Economics and Empires: National interests, religions and the media (3)

One of the cornerstones of an empire is the control over the people.

Control in this context means two things:

1. Leading the people to want and think what is favourable to the empire and not for the people themselves.

2. Knowing who has unfavourable opinions or sentiments of the empire and using this knowledge to act accordingly.

With this article I want to explain in detail which elements are being used by the American empire to control its own people as well as the people of the world that are living in dependent countries.

Here we come to the first problem. I wrote “American empire”. This is not an indictment against the American people but their government and its associated academic, media and industrial enablers. The American people and the American nation are being (ab)used similarly as the victims of American foreign policy.

The following text is going to explain these circumstances in detail.

Preconditions

To get a better understanding of this article I would recommend that you read the following “Economics and Empires” articles in advance.

Economics and Empires 1: The big picture

Economics and Empires 2: Endgame Germany

Manipulation of the people

There are many ways to manipulate the people to get them to support the most heinous government acts. The elites of this world have developed impressive approaches and theories that are manifold tested and confirmed in history. The example of Nazi Germany, although well-worn, is a classic example of how a nation was influenced to want and think exactly what the elites wanted.

But how does such manipulation work?

There are certain books available to learn about the process, but I will give you a small and very simplified breakdown of how to bring people very quickly to “Sieg-Heil”-ing around. Why am I doing this? To make you aware of the attempts that are being constantly conducted to convince you to think and want what is being told to you. You will be able, at least in the essentials, to recognize such attempts. Keep in mind, these attempts are being done by two bodies of the imperial control. Media and Religion.

So, let’s start with a standard technique within a democratic nation:

1. Identify the enemy. The best examples are unpopular minorities. Show how they are responsible for the problems of the majority. This is essentially how one defines the “Out-group”, the enemy.

2. Win an election with solutions for the abovementioned problems. Legal solutions. Create the “In-group” out of people that support you and that you can build up against the “Out-group”. You need slogans, logos, advertising, songs, greetings, etc. You need to create a brand that everyone wants to be part of, except the members of the “Out-group”.

3. When you are elected, fulfil your promises in legal ways. Keep on promoting the interests of the “In-group”.

4. Identify the “Out-groups” that are working against the people and the state. Highlight it whenever you can. It needs to be omnipresent. But stay on legal ground!

5. Staff all the functions step-by-step with loyal people. (Of course, members of the “In-group”.) Leaders of the police, army, media, religions, industry and justice. If there are people that don’t want to go, stay still on legal ground. Win them over. Promise whatever is needed to get them on board.

6. Highlight democracy. Discredit the rule of law that keeps democracy away from doing its job. Which keeps democracy away from protecting its people and their interests. What do we need these laws for if they are only protecting the “enemy” “Out-groups”, identified in point 1 and point 4? Say it loud. Announce that you will no longer tolerate such criminal rules and you will take the power back to the people. Disregarding inconvenient laws is the first illegal move you make.

7. You now need to carefully observe the reaction of the public. Especially the reaction of the groups you are depending on. As mentioned above, judges, military, police, administration etc. If they follow, proceed. If they are still not loyal enough and keep protesting, go back to point 5 and repeat this loop until these groups are following you. Always keep in mind, promote the guidelines to be part of the “In-group” and highlight the crimes of the “Out-group”.

8. Make sure that everyone follows you, even if you, for the sake of the people and democracy, are disregarding the law. Watch carefully if everyone follows you in such an environment. Everyone will watch their colleagues, neighbours, family members, etc. to see whether they will also obey. Everyone will be afraid to be the first one to call the breach of law. If you have reached this step, continue as follows. Arrest the leader of the opposition or of some of the "Out-groups", that you blame for all problems. Arrest him/them for an obvious reason. Someone drove too fast with a car, who doesn’t even have a car and a driving license? Perfect! You show everyone that you do it because you CAN do it.

9. Now you can start with the re-structuring of your country. Arrest as many people as possible from the "Out-group" or the target minority group. Arrest judges that don’t follow. Keep breaking the law and let officials confirm that all laws are being kept, even though it is obvious that they are not. Keep using the phrases that you found already in step one, when you identified the enemies. But most importantly, take all media under control and close private media companies that do not comply.

10. Now you are using your domestic popularity to show all the people how foreign powers are trying to discredit you and use it as evidence that they are trying to subdue your nation. The members of the “Out-group” are, of course, foreign agents out to kill or enslave the people. Broadcast it with all your media power. Rule.

These are some basic steps. Of course, it is seldom that one finds an implementation of all steps in a single instance. It isn’t needed any longer since this phase is long completed in the current setup of states worldwide. The American empire did it all over the world and guess who was the “Out-group”? Yes, the communists. But it is still being used to conduct regime change operations in certain countries. (Ukraine, anyone?)

As mentioned above already, the most famous instance is the rise of a certain German (Austrian) leader between the first and the second world war. Nevertheless, to manipulate the masses, you can pick single points as well and adopt them to the current circumstances.

Essentially, as already stated, most of the aforementioned steps have already been completed in all western countries. There is only a constant loop of the last few steps to adapt to the present situation and circumstances. I won’t go deeper into that here, but you can now take the ten steps and compare them to media reports and try to find instances where you are being manipulated. It is a fun game. 😊

National interests

Later, we will learn about sovereign and not-sovereign states. But I need to explain some points in advance as groundwork for the following chapters. First, I will put it very simply. Sovereign nations have only their own national interests. Colonialized/dependent nations have two blocks in their national interest sheet:

1. If asked by the colonial master, do everything that you are asked, even if it would destroy your nation and her people. The best recent example is Germany’s ongoing industrial suicide. Breaking with Russia was almost fatal. When Scholz visited the White House on 3 March 2023, he metaphorically received a rope and a pistol. His task is to hang himself and Germany and, while he is hanging and dying, to take the pistol and shoot himself to make sure the suicide is a success. Of course, this metaphor applies to breaking with China as well.

2. The second block in the national interest sheet is every kind of national interest a nation could have that would not harm any interest of the colonial master. Germany, for example, had succeeded in establishing political and financial control over the continent through the European Union. This was the most successful item in its national interest sheet, until now. Block Two is now on a tipping point. We’ll see where it will lead.

Sovereign nations only have Block Two in their national interest sheet. They only care about their own national interests and do not consider the interests of other States. Of course, they CAN take into consideration the interest of another state IF it serves its own interests in the long term. I will line out here a few incomplete requirements for a national interest sheet of a sovereign nation:

1. The interests should secure the prosperity of its own people.

2. They should provide to the domestic and international security of its own people.

3. They should provide that the nation never becomes dependent on foreign powers in terms of trade, resources, commodities, food and military equipment. Moreover, the country should never become dependent on foreign currencies or financial systems, particularly those controlled by a single nation.

4. They should provide that the neighbours either would be turned into friendly nations or to destabilize or eliminate them in case they pose a threat to the first three points.

5. They should provide long term planning, especially in demographic questions. The nation can only survive long term, if the demography is controlled by the own nation and not by foreign powers. A high birth rate should be encouraged. Low emigration should be a target. High qualified immigration should be encouraged. Immigrants should go through a strict integration program on which certain goals must be achieved.

6. All attempts of foreign powers to pull the youth of its country away should be aggressively countered.

7. Foreign investments and companies are welcome if they produce in the country. Only trade companies should be strictly controlled.

8. Foreign NGOs should be either labelled as foreign agents or banned outright.

9. Foreign media should be either banned, if they work against the aforementioned points or labelled as foreign agents and their work should be labeled as propaganda, with an explanation attached as to which particular goal this agent is pursuing with a particular propaganda piece in order to raise awareness of how the foreign manipulation and intervention is working.

10. If all points are being followed, the youth should have work to produce what is needed in the own country, instead of existing only to import and consume foreign (Western) goods. Young men should be able to earn enough money to raise a family and children. Women need to have the sovereign choice whether they want to work and give the children to the Kindergarten or to stay home and raise the children. In case they stay at home, the young family should have no financial disadvantages.

There are countries out there that are successfully implementing such an agenda. Unfortunately, very few. Usually, countries that are trying to implement such an agenda got bombed by the US in the past. This is currently changing. Due to the emergence of an alternative to the American-centric empire, ever more nations will develop their own national interests. In fact, they should be able to drop Block One of the national interest sheet.

Now we come to the medium that is being used to deliver information to you, so, that you will be ready and prepared to receive it. Religions and Media.

Religions

Before I get into the topic of religion, I’d like to offer a clarification. I’m a strong believer in orthodox Christianity. I strongly believe in God and Jesus Christ. I also value and respect all religions, be they Christianity, Islamism, Judaism, and Buddhism, just to name a few. All major religions believe in God, of course. The names might differ but that doesn’t matter here.

Nevertheless, there is a problem. I want to explain it by a couple of analogies from the present time. The first example is the “colour revolution”. The West likes to trigger protests in other countries, often under legitimate reasons. As soon as the target government starts to crumble or a civil war starts, the West injects its own prepared leaders to “hijack” the protests and the colour revolution. Suddenly the demands are not less poverty or similar legitimate demands, but for American troops on its soil, or for being anti-Russian and/or joining NATO or the EU, etc.

The second example is COVID. I do believe that there were some dangerous COVID strains at the beginning. My father almost died in such a case. But I also believe that every country worldwide “hijacked” the “measures” against COVID to implement its own political goals and to “mass test some new technologies”. Crazies like the WEF crowd only waited for ANY virus to implement some of their dreams, lined out in the book “The Great Reset”. Again, a “hijacking” of a legitimate event for political interests. For a better understanding, compare the behaviours of politicians and the media during COVID to my ten initial rules to manipulate the masses. You will find startling coincidences.

Now, back to religions. I believe that Jesus Christ lived on earth and died as a martyr, as the Bible says. Whether he performed actual miracles or whether metaphors were described, I don’t know. I also believe that, consequently, two things happened.

1. Believers wrote down what they thought they experienced and started the early stages of Christianity.

2. Rulers saw an opportunity, when Christianity started to spread in the following decades and centuries, and hijacked it to control and influence the people.

The same goes for Judaism earlier and Islam later. And all other religions and peoples (Greeks, Romans, Scandinavians, Indians, etc.) as well. In fact, religions were “The Media” or the source of nearly all knowledge almost from the beginning of humankind until the 18^th or 19^th century.

Now you have a legitimate reason to believe and to do good deeds. Most of what is being taught is good. I’ve read the Bible, the Quran and the Tanakh. Basically, all are very similar and, in fact, are by and large preaching good deeds. And in most cases these religions are being used for good. But there is this 1% (made up number) of a religion’s dogma that is being used for “inception”, to put some political idea in your head under cover of religious dogma that the rulers want you to believe. Unfortunately, over the history of religions, these 1% led to disastrous wars and crimes against humanity.

We can say that religions and churches are being “hijacked” as well by the elites to influence and control the people. Especially, topics are being communicated that the politicians couldn’t openly communicate. The collective Church (of all religions) can do that instead of the politicians under the guise of some religious phrases (deception).

This can go both ways. The priests, rabbis, imams, etc. communicate the mood of the people to their superiors. As it is in the military, especially the US military, the higher you are in the command structure the more of a politician you are. When the information reaches some high echelons, then you can be sure that they are in direct communication with the rulers (governments/agencies) and communicate everything of importance. Not only in the West, but worldwide. In every country. Yes, Russia as well.

Now, my explanations were valid for millennia. With the emergence of printed media (books, newspapers, pamphlets, etc.), things began to slowly change. If we assume that the first newspapers emerged in the 17^th century, then we could also assume that the transition of the fount of knowledge from the Church to the Media took a few centuries. In the meanwhile, both went hand in hand. I’ll come later to the Media.

Due to the emergence of digital media and social media, the usefulness of religions died down. They are no longer needed by the empire. Sovereign nations need religions for the aforementioned valid and legitimate reasons. The US Empire uses the religions and churches of its colonies to achieve its goals, which is a sign that the target nation is not sovereign and has no or weak national interests.

Russia, for example, will need the control over its religions (churches, mosques, etc.) further on. We see all the efforts employed by the West the split up the Russian Orthodox church all over the world, to create “independent” local branches. The most recent example is the newly branched Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The Russian state and its agencies exercised influence at home and abroad with the help of the Orthodox church. Hence, the efforts by the West to diminish this influence. So isn’t this a bad thing that the Russians are doing, influencing its people? Well, as I said, elites everywhere have been doing it since the beginning of humankind. The question is whether you are doing it for good or bad purposes. Good: Promoting the national interests. Bad: Promoting foreign interests or creating a tyranny or dictatorship.

Manipulation is one of the cornerstones of a sovereign nation. A nation can manipulate its citizens for achieving national interests, which are outlined above in the corresponding chapter, or it can manipulate them for bad or evil purposes. The fact is, EVERY nation is using manifold vectors of influence over its people to achieve national interests. The question is always, whether these vectors are used for a nation’s own national interest, or, if you are a dependent (colony) nation, on behalf of the master nation.

Hence, we see the death of Christianity and churches in the West. They are no longer needed for influence and above all they are preaching or are based on family values. Family values are contradictory to short-term macro-economic considerations where everyone needs to work around the clock to achieve growth in the international competition. Mothers and families are poison for growth in the short-term macro-economic considerations. Hence, the woke movement. I will explain this in detail in my last major article that is planned for BMA.

Of course, having NO mothers at all is far more poisonous for the macro economy, if you consider the long-term perspective. But few politicians care about long term considerations these days.  if you need growth today and you are maybe only elected for a few years anyway, why bother thinking about or investing in the future if you need to be re-elected now? Hence, you mobilize everything possible, mothers, children, etc., to work for the growth. Women that don’t get pregnant are even better. You don’t have several months or years of maternity leave or reduced working hours. You have the full working force of the women during your term of office.

As I said, Christianity is dead in the West. In fact, it is the enemy of the state. And all other religions with it. The Catholic church is still powerful even though its local branches losing ever more members and it is about to turn woke. Even so, billions of people still listen to the Catholic church through some channels.

You wouldn’t want to kill a medium that still has billions of followers if you have full control over it. It currently looks to me that there is an attempt to transform the Catholic church so that the people don’t leave it en mass. Therefore, the classic family values would need to be replaced by something that better serves the empire. Whether the empire will succeed in inserting its control to flip the catholic church? It remains to be seen.

If we flip this, then we could say that most religions describe such a behaviour as evil. Maybe someone somewhere is evil? Who knows?

You still see, religions still have a massive influence on the people. In some countries more and in some (West) less. But still, everyone tries to use it further on for mass manipulation, some in good purpose and some in bad.

Judaism
Jews serve a special function for the elites. Now, I don’t want to get too much into the discussion about whether Judaism is only a religion or an ethnicity as well. It is not relevant to my explanations. What is indeed relevant, is, that from my point of view, Jews have been used by the rulers in a horrible way to achieve their political goals for at least the last several centuries.

Before I start to explain, I want to highlight something. If you are looking for a Jewish conspiracy, for Rothschild banks or for a Jewish plan to rule the world, then you will be disappointed. I absolutely do not support or believe in such conspiracies. In fact, I see the Jews as victims of the elites and I will explain why.

For many centuries or even a millennium, the Jews have been persecuted, killed, and worse. Most of you will have the genocide by the Nazis in mind. But the Holocaust was by no means the only crime conducted against Jews over the centuries. I won’t describe them here. You can educate yourself.  (See, for example, B. Tuchman's A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, which details many instances of savage pogroms against the Jews, Christian nobility's favorite scapegoats, —Editor).

Next, consider the following two arguments:

1. They are often in public positions where they are controlling finances, gold, etc.
   They are often in positions that allow them to manipulate the masses.

Hence, they are to be blamed when things go wrong, right? Since they are in public positions, which draws the anger of the people from time to time.

I’d say no.

It’s my theory that the true rulers of a country or an empire do not believe in God (by whatever name), but only in Power. In some countries, it is the government; in some, foreign powers; in some, a group of oligarchs. But whoever believes not in god but in power to control the people with all means, for example, using religion, can’t be a believer. These people are, by logical deduction, atheists, but a better term for them might be power-worshippers. They might claim to be part of the local dominant church, for the people to see. But they DO NOT believe.

Hence, they can’t be Jews, either. They may be part of the Jewish church, yes. But they are not believers.

Next, there are maybe some 15 million Jews worldwide. Some of them are in very public positions, especially in Hollywood and the banking/finance sector. The true oligarchs, however, are not in public. You will never know them. Or see them. Or read about them.

I think there is a very small group of power-worshippers within the Jewish community. But I can assure you that in relative numbers the same number of power-worshippers is represented in Christianity and Islam as well. Even in Buddhism.

Hence, the rulers put Jews in public positions that may eventually be hated, as circumstances change. Such hatred may accumulate for decades or centuries and, from time to time, it explodes. The last time was under the Nazis. This is a disaster for the Jewish people. However, they don’t do it to themselves. They have been used as a scapegoat for the elites when people decide to rise up in Western countries.

Hence, I do not believe in a Jewish conspiracy. A very few are power-worshippers, same as in any other group. But the vast majority are simple people and believers like you and me.

Keep in mind that Christianity has billions of followers. Hence, just as a small percentage, we have millions of power-worshippers that are doing evil things under the name of God or Jesus. There are only 15 million Jews. And some of them, especially the Zionists, which are VERY FEW, have some extreme agendas. And so, we Christians have also our black sheep. Muslims and Buddhists do as well.

What I want to say is, don’t buy into the “Evil Jews” tale. It has been deliberately created and pushed for centuries to use it at the right time to scapegoat them for the crimes of the elites. When the empire starts to crumble, I can imagine that the official line could change to point fingers at the Media and Finance, which is full of Jews currently. Need I say more?

Take care! The true power-worshippers are not Jews. The Jews are victims, as are all other peoples. The true enemies of humanity are people that believe only in power. They don’t care about religion. They care about resources. Resources are always the representation of the value of the current currency, whatever it is, and thereby of money and thereby of power. I won’t go deeper into this since it is dangerous. These people are happy as long as you are looking for the enemy in synagogues. You learned already a lot about deception on BMA. This is the biggest deception for millennia.

The Media
Basics

Welcome to the Media. 😊 The successor to the religions. At least in the western-controlled hemisphere. What is the Media? I won’t do a definition chapter here. Read the Wikipedia article for a breakdown. Yes, Wikipedia is also part of the Media. But I will name only a few examples: “Television, cinema, movies, music, newspapers, tv news, social media, smart devices, IoT, books, magazines, internet, internet blogs etc.”.

The purpose of the media is to communicate any kind of information to as many people as possible. Since most Western people have some kind of access to Media, and the rest of the world is catching up with lightning speed, we can safely say that it is the perfect way to spread a message as fast and as broadly as possible.

We have the same problem with the Media that we have with the religions. One can use it for good purposes and also for bad. Bad purposes of course could be the spread of paedophilia. Even though such purposes are highly important to highlight, I will focus in this article only on manipulation, influencing and propaganda.

Exactly, as with the religions, the national state or empire needs to create single points of influence. In former times it was only the church. Remember, the higher echelons of the churches are collaborating with state actors and agencies. The same goes for the Media. A nation needs a wide network of various media outlets which differs slightly with regards to the political direction. Slightly left, slightly right or centre, for instance.

If you would have five big media outlets in a country and all would write the exact same stuff, that would be slightly suspicious. In fact, these Media outlets need to have overtly slightly differing opinions to attract all social and political spheres. To catch all the people and not allow them to go to independent or alternative media. In fact, these Media outlets are openly not on the same page but they will always support each other against independent and alternative media. And above all, they will advocate the same geopolitical direction. In the West it is basically, all need to be pro-NATO. [Empire]

I will explain that in the further chapters in more detail but let me explain another thing first.

What I just described is the system of the Mainstream Media (MSM). They are usually doing a good job in non-political topics. But they use this 1% of information, essentially as religions are doing, to influence you politically, or if you are living in a colony, geopolitically.

Hence, the employees of the MSM are not liars. Mostly, they are very capable people. I could name many examples. When you are evaluating their work, you need first to ask the question what their goals/purpose/objective are. And you need to evaluate their work against these objectives. The Media, at least the MSM, are a covert branch of the state. Essentially, like the armed forces, they are tasked to achieve politics by other means, except that they are not officially part of the state. At least not always. Of course, there are state media out there as well.

So, we can conclude that the purpose of the MSM is to execute and promote the national interests of either the own country or of the colonial master, depending on where you live. Moreover, we could call the employees, at least those that are responsible for the political part, information soldiers.

Essentially, I support such a system. If you are living in a sovereign state, this ensures the national cohesion and the achievement of the national interests. Why I decided to explain all this stuff is that most of the world is currently living under the influence or direct control of the Western empire. Hence, most countries are dependent and so the people are directly influenced against their own national interests in favour of the empire. It is a total abuse of the Media system.

Hence, the local MSM are doing a good job measured by their set objectives. They influence you in favour of the colonial masters. You would call it lying. But it is not. It is means of warfare which is effectively used by capable information soldiers. You could do another fun game and pick your “favourite” information soldier from your local MSM outlet and research his past. Most are affiliated somehow with academies that are affiliated with the United States, including the CIA or some other transatlantic agencies. (Since I do not know the circumstances in Asia, I can’t speak for my Asian readers here. I’m sorry.)

In case you live in Europe, check out the sources of the political articles in your local MSM outlet. You will find in all MSM outlets the same sources for geopolitical topics. For instance, AP, Associated Press, which is openly a CIA-affiliated agency.

The same goes for all other types of Media, even though I was only referring to news. It’s the same for movies (Hollywood), music, video games, etc.

The next question, of course, is, how you get manipulated to believe what you are being told.

Good articles

First, recall the ten rules for manipulating the masses, that I outlined above.
Second, try to understand the following:

1. You need to make the people trust you. Therefore, you need to have excellent articles or other content. Usually, the people need to trust you blindly. If we talk about magazines, then you need to have excellent scientific and economic articles. If we are talking about the television, think of some of the big streaming companies. I avoid to call names here. They can produce series with great content. Some of them are great. You will trust them and buy a subscription. You will watch all kind of series.

2. Phase two! When the people trust you, because you have excellent articles about science and sports then you can implement, from time to time but decent, political or geopolitical messages that you want your readership to believe. I liked the Hollywood movie “Inception”. Which is why I call this concept “Inception”. Make the people feel safe. Make them believe and trust you. And then give out small signals to influence them politically or geopolitically. There are great series out there on the streaming services. Unfortunately, after the first great season you become “addicted”. You want to learn more in the following seasons. Then you get bombarded in the following with “politically correct” messages and “woke ideology”.

Actually, there is a particularly excellent European newspaper about macroeconomics. It is a mainstream media outlet. I read it daily. They even have some great podcasts about macroeconomics as well. First class journalism. I won’t name here any media outlets, since I don’t want to put myself in trouble. But! Always when there is a war, I assume that the reporters change their business outfits into military outfits and start to write ideological bullshit. 😊

I enjoy that bullshit as well, since one can learn a lot out of it by analysing the ideological information war propaganda of usually highly capable and intelligent people. They always put messages between the lines. Where you can learn what they really think. I won’t go deeper into that here.

Manipulative articles

Okay, we learned now about my version of “Inception”. I’m sure, there is some other word in psychology, but since I’m not a psychologist, I’ll stick with “Inception”.

Now let’s dig a little deeper into this concept. What we learned is that you need to gain the trust of your target. When you have the unconditional trust, you can feed the target with little bites of whatever you want him to believe. Step by step, continuously. Thereby, you insert an idea into the head of your target that grows and eventually it will be convinced that it is the truth, like it was his own idea.

That’s how it works in peacetime. And it works. Essentially, this is how it was until 2014. That was the first time that I personally experienced the media transforming into berserk mode flipping all news by 180 degrees. The full activation of the information war mode. Not lying! Information warfare. The writers are not to be blamed, they are not idiots, liars, etc. They are doing their job, exactly as a solider does on the battlefield. He is not a murderer. He is not doing this for his own gain. The soldier is fighting and killing, in the best case, for his homeland. In the worst case, for a foreign power. (Who are the Ukrainian soldiers serving?)

If you now are in war mode, and you do not need to take care about the step by step inception approach, then you can switch gears. You will get exact instructions from a superior agency, say some US-letter-soup-agency-affiliated media agencies, and you will write down your articles with small differences. Since there are many MSM outlets in a country, you will need to differ slightly, so the sheep don’t detect the synchronization. Intelligent people will detect it but won’t say anything since they will be afraid what the others think if they are not in line.

We can see it currently in Ukraine. The Russian media outlets were closed down in many Western states. They are no longer accessible. One can use some alternative media outlets but they have a very small reach. Moreover, they are constantly being intimidated by the administration and by the MSM. You pick something in your target country that is being considered as bad, e.g. Nazis, and you constantly repeat as an MSM outlet, that these alternative and independent media outlets are Nazis. Job done.

Now you can claim whatever you want. There is no simple way to prove you wrong if there is no alternative information. There is alternative information, but it has a limited reach. If the reach grows too much, it would be cut down accordingly. Hence, you can start to claim that Russia is losing exactly the numbers of troops that Ukraine is using. You can say, that Artemovsk is a meatgrinder for Russian troops. You can claim that Ukraine has captured thousands of Russian tanks and still claim at the same time that Ukraine urgently needs tanks to survive and is winning. It doesn’t matter whether it makes sense or not. You are now exactly in the cycle which I described in ten steps at the beginning of this article.

What if the truth comes out? Consider this:

• The winner writes the history. In case of a Ukrainian (NATO) victory the history books (if there would be a continued history at all) would be written in favour of the West, of Ukraine and its absurd claims.

• In case Russia wins, well, you find a scapegoat and move on to the next deception story. The COVID time was a very good piece to learn how it works. Every three months a new absurd measure was brought up in the media and all governments and media outlets instantly claimed it will never happen. Three months later it was law. Who cares? If you don’t agree then you are, what in your country is bad, e.g. a Nazi, or what have you. You know the game. It is being played again currently. As soon as you hear that this or that weapon system will NEVER be delivered to Ukraine then you can be sure that one of the following two realities applies:

  1. Three months later, as soon as the public was sufficiently prepared, the weapons will be delivered.

  2. The weapons were ALREADY delivered, while the first claim has been made, that it will never be delivered.

• The flip side of the narrative is always being prepared in advance, but first, when it is inevitable. For example, we can see it in Ukraine. Ukraine apparently is winning big against Russia. It killed that many Russian troops in several meatgrinders and captured and destroyed that many Russian tanks that Russia should be soon without an army and Ukraine could drive safely through to Moscow.

  This narrative is being maintained all the way through the war, even though between 100 and 200 thousand Ukrainians died during this period. And up to 400,000 Ukrainians have been wounded or captured, that they can’t participate any longer in the war. But it doesn’t matter, as long as the Western audience can’t get other/accurate information.

  The American intelligence agencies know exactly what the situation is on the ground. And they know approximately when a collapse is imminent. Hence, the narrative will start to change, step by step, gradually at the last possible date. This applies for all possible events, not only for the Ukrainian war.

  Suddenly, a strategically important town like Artemovsk (Bakhmut) is no longer strategically important. Or, suddenly, the Ukrainians suffered heavy losses during the war, even though it was reported until recently that Ukraine only lost some 10,000 casualties. Before a big change on the ground is imminent, the virtual reality can be maintained. It is more than sufficient to start adapting the narrative step by step one or two weeks or a month in advance. Remember “Inception”. The Western audience is well fed with the MSM. Some 70% of the people fully believe the MSM. The other 30% are silent because they don’t want to be intimidated.
  It is the same as the proverbial boiling of a frog.

Truly fascinating.

Good cause

Most people will hate me for this. But it is what it is ever since. For millennia. You need the Media (since Media exists) and/or the religions as one of the cornerstones of the state to keep up national interests, by which I mean the real sovereign national interests. Colonies like Italy, Germany, France, Japan, etc., doesn’t have such. In fact, they have, as I explained before, the national interests of the colonial master, which have a higher priority than their own.

With these, you control the people to go along with your policies. Sometimes policies which are actually favourable to support your national interests are difficult to communicate by politicians. Here the Media and religions are doing “Inception” work, to prepare the people for hard measures and laws. Moreover, you create a national coherence and patriotism as well. All these concepts are to some degree important to stay a sovereign state. Too much is bad as well, as we could see in Germany eighty years ago.

So, there must be a balance between the control and the freedom over the people. The people don’t even feel that they are being controlled or denied their freedoms if the particular government/Media strategy is executed well. See my article about the “Inception”.

Unfortunately, you have always in history some psychopaths, dictators and tyrants that abuse such mechanisms, which should usually be used for a good cause.

What I want to say are the following two things:

1. If you control the people for the good cause of protecting them and boosting the prosperity of the nation then everything is right. There are many good examples.

2. Unfortunately, as already described, this tool has been abused too often in history. It has been used as a tool of oppression. See the ten steps at the beginning of the article and think about how dictators have applied them throughout history.

Bad cause

Hence, even though I support the concept if it is executed like number 1 above, the grim reality is that today over 150 countries worldwide are completely under the media control and manipulation of the Western empire. Hence, for a bad cause. Controlling foreign nations is bad. Being controlled by foreign nations is worse. That’s what I wanted to outline with this article.

If foreign powers control your Media landscape, then you are a dependent nation. A modern colony.

Only if your media are controlled by your own country and are working in favour of the national sovereign interests, then you are an independent nation and also not a dictatorship. If you are independent, but your government uses the Media against its own people and not in the best interests of the nation and its people, then you are living in a dictatorship, which is BAD!

Repetitive and synchronized phrases

It is sometimes funny to track the current Media strategy slogan of the Western empire. Some funny guys (metaphoric, of course) travel around with a black suite-case and handing over the new Media slogan to the leaders of its colonies. Hence, Italy, Germany, France, Romania, Japan, etc. etc.

Now, out of nothing, suddenly all the “leaders” are repeating the same slogan. “We will support Ukraine for as long as it takes”. “We will never supply tanks to Ukraine”. “Russia blew up Nord Stream”. “We will not negotiate a bad peace”. And so on. Germany just decided to kill itself, which is truly fascinating. Scholz travelled to Washington to personally pick up Germany’s new orders and the new Media slogan: “If China delivers weapons to Russia, we will punish China.” Hahaha.

If you read my article about Germany, you know that Germany is critically dependent on China. Essentially, Scholz went to Washington to receive his new orders, a rope and a pistol. The latter two are to make sure Germany’s suicide is successful. As I said, truly fascinating new Media slogan.

Freedom of the press

The empire is promoting freedom of press all over the world. Why? As I said, through this vehicle and through NGOs, the empire can control the press landscape worldwide and create an alternative reality in the Media sphere. It can control the local politicians and coup them away if needed. It is very easy to stage a coup in a country if you are in control of its Media. At the same time, it is evidence that the target country has no sovereignty. If it would have sovereignty, it would have national interests that would forbid such a thing from happening.

Note that freedom of the press is good and right, particularly to prevent dictatorships from happening. But it must never apply to foreign powers. The local MSM has to be either under the control of the local government, or, far better, in NO control. The freedom of speech/press is absolutely important, as already stated, to prevent dictatorships from happening. Or far worse, foreign control.

Operation Mockingbird

I won’t go deeper here into this topic, but I recommend you to educate yourself about the CIA’s “Operation Mockingbird”. It is the operation to control and influence foreign and domestic media through “Inception”. There is plenty of material to be found on the internet.

Secret laws and courts

For the next chapter, Social Media, we first need to understand one important fact. I will describe it superficially since there is a lot of information about this available on the internet.

In almost every country, but especially in countries with strong national interests, there are both secret laws and secret courts. They are in place to fight terrorism and organized crime and to prevent events that would harm national security. But, as everything that is, in theory, good, these laws can also be used for purposes for which they should not be used and, originally, were not intended to be.

Let’s consider Edward Snowden’s revelations. You can find most of the things I will write below in his released documents and in the media reports he collaborated in writing. Unfortunately, I can’t explain the concept of secret laws and courts deeper for a few reasons.

If any Media enterprise, especially social media but all other types of media as well, reach a certain critical number of users, it becomes relevant for national security.

What I wrote to this point should give you an idea of what I really wanted to say. It will become clearer in the next chapters. I think it is better to not go too deep into this topic just yet.

Social media and big tech
Basics

Social media is the perfect spot for influence and control. First it was the religions, then the newspapers and now we have the social media. Since everybody decided to carry his own spy device with him, everything is easy. Now, I’m no modern-day Luddite, living in the basement and hiding from mobile phones. I fully use all available technology. As long as you are not a threat to national security or part of organized crime, nothing will happen with your data. The local police won’t have access without a court order.

Okay, let’s start. How to influence, manipulate, and blackmail political players, both domestic and foreign? As I pointed out above, some laws are in theory applicable to threats on national security. This is a very flexible term.

You have global power if you have global information. Let’s assume that all big media and software enterprises would have an interface that would allow real-time access to all its data, especially social media databases. To governments in colonies as well. Wouldn’t that be a dream for any emperor? Can’t you just imagine Senator Palpatine from Star Wars laughing? 😊

Database technology

Let’s dive quickly into basic relational database technology. It consists of at least one but up to hundreds of thousands of tables. Every table is the representation of a real-life object. Some tables are only there for auxiliary reasons. For example, you have a table, “Person”, where your name and your ID is saved. Then you have a table “Address”. Here are plenty of addresses saved and in one column you have the ID of a certain “Person”. It is the foreign key in this table which links both tables/rows up. Note that it is clear that person A has the address B, since his ID is stored in the corresponding table row in “Address”.

I didn’t want to make it too complicated but I can imagine that it already has become too complicated. Forgive me if that is the case. IT experts will say that I’m an idiot and people with no computer experience will understand nothing. Sorry for that.

Now let’s imagine that a big social media application has tens of thousands of tables in such a database. Which is very realistic. But for the sake of simplifying we will assume that there is only one single table in every big social media application. Facebook consists of one single table with all information stored flat, in one row. Assume Twitter, Instagram, etc., do as well.

You have users in every social media application. That’s the purpose of it. Let’s assume that this single table is the “User” table. It will have an ID, and let’s simplify further on and say, an email.

Now, pretend you are Senator Palpatine (soon to become Emperor), and you want to have access to all databases within your reach. What are you going to do?

You will develop a program that links up all the users in all connected media (a.k.a. critical mass) and make them all traceable across the internet. Every single move. How does it work?

Well, you write an application, sometimes called a crawler, that is doing nothing but checking the free accessible interfaces to all connected media enterprises for new data for new or altered users. It will check a set of information about the users. Name, email address, used IP addresses, etc. It will check the found information against a big data warehouse system, where for every single registered person worldwide, a single information is stored. Name and ID.

Now you have a database of all registered people and a connection to all corresponding media and governmental administration agency databases. The crawler applications are creating these connections 24/7. In fact, one can now take the viewer application of this giant data warehouse application, look for a particular person and get real-time access to all its media accounts connected to the system. Yes, all kinds of messenger applications as well. You don’t need to be hacked. You can’t protect yourself. This program has the “keys”.

And now you are as transparent as glass.

Well, I need to explain a few things. All the information stated above was fully taken out of the documents of Edward Snowden. I hope I was successful in simplifying the tons of gigabytes of data he released in a few hundred words, so it is understandable by everyone. I do know far more, but that’s all I can say, since it is publicly available and the stated information is more than ten years old.

Again! Don’t worry. If you are not a supervillain or if you are not planning a coup or something like that, no one will look into your data. I personally assume, but I don’t know, that you might become interesting for certain agencies if you have more than 0.1% of the population of the country you are living in as followers and you push hard against your government. Then, you could potentially attract attention.

In addition, you certainly will be interesting if you possess a position of power or influence. Your data can be used to control you.

Information war on social media and (selective) free speech

Social media became truly funny for me in the meanwhile.

I can seemingly recognize armies of Western and Eastern influencers, trolls, experts, etc., fighting each other in the public sphere, fighting for the sovereignty of interpretation of the circulating information. In fact, many of the people you like to listen to are for sure somehow “influenced” by certain agencies. Since I found that out, my decision was even more firm to get out of blogging ASAP. Hence, at the end of the year.

One can really see the information war raging on the internet. And I, certainly, as a normal natural person don’t want to be part of that show! I do not want to be the propaganda piece of anyone. And IF I would, then only for Serbia! But as I said, I have no interest in such a show.

Free speech indeed ends, even in the West, as quickly as you can say “Free Speech”! 😊 As stated already in a former chapter, you will get labelled as whatever is associated with something very bad in your country. In many countries it will be Nazis. So, if you embrace your right to free speech, you are a Nazi. For example: “I do not support a war against Russia. I want peace in Ukraine”. It is crystal clear! You are a Nazi! If you support a so-called “bad peace”, then you are a Nazi. Now try to exercise your free speech right as a Nazi 😊 A “bad peace”, by the way, is everything that doesn’t entail the breakup of Russia. Essentially, what the actual Nazis planned back then! But who cares about free speech and facts? You are a Nazi if you are against things that Nazis did and that Ukraine/NATO is doing today.

Sovereign and dependent countries

I hope I was able to give you a little understanding about how the Media is working nowadays. And what you need to consider when consuming it. The best thing is to consume the media of both sides and some alternative media outlets as well. If you have a little bit of intelligence, you will be able to see the truth, which lies in between, on your own. Yes, you read right. Russia is doing the same, but in the name of its sovereignty. The West is doing it to maintain its neo-colonial system of undeclared, unofficial colonies.

Moreover, I hope I was able to explain a little bit what the difference between sovereign countries and colonies are. Especially, I wanted to highlight that the West never left the colonial age. It has only become a master in concealing the fact that a country is a colony against its citizens. It goes for Europe as well as for Africa and many more places besides.

Conclusion

This neo-colonialism and all its media/religion control over its colonies will start to break down after Russia’s victory in Ukraine. At least, the victory is one side of the medal. The second side of it, will be explained on BMA soon in another major article. It is the macroeconomics side.

Prospects for World War 3 – Dedicated to Andrei Raevsky, the Vineyard SakerA strategic picture of the events of a collapsing Ukraine and the end of NATO

Aleks / Feb 4

ABOUT THE AUTHOR / SOURCE

Aleks, of Serbo-Russian descent, is a geostrategist and chief editor of Black Mountain Analysis, who wishes to remain anonymous.