Crisis Update: Of Fear And War, By Proxy And Imagined

Government gaslighting and how to extinguish it

• “The news” revolves around Cold War spectres, nukes and domino theories

• Globalists conjure spectres that howl incoherently from the past

• Factitious: artificially created or developed

• Govs place citizens in “strategic ambiguity” – policies give rise to unrest

• Surveillance monitors how people react – while laws stifle complaint

• Hate speech laws are readied to silence dissent

• An apocalyptic game, that purposely inverts tradition and superstition

• Behavioural modification gaslights people in pursuit of managed outcomes

• Officials are no better than the criminal protagonist of the 1944 film of that name

“What all this tells us is that, concerning the apocalyptic game now being played against us all, we actually don’t know what’s going on, however knowing we may be.”
- Mark Crispin Miller

See also:
WW3 Or State Terror - You Decide - Are governments still shooting the people? (MC Feb 02, 2024)
Rant In Age Of Narrative - Military exposed in butt clench of public discourse (MC Jan 31, 2023)
The Great Reset As Subversion - A KGB defector warned us decades ago (MC Jan 02, 2022)
The Never Normal is Forever - UK Gov aims to Embed Control through 'New Identities' (MC Sep 07, 2021)
Spies, Dupes and Charities - Rivals for Power, Part 4. Norman Dodd and the tax-exempt foundations (MC Aug 07, 2021)

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Mar 29, 2024

They told us war would be hybrid, and waged by means of deception. It is the hour to listen to warnings and not to write off the actuality that we are under attack; to admit we failed to consider that the adversary may be different this time; conflict does not resemble wars of the past; the target is humanity.

The domestic civilian population has become the principal target, to be attacked psychologically, undermining cohesion — neutering the public spirit that rallied citizens to the defence of mutual interest.

Our perception is fractured; reality disjointed. The news becomes less coherent. The would-be masters of One World are driven and desperate.

The story spinners are reaching back into the Cold War. Most people who attended school in the past four decades escaped the nuclear drill of attack preparedness. But the masters recall its prolonged, unsettling effect, like the groaning of the ground before a quake.

That explains the timing of Oppenheimer, a blast of a film out of left field and surprising winner of the Oscars.

See Oppenheimer Film Pulls Focus On Nuclear Annihilation - Mutually Assured Destruction makes a belated come back (MC Jul 21, 2023)

News media gives the effect of hallucination. You glance at the screen half-expecting politicians of another era, perhaps Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. It's possible. Joe Biden said he'd recently spoken to former French president Francois Mitterrand (d. 1996).

Television invites us to view the world through Biden’s eyes, as his memories flicker and fuse into a montage of Cold War and Jim Crow in which suppressed anger flares and snarls - as he grips a cornet of his favourite ice cream.

Thierry Meyssan of VoltaireNet, has written that modern propaganda aims not to paint narratives but to disorient: to prevent logical thought; to appeal only on the level of conflicting and disruptive emotions. Dislocated Biden serves this purpose.

At the same time, they need novel threats. Like their novel coronavirus these are based more on fear than reality.

Covid, they might as well admit, was no more deadly than the flu. Of course, some people died. The surveillance state is not threatening if you have nothing to hide. Of course, some people do - but not you.

There is a reason one of the British government’s first actions under Covid, in May 2020, was to establish the Joint Biosecurity Centre, in charge of enforcing lockdowns, movement restrictions and quarantine rules. It shared intelligence staff with Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). MPs criticised it for secrecy, and for failing to publish its analysis, arguments or data.

Evil eye

In Gaza, the drones buzz and whine; cameras swoop, unsuspected. With nowhere to shelter, Palestinians point phones at the sky, webcam to webcam, the pornography of death.

Live-streamed war is a message to billions who observe from a distance: stay in line; support the right side; be careful what you Tweet; watch that meme!

Israel carves Gaza into zones, telling residents to move from one grid to the next, then bombs them anyway.

At the Oscars, a director made the “mistake” of stepping out of his grid, speaking of the “occupation” and “dehumanisation” of Palestinians. Jonathan Glazer was immediately denounced and “letter bombed” by a thousand celebrities. [1]

Enemy citizen

For those whose lives are less glittering, there are shadow bans, censorship laws and Twitter’s “freedom of speech but not reach” — aka, no-one can hear you scream.

The War on Terror was based for decades on lies. Its purpose was, in a gradual way but with harmful effect, to paint every citizen as the enemy, or at least suspect.

The first stage was “see something, say something” to justify the state using x-ray to pat down the public. The second stage escalated into Stasi-style surveillance, to sow doubt and divide those who share the same culture and land. The third, is inversion: flooding the state with undocumented migrants who are exempt from the rules just imposed. The inverted leprechaun.

Trained to doubt others, the citizen doubts himself, and makes extra effort to show loyalty to the authorities, even if they act against his own interests.

Fear and punishment

The masters are playing with us. They instil fear and then punish us if we complain; they create an environment of insecurity and uncertainty, then monitor how we react.

"Strategic ambiguity" — officials misrepresenting their intent — is a technique that great powers use against foreign adversaries but this time imposed at home. It is anything but representative government.

Some cities defund the police, or divert officers into policing Facebook. Toronto Police Service advises residents to leave car keys for thieves at their doorway "to prevent the possibility of being attacked in your home."

The U.S. southern border is open, street violence is rising despite official denials — New Yorkers report that they don't feel safe walking outside — but citizens should be careful what they say about crime or migration. And as president Biden discovered, don’t use the word “illegal.”

Factitious disorder

Canada’s Online Harms Act C-63 defines hatred as "detestation and vilification that is stronger than disdain and dislike.” This affects freedom to complain about government policies — open or covert — and classes "protected" by speech laws.

Consider not only street crime but also daylight robbery by bankers; Defund the Police which is a policy associated with Black Lives Matter and funded by corporations; the same corporations closing closing stores because of theft; the sexual propagandising of children, with branches of the United Nations broaching the open promotion of paedophilia. [2]

As with the “safe and effective” France is to punish criticism of public health measures if your words dissuade another person from taking a therapy. It is a small step to criminalising questioning a pandemic.

Conversely, even if you avoid criticising the "other" you may commit an offence in defence of yourself: the definition of family, as the Irish just upheld in a referendum; access rights of fathers; the privacy and modesty of sports women; the rights of lesbians to their own social company; or manual workers defending their jobs against those without legal residence as the employees of Tyson Foods are doing.

In each case the surveillance state may define your "exclusivity" as exclusionary, oppositional or hateful. Politicians are already claiming they feel unsafe. [3]

Tweaking the light

The term gaslighting comes from a 1938 play and 1944 film, Gaslight, in which a husband manipulates his wife into thinking she is mentally ill.

He searches for her jewels around the house and, when she finds them missing, says she’s imagining things. The lights flicker and floors creak as he moves around but he says that’s her delusion and simply confirms she’s gone mad.

Psychologists have used it to describe when one person causes another to question their memory, their present perception and their sanity.

Gaslighting is jargon for the government’s use of behavioural modification in pursuit of managed outcomes.