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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nIn this meticulously researched and faultlessly evidenced Inauguration Day essay, former US diplomat AJC Boone paints an alarming picture of serial Establishment mendacity. The illumination she throws upon the diabolically spreading darkness of the United States system of government is well timed indeed.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n A couple of decades ago in a Moscow flat I was watching nothing-in-particular on television and happened upon a nature documentary. Something imported, I supposed, with a Russian voice-over. The footage showed some sea-birds rising and falling hypnotically on the swells of a cold grey sea. Once in a while, the birds were disturbed by an amorphous bulge just below the waterline. They expressed their annoyance with a peevish peck or two, assuming that would suffice to drive the nuisance away, which it seemed to do.\u00a0 Then the camera cut to what was going on under-water: enormous killer whales were rising from the deep, but too slowly to do anything more than just break the surface. The narrator said that the predators, during the off-season, had \u201clost the knack\u201d (\u043d\u0430\u0432\u044b\u043a) for doing what they meant to do. But within a very short span of time, the killer whales found their form. The camera showed them eventually rocketing through the surface and swallowing the sea-birds whole, in one fearsome, wide-mouthed chomp. One bird after another.<\/p>\n It was obscene. And it was \u2014 I realised then, which is why I kept it all these years \u2014 a metaphor, for the fatal naivete of the underinformed.<\/p>\n People come to the Slog, I am guessing, for insight and foresight, and also for something one might invent on the spot and call \u201cbacksight\u201d \u2014 not in the Orwellian sense of Newspeak, but in an Orwellian cognizance that even our immediate past is being fashioned into Narratives in order to manipulate the Public and set the stage for further manipulation. The re-writes are often used along with the conman\u2019s trick of \u201ctalking past the sale\u201d \u2014 if an event can be quickly (mis)characterised, packaged and sold, then the public\u2019s attention can be speedily diverted to the next subject. And the original mischaracterisation need only be repeated ad nauseam. It need not be based in fact, well-argued, nor persuasive, and not apologised for when proven false. Because no one will be paying attention by then. The Great Russian Collusion Hoax was perpetrated this way, as were, among others, the \u201ckids-in-cages\u201d border crisis, UkraineGate, the George Floyd beatification, the Trump-played-golf-during-COVID lie, and the double-hoax that a) Joe Biden won a presidential election with b) no evidence of fraud.<\/p>\n The false stories accrue as a sediment of public opinion. They ease the public towards the desired conclusions and opinions.<\/p>\n A major and terrifying phony Narrative is being crafted for us currently about \u201cthe events of\u201d January 6th. Before getting to the phony version, it might be worth recounting what people experienced on the day itself.<\/p>\n WHAT HAPPENED ON JANUARY 6TH<\/strong><\/p>\n This\u00a0Dave Ruben podcast<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is a conversation establishing events of the 6th of January at the pro-Trump rally, including the President\u2019s speech at the Ellipse and at the US Capitol (2.5 km away), in the words of people who were actually there. The speakers strike me as authoritative because they are by no means natural Trump fans, but people who drifted away from the Left because they valued truth-telling more than the gratification of social solidarity.<\/p>\n Ms Borysenko\u2019s account (confirming among other things that a post-Trump-speech gathering and picnicking in front of the Capitol Building was on the day\u2019s planned schedule of events) meshes entirely with that of a friend of mine, a 50-something lady-who-lunches, ex-financier and straightforward supporter of Anglo-American values.\u00a0 Here\u2019s her note to me from the 6 January rally (she sent photos as well, of people dressed up in outlandish red-white-and-blue clothing, \u201cMAGA\u201d hats, but also in other cases religious garb):<\/p>\n \u201cDear Amy, Most people were polite, lovely, patient and enthusiastic. D.C. was completely empty except for Trump supporters.<\/p>\n I have provided some images below to show the diversity in the crowd including cowboys, young male Latinos, [Catholic] priests and Orthodox Jews. There were also loads of Chinese who were patriotic and anti-CCP.<\/p>\n Whole families were there with grandmothers and infants. There were people in wheelchairs.<\/p>\n Everyone was on the lookout for Antifa masquerading as MAGA\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Here is a video made by rally attendees<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and posted to Parler before Parler was vapourised. It was reposted for the purposes of mockery (picked randomly from \u201cover 1000\u201d) by a pro-Democratic Party \u201cinfluencer\u201d with 130K followers. She added the descriptive of \u201cterrorism\u201d. You don\u2019t have to watch the whole thing, or even any of it at all, but if you do watch it, please ask yourself what is conceivably \u201cterroristic\u201d in this video of middle Americans expressing a peculiarly American sort of patriotism, charged by the worry that the days of freedom to do so are numbered. (Reduce your volume.)<\/p>\n There is also footage \u2014\u00a0multiple short videos\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u2014 of Capitol police opening barricades or doors and waving demonstrators into the Capitol building or of people walking through the Capitol building like tourists, not marauders, abiding by the velvet rope barriers.<\/p>\n There is also indication that agents-provocateurs were active in the crowd\u00a0including this from a Japanese journalist\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/strong>who considers the circumstances of the killing of one of the protesters by a plainclothes Capitol sniper .<\/p>\n Already one of the individuals (John Earle Sullivan, member of BLM-affiliate \u201cInsurgence USA\u201d) described by the Japanese journalist as egging on the crowd and \u201cagitating\u201d for violence, in the Bolshevik terminology, was seen to be working with a CNN journalist to give his eyewitness account of events (which leads to serious questions about who exactly is cooperating with agents-provocateurs and crafting the Narrative, and to whose orders). Sullivan is now\u00a0the subject of a criminal complaint.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Sullivan and his comrades conceivably \u201cagitated\u201d hapless or even feisty Trump supporters into harm\u2019s way. According to multiple videos, the person who shot and killed Ashli Babbit looked like these plainclothes gunmen (the tweeter, Ari Melber, is die-hard anti-Trump):<\/p>\n A former Buzzfeed (\u201cnews\u201d outlet that customarily runs hit-pieces for the Establishment) employee is also\u00a0among those arrested for participating in trespassing in the Capitol<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n A short piece of footage<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0was posted by former NYC Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik on Twitter that looks to his professional eye like Antifa agents-provocateurs coordinating mayhem at the Capitol.<\/p>\n Infiltration by anti-Trump activists would be consistent with investigative reporting by\u00a0James O\u2019Keefe\/Project Veritas from 2016<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 showing Democrat Party activists working to provoke violence among Trump-supporters at rallies, in order to create supporting \u201cevidence\u201d to Hillary\u2019s characterisation of Trump\u2019s \u201cdeplorable\u201d base as dangerous brown-shirts.<\/p>\n Finally,\u00a0here is President Trump\u2019s speech<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, which you can judge for yourselves. Legal scholars like John Turley and Robert Barnes submit that there is nothing that amounts to \u201cincitement\u201d by legal standards in the speech, and moreover that its content falls under Constitutional\/First Amendment protections. Trump himself seemed completely blindsided by this latest extreme ratcheting up of the political screws against him. He made more than one appeal for peaceful behaviour after the breach of the Capitol Building but he also maintains (with justice, you will see, if you watch the speech) \u201c\u2026they\u2019ve analysed by speech in my words and my final paragraph, my final sentence and everybody just thought it was totally appropriate.\u201d (On \u201cFace The Nation,\u201d 12 January 2021.)<\/p>\n THE MANUFACTURE OF A PHONY NARRATIVE ABOUT JANUARY 6TH<\/strong><\/p>\n Unfortunately, the fact that an irreproachable telephone call between Donald Trump and Ukraine\u2019s President Zelensky led, nonetheless, to an idiotic impeachment-flavoured farce a year ago establishes that even actual video footage and actual transcripts of events showing what happened on January 6th are no match for the coordinated falsification of history. Nancy Pelosi and the usual suspects immediately blamed the President for having \u201cincited an insurrection\u201d with his speech (though others have pointed out that people inside the Capitol building had gotten ahead of the script, by \u201cbreaking into\u201d the building while Trump was still giving his speech, at a distance of 2.5 km away). The accusation that \u201cincitement to insurrection\u201d had occurred was instantly taken up among all the usual (Trump-hating) suspects.<\/p>\n Speed was in this case a tactical mistake, because it strains credulity that circumstances of a big messy event would be clear so soon \u2014 clarity feels like foreknowledge. Moreover, cries of \u201ccoup!\u201d along with a simultaneous huge social media purge looks suspiciously similar to another infamous false flag, the Reichstag Fire of 1933, launched by the Nazis to discredit their Communist adversaries in the (kangaroo-)court-of-public-opinion.<\/p>\n Even a quick confirmation with Wikipedia shows the Reichstag and the Capitol share several key ingredients: 1) blocking public discussion and access to dissenting accounts, 2) flooding the newspapers and airwaves with fake news, and 3) hysterical charges that a \u201ccoup\u201d had been the objective:<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026The day after the fire, at Hitler\u2019s request, President Hindenburg signed the Reichstag Fire Decree into law by using Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution.<\/p>\n 1) The Reichstag Fire Decree suspended most civil liberties in Germany, including habeas corpus, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, the right of free association and public assembly, and the secrecy of the post and telephone. These rights were not reinstated during Nazi reign. [The effect of this is the same as the effect of the social media purges: to try to block public chatter, or in other words to kill the public\u2019s ability to \u201ccrowdsource the truth.\u201d]<\/p>\n 2) The decree was used by the Nazis to ban publications not considered \u201cfriendly\u201d to the Nazi cause. Despite the fact that Marinus van der Lubbe claimed to have acted alone in the Reichstag fire, Hitler, after having obtained his emergency powers, announced that it was the start of a Communist plot to take over Germany.<\/p>\n 3) Nazi Party newspapers then published this fabricated \u201cnews\u201d. [See the entirety of US and UK mainstream press corps, instantly carrying the story (with po-faced sanctimony) that \u201cinsurrection by Trump supporters storming the Capitol after Trump\u2019s incitement\u201d was what happened on January 6th.]<\/p>\n 4) This sent the German population into a panic and isolated the Communists further among the civilians; additionally, thousands of Communists were imprisoned in the days following the fire (including leaders of the Communist Party of Germany) on the charge that the Party [read: Trump and his supporters]\u00a0 was preparing to stage a putsch\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n Of course as terrifying as the comparison looks now \u2014 the artificial manipulation of public opinion through selective stifling of news and information sources and promulgation of false narratives should terrify all those who believe themselves to be living in a democracy \u2014 even worse is the way in which a staged event could be exploited as a pretext to falsely stigmatise and punish \u201cenemies\u201d, starting with Donald Trump with yet another phony impeachment.<\/p>\n Incidentally, I was feeling quite clever for hitting upon the Reichstag comparison (bold and obvious as it was) just a day or two after the grotesque Beltway reaction started to take shape. But it turned out that not only had our own John Ward already made the comparison in a throwaway reference in an essay, but educator Dennis Prager also had devoted an entire column to it, likewise lawyer Alan Dershowitz, director of Jihad Watch Robert Spencer, and Times of Israel essayist James Russell.<\/p>\n Also, it appears that already on 8th January, Washington-based Russian economist Andrey Illarionov, attached to the (supposedly libertarian) Cato Institute had published a blog in a private capacity on events, including the dodgy election, that had led to January 6th, and what it all meant looking ahead. He entitled his blog entry\u00a0\u201cThe Burning of the Reichstag, 2021<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 In a shocking and despicable parallel with 1933\u2019s original event, Illarionov was within days sacked by Cato for his excellent-if-non-Beltway take, shamed by the press which (falsely) labelled him a \u201cfriend of Putin\u201d, and smeared as a Russian agent through social media.<\/p>\n As for the authorised Narrative, the Atlantic magazine, a reliable delivery-vehicle of the Establishment\u2019s every fake-news Narrative du jour, produced its version at lightning speed. Within hours, it published \u201cFive Lessons From the Coup Attempt [sic]: The Sun Is Up. Impeach and Convict. What can we take away from yesterday\u2019s coup attempt?\u201d<\/p>\n Here is the dramatic black& white photo used by the Atlantic, tear-gas substituting for the smoke from an actual fire:<\/p>\n (Looks vaguely familiar, nicht wahr?)<\/p>\n Numerous corporate entities have issued statements reiterating the official Swamp version of events in order to condemn them. Deutschebank and Signatory Bank both used the official phony \u201cincitement\u201d line to publicly proclaim an end to their business relationships with Trump.<\/p>\n Here is Amazon mouthing the need to justify unilaterally ending alternative social media platform Parler (notice the Pulitzer-winning deployment of BS with the words \u201cchillingly real\u201d, rather than merely \u201creal\u201d, or the more truthful \u201cunreal\u201d):<\/p>\n The story continues to be embellished, even though the\u00a0Department of Justice\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/strong>had to walk back its initial egregious report that there had been a plot to kidnap and murder legislators. (This is the same DoJ that has to date not found any notable misbehaviour directed against President Trump, even as John Brennan\u2019s hand-written notes have come to light confirming the Russian collusion story was an invention designed to distract from\u00a0Hillary Clinton\u2019s massive email-related security breaches<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Hillary Clinton herself\u00a0actually pretends to believe<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Trump and Putin were coordinating the 6 January putsch.<\/p>\n
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