jonathanturley | We previously discussed the defunct Disinformation Governance Board and its controversial head Nina Jankowicz.
After the outcry over the program, Homeland Security Secretary
Alejandro Mayorkas finally relented and disbanded the board while
insisting that it was never about censoring opposing views. Jankowicz
has sued over the portrayal of her views. Now, Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFPF) has exposed
just how broad the scope of the censorship efforts were under the board
in combatting “misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation
(MDM). This range of authority in what the agency called the “MDM
space,” included targeting views on racial justice and the disastrous
withdrawal from Afghanistan.
New documents obtained under the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) requests show that the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) argued that the agency could regulate speech related to
“the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the efficacy of COVID-19
vaccines, racial justice, U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the
nature of U.S. support to Ukraine” as well as “irregular immigration.”
Those subjects stretch across much of the “space” used for political speech in the last few years.
Notably, within DHS, Jen Easterly, who heads the Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency, extended her agency’s mandate over
critical infrastructure to include “our cognitive infrastructure.”
The resulting censorship efforts included combating “malinformation” –
described as information “based on fact, but used out of context to
mislead, harm, or manipulate.” I testified earlier on this effort.
So DHS asserted the authority to target viewpoints on racial justice,
Ukraine, and other political subjects, including views based on fact
but viewed as misleading in context.
What is also troubling is the continued effort to conceal these
censorship activities. Homeland redacted much of this information on a
now defunct board under FOIA Exemption 7(E), which protects “techniques
and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions, or would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigations.” That claim is itself chilling.
As the title suggests, NPR just repeated the view of Jankowicz
despite the objections of many of us in the free speech community.
Jankowicz insisted “we weren’t going to be doing anything related to
policing speech. It was an internal coordinating mechanism to make sure
that we were doing that work efficiently.” Yet, what were the criminal
investigations, prosecutions, and enforcement efforts now being claimed
as connected to this work?
Recently, a court found that the Biden Administration’s censorship efforts constituted “the most massive attack against free speech in United States history.” Those words by Chief U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty are part of a 155-page opinion granting
a temporary injunction, requested by Louisiana and Missouri, to prevent
White House officials from meeting with tech companies about social
media censorship.
Allen Dulles was a part of Operation Sunrise and it appears he went
against orders and did not negotiate an unconditional surrender but
instead brokered deals with the nazis. It doesn't help that nazi
sympathy was fairly rampant throughout the military and government hence
the willingness to proceed with Operation Paperclip. Dulles worked for a
law firm that protected IG Farben (corporation that participated in
slave labor and genocide) and I'm currently looking into his prewar
antics as it appears he may have been involved in helping fund the rise
of the nazis from the beginning. Money was apparently stolen from a bank
in England. Also, during the war Dulles had his OSS operation set up in
Switzerland. The Swiss bank basically legitimatized the nazi's money
and the idea that they were "neutral" is kind of ridiculous. The nazi's
couldn't have operated without those bank accounts so taking their money
was aiding and abetting. I still need to sit down and follow all the
money, but some really fucky things were going on before the war even
broke out. Don't forget the 1930's failed business plot to install a
fascist leader in the US. The people involved in that likely came up
with some new plans.
It's pretty amazing how the US
reshaped Wernher von Braun's public persona. He was literally an SS Major and the
director of a military unit making the most advanced weapon systems for
the Nazis. You don't get in those positions without being heavily
involved in the Nazi party.
The
dossier on him literally has a 'carrot' style insertion to change
"ardent Nazi" to "not an ardent Nazi." He went from a leader of Nazis
to literally hosting shows on Disney about space travel.
There's quite a bit there, actually,
from the Vatican-NAZI connection in the whole UFO affair, to the Knights
of Malta in more recent years.
I'll start at a random point of connection:
Dulles helped Mengele flee to Argentina, where the CIA later supported a right-wing authoritarian coup
So there's a global intelligence service / NAZI connection.
Here's the main Vatican - NAZI link: The Vatican got independence from Mussolini, who was soon allied with Hitler.
David
Grusch has talked about the Vatican - NAZI - UFO connection, and there
has been, from the beginning, a broad connection with intelligence
services.
There's another
interesting Vatican-Intelligence service link with the Knights of Malta,
the only nation on the planet without any territory, it has diplomatic
relations with over 100 countries, issues its own passports, is
controlled by the Vatican, and has prominent representatives in the US
intelligence services.
CIA
Director William Casey was a member of the Knights of Malta. William
F. Buckley Jr was a member of the Knights of Malta. James J. Angleton
was a member.
Buckley was also a
member of the Skull and Bones -- the same secret society both George W.
Bush (son of former CIA director George HW Bush) and his 2004
Presidential competitor John Kerry both belonged to (the same year no
less), but which neither would discuss
So there's a CIA-Vatican-NAZI-Secret Society international right-wing apparatus that took hold on planet Earth around 1945.
I could keep going with this but I have other things to do.
But
I will say the US Navy -- where the videos started leaking from -- is
tied into all this to. It was, for example, and Naval intelligence
officer Dr. Charles Savage was involved in LSD experiments with programs
that became MKULTRA
and,
as we keep hearing, there seems to be an inter-dimensional component to
all this, which LSD may sensitize people to. Like information about
UFO's, the cognitive states unlocked by LSD are tightly controlled. LSD
in the US is a schedule I substance, more tightly controlled than
cocaine, and as tightly controlled as heroin.
Religious
scholars like Huston Smith argued that the prohibition on psychedelics
may be a prohibition on human cognitive evolution, since this experience
has been with humanity since early times
So
there may be a NAZI-CIA-Vatican-UFO-Industry conspiracy that is both
keeping technology from us, and also keeping our minds under tight
control by limiting our ability to perceive non-desirable aspects of
reality.
There's a shit ton of baggage in there.
Bonus weirdness:
Timothy Leary was using LSD to channel messages from aliens in Sirius
Slate | To get this out of the way: I am still using the site formerly known as Twitter.
I
have been posting regularly on what is now known as X since December
2011. The site brought me many things over the years—close friendships,
news from around the world, a husband—but these days I mostly use it for
one reason. That reason is that I am a freelance journalist, and
Twitter—excuse me, X—is still the most useful place to share and get
work. In other words, it helps me get paid.
But
there is a certain tension in this. I regularly write on Jewish history
and politics. This includes politics around antisemitism, and the
threat posed by antisemitism. Increasingly, that means that in order to
potentially have the professional opportunity to cover the threat of
antisemitism, I use a social media platform owned by someone who, I
would argue, is using the same platform to make the threat of
antisemitism actively worse.
Twitter
has long had its issues, but Elon Musk, since taking over late last
year, has made existing problems more pronounced—for example, in
allowing accounts that had been previously suspended for hate speech to
come back—and has invented problems that didn’t need to exist, including
by getting rid of check marks that verified identity (and also firing
thousands of staff). Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, top advertisers have left the platform and ad sales have reportedly fallen dramatically.
But Musk has found someone other than himself to blame: the Anti-Defamation League, which he has now threatened to sue.
“Our US advertising revenue is still down 60%, primarily due to pressure on advertisers by @ADL
(that’s what advertisers tell us), so they almost succeeded in killing
X/Twitter!” Musk posted on Monday. He added, “If this continues, we will
have no choice but to file a defamation suit against, ironically, the
‘Anti-Defamation’ League.”
The Anti-Defamation League dates back to the 1910s, and per its founder,
attorney Sigmund Livingston, exists “to stop the defamation of the
Jewish people, and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.” Today,
the organization tracks hate-crime laws in the United States and
provides legal services, such as serving
as co-counsel in a federal lawsuit against the Proud Boys and Oath
Keepers for their role in attacking the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
That
doesn’t mean the ADL is above reproach. Increasingly, it has come under
criticism from the left for putting the fight against antisemitism and
for civil rights second to the desire to defend Israel and Zionism. In
2021, progressive outlet Jewish Currents published a report based on
interviews with former staffers that charged
that “CEO Jonathan Greenblatt has repeatedly chosen to support
crackdowns on criticism of Israel over protecting civil liberties,
putting him in conflict with his own civil rights office.” Earlier this
year, the New Republicran a piece that took Greenblatt to task for not doing enough to tackle white supremacy, noting
that his keynote speech at the ADL’s annual leadership summit this year
“had virtually nothing to say about the rise of white Christian
nationalism. … Instead, he focused his ire on what the ADL calls
‘hostile anti-Zionist activists groups’ like Students for Justice in
Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, which loudly criticize and protest
against Israel on America’s college campuses, calling them ‘the photo inverse of the extreme right.’ ” Ironically, Greenblatt faced
backlash last year when, on television, he said, “Elon Musk is an
amazing entrepreneur and extraordinary innovator. He’s the Henry Ford of
our time.”
But
one does not need to think that Greenblatt is good at his job, or even
to think that the ADL has any credibility as an institution, to be
concerned that Musk appears to share
with Henry Ford not only ownership of an automobile company, but also a
penchant for blaming Jews. In looking for someone to blame for his
troubles, Musk is lashing out at a Jewish institution that, at least in
theory, exists to push back against antisemitism.
This
encourages others to join in: Right-wing figure Charlie Kirk, who days
earlier had posted that the ADL today is “a hate group that dons a
religious mask to justify stoking hatred of the left’s enemies,” tweeted
out a video of Greenblatt on MSNBC that Kirk said showed
Greenblatt “bragging” about “how the group extorts every single tech
company in Silicon Valley to censor Americans and ‘ban’ hate speech.”
Stephen Miller, the former senior adviser in the Trump White House who
was called
an immigration hypocrite by his uncle, also chimed in, offering:
“Speaking as a Jew: ADL is NOT a Jewish organization,” which was then reposted
thousands of times. The idea that a person (or, in this case,
institution) can be deemed “not really Jewish” and thus fair game for an
antisemitic smear is a not uncommon one.
According to excerpts published by CNN, a soon-to-be-released biography of the SpaceX CEO claims that Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his Starlink satellite network over Russian-occupied Crimea last year in order to prevent a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s naval fleet.
Musk
was worried that the planned attack on the Kremlin’s Black Sea fleet,
which occurred early in the war, could escalate tensions and potentially
lead to nuclear conflict, according to the extract from historian
Walter Isaacson’s upcoming book.
The claim was immediately met with criticism from Kyiv.
Mykhailo
Podolyak, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, blasted the tech
billionaire on X, formerly Twitter, which Musk owns.
“Sometimes a mistake is much more than just a mistake,” Podolyak wrote.
“By
not allowing Ukrainian drones to destroy part of the Russian military
(!) fleet via #Starlink interference, @elonmusk allowed this fleet to
fire Kalibr missiles at Ukrainian cities,” he added.
Russia
is known to have used its naval ships in the Black Sea to strike deep
into Ukrainian territory and impose an effective blockade of the
Ukrainian Black Sea coast, which is crucial to global grain shipments.
“As
a result, civilians, children are being killed,” Podolyak said. “This
is the price of a cocktail of ignorance and big ego. However, the
question still remains: why do some people so desperately want to defend
war criminals and their desire to commit murder? And do they now
realize that they are committing evil and encouraging evil?”
Musk responded to the report, denying that he turned off the
service but accepting he had chosen not to enable the attack as he did
not want to become directly involved in the war.
“There
was an emergency request from government authorities to activate
Starlink all the way to Sevastopol,” he said in another response,
referring to a key port city in Crimea that is home to Russia’s Black
Sea Fleet.
“The obvious intent being to sink most of the
Russian fleet at anchor,” Musk added. “If I had agreed to their
request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war
and conflict escalation.”
According to the excerpts from
the new biography, it meant that Ukrainian submarine drones packed with
explosives lost connectivity as they approached the Russian ships, and
saw them “washed ashore harmlessly.”
The book also delves
into how Musk’s decision played out, alleging Musk spoke with top U.S.
officials along with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.
NBC News has reached out to SpaceX and Zelenskyy’s office for comment.
Use of radio as a form of memetic warfare has long been known and exploited (Voice of America, Radio Free Europe). The early innovations of memetic warfare are evident in spam, now reaching 80% of internet traffic -- possible to justify future implementation of severely restrictive counter-measures. In contrast to the threat of viruses, spam has a cognitive component. The focus on sexually explicit imagery, together with performance improving drugs and devices, is clearly associated with evocation of lust as a memetic weapon. It is no coincidence that a high percentage of such spam originates in the USA -- where even the highest ranked hotels offer "adult movies". Only the naive would fail to recognize the offensive function of such memetic weapons against other cultures, such as Islam.
Whilst such spam may be understood as a memetic analogue to biological warfare, there is a case for anticipating the development and deployment of memetic analogues to tactical and strategic nuclear weapons. There is also a case for recognizing the probable nature and targets of such weaponry and the appropriate modes of defence.
Nuclear weapons -- with their emphasis on mass destruction -- have proven to be a fundamental revolution in warfare. They are destructive not only of mass in the physical sense but also of masses in the demographic sense -- as well as of ecosystems on which life depends. It is therefore useful to question whether any memetic analogue would be equally fundamental in its effect on the:
"nuclear family", as it has come to be understood in its more restrictive sense "nuclear community", as it it is understood in the neighbourhood or quartier sense "nuclear culture", as it is increasingly understood, especially by threatened minorities and ethnic groups, and it is becoming framed in the case of "Christian civilization" or the "Muslim Umah"
What are the consequences on these "nuclear" bonds of the emergent possibilities of memetic nuclear warfare? Already the effects of "information warfare" are apparent and a feature of Psy-Ops. Censorship and the control of information on problematic issues can already be understood as "nuclear shields" (cf Missiles, Missives, Missions and Memetic Warfare: Navigation of strategic interfaces in multidimensional knowledge space, 2001). Intriguingly the manipumation of statements regarding "sins" and "virtues" seem to be used in such warfare rather like "binary weapons" -- composed of two ingredients that become lethal only when combined at the last minute before detonation. The art would appear to be ensure the implosive deployment of memetic components based on "sin" (its recognition, evocation of guilt, etc) in conjunction with deployment of "virtue" (occupying the vaccum created). This might be seen as analogous to the deployment of thermobaric weapons.
The challenge for fundamentalists in engaging in such memetic warfare is that even after such deployment, as is evident in Iraq, the population remains highly resistant to replacing Islamic virtues, framed as sinful by the crusading occupation forces, by Christian virtues. In memetic terms, destruction of nuclear bonds in order to reform a culture through "nation-building" processes (conceived as analogous to interrogation, brain-washing, indoctrination and re-education techniques) has proven to be far from successful -- despite the arrogance with which it was envisaged sending an army of missionaries into Iraq to follow the invasion by the Coalition of the Willing [more].
What would seem to be required in relation to community building, nation building, and building a viable planetary culture, is a memetic analogue to nuclear "fusion technology" -- rather than the "fission technology" through which the bonds of the "pattern that connects" are broken. This would call for investment in a degree of imaginative "memetic innovation" analogous to that currently deployed internationally in relation to nuclear fusion [more]. In this light the "clash of civilizations" would be designed into a framework capable of holding their interaction so as to reinvigorate humanity through the rich pattern of energetic relationships the "clash" engendered. Can humanity control its own functions as a memetic nuclear fusion reactor? Is the design challenge analogous to that of avoiding plasma "quenching" in order to ensure sustained fusion? Perhaps "sin" is best to be understood in terms of "quenching" the spirit?
This approach is to be contrasted with fundamentalist efforts to eliminate the difference which enables that memetic energy release in order to create a homogeneous hegemony in which everyone sings from the same hymn sheet -- composed in Washington. Is it possible that models deriving from fusion technology would point to radically new approaches to fusion at a far more fundamental level between contrasting faith perspectives -- a level respectful of both the differences (that are otherwise expressed so violently) and the inspiration that sustains them?
It is the memetic technology required to work with requisite difference that would enable civilization to enegage more effectively with questions of a higher order (Engaging with Questions of Higher Order: cognitive vigilance required for higher degrees of twistedness, 2004).
The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007is a bill sponsored by Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) in the 110th United States Congress. Its stated purpose is to deal with "homegrown terrorism and violent radicalization" by establishing a national commission, establishing a center for study, and cooperating with other nations.
The bill was introduced to the House on April 19 2007, and passed on Oct 23, 2007. It was introduced to the Senate on August 2, 2007 as S-1959. The bill defines some terms including "violent radicalization," "homegrown terrorism," and "ideologically based violence," which have provoked controversy from some quarters. Although Section 899F of HR 1955 specifically prohibits "the violation of Civil Rights and Liberties in the enforcement of the bill," critics claim its enactment would pave the way for violations of Civil Rights and Liberties.
Former presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich has said he believes the bill is "unconstitutional" and has referred to the bill as a "thought crime bill".
Representative Ron Paul (R-TX), addressed the bill in he House on Dec. 5, 2007 saying: "This seems to be an unwise and dangerous solution in search of a real problem. Previous acts of ideologically motivated violence, though rare, have been resolved successfully using law enforcement techniques, existing laws against violence, and our court system," despite the fact that this bill does not "solve" anything and enacts no new laws of or pertaining to speech in the United States.
greyfalcon | This eventually became the �inner circle� of the Thule Society, and reportedly attracted members from other occult movements in Europe, as well as from Tibet, Japan, India, Kashmir, Turkey and Ceylon.
Its most inspirational book was The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a story about an underground Utopian civilization where the inhabitants flew around in silent wingless vehicles, powered by a force called �vril� - hence the name of the society.
Haushofer knew a great deal about life on Atlantis, almost as though through personal memory. He taught Hitler that the Aryan race was genetically developed by the �gods� of Atlantis in preparation for the coming disaster, to be a new �master race� afterwards. He claimed that the Aryans were given higher consciousness and the faculty of logical thought, instead of just super-memory as with the preceding sub-races on Atlantis.
He convinced Hitler that the �pure� Germans were descended from this civilization from �Ultima Thule,� sometimes called Hyperborea, and were meant to be the nucleus of the new master race. Haushofer believed that this race of Aryan supermen survived the Atlantean upheavals and still existed somewhere underground in Tibet or the Gobi Desert, and he convinced Hitler to try and make contact with them.
From 1926 through 1942, Haushofer organized annual German expeditions to Tibet. He apparently succeeded in making contact with an underground civilization in Tibet known in occult literature as �Agartha,� sometime in the early 30s.
It is known that Haushofer met some monks from this underground city, and enlisted them in the Nazi cause. Some literature on this subject describes the monks as �adepts of the dark side.� They came to Berlin and set up a community.
They were later joined by members of the Japanese Green Dragon Society, at the invitation of Haushofer.
In the secret meetings of the Vril Society, attended by Haushofer, Hitler, and the key members of the Thule Society, a very talented medium by the name of Maria Orsic began to get psychic transmissions in an unknown language, which they were eventually able to decipher.
As they continued, it was determined that the messages were coming from two planets in the Aldeberan system comprising the Sumeran empire.
Aldeberan is a huge star in the Taurus constellation thousands of time larger than our own sun, about 65 light years from earth.
The information channeled by Orsic claimed that the Sumeran empire consisted of an Aryan or master race, and a subservient slave race, and that the Aryans colonized our solar system 500 million years ago when the Aldeberan system became uninhabitable. When they eventually reached earth, they founded the Sumerian civilization.
According to Peter Moon in The Black Sun:
As they continued to study the transmissions, the Vril Society discovered that the ancient Sumerian language� was identical to that of the Aldeberans and that it was also similar to the German language.
Whether or not they materialized in the flesh in the inner sanctum of the Vril Society, or met with the Nazi leaders in the underground city through the mediation of the Tibetan monks, there is no doubt that Haushofer and Hitler, at least, met with the �Ubermensch� or �superman.�
In a conversation with Hermann Rauschning, the governor of Danzig, about the possibility of creating a new, advanced species of human through breeding, Hitler said, as reported by Rauschning:
�The new man is living amongst us now! He is here!� exclaimed Hitler, triumphantly. �Isn't that enough for you? I will tell you a secret. I have seen the new man. He is intrepid and cruel. I was afraid of him.�
Samuel Mathers, the founder of the Golden Dawn, had a similar encounter.
In a manifesto to the members in 1896, he wrote:
As to the secret chiefs with whom I am in touch and from whom I have received the wisdom of the Second Order... They used to meet me physically at a time and place fixed in advance. For my part, I believe they are human beings living on this earth, but possessed of terrible and superhuman powers....
I felt I was in contact with a force so terrible that I can only compare it to the shock one would receive from being near a flash of lightning during a great thunderstorm...
Could the �secret chiefs� or �supermen� have been extraterrestrials, perhaps currently living on earth or elsewhere?
In light of subsequent developments, such a conclusion seems not unreasonable. Possibly, because of this contact with Hitler, the Nazis were to acquire scientific knowledge and weapon technologies far beyond anything previously seen on earth.
The weapons became known as the Wunderwaffen or �wonder weapons.� This all seems especially remarkable when it is understood just how much the Nazi inner circle detested science and �book knowledge� and embraced psychic information and ceremonial magic instead.
According to Peter Moon, as early as 1919, the combined Thule and Vril Societies began work on a time machine which was completed in 1924 and taken to a hiding place in southern Germany.
This early development, it is said, re-surfaced after the war and was continued thirty years later as �The Montauk Project,� in an underground base at Montauk Point, Long Island where ex-Nazi scientists were assisted by extraterrestrials.
And it was the Vril Society that reportedly developed the first anti-gravity craft, the RFZ-1, as early as 1937.
The society raised its own funds for this development by soliciting donations in German newspapers!
This first model �crashed and burned,� but the RFZ2, 60-feet in length, flew quite well and was used as a reconnaissance craft, and so it came to the attention of SS Chief Himmler. By this time, Hitler was in power and he turned the anti-gravity development project over to the SS, to develop directly with the Vril Society. He himself was more interested in conventional weaponry.
By 1939, the SS had developed the RFZ-5, which was renamed to become the famous Haunebu I - a two-man craft, about 35 feet in diameter powered by a tachyon type electrogravitation motor called the Kohler Converter.
The motor, it was claimed, converted the earth's gravitational energy into electromagnetic power. The Nazis continually improved on the Haunebu model, culminating in the Haunebu-III late in the war.
A huge craft; 200 feet in diameter, the Haunebu-III, it was said, could reach a speed of 24,000 mph at an altitude of 15,000 feet and could carry 32 passengers.
But strangely, the Germans were never able to adapt these incredible flying machines to conventional warfare. It is suggested that they couldn't train the pilots, and that the craft were not maneuver-able enough to engage fighter planes in dogfights, and that they couldn't be used as bombers, although they could easily reach the U.S. without refueling.
The Nazis chose to focus instead on von Braun's robotic-rocketry, believing that they could so frighten the civilian population of London with their V-2 flying bombs that they could precipitate a mass movement to surrender. As history makes dear, they severely underestimated the legendary British "stiff upper lip." The Nazis also pioneered jet powered propulsion.
The first jet fighter plane in the world, the fearsome Messerschmitt ME-262, could easily have turned the tide of the war if it had lasted several months longer.
German scientists were also working on development of nuclear weapons long before America got into the act. Nuclear fission was discovered in 1938 by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin. The Germans were producing heavy water in Vemork, Norway in 1943 in preparation for using it to refine plutonium.
But Hitler and Albert Speer scuttled the program after chief civilian nuclear scientist Werner Heisenberg failed to sell the project as a feasible way to win the war.
Allied soldiers discovered a uranium-based nuclear reactor underground in Haigerloch, Germany, Heisenberg's hometown, and several thousand pounds of uranium buried nearby.
The consensus is that Germany would have developed the bomb before the US. if it hadn't been for Hitter's poor judgment in scientific matters, and the sabotage and heavy allied bombardments of technological sites, although some think that Heisenberg, a former prot�g� of Nobel Prize winning Danish physics Niels Bohr, deliberately diverted his research away from weaponry.
greyfalcon | "In 1947, Banister reported the discovery of a 'flying disk' in Twin Falls, Idaho, according to a 11 July 1947 "Associated Press" report. The saucer measured roughly 30.5’ across, and "appeared to have been turned out by a machine," possibly as a prototype [according to Banister].
Suspects in the John Kennedy assassination had a pronounced knack for stumbling onto the "unexplained" flying disks.
It is a commentary on the UFO/mind control/intelligence connection that the counterterrorist unit of the FBI already tied to Shaw and Crisman, Division Five—"the Nazi division"—also employed Guy Banister, and has been largely responsible for the development of a form of remote brain manipulation known as Ultrasonic Intra-Cerebral Control.
So once again, the plot thickens. Now the subject of mind control surfaces. There seems to be no obvious correlation amongst these amazing stories and their surprising facts. But can we connect the dots? Or is this just another fantasy offered up by hyper-active minds fond of conspiracy theories? On the other hand, could these astounding connections be better explained as evidence of "disinformation" spun by master intelligence officers with a checkered past?
Roswell and the Reich
Connecting the timing of Banister’s story to the Roswell incident—the seminal UFO incident raging in the press commenced a mere three days earlier—it seems extraordinary to contemplate that the only connection between these incidents is purely an "alien UFO encounter". As alternative science and history researcher, Joseph P. Farrell, points out convincingly in his book "Roswell and the Reich: The Nazi Connection", when the facts are painstakingly evaluated, the evidence for a "spacecraft" manned by extraterrestrials is choosing the least likely explanation. This may be the story officials want us to believe. However, it remains unwedded to almost all of the best-known facts.
Even Nick Redfern, a noted UFologist and author, recommends Farrell’s carefully written work by citing the "publishers blurb" in his blog on 10 February 2010.
In "Roswell and the Reich," Farrell presents a very different scenario of what crashed in Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947, and why the U.S. military has continued its cover-up to this day. By means of a meticulous review of the best-known Roswell research from both UFO-ET advocates and skeptics alike, as well as some not-so-well known Roswell research, Farrell presents a fascinating case sure to disturb both ET believer and skeptic alike, namely, that what crashed may have been representative of an independent postwar Nazi power, an extraterritorial Reich monitoring its old enemy, America, and its continuing developments of the very technologies it confiscated from Germany at the end of the war.
Farrell’s book is not bed-time reading, and this one is particularly difficult because it reads like a detailed legal brief, examining the testimony meticulously, invalidating witnesses, and ruling out evidence with the precision of a scalpel. Nevertheless, after one has plodded through it, the conclusion is compelling. There are no reasons to postulate an extraterrestrial event at all. There were no bodies—and even if there were, there are no logical arguments to suppose them extraterrestrial. While there were undeniable sightings and even extraordinary artifacts (various metals with no similitude to anything experimental in western laboratories, let alone in use), there was no solid rationale to suppose anything other than a terrestrial explanation. Furthermore, the probability of infiltration by military intelligence personnel into the Roswell research community was undeniable. The most significant and credible authors all had intelligence backgrounds! Was this a case of the foxes being left to guard the hen house? If so, perhaps they knew where the bodies were buried—except the alien bodies so it seems.
There are consequently two datasets that any theory of the Roswell Incident must seek to rationalize: (1) the debris, the description of which is consistent across time and various witnesses as has been seen in the previous pages, and (2) the bodies, the description of which is not consistent over time nor over several witnesses in spite of claims to the contrary, and moreover whose witnesses have in turn either been impeached, or shown to be based upon second-hand-and-dead man’s testimony in many instances, or whom other data has revealed were unlikely to have been in the area in order actually to see such bodies.
In summary, any theory that seeks to explain Roswell must answer two incontrovertible facts: There were extraordinary, unknown metals with mysterious properties discovered on 8 July 1947 at Roswell that absolutely originate from a source outside of America. Secondly, the evidence Farrell recounts argues that no bodies were found at the crash site. If intelligent beings were flying these crafts, they were guiding them remotely. [Not exactly outlandish given that all of the V1 and V2 rockets that hit London suburbs were un-piloted aircraft].
Farrell progresses toward concluding the matter with this statement:
"By July of 1947, there were abundant clues that were beginning to be pieced together by American intelligence that Nazism had survived not only in isolated enclaves, but that it was an organized international force. And by the mid-1950s, it was abundantly clear to the U.S. Air Force that those Nazis had continued to research independently their most extraordinary projects and sciences, and that they were making penetrations into the most sensitive areas of the American military-industrial-intelligence complex".
Likewise, from the first reactions of Roswell in 1947 to the Robertson Panel in 1953, not only Farrell but Constantine assures us that the experts had an agenda to keep these military secrets "under wraps". It was their concerted opinion to educate the public in what the experts wanted it to believe—for the sake of national interests. Keeping the public calm was best achieved by distributing the disinformation of outer space visitations—a position beginning in 1960 the government would reverse. Meanwhile, better to keep the whole possibility of Nazis buried and control the masses however it could. At the time, inventing an alien religion for the kooks was not a bad option.
Therefore, The Robertson Panel concluded:
"This education could be accomplished by mass media, [especially] television, motion pictures and popular articles". The panel advised that mental health professionals familiar with mob psychology should design the "education" program. It also recommended that UFO organizations should be surveilled "because of their potentially great influence on mass thinking if widespread sightings should occur. The apparent irresponsibility and the possible use of such groups for subversive purposes should be kept in mind".
As a result of these recommendations UFO enthusiasts would be watched carefully. Who knew how much trouble they might stir up? After all, the Panel concluded that the so-called Foo-fighters experienced by Allied pilots toward the end of World War II were probably nothing more than an exotic form of technology developed by the Nazis and/or Japanese with no real risk to national security. No less an authority than the famous combat pilot Jimmy Doolittle [known for the 1942 Tokyo raid] cited this conclusion in his report requested by the Panel.
So it was agreed then: It is best to keep the public in the dark while we play catch up with the Nazis—whoever they are and wherever they might be.
So is it that thousands of Nazis and their technologies escaped Europe and made their way to the Americas. The argument that rogue German scientists found it advantageous to demonstrate their extraordinary new flying machines to frighten their American adversaries surely seems far-fetched. But the depth of analysis provided by numerous researchers hints strongly otherwise.
However, while the source of flying saucers in the U.S. may be debated—whether they were truly German in origin, came from beyond the stars, or didn’t exist at all—there is no doubt that dozens of the worst war criminals came to the United States as the special guests of the American government. As a result, America would never be the same again.
ijert | Why is there no physical evidence of these advanced vehicles, if they were built thousands of years ago?
Vimanas for Space Transportation
It was the use of Vimanas as space transportation systems that might
have the clue as to why there is no physical evidence of these ancient
aerospace vehicles.
The Atlanteans, known as Asvins in the Indian writings, were
apparently even more advanced technologically than the Indians. They
possessed Vailixi, similar to Vimanas, that were generally cigar shaped
and had the capability of maneuvering underwater as well as in the atmosphere or even outer space. Other flight vehicles were saucer
shaped, and could apparently travel submerged. It is recorded that
between 12000 to 15,000 years ago, nations deploying Vimanas in space
with lethal weapons were locked in a global war that destroyed almost
all of human life and property on planet earth.
Clinching archeological evidence to this effect has also been found.
Thus, the weaponization of space should not be allowed to happen again.
[8]
The FIRST ever Nobel prize for physics should have gone to an Indian
by the name of Shivkur Bapuji Talpade. Talpade was a Sanskrit scholar
who had read Vimanaka Shastra the ancient 7000 years old texts. He flew
an unmanned flying saucer. It was an advanced Vedic Mercury ion plasma ,
imploding and expanding vortex noiseless flying machine , which could
move in all directions. Accelerated pressurised Mercury when spun and
thus heated gives out latent energy. Vedas had a deep understanding of
Quantum physics. The airplane was aloft at nearly 200 metres height and
was airborne for 18 minutes after that the Naksha Rasa accumulators ran
out of energy . This feat was witnessed by more than three thousand
people including Britishers at Chowpatty beach in 1895, eight years
before the Wright brothers.
Fig.- London Saturday newspaper
Instead of praising him, the British ruler threatened him and treated
him in a shabby manner. The owners Rothschild German Jews , of British
East India company , who ruled India , did frantic search all over India
for Sanskrit texts and took it away to Germany. Till then they never
realized the worth of Vedic texts. All these texts are still missing.
Talpade's technology is now used by NASA — solar powered 7 stage
mercury ion , super Conductive plasma anti -gravity vortex (accelerator
ring magnetic field disruptor) [6]
DISAPPEARED SANSKRIT TEXTS
Hitler had these translated texts with him. This is how he made
SWASTIKA his symbol, as it was the symbol of the Saraswati civilization
which existed from 9500 BC to 4000 BC, till Saraswati river dried up.
Rally brothers took away his manuscripts and texts. Many Sanskrit
scholars (Kashmiri Pandits) were kidnapped and they were never heard of
Vedic Vimanas or flying saucers used mercury vortex ion engines. With
the help of The Vedic texts taken to Germany by Hermann Gundert, The ion
engine was demonstrated by German-born NASA scientist Ernst Stuhlinger.
[7]
Description of Rukma Vimana
Rukma Vimana is one of the vimanas from VIMANIKA SHASTHRA is an early
20th century Sanskrit text on aeronautics obtained by psychic
channeling and automatic writing. Vimnas mentioned in ancient Sanskrit
epics were advanced aerodynamic flying vehicles, similar to a rocket.
RUKMA VIMANA had long vertical ducts with fans on the top to suck air from the top and send it down the ducts, generating a lift in the process.Utilization
of electrical energy to operate Electro-Mechanical arrangement to enable
vimana to lift off and accelerate Directional control is through
conventional rudder system provided at the base and articulated through
crescent shaped plate by means of push pull rods.
Rukma is stated to reach speed up to 250 miles in 24 minutes, a speed of 725 miles per Hour. [1][4]
The Rukma vimana has the appearance of a beautiful hovercraft, being golden in color; it uses solar energy.
Propulsion energy systems derive energy from engine-driven
propellers, internal combustion, jet propulsion, mercury and solar
energy. [9]
Fig. Rukma vimana design
Working of Rukma vimana
Rukma vimana had a long vertical duct with fans on the top to suck
air from the top and send it down the ducts, generating a lift in the
process as shown in fig. Adrishya Make vimana invisible by producing a
smoke cocoon around it.
globalaffairs.ru | Russia and its leadership seem to be facing a difficult choice. It
becomes increasingly clear that a clash with the West cannot end even if
we win a partial or even a crushing victory in Ukraine.
It will be a really partial victory if we liberate four regions. It
will be a slightly bigger victory if we liberate the entire East and
South of present-day Ukraine in the next year or two. But there will
still remain a part of it with an even more embittered ultranationalist
population pumped up with weapons―a bleeding wound threatening
inevitable complications and a new war.
Perhaps the worst situation may occur if, at the cost of enormous
losses, we liberate the whole of Ukraine and remain in ruins with a
population that mostly hates us. Its “redemption” will take more than a
decade. Any option, especially the latter one, will distract our country
from making an urgently needed step to shift its spiritual, economic,
and military-political focus to the east of Eurasia. We will get stuck
in the west, with no prospects in the foreseeable future, while
present-day Ukraine, primarily its central and western regions, will sap
managerial, human, and financial resources out the country. These
regions were heavily subsidized even in Soviet times. The feud with the
West will continue as it will support a low-grade guerrilla civil war.
A more attractive option would be liberating and reincorporating the
East and the South of Ukraine, and forcing the rest to surrender,
followed by complete demilitarization and the creation of a friendly
buffer state. But this would be possible only if and when we are able to
break the West’s will to incite and support the Kiev junta, and to
force it to retreat strategically.
And this brings us to the most important but almost undiscussed
issue. The underlying, and even fundamental cause of the conflict in
Ukraine and many other tensions in the world, as well as of the overall
growth of the threat of war is the accelerating failure of the modern
ruling Western elites―mainly comprador ones in Europe (Portuguese
colonialists used the word ‘comprador’ to refer to local traders who
catered to their needs)―who were generated by the globalization course
of recent decades. This failure is accompanied by rapid changes,
unprecedented in history, in the global balance of power in favor of the
Global Majority, with China and partly India acting as its economic
drivers, and Russia chosen by history to be its military-strategic
pillar. This weakening infuriates not only the imperial-cosmopolitan
elites (Biden and Co.), but also the imperial-national ones (Trump).
Their countries are losing their five-century-long ability to syphon
wealth around the world, imposing, primarily by brute force, political
and economic orders, and cultural dominance. So there will be no quick
end to the unfolding Western defensive but aggressive confrontation.
This collapse of moral, political, and economic positions has been
brewing since the mid-1960s; it was interrupted by the Soviet Union’s
breakup but resumed with renewed vigor in the 2000s. (The defeat in Iraq
and Afghanistan, and the beginning of the Western economic model crisis
in 2008 were major milestones.)
To stop this snowballing downward slide, the West has temporarily
consolidated itself. The United States has turned Ukraine into a
striking fist intended to create a crisis and thus tie the hands of
Russia―the military-political core of the non-Western world, which is
freeing itself from the shackles of neo-colonialism―but better still
blow it up, thus radically weakening the rising alternative
superpower―China. For our part, we delayed our preemptive strike either
because we misunderstood the inevitability of a clash, or because we
were gathering strength. Moreover, following modern, mainly Western,
military-political thought, we thoughtlessly set too high a threshold
for the use of nuclear weapons, inaccurately assessed the situation in
Ukraine, and did not start the military operation there successfully
enough.
Failing internally, Western elites began to actively nourish the
weeds that had come through after seventy years of well-being, satiety,
and peace―all these anti-human ideologies that reject the family,
homeland, history, love between a man and a woman, faith, commitment to
higher ideals, everything that constitutes the essence of man. They are
weeding out those who resist. The goal is to destroy their societies and
turn people into mankurts (slaves deprived of reason and sense
of history as described be the great Kirgiz and Russian writer Chengiz
Aitmatov) in order to reduce their ability to resist modern “globalist”
capitalism, increasingly unfair and counterproductive for humans and
humanity as a whole.
Along the way, the weakened United States unleashed a conflict to
finish off Europe and other dependent countries, intending to throw them
into the flames of confrontation after Ukraine. Local elites in most of
these countries have lost their bearings and, panic-stricken by their
failing internal and external positions, are obediently leading their
countries to the slaughter. Moreover, the feeling of a greater failure,
powerlessness, centuries-old Russophobia, intellectual degradation, and
the loss of strategic culture make their hatred even deeper than that of
the United States.
It makes sense. After all, who’s for hate speech? What possible downside can there be to disallowing expressions of racism, antisemitism, xenophobia, transphobia?
C.J.
Hopkins can answer that. Following a similar case involving Roger
Waters, the American playwright, Substack contributor, and editor of Consent Factory has been placed under investigation by a Berlin prosecutor for tweeting an image of his book, The Rise of the New Normal Reich.
We had uncomfortable
correspondence after Covid-19 hit, when I wasn’t so sure we were dealing
with the same kinds of official lies this time, and worried about the
wisdom, say, of writing “pandemic” in quotation marks. I rolled my eyes
when I saw him cite an old quote from Hermann Goering, saying, “All you
have to do is tell [people] they are being attacked and denounce the
pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”
But he placed it astride this real quote from California State Senator
Richard Pan, about “anti-vaxxers”:
These
extremists have not yet been held accountable, so they continue to
escalate violence against the body public… We must now summon the
political will to demand that domestic terrorists face consequences for
their words and actions.
In hindsight it’s
incredible how many of us swallowed the notion that people who didn’t
take the shot were “terrorists,” and needed the incentive of
ever-harsher “consequences” to repent of their “violence.” That this was
more religious movement than science was hard for some to see at the
time. The tell eventually was that none of the messaging relented when
details about the inefficacies of the vaccines came to light. Only a few
were willing to say anything about this. C.J. was one, and even if you
don’t agree with all he says — style-wise he often conducts literary
operations miles behind hyperbolic lines — he said a great many things
that were true and needed hearing. Now, he’s looking at charges for
doing so.
One thing The New Normal Reich
is not is a celebration of Nazi imagery. Hopkins is taking current
governments around the world that used the pandemic to assert sweeping
power and comparing them to Nazi rule. Here’s an example, from a column
called “The Germans are Back!” in November 2020:
On
November 18, the German parliament passed a new law, revising the
so-called “Infection Protection Act” (“Das Infektionsschutzgesetz” in
German), that formally granted the government the authority to issue
whatever edicts it wants under the guise of protecting the public
health…
Now, this revised “Infection Protection Act…” is not in any way comparable to the “Enabling Act of 1933,”
which formally granted the Nazi government the authority to issue
whatever edicts it wanted under the guise of remedying the distress of
the people. Yes, I realize that sounds quite similar, but, according to
the government and the German media, there is absolutely no equivalence
whatsoever, and anyone who even suggests there is… “a neo-Nazi
conspiracy theorist” ... or whatever.
In
no way does this kind of passage “further the aims of a former National
Socialist organization.” It compares the current German government to
Nazi Germany. The current German government in turn is openly validating
that comparison by criminally investigating C.J. for the critique.
What’s more dangerous than outlawing hate speech? Giving someone the authority to define hate speech. Germany has already jailed one lockdown critic (Michael Ballweg, arrested in a dubious fraud case), while microbiologist Sucharit Bhakdi was taken to trial
— acquitted, but still — for describing Israel as worse than Nazi
Germany. The Roger Waters case investigates clearly satirical imagery.
Set all those cases aside, however. C.J.’s situation is, openly, a case
of a government seeking to criminalize criticism of itself, the dumbest
and least defensible version of censorship possible. At the very least,
other writers should be taking his side, and journalists should bring
this case up anytime anyone even thinks about claming the United States
is “lagging” behind Europe on the speech-law front. I spoke with Hopkins
about his situation:
richardhanania |Ron: That’s very interesting, Marius. But I’d
like to go back to the strangeness of this group and their complaints.
When you’re talking about crime and the destruction of our great cities,
aren’t you really talking about, well, since you like the euphemism of
“Foundational American,” I’ll call them “1619 Americans”…
Brahmin:
In a way, yes, but preserving the Foundational American stock is
important. Whenever there is diversity, you see division, chaos,
bloodshed. That’s the rule here, that’s the rule everywhere. Have you
ever read Precambrian Pederast? He taught us about all that is wrong
with this disgusting era. Ethnic homogeneity must be preserved, above
all else.
Ron: That certainly
doesn’t seem to be the rule here. Today, I live in the Bay Area.
California is a majority-minority state. And yet we see very little of
the violence you fear. In 1970, California was 76% white. It’s now 35%
white. You know what’s happened to the murder rate in that time? It’s
been cut by two-thirds! As far as racial strife, you may have seen
recent news stories about the California reparations commission and San
Francisco wanting to offer blacks ungodly amounts of money to compensate
them for past and present racism. The Bay Area is like 8% black,
they’re the smallest population of the major American “races.” Yet if
you follow racial issues in the state, if you went into a coma in the
late 1960s and woke up in 2020, you would be amazed at how little had
changed. Well, pronouns and that stuff would be new. But on race, you
have income and test score disparities, crime that we can’t be honest
about, so-called “police brutality.” Only if anything, California is a
lot more peaceful due to the demographic change you all decry so much…
Allison: But they vote, Ron! Who gave us these crazy policies?
Ron: I
won’t dispute that Hispanic and Asian immigrants tend to vote Democrat.
But look at it another way. Republicans in 2016 nominated the guy whose
main message was “Mexicans are rapists.” In 2020, he still won 40% of
them. Can you imagine if Republicans could actually pretend to like
these people? Italians ended up pretty evenly divided between the two
parties, and even Jews are headed in the conservative direction thanks
to differential birth rates. I see no reason why there’s some impossible
barrier to overcome between Mestizos and white Americans. I mean look
at this room…
[In addition to the clearly swarthy Romero
and Brahmin, at least a third of the room looks to be of either Hispanic
or South Asian descent.]
Ron: You doubt
that you can have a multiracial country? You all have built a
multiracial movement based on the idea of maintaining racial purity.
Don’t check your phones, you might see another alert of a Neo-Nazi
Mexican mass shooter, there have been a few of those lately, and a
right-wing Indian just tried to kill Biden I believe. Remember not that
long ago when there was a mass shooting, and everyone would either hope
it was a right-wing white male or a Muslim, depending on their politics?
Well, now we have the brown white supremacist, which right-wingers on
Twitter tell me can’t possibly exist, even though it’s like half their
movement now.
When was the last time you even heard of
Muslim terrorism? Is a brown mass shooter these days more likely to be a
Muslim extremist or someone whose brain has been melted by the online
right? This question would’ve been laughable a few years ago, and I
guess it’s still laughable now, but for a different reason.
And
the funniest part is that I suspect that all of this results from a fear
of talking about what is arguably the main issue at the heart of the
American experiment. That’s right, it’s the weird, sadomasochistic
relationship between whites and blacks that was so well dramatized by
Tom Wolfe when he was alive. Oh sure, you guys talk about race and
crime. But it seems like you need your “racism” to be more inclusive.
You need to pretend to exclude everyone, because it seems more
consistent with universalist principles. “We just want to preserve the
demographic majority, the same right that anyone else has. Oh, it’s not
any particular group that’s the problem, it’s the principle of
diversity. Can’t we just have a world where every nation is homogenous
to the greatest extent possible and then we can all get along?”
[At this point I burst out laughing]
Me: Ron, so wait, what you’re saying
is that when we see a Klansman walking around in a hood and screaming
about defending the white race, we should pity him for how much his mind
has been captured by political correctness? That’s quite a funny image,
in fact, it alone has made my night here worthwhile.
Ron:
Indeed, Richard, that is what I’m saying. And these poor kids worried
about the future of the American right, are digging their own grave,
because, guess what? The die has been cast, and we’re headed to a
non-white majority. And so conservatism is shaping up to be a movement
that represents a coalition of overweight rural whites from left behind
areas of the country and short Mestizos, all crying about the passing of
whiteness and also about how much the country sucks because everyone is
so fat. This probably isn’t a winning message. Of course, there’s
overwhelming public support for clamping down on crime and making
institutions color-blind, or, as you would put it, going after civil
rights law. This is what turned whites towards the Republican Party in
the first place, or the disgusting ways in which white elites have let
our cities be destroyed and gone to war with every American principle —
merit, freedom of speech, rule of law, you name it — in the name of
anti-racism.
But instead of focusing on those things and
fixing the country, the American right has decided to get distracted by
doubling down on becoming a movement of brown white nationalists, in a
country where the majority of children born are already non-white.
[At
this point, I can feel the energy go out of the room. A few of the
attendees pick at one or another of Ron’s points, but they’re clearly
deflated and realize that he has given them a lot to think about. An
hour and a half later, he is driving me home.]
Me: Wow,
Ron, that was something else. I really wish you would’ve elaborated on
the vaccine thing a little bit more. Their desire to “own the libs” has
really swallowed every other part of their brain, even though they like
to think they’re more sophisticated than regular conservatives, and I
appreciated you recently taking apart some of the most ridiculous claims
of the anti-vaxxers.
Ron: Thank you, Richard. We’ll have to do this again some time.
Me: Oh yeah, I had a lot of fun. What do you think you should try to convince people of next time?
Ron: I believe that covid-19 has a non-zoonotic origin.
Me:
So lab leak? That’s it? That’s very mainstream at this point, it’s
impossible to find a right-winger who doesn’t believe that this was all
the fault of the Chinese.
Ron: Who said anything about the Chinese?
Me: Wait,
is this another one of your anti-American conspiracy theories? You’re
now going to tell me that the US government accidentally inflicted covid
on the world?
Ron: Who said anything about it being an accident?
Me:
Please stop Ron, there are only so many mind-blowing ideas I can digest
in one night. Let’s talk about the pleasant California weather for the
rest of our trip, and how nice it is to live in a state with such
natural beauty and low levels of violent crime.
iu.edu |The omission of clothing from historians’ discussion of the effect of Nazi propaganda is not by accident. It was Joseph Goebbels, the Nazis’ Reich Minister of Propaganda, who famously said, “Propaganda becomes ineffective the moment we become aware of it.” Thepower in the uniform therein lies in its silence. The uniform is not a poster, a film, or a speech, but a silent, omnipresent actor that, like these media, is a piece of the Nazi propaganda machine. Goebbels’ quote perfectly encapsulates the propagandistic impact of the uniforms worn during the time of the Third Reich. Consequently, Nazi dress and regalia are not the most talked about aspects of the Nazis’ propaganda machine, but more than likely, the least touched upon.
Regardless of silence and scarcity in conversation however, Nazi uniforms may have been the most effective for the very reason that Goebbels outlined: German citizens, enemies of the Nazi regime and foreigners alike were unaware that the Nazis they viewed were walking advertisements for the Reich. These uniforms may have been mute, but they constantly operated in service of the regime through their utilisation of both style and menace.
Uniforms, which have come to be known as one of the most visually-striking elements of Nazi aesthetics, served as one of the principal vectors of propaganda in the Third Reich. In biology, a vector is an organism, typically of the biting sort, that transfers a disease from one being to another– Nazi uniforms did just that. However, instead of fleas transferring the plague, the Nazis used clothing to present propaganda that conveyed their message of racial dominance and militarism without uttering a word. Uniforms operated as an arm of the Nazi ideals of Volksgemeinschaft, in English, a people’s community andGleichschaltung, the idea of bringing everything in line with the values of national socialism. The Nazi uniform aided in the destruction of personal identity and smoothed out the differences between German citizens thereby constructing both an egalitarian and passive society.
The main question of this paper is: how did the Nazi Party use its uniforms to exude elegance whilst eliciting fear in order to further its ideology into the minds of wearers, viewers and enemies? In other words, how was the uniform a piece of propaganda? I will argue that the Nazis used uniforms to produce a fashionable aesthetic to serve as another arm of the Third Reich’s propaganda machine– specifically, through the stark uniform that so occupies our memory of the image of the Nazis. I will look at the structure and implementation of the Nazi uniform and how it pertained to the promotion of the ideals of the Reich. By then using primary sources from vantage points, the perception and effect of these uniforms can be analysed and their propagandistic effect better understood.
This paper arises out of my own interests in the ability fashion to speak. A natural reaction of impressedness from seeing images of Nazi men clad in strong and svelte clothing forced me to recognise this regalia as different from ordinary uniforms. In other words these were the propagandistic impacts of Nazi fashion, generated from viewing images of Nazi elites and soldiers, felt decades after their design to have just that effect. I was interested in separating the crimes of the Third Reich and understanding how the regime’s look could be evil, investigating whether the fear we associate with the Nazi uniform was an intention in design, or a function of the crimes committed by the Nazis. Did the Nazi uniform have a unique look for its time? Would an allied uniform look ‘evil’ if it was placed into the context of crimes such as the Holocaust? This question can be answered through the juxtaposition of the uniform against those of concurrent, non-German armies and peoples. Isolating an intention to create a uniform that functioned in such a multifaceted way spurred an interest within me to explore the possible depth of the Nazi uniform.
What I believe makes this paper special is that it explores an important and relevant topic: the usage of inanimate and non-vocal (through sound, text or image) techniques to disseminate information. My hope is that this paper will enlighten the reader to look more critically at the ability of potential actors at play in the political sphere. When it comes to gaining and maintaining power, anything can be in service of a regime– including fashion.
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