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Monday, April 5, 2021

Mother Gaia Gone Wild

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Foreword

Today the government, media, and education proclaim a constant gloom and doom narrative about the ecosystem. Even some mainstream churches bloviate about the plight of Mother Gaia. [1] Together, these entities engage in gaslighting to program this narrative into the brains of the citizenry. [2] It is all about the environment and the plight of creatures great and small.

With the above backdrop, it seems we have lost the ability to remember and learn from our history. Scientists have discovered the A1 Mutation, a defect affecting people’s ability to learn from the past. [3] Therefore, we must take a spin back in time from the 1970s up to the turn of the century to see the roots of the current environmental/species movement.

Forest for the Trees

With all the forest fires in recent years, common sense would need to be applied to reduce fires. What is the solution? To selectively cut the trees and right on queue, the radical environmental zealots go into ballistic launch mode. The typical manta was and continues to be “Fred is selling out to the corporations.” If truly about the environment, it would, in a pure sense, be a noble thing. However, uncut forests burn, plain and simple. So why do we keep our hands off the forests to let them burn?

Let us place all of this in another perspective by saying it is perfectly acceptable for nature to pollute. What else is the answer? One response is that a small number of the radical environmental zealots are pantheists that knowingly or unknowingly worship Mother Gaia. How dare we the modern people (the scourge of the earth) defile mother planet to do things like cut trees to make houses. However, do these worshippers even consider the program whereby most of the corporations that harvest trees plant more than harvest? Currently, on an annual basis growth outpaces harvesting.

If people want to worship the earth, this is perfectly acceptable as the First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees participation in a religion (or non-religion) of one’s choice without interference from the government. So, shall we play the same game as those who invoke the “Wall of Separation” to prevent certain people from publicly expressing their Christian religion? Therefore, the people who worship the earth should not receive any help from the government to aid them with their pantheistic environmental causes. It is now appropriate to ask an environmentalist how they like it when we say that they cannot publicly express their earth worship.

In 2002, radical environmental zealot William Meadows, president of the Wilderness Society, chided then-President W. Bush for an “irresponsible anti-environmental agenda ...The truth is that waiving environmental laws will not protect homes and lives from wildfire ... history, and science clearly demonstrate that clearing fuels away from the immediate area around homes is the best protection.” Mr. Meadows affirmed a truth - cutting does protect homes! It stops fires. Oh my, oh my indeed. One of sound mind must then conclude that selective cutting throughout the forest will help to protect the rest of the forest.

The above shows some of the illogic spewing forth from some of the radical environmental zealots. However, it does not matter what this author, or for that matter those with a Ph.D. in science say to counter the radical environmental zealots. The media offers nothing of what true science has to offer about the environment. It is clear as a glass eyeball that the establishment will project the mantra of the silliest of the radical environmental zealots. A particular mainstream reporter some years ago said that left-wing environmental zealot Theodore Kazinski (the Unabomber) was a “nice guy.”

Does it get any worse? Surely, as your author remembers the reports about the four firefighters who lost their lives in 2001. At the Okanogan National Forest in Winthrop, Washington, firefighters perished because of the inability to pluck water by aircraft from a river. The environmental zealots said the firefighters “should have not been there.” Not been there? The real story is the fact that the environmentalists delayed the plucking of water to save the firefighters because of concerns about the fish. The fish may have been picked up in the water used to fight the fire. So, the firefighters perished because the radical environmental zealots refused to allow selective logging.

Forest fires are indeed natural occurrences and are nature’s way of thinning the underbrush. Enter humanity, who can be a good steward of the earth by using nature’s bounty to make life better and healthier. Does it not make sense to use the material rather than to let it burn? Not to the radical environmental zealots. Of course, abuse of natural resources can be destructive. It also can be unequivocally said that people can coexist with nature. With forests declared off-limits to people, intense fires occur. As a result, we get smoke (nature’s pollution) spewing forth into the atmosphere. As far as this author is concerned, the radical environmental zealots cannot see the forest for the trees. Or could it be that they have another agenda?

Unquestionably a good environment is an absolute necessity. However, rest assured we have a hijacked movement with feel-good platitudes for covert purposes (green on the outside and red on the inside). But for now, let us focus on another example of the duplicity of this movement. Many of the same people who deplore “corporate welfare” such as subsidies for ranching, mining, logging, etc. are the same ones who are active in the environmental movement. Some may say, “OK Fred what’s your point?” The same ones who cry about corporate welfare are active in a movement that itself receives a copious amount of subsidy from the coffers to tout their environmental issues. Today corporate welfare is a gold mine for woke causes such as the environmental movement.

The radical environmental zealots or their handlers aside, it is possible to allow selective cutting or thinning of trees to 1) reduce wildfires and 2) provide lumber to build such things as houses (the same places that environmental zealots live in most of the year). The environmental zealots believe that the logging of the dead burnt wood from the forests should not be allowed. They believe that Mother Nature should fend for itself. If so, then let us stop all farming and let nature take care of itself to supply our food. Surely this would finally secure a Utopia on earth by significantly reducing the population. Think this is a joke? Enter one Mr. Jaques Ives Cousteau (RIP) who once said “In order to stabilize world population, it is necessary to eliminate 350,000 people a day”

Endangered Species Act Up

In 1973, President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act (ESA) into law. The ESA gives the Federal government overarching power over “endangered” species, subspecies, or distinct regional populations of creatures from a four-legged mammal down to a microscopic insect. It is a wonder how they choose certain creatures to be “extinct.” In addition to the work of politically motivated scientists that work for the government, private lawsuits occur to make the government include a particular creature on the endangered list. And, certainly, their motives are pure — it is all about the creatures. Just like it is “all about the children.” If so, then there is some swampland for sale in Texas.

As the government acts to protect a particular creature, it can and does limit the use of private property that may be “critical.” Our good “Little Wiley” friends are the quintessential critical habitat example. The ESA, a powerful act, takes precedence over the taking clause of the Constitution. There are a copious number of examples where people lost their jobs due to the halting of a construction project because of an accident that killed a particular garter snake (oh the horrors).

The government spends billions under the ESA cult because the Commerce Clause makes it “Constitutional.” If not, how about the General Welfare clause to take care of that unfortunate obstacle? Another fine example of the living breathing Constitution.

Remember the northern spotted owl? That creature is one of many ESA tools that the radical environmental zealots continue to invoke to thwart human rights. A particularly salient example from back in 2002 is the case of Marsha Seier from Linn County, Oregon. She lost $300,000 in marketable timber because of sightings of a particular critter on her property. This loss was solely due to a pair of owls named “Little Wiley” that was on her property nine years before the controversy and not seen since. Because these two birds have a “potential” to come around once again, the government prohibited Marsha from cutting good harvestable (renewable) timber on 40 acres of her property.

Considering “Little Wiley,” what about the Fourth Amendment? Since the government must supply just compensation for the taking of property, should the government compensate Marsha? Some will say, how did the government take? The environmental laws prohibit people to “take” an endangered species. Some will say: “So what, people should not be rewarded for cutting trees.” Excuse me, but this is property owned by a citizen and as such it is Marsha’s for her use as desired. Does this mean she should destroy the environment? Good citizens will act accordingly and there is nothing wrong with selective cutting and keeping the property in good shape. Private property owners typically do this better than the government. Most forest fires occur on government property.

While it is unpopular to do it, we must consider some very poignant questions concerning some of the radical environmental zealots. For example, do they live in houses? Virtually all houses have wood products. Do they read any printed material or distribute propaganda? Certainly, and some will say that environmentally conscious people tout biodegradable packaging. Agreed, but boxes and paper bags are paper products (read trees). This is like the campaign to demonize SUV owners, as the elitists who peddle this mantra have large homes and multiple vehicles. This, along with the environmental-social-gospel, constitutes two quintessential examples of hyper hypocrisy.

Some will say, “Hold on Fred, this is about the owls as they need their trees!” While the argument is about giving the owls more rights than people, we must point out that there are plenty of trees for these critters and many others, even with harvesting. At this point in our history, we already know growth outpaces cutting. We must also ask our environmental friends about the plight of the critters when the forest burns due to a lack of harvesting. I can only imagine the answer to this puzzling quiz. The above aside, the radical environmental zealots still want a significant amount of the land in this country to be devoid of a particular creature that they believe to be detestable — humans.

Conclusion

Do not expect the young people of today to grow up and reverse this totalitarian thought process. Our wonderful schools indoctrinate the children in earth worship – plain and simple. How do we know? Here is a particularly poignant personal experience. Some years ago, your author was taking part in a community walk to advance cancer research. Walking along the river in our community, the daughter of my friend vilified the anglers. They were enjoying a day out catching the newly stocked trout. She said, “Oh those fishermen are destroying the environment.” This was from a girl in the second grade! Where did she get brainwashed – school. If still skeptical of Fred’s claims, check out Ark of Hope.

Friends, today we are subjected to gaslighting (pun intended). A never-ending storyline framed in a 24-7 projection with a 1984-like setting proclaiming that carbon dioxide gas (a necessary ingredient of life) is a pollutant. [4] Dare one raise a simple question? Here comes the Pavlov’s Dog response: “You’re a climate denier.” Worse than a Holocaust denier, or we might, dare we say, face hate speech charges against the New Normal’s god, Mother Nature. That’s right, for example, when questioning the Covid doom narrative or environmental mania, you could face charges of hate speech as demonstrated by the Center for Countering the Digital Hate. After all, SARS-Cov-2 is a natural thing. Or is it?

We all know about the onslaught of environmental madness by the indisputable fruits of things such as the Green New Deal. It is called Socialism. Nowadays, the trifecta consisting of government, media, and big business have toned down the Green New Deal rhetoric. Do not worry, my debased woke folk friends, that this is all hidden in the multi-trillion-dollar (and growing) congressional bills (and growing) that address Corona-doom and the supposed rebuilding of the infrastructure. Congress creates fiat money to fund this largess. [5]

Notes

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/god-make-way-for-gaia-a-deity-even-atheists-can-believe-in-1.4265949 “Step forward Gaia: a god that even militant atheists can respect, if not revere. Unlike the God of the Bible, Gaia is one of those lustful, irritable, and contrary gods that populate Greek mythology. As ‘Mother Earth,’ she was the second element in the evolution of the cosmos after Chaos the primordial void, according to ancient lore.”
Frederick R. Smith, Ghastly Gaslighting, September 27, 2020.
Operation Dragon: Inside the Kremlin’s Secret War on America (Encounter Books New York – London 2021) p. 175. “Soon after the Soviet bloc collapsed, researchers at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in the now liberated Leipzig discovered a genetic factor, the A1 mutation, which affects the ability to learn from past mistakes. On April 12, 2003, thousands of Americans, presumably infected by the A1 mutation, began sermonizing that capitalism was America’s real enemy and that it should be replaced with socialism by redistributing the country’s wealth. Quite a few young Americans cheered. They were, of course, galvanized by the prospect that a Democratic administration would force rich Americans to pay for young people’s own health care, mortgages, loans, and school tuition.”
William M. Briggs April 15, 2021, The Looming Decarbocalypse — Guest Post by Uncle Mike. “It goes without saying, but must be said anyway, that Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is the fundamental building block of all life. Every atom of carbon in your body (we are all carbon-based lifeforms) was once atmospheric CO2. Every molecule of Oxygen (O2) that you breathe (without which we would rapidly expire) was once atmospheric CO2. . . . In their quest for power and money, the authoritarians and totalitarians seek to eliminate CO2 from our atmosphere. It may be a scam to justify world domination and mass enslavement, but if their plans are acceded to, they will generate the Decarbocalypse: the End of Life on Planet Earth. Their madness has escalated beyond genocide and total war to the death of our planet. Instead of “saving the environment”, they will kill us all and the rest of nature to boot.”
Frederick R. Smith Speaks, Creature from Jekyll Island, July 17, 2021. “The basic reality of inflation is the fact that it is a hidden tax. It is the result of the increase in the supply of money and credit. The value of the 1940-dollar, compared to the purchasing power of today, is now only about 50 cents or less (and counting). Another salient point to consider is the fact that inflation has nothing to do with supply and demand (rising wages and prices). These are the symptoms of the damaging effects of pumping money without backing into the economy. This is the fiat currency backed by nothing more than the faith of the people.”

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Thursday, March 18, 2021

Demented Delphi and Creepy Consensus

Frederick R Smith has moved to Frederick R. Smith Speaks (substack.com)

The Founding Fathers were people of diverse backgrounds and interests, but they had a common goal — the development of a new nation, a Republic. Despite their differences, the Founders compromised on certain issues but worked together in a struggle to free themselves from the Crown. With the cancellation of history, we rarely hear about compromise and up until the recent time, it was “consensus.” Now it is the Caustic Cancel Culture Pogrom.

In the late 1960s, the esoteric think tank called RAND Corporation developed a particular program or process with “consensus” the core element. This is known as the Delphi Method (or Technique). [1] This process developed into “forecasting methodology,” a group decision-making instrument. This paved the way by which a group of experts could come to some “consensus of opinion” when the key factors of an issue were subjective. More specifically, facts and knowledge are secondary elements.

In more recent times, the Delphi Method has evolved into a completely different process and purpose. This process, “Consensus Building,” may seem familiar sounding. Surely many adults, regardless of their social status, have been subject to this sinister groupthink process. It exists in churches, businesses, government, and civic associations. It has been so successful with perceived results that most people embrace the consensus process without any knowledge of its sinister nature.

During group settings, consensus-building can be an unscrupulous way to achieve harmony on controversial topics. For high-profile issues, it requires well-trained “change agents” that are presented to the group as “facilitators.” Even well-intentioned people are trained to be facilitators and conditioned to promote the Delphi Method based on the consensus process. Once trained, the facilitators unwittingly (or wittingly) cause tension between group members. The goal is to pit one faction against another to make a pre-selected viewpoint seem sensible. At the same time, it is the protocol of the consensus process to make opposing views appear unreasonable.

The “Alinksy Method” [2] is a certain form of the consensus-building process for the educational setting. In this case, the setting or group is secondary, but it is the people in groups that tend to share certain knowledge and show certain identifiable characteristics. This is known as group dynamics and the change agent or facilitator goes through the motions of acting as an organizer. The facilitator gets each person in the group to express their concerns about a topic. They then carefully listen and designate workgroups, advocate participants to make lists (sound familiar?), and ask for comments. During this part of the process, the facilitator learns something about each member of the group. This enables the facilitator to silently find the talkers, sub-group “leaders,” and those who are non-committal to an idea or policy.

At this point in the process, the well-trained facilitator engages in psychological manipulation (divide and conquer) whereby those who are out of step become stigmatized with being “resistant to change” or “against progress.” Since the professional facilitator is well trained, they are experts at being able to predict the reactions of each person. As such, those opposed to the intended outcome become alienated from the group. Those named to be out of step will rarely know that they are under a manipulation scheme.

With the above achieved, the group becomes divided, and the facilitator magically becomes accepted as a member of the group. The facilitator is now on the way to becoming a change agent. They do this by presenting the idea at hand for group discussion. Magically, the participants who are polarized from the group start to embrace the idea as if it were their own. This pressures all participants to accept the idea or proposition.

If there is continued resistance, it is time to call for a coffee break. During the break, the facilitator, and co-facilitators (or spotters who watch the participants during a meeting), decide who congregates and where. If the participants that resist the process congregate together, a spotter will mingle with that group. They then report back to the facilitator. This is how the facilitators know whom to avoid as the session continues. One positive outcome from Coronadoom — it sure put the brakes on this element of the program.

The consensus-building process uses the Hegelian Dialect [3] of collective thought based on a thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. The consensus process is the practical application of differing or opposing views (thesis and antithesis). As illustrated above, the opposing views are changed toward an intended thought process (synthesis). The group members accept “ownership” of the new idea changing their views by manipulation to line up with the new policy or idea.

Change agents believe in the process or have justification programmed into their minds to use consensus-building. Nevertheless, the net effects of these psychological manipulations include polarized sub-groups. Either people do not know what is going on or they understand that their role is merely obligatory. Those not duped know that it is a preset outcome and that they are not a part of the “go team.” When opposition occurs reform change agents can say that there was true “community participation.”

In public school settings, only parents who agree with the process can be on restructuring committees. Carefully screened new participants ensure that education reform goes forward unquestioned. If sizable opposition persists, the change agents take steps to neutralize opposition.

If the above technique is so successful, in neutralizing a group, why hold such meetings, particularly if the outcome is pre-selected? The answer – for the long term it is critical that the change agents obtain an overarching acceptance of their radial outcome, even if it is illusionary. Whatever the nefarious program, be it outcome-based education, school to work, sex “education” for early grade school, or the environment. This works so well, that the most sinister human-hating program such as extreme environmentalism that trumps human rights will be “accepted.” Dare any person even talk about the bad side of unreasonable extremist environmentalism, they will face branding as polluters and animal murderers. Today, anything under the sun will get the “racist” treatment if it does not fit the narrative.

The Delphi Method effectively changed our nation from a representative republic to a fake “participatory democracy” in which citizens at large find themselves brainwashed into fiat ownership of preset outcomes.

The only advice this author can present is to simply be aware and resist the psychological manipulation. If your employer or other organization you belong to mandates your attendance at a consensus-building meeting, be not afraid. Simply reduce your participation to a minimum and never show anger. Even a well-trained change agent will be stumped and will only figure out your position when it is too late in the game. As such, it is important to minimally take part and do not let any person know that you disagree with the “program.” In the end, you may be voluntold to present your position and if possible, calmly say that the outcome is unacceptable and that you are compelled to abstain. If it is necessary to be in “consensus” (to keep your job) it may, unfortunately, be time to say that you can “live with it.” But today even that may not work, after all, “silence is violence” in the mind of the debased commie woke folk.

While it may not be possible to resist all nefarious consensus-building sessions, you now have the tools to let cogent non-woke folk know what is occurring. Let those who you trust have the empowerment to resist the dreadful consensus-building sessions. You will also know when a consensus-building session is acceptable (it is not based on the Delphi Method). For added guidance, please see “The Delphi - How to Disrupt It.”

Sources:

B.K Eakman, Cloning of the American Mind: Eradicating Morality through Education (Lafayette, LA Huntington House Publishers, 1998)
Personal experience at meetings with the Delphi Method in action.

Notes:

The precursor to the Delphi Method is the Tavistock Method. In 1932, a psychiatrist and British military officer by the name of John Rawlings Rees headed the Tavistock Clinic. This was an outgrowth of the Tavistock Institue of Medical Psychology, founded in 1920. A 1947 Rockefeller Foundation grant redirected the program to become the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. That same year, Tavistock partnered with Kurt Lewin’s Research Center for Group Dynamics at the University of Michigan. The story goes deep into a rabbit hole but briefly, the key point is the fact that Lewin’s Group Dynamics marked the beginning of a collaboration between Lenin and the Tavistock Institute in Britain. See pp. 191 - 195 of Cloning of the American Mind.
Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) was a debased organizer and a key figure in the development of unions in Chicago in the 1930s. Trained as a sociologist at the University of Chicago, he felt that social change could only occur by the mobilization and organization of people seeking such change (direct democracy). Alinksy was involved in many “social justice” (Communism) issues and in the 1950s he founded the Industrial Areas Foundation. Alinsky developed his brand of radical community-based organizing. He authored the books “Reveille for Radicals” and “Rules for Radicals.” Barack Husain Obama has close ties to Alinsky. To see how the debased folk spin this subject, check out Hillary Haters’ Fixation on Saul Alinsky.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) came to prominence during the period of “German idealism” in the decades following Kant, the philosopher. Throughout his published writings as well as in his lectures, Hegel tried to elaborate a comprehensive and systematic ontology (philosophical metaphysics concerned with the nature of being) from a “logical” starting point. He is most well-known for his natural (as opposed to a supernatural account of history). Hegel’s interpretation of history found its way to Marx where he “inverted” it into a materialist theory of historical development (Communism).

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Sunday, March 14, 2021

Elia Kazan the Great

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Elia Kazan (1909 – 2003) was born in Constantinople (now Istanbul). In 1913, Kazan along with his Greek parents came to the United States and they settled in New York City. Kazan’s father, George Kazanjoglous, worked as a rug merchant and expected his son to follow him. However, Kazan’s mother, Athena, encouraged her son to make his own decisions.

Kazan attended public schools in the New York City area and graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts. Thereafter, he studied drama at Yale. In the 1930s, Kazan took part in New York’s Group Theater and it was during this acting stint that he worked with well-known actor Lee Strasberg. In 1935, he directed his first stage production and by the 1940s he was known to be one of the great Broadway actor/producers. He also was one of the founders of the “Actor’s Studio” in 1947. The more notable achievements were his direction of the plays “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1947) by Tennessee Williams and “Death of a Salesman” (1948) by Arthur Miller. After Streetcar Named Desire, Kazan also took part in the development of William’s scripts. In 1955, William’s felt that Kazan had taken over his authority as the writer of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”

Kazan also started to work on films during this period and his first feature film was “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” (1945). In 1947, he won the Academy Award for the film “Gentleman’s Agreement” in which Gregory Peck portrayed a reporter investigating Anti-Semitism. Kazan worked with Marlon Brando during the Broadway production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” and in 1951 it was made into a screenplay. The movie adaptation starred Kim Hunter and Karl Malden. Brando said that “Kazan is the best actor’s director you could ever want… because he was an actor himself, but a special kind of actor. He understands things that other directors do not. He also inspired you. Most actors are expected to come with their parts in their pockets and their emotions spring-loaded, when the director says, ‘Okay, hit it,’ they go into a time-slip. But Kazan brought a lot of things to the actor and he invited you to argue with him. He is one of the few directors creative and understanding enough to know where the actor's trying to go. He’d let you play a scene almost any way you’d want.” [1]

Brando’s key role in “VIVA ZAPATA!” (1952) and “On the Waterfront” (1954) won him eight Oscars. Budd Schulberg's account of corruption in NYC harbor unions was the basis of “On the Waterfront.” Schulberg knew his subject as he testified as a friendly witness before a Congressional committee looking into the corruption of longshoreman. In this film, there were depictions of conflicting loyalties that paralleled Kazan’s own life.

On April 10, 1952, Kazan testified at the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA) hearings and admitted past membership in the Communist party. It was there that he committed the secular sin that certain people from the debased left have never forgotten — he named others in his former secret Communist group. Kazan not only admitted that he had been a Communist member for 18 months (1934-36), but he named eight people who had been in the party with him. He did not denounce them, as some newspapers erroneously reported. The unreported truth: Kazan felt that they joined for the same reasons he did, anger against Hitler and sympathy for the poor. Just two days after his appearance, Kazan placed an ad in the New York Times urging others who knew about this “dangerous and alien conspiracy” to inform the public or “the appropriate government agency.” Many with a debased leftist worldview were ballistic, as they could not stand such “betrayal” from one of their own.

Other former party members had appeared before the HCUA and spoke of ex-comrades. However, the debased lamestream media vilified Elia to the hilt because he was the most well-known former Communist from the entertainment industry to have cooperated with the HCUA. As an insult to the lamestream, even more, Kazan had become an anti-Communist. While he was initially reluctant, he thought that cooperating with HCUA was a justifiable position because of the menace that Communism posed to world stability. Kazan also supplied information on how key Communist leaders would show his Red Cell how to assist the party’s front organizations and how to make Group Theatre a Communist organ. Other debased leftist publications, including The Nation (still an open Commie rag) and the New York Post (then a far-left newspaper), went after Kazan. Playwright Arthur Miller (his longtime friend and collaborator) and Stalinist/writer Lillian Hellman joined in the assault. Even today, the lamestream will portray the “Kazan affair” as an illustration of “McCarthyism” but never mention the salient facts. The most outstanding item to consider is the fact that HCUA was a project of the House of Representatives; McCarthy was a senator.

Even today, people will invoke the “terror” of the “blacklist.” Kazan’s exposure that peeled open the Communist infiltration was the reason for the blacklist (supposedly). Hogwash and balderdash! The blacklist would have occurred even without Kazan’s exposure. On their own, after the HCUA hearings, Hollywood executives felt compelled to deny jobs to about three hundred Communists in Hollywood. About 150 more people were denied jobs in television and radio. [2] Nevertheless, the reporters who do not know history will spout off that “thousands” of people (Communist or not) had their careers ruined because of Kazan and others such as McCarthy. Nonsense! What is not reported are the correct numbers (as supplied above). Furthermore, a number of those blacklisted could continue to work under assumed names. The above illustrates why the McCarthyism mantra continues to this day — people are unaware of the facts at best or at worst they are in sympathy with Communism (debased woke folk). [3] Today, the Caustic Cancel Culture Pogrom, managed by the same Commie crowd and their puppets (useful debased woke folk), have the upper hand terminating the jobs of many people who dare question the new Communist woke worldview.

Just two years after his testimony, Kazan directed “On the Water Front,” which he considered an allegory about his life. The brave Budd Schulberg, who also turned against Communism in 1951, wrote the script. This work by these two brave former Communists inspired the public and Hollywood. Kazan forged ahead to produce many more wholesome movies. Other well-known actors that stared in his movies included Montgomery Cliff, Lee Remick, Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, and Kirk Douglas. In the 1970s, Kazan devoted more of his time to writing.

In his autobiography “Elia Kazan: A Life,” he wrote “No one who did what I did, whatever his reasons, came out of it undamaged… I did not. Here I am, thirty-five years later, still worrying over it. I knew what it would cost me. Do I now feel ashamed of what I did? ... The truth is that within a year I’d stopped feeling guilty or even embarrassed about what I’d done...”

The measure of the success of Communist infiltration in Hollywood is the virtually total absence of movies to this day that chronicle the primary drama of the last century: the struggle for freedom against totalitarian communism. There are just a few exceptions with the motion picture Dr. Zhivago being one notable example. Nevertheless, not one Hollywood film has ever depicted the horrors of the Soviet-induced famine in Ukraine, the Gulags, the Moscow show trials, or the Hungarian uprising against the Soviet military. For the cogent un-woke folk reader, this sure proves the salient point. Specifically, the debased lamestream media and Hollywood were, and are, indeed Communist fronts.

In 1983, Kazan was honored with a Life Achievement award at a Kennedy Center ceremony. In 1999, he received an Honorary Oscar, and your author can clearly remember the television footage showing Warren Beatty applauding while Nick Nolte remained seated with his arms folded in his lap. This award was due in part to the persistent lobbying by Karl Malden and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (sponsor of the Oscar night). Sad to say, the announcement of this event gave birth to some bitter protests, and right on cue the debased lamestream media made much of Kazan’s supposed “betrayal” of old friends. What a bunch of debased Communist creeps.

In 1932, Kazan married playwright Molly Day Thatcher and they had four children. She passed away in 1963. In 1967, he married the actress/writer Barbara Loden and she passed away in 1980. In 1982, Kazan married Frances Rudge.

On September 28, 2003, Elia Kazan passed away, in his Manhattan home. The debased lamestream media gave just a fleeting mention of the passing of this wonderful 94-year-old man. Films directed by Kazan garnered 22 Academy Awards, 62 nominations, and two Directing Oscars. Kazan had a liberal worldview, but he would be “moderate” by today’s standards. He gave us wonderful memories of the once upon a time decent entertainment industry.

Notes:

Conversations with Marlon Brando by Lawrence Grobel, 1991
The “Hollywood Ten” were in this “list.” These were the unfriendly Communist witnesses who refused to cooperate with HCUA. While it is not illegal to be a member of the Communist Party, each of the Hollywood Ten served time for contempt of Congress.
“Debased woke folk” is Fred’s term for those who have lost critical thinking skills (debased) and have a programed mind (woke) because of the psychological operations of the media and education systems. The opposite: cogent non-woke folk.

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Sunday, January 24, 2021

The Jolly Jacobin

Frederick R Smith has moved to Frederick R. Smith Speaks (substack.com)

Jacobin is a quarterly publication based in New Woke Sitty (cough cough). We shall give it credit for honesty as the publisher openly proclaims their affinity for leftism. We are talking about hardcore commie stuff like an icon of Karl Marx on their website (scroll down a little and Marx shows up in a mirror on the left side of the screen). Now for a little primer on what is a Jacobin.

Established in France in 1789, the Jacobins were initially known as the “Society of the Friends of the Constitution.” Later, as the Jacobin Club, it met in a former convent of the Dominicans (known in Paris as Jacobins). Deputies of the National Assembly formed the Jacobins to protect against a possible aristocratic reaction to the Revolution. Though it did not have a direct role in overthrowing the monarchy in 1792, the club later changed its name to “Society of the Jacobins, Friends of Liberty and Equality.” It accepted leftist deputies of the National Convention and agitated for the king’s execution and the overthrow of the moderate Girondins. In 1793, with about 8,000 clubs and 500,000 members, the Jacobins became instruments of the Reign of Terror (French Revolution). In April 1790 Maximilien Robespierre ascended to president of the Jacobin Club and became increasingly popular as an enemy of the monarchy and as an advocate of democratic reforms. [1]

The Jacobins are well known, and many history books acknowledge their subversive tactics concerning the French Revolution. In the USA, during the French Revolution, it was common for people to throw the epitaph “Jacobin” out at people perceived to be in line with the thinking of the radical aspects of the Enlightenment. In fact, Federalists were known to call Thomas Jefferson a Jacobin for his Deist thinking and his outward sympathy with the French Revolution. [2]

The Jacobin publication started in 2010 as an online magazine but expanded to a print journal later that same year; shall we express our displeasure to the publisher for something so environmentally unfriendly and traditional as a hard copy? The publisher, Bhaskar Sunkara, describes Jacobin as “. . . largely the product of a younger generation not quite as tied to the Cold War paradigms that sustained the old leftist intellectual milieux like Dissent or New Politics, but still eager to confront, rather than table, the questions that arose from the experience of the left in the 20th century.” [3] In 2020, Jacobin reported the print magazine has 60,000 subscribers. Oh no, more trees cut down. To be fair, your author does not make any attempt to link the Jacobin publication with the French Revolution.

According to Wikipedia, that stalwart of unbiased writing, “Jacobin’s popularity grew with the increasing attention of leftist ideas stimulated by the Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign, with subscriptions tripling from 10,000 in the summer of 2015 to 32,000 as of the first issue of 2017, with 16,000 of the new subscribers added in the two months after Donald Trump’s election.” [4]

The title of the February 10, 2021, edition of Jacobin, “Biden Our Time,” supplies a quantitative insight into the worldview of the publisher and the column authors. Russian TV (RTV) states that this “… issue of Jacobin magazine covering the inauguration features a mock icon, complete with a halo around Biden's head, seraphim-like Clintons, and angelic killer drones in the sky. Some don’t seem to realize it is satire.” [5]

Satire or not, we must give credit to the publisher as the iconic image on the cover of the Winter 2021 Edition of Jacobin is indeed a striking mockery. The glowing imagery, reminiscent of Eastern Rite Catholicism, supplies a keen insight to how the Main Lame Stream Media (MLSM) fawned over the Harris One – Biden Two candidates, more recently honoring them as (super-vice) president/president-elect (cough, cough). The MLSM now engages in mental masturbation worshiping the lovely pair.

For added insight, examine the magazine cover on the top of this blog. Warning: if you are a cogent non-woke folk, grab a bottle of Eyezen™ — just in case. If that does not work, how about getting strapped to a chair, fitted with a straight jacket, head affixed with an iron halo, and donned with eye clamps. This, with copious eye drops, will ensure a comprehensive viewing.

It may be dangerous to mention the above, as it could give our debased friends an idea of how to deprogram 75 million Trump voters, just like the procedure depicted above from A Clockwork Orange. But we the cogent folk shall be realists, as the debased might (?) have plans in place similar to the life transition pogrom called Carousel featured in the motion picture Logan’s Run.

Next, clear your mind and note the central and largest figure: halo Joe-Joe. “Over the top” we see Hillary, Barack Hussein, and Bill in that order your left to your right. Barack Hussein is at the center top. That must be an oversight at best or an outright outrage at worst by the Jacobin. Remember, the MLSM told us Bill was the first African American President. Concerning the MLSM, sure enough, they are at the feet of halo Joe-Joe looking up to their savior. Good old “now I am free from the bullying” Dr. Fauci is at the right hand (your left) of halo Joe-Joe pointing to a flatten the curve graph. Is that Bill Gates next to him? To the left hand (your right) is the esteemed personification of the left: Upchuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.

Now for the double entendre. Our debased leftist / Marxist / Maoist / progressive / commie / Leninist / citizens of the world woke-folk claim we are all equals. [6] Before moving on, did we miss any terms to describe the debased? So, my cogent non-woke friends, how do we reconcile people under the feet of halo Joe-Joe that have no halo? Further, how about the image showing those with a halo have no mask! So, the lower “equals” must wear a mask while the elite (halos) have no mask. The halo folks have preternatural forces to kill Corona-1984! The super snoopers among us will note that a few of the underclasses are mask free. It is all about the children of course. Rest assured the good Dr. Fauci supplied his advice and gave his scientific (cough, cough) opinion that fulfills the wish of the Illuminati to allow the children to play mask-free. And no, this has nothing to do with Qanon.

“Do not judge a book by its cover” gains new heights in the stratosphere with this issue of Jacobin. While a paid subscription will gain access to the article contents, just reading the column titles is all that the cogent non-woke folk need to confirm their suspicions. For quintessential examples, how about “A Left That Matters,” “When Biden Met Hillarycare,” or “The 2020 Presidential Election and Working-Class Voters.”

The column “Where Boomers Party Till They Drop — Dead” features this morsel: “Welcome to The Villages, where not even the coronavirus can keep retirees from their steady diet of sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, and Donald Trump.” It is indeed peculiar how the comrades at Jacobin know about all these intimate details concerning the residents at the Villages. Perhaps some woke-commie moles live there while enjoying good old American freedom.

A large retirement community in Florida, The Villages constitute the perfect petri dish for the left. It is the embodiment of things that are the American dream and as such subject to gaslighting. The debased woke folk show their target to be an evil empire at worst or a bumbling mess at best. For example, the above cartoon from the winter 2021 edition of Jacobin. Of course, The Villages have a lot of cogent folk so here we have a prime target for the debased hate flamethrowers. The party of compassion and inclusiveness is not. It is a progressive sin for the good people to live comfortably using their savings gained by their lifetime of challenging work. The Jacobins shall place all these peoples in commie communes.

Right in line with the official narrative, our socialist debased friends at Jacobin push Corona Doom to tamp down everybody to their woke-commie misery. It just makes them angry to see people who want to get on with a normal life. Do not despair comrades, out of bad comes good. With Trump out of the way, just like magic; Corona Doom is plateauing (according to Dr. Fauci) while the debased woke governors drop restrictions. Moreover, it is also very curious why we get a loosening of unconstitutional restrictions while at the same time we hear about the CCP-Corona variant with its increased virulence. Oh, how we forget, Trump is out of the way, we can talk about normalcy. The Commie type that is. But wait there’s more. How about this gem: Right on cue for Biden, WHO admits high-cycle PCR tests produce COVID false positives. Read all about it here.

My based non-woke woke friends, Jacobin is just one tiny element of the commie cauldron. It provides the based un-woke folk an ideal example of the overarching threat we face. The transformation your author has been warning about the past 25 years has reached one of its main goals in 2021; the debased corporate/neo-Marxist cauldron (The Evil Partnership) takeover of the USA. Think of China where the Communist government partners with the corporations. For a hint, did you have any opportunity today to purchase anything made in the USA? Even if "yes," at worst it may be the product from a "USA Chinese owned company" or at best a global company.

With the trifecta of congress, senate, and the executive now in a “progressive” possessed mind-state, The Evil Partnership has the final goal at hand. Their prize — the Nasty New World Order (aka Great Reset or Build Back Better). Concerning the Supreme Court, it is not-so-hot now with an easy fix not far off with the progressive packing tactic. The Evil Partnership's pièce de resistance; the Caustic Cancel Culture Pogrom (CCCP). To see the corporate technocrats shut down dissenting views (what freedom of speech) lockstep with the dictates of our leaders (cough, cough) is a breathtaking display of this Newtopia. But none of this really matters as the Illuminati have the perfect storm in their quiver — hyperinflation. Read all about it at The Creature from Jekyll Island.

You might be thinking "what does this corporate stuff have to do with the Jacobin (and their allies)?" A lot. When we had the big USA owned corporations that cared less concerning putrid political correctness (a Marxist tool), the debased hated these businesses. With the table fully turned during the 2020 burn-loot-murder period, the debased just love their new-Marxist corporate partners. Oh, how we forget, the narrative tells all this was the fault of the cogent, even though the debased-woke-commies committed these acts. Even Orwell could not have scripted this any better.

It truly pains your author to write the following, but it is time for some tough love. The average American is nothing like the citizen of yesteryear. Subjected to MLSM gaslighting and lousy education (social engineering) [7], we have collectively lost our will or love of country. To even dare to promote our founding documents and our rich true history, The Evil Partnership authored a colorful playbook. The included narrative contains these words for the woke-commie troops to use for describing the cogent un-woke folk: racist, white supremacist, misogynist, fascist, homophobic, libertarian, conservative, alt-right, transphobic, climate denier, nasty nationalist, Covid denier, xenophobic, etc.

Careful, my cogent non-woke friends, as detailed in Twitter Tornadoes, be incredibly careful. The millions who openly supported Donald Trump will face tracking and taunting. Certainly, he was (is) over the top and has issues (like all of us). While not a messianic figure as some portrayed him, he was an especially important obstacle — the last stand against Communism. Because of our support, even those silently (voting) like some of us (including your author), we will be subject to reprogramming in one form or another. The debased Evil Partnership is on a hateful and revenge filled mission. For just one example of many, a programmed debased Reddit user brags about cremating his father against his wishes, trashing his ashes because he supported Trump. Read all about it here.

In the ultimate height of hypocrisy, The debased Evil Partnership overlooks the small number of terrorists from a certain “religion.” And oh, Antifa, that is just an idea. Meanwhile, not so for the law-abiding peaceful conservative. We all are guilty by association because of a few knuckleheads. Therefore, the progressive possessed state shall consider all cogent folk as the enemy of their inclusive (cough, cough) Newtopia possessed commie state. That fateful day January 6, 2021, Anno Domini was their Reichstag Fire. As a ponderable, was (is) Qanon a tool of the deep state — big question mark?

Did you ever wonder why so few things the MLSM report is identified as left-wing? Because with few exceptions they are left-wing. Just last year, all we heard ad nauseam were the mostly peaceful (left-wing) protests (riots and looting). With that background, during the “vetting” leading up to the 2021 inauguration, the National Guard flushed out the “right-wingers” in the ranks. What about the vetting of the left-wing? The answer is in the wind. And oh, as a painful reminder, those images of the National Guardsman in 2020 kneeling with the mostly peaceful protesters tells the real story. Though they are to take no position (right nor left)! The only real show of force occurred in 2021, to squelch the right-wingers.

God save America.

To lift your spirit, here is something incredibly beautiful for your sight, hearing, mind, and soul — Missa Brevis, Jacob de Haan - 200 muzyków: Orkiestra Wieniawa i chóry. Click here.

Notes:

Frederick R. Smith Speaks, October 29, 2020; Jacobins, Illuminati, and George Washington
Ibid.
IDIOM online magazine, March 16, 2011; No Short-Cuts: Interview with the Jacobin
Wikipedia, Jacobin (magazine); History and overview
RT.Com, January 21, 2021; Government becomes God': Jacobin's satirical cover literally idolizing Biden strikes a nerve
Of course, we know in fact that we the cogent non-woke folk shall not apply for membership in the inclusive we are an equal club.
See Frederick R. Smith Speaks, August 1, 2020; Nauseating NEA. Also see Epoch Times December 3, 2018; The Infiltration of Marxism Into Higher Education.

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