted nighttime raids upon centers housing protesters and campsites, most notably the attacks on the Diaz-Pascoli and Diaz-Pertini schools shortly after midnight on July 21. These were being used as sleeping quarters, and had also been set up as centers for those providing media, medical, and legal support work. ...

Ninety-three people were arrested during the raids. In May, 2003, Judge Anna Ivaldi concluded that they had put up no resistance whatsoever to the police and all charges were dropped against them. During the inquiry, Pietro Troiani, the deputy police chief in Genoa, admitted to being involved in the planting of Molotov cocktails in order to justify the Diaz School raids, as well as faking the stabbing of a police officer to frame activists.[15]

In 2005, twenty-nine police officers were indicted for grievous bodily harm, planting evidence and wrongful arrest during a night-time raid on the Diaz School. The Molotov cocktails were reported in January 2007, during the trial of the policemen, to have disappeared.[16] ...

Twenty-five of the 27 original defendants were finally convicted. In statements during the trial, the prosecution cited "the terrible injuries inflicted on defenceless people, the premeditation, the covered faces, the falsification of statements by the 93 anti-globalisation protesters, the lies about their alleged resistance [to arrest]."*[19]

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*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27th_G8_summit#Protests (Bold emphasis added.)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320842939_G8_protests_Genoa_2001
https://www.cadtm.org/Genoa-the-fifteenth-anniversary-of
See also; Hamilton, John. False Flags, State Secrets, Government Deceptions: A Short History of the Modern Era (p. 239-243). Kindle Edition.

#121: The New Persecutors

(Though GKC spoke these words in relation of Eugenics inn 1922, could they as aptly apply to forced, experimental vaccination in 2021?)

“I am not frightened of the word "persecution" when it is attributed to the churches; nor is it in the least as a term of reproach that I attribute it to the men of science. It is as a term of legal fact. If it means the imposition by the police of a widely disputed theory, incapable of final proof—then our priests are not now persecuting, but our doctors are. The imposition of such dogmas constitutes a State Church—in an older and stronger sense than any that can be applied to any supernatural Church to-day. There are still places where the religious minority is forbidden to assemble or to teach in this way or that; and yet more where it is excluded from this or that public post. But I cannot now recall any place where it is compelled by the criminal law to go through the rite of the official religion [vaccination?]. Even the Young Turks did not insist on all Macedonians being circumcised.”*

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*Eugenics and Other Evils by G.K. Chesterton. Cassell and Company, Limited London, New York, Toronto & Melbourne, 1922 at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25308/25308-h/25308-h.htm (Bold emphasis added.)

Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer,[2] philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox".[3] Time magazine observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out."[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton