“Blackmail is more effective than bribery” - John Le Carre, ‘Smiley’s People’
‘Smiley’ was correct, though he could have taken it further:
‘Today’s bribery is tomorrow’s blackmail’
Any public servant, from the precise moment he or she takes a bribe, has a ‘dirty little secret’ that can be used, and will be used, to persuade them to render future ‘services’. Once you’re in, you’re in…that’s how it works: Bribery IS Blackmail…and Blackmail IS the system.
You’ve been ‘governed’ by this system your entire life, whether you’ve been aware of it or not.
Do you really believe that NO bankers went to jail following the financial crisis of 2008 because there was no malfeasance? If you do, you’re wrong. No bankers went to jail because they have the Congress in their back pockets
Do you really believe that Colin Powell waved his little test-tube ‘proving’ the existence of WMD because it contained evidence of WMD? There WAS NO evidence of WMD…and Powell knew it, but kept silent. Dr David Kelly knew it too, but he spoke out…an act he paid for it with his life…unless you believe Tony Blair’s tale of ‘depression’ & ‘suicide’
Do you think Jeffrey Epstein, who had enough information on western ‘elites’ to put dozens of them behind bars or dangling from a rope, was placed in a cell where the cameras were broken & the guards were asleep because the US Department of Justice wanted him to testify in open court? Do you think he committed suicide?
Do you imagine that the FBI have been sitting on the footage from Epstein’s lairs, where each room had a camera, because it contains nothing more than Bill Clinton having a back rub?
How about Hunter Biden’s laptop? Nothing on it worthy of note?
I could go on…but I will pose just one more: Are you an idiot?
The comment at bottom right of the above slide was made during a 2022 speech in Moscow, by Vladimir Putin.
The comment at bottom right of the slide below is from a 2020 letter to Donald Trump from Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States.
And then of course, there is this…a photograph published in the New York Times, taken at the New York home of the world’s most famous convicted pedophile & child trafficker (thus far), showing him posing with a vaccine pedlar who also happens to be the largest ‘contributor’ to the World Health Organisation…and an ‘economist’ who goes round telling people that if they want to be an ‘insider’ they can’t criticise other ‘insiders’…
No intelligent person needs me to suggest why these crimes are not a priority for the mainstream media. But why aren’t the crimes of ‘elite’ racketeering…pedophilia…child trafficking…and the system of BLACKMAIL that keeps the perpetrators shielded from justice…why aren’t they front & centre in the ‘alternative media’?
Because many commentators do not see the wood for the trees
I recall the following metaphor from a 1990s book on organisational change. I don’t recall the author, but that doesn’t matter for our purpose here. It goes something like this:
A couple moved into a new house that they loved very much. Except for one particular room, the place was perfect. In this room, nothing seemed to work…it just didn’t ‘feel right’. So they set about changing the colour scheme - it still didn’t feel right. They put in new carpets - it still wasn’t right. They bought new curtains - no change. Almost at the point of giving up, the couple looked inside the lampshades and noticed that the bulbs produced a ‘cold blue’ light. Expectantly, they changed the lightbulbs…only to find that everything that they had just fixed was once again broken.
Looking for the ‘essence’ of an issue is an obvious thing to do. And yet…sometimes the essence is not obvious. The essence is not an object, an organisation, an event, an individual, or a visible system…
The ‘essence’ is the thing that colours everything else, whatever that ‘everything else’ may be.
Many people, on both ‘sides’ of the political spectrum, though particularly on the ‘left’, make the point that individual players are not the issue…that if we were to change the current crop of leaders, we would have exactly the same problems, because it is the system that is rotten.. In this they are correct…but this does not go deep enough…it does not get to the core:
The ‘cold blue’ light has coloured successive ‘systems’
To cite an example I’ve written about in more detail previously: When the Bolsheviks took over Russia in October 1917, they completely smashed the feudal system of the Tsars, which they blamed for the oppression of millions of people…and replaced it with their own, very different system, for oppressing millions of people. They did this because ‘saving’ the Russian people was never their intention. The Bolsheviks were ‘funded’ by western bankers…
Changing one system of oppression for another is barely more effective than changing individuals or ‘parties’…it’s akin to buying new curtains for the ‘cold blue’ light…it’s akin to rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. It does NOT get to the core of what all systems of oppression are fuelled by: Blackmail
I’ll be blunt:
It is no good banging on about ‘changing the system’, unless you are also prepared to expose the lifeblood of that system; to prosecute the perpetrators visibly, and to the full extent of the law…
Only then will new systems for finance, regulation, justice, international relations, conflict resolution actually TAKE.
In the UK, we also need, in my view, a written constitution that restores the common law and restricts the powers that government can wield over the true sovereign of this nation: We the People.
To summarise & reiterate:
The ‘organs’ of our western, supposedly liberal capitalist system, are the political, corporate, & non-profit organisations that we see, and some that we don’t. These come and go through time, often morphing into each other to create new organs to control the ‘living entity’: ‘We The People’.
But the ‘blood’ that fuels these organs does not change. It is, & has always been, the most ‘persuasive’ tool available to the ‘elites’ that run the system: Blackmail.
It may start as a ‘donation’, which will create the expectation of a ‘favour’ in return…it may then lead to further ‘incentives’, or ‘bribes’, depending upon the legality of the ‘favour’…but it will inevitably lead to a situation where the ‘favours’ already granted would be ‘embarrassing’ or ‘disqualifying’ were their existence to become known.
Blackmail is systemic…it IS the system, and not just at the global and national levels, but at local level too. In Britain, the ‘take-up’ of the ‘Climate Change’ agenda in local councils has bribery & blackmail written all over it. For example, at a recent session of Norfolk Council, a motion was proposed to work with other authorities & transport bosses to explore the creation of 20 minute neighbourhoods. This was supported by 48 councillors, with none voting against. All 48 of these councillors are aware that large numbers of their constituents are strongly opposed to the idea, to the point where they have ‘taken to the streets’. Of course, the councillors are singing a tune we’ve all heard before: ‘we only voted to explore the idea’…
Sometimes blackmail is ‘formalised’ as in ‘secret societies’ such as ‘Skull & Bones’ or Freemasonry, where oaths of allegiance are sworn. At the higher levels these oaths include the promise of death should they be broken
Sometimes the process requires the ‘grooming’ of selected individuals for positions of power, as in the ‘Young Global Leaders’ Programme run by the World Economic Forum
Much of the really nasty stuff is done by ‘intelligence agencies’ such as the CIA…although they allegedly ‘sub-contract’ much of the ‘wet-work’ to the ‘private sector’
Whatever the ‘vehicle’, the following is true:
You cannot serve two masters, and they don’t serve you
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If you are interested in learning how deep the Epstein rabbit-hole goes, Whitney Webb, has researched it in great detail:
You can find both these volumes here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BKGMRK4G?ref_=dbs_p_pwh_rwt_anx_b_lnk&storeType=ebooks
Finally, let me reiterate my assessment that 2023 is a ‘turning point’ in this ‘longest war’. For those of you who haven’t read the piece I’m referring to, it’s here:
https://www.markgb.com/blog/2023/1/19/the-turning