by Mary W Maxwell, LLB
On November 22, 2019, the 56th anniversary of the big coup d’etat in the United States, two headlines on The Wall Street Journal’s front page read: “In Colombia, Anger at Government Erupts in Protests,” and “Israel’s Netanyahu Is Indicted On Bribery and Fraud Charges.”
There are two tipping points here. One is that WSJ is even reporting such things. Many protests go unphotographed and unannounced. (For example, the protests against the continuing incarceration of Leonard Peltier.) The other tipping point is that a sufficient number of people in Israel and Colombia now refuse to accept the status quo. It’s also happening in Hong Kong, Venezuela, and Iran even as we speak.
I urge everyone to mark these tipping points as tipping points. Journalists and activists need a bit of encouragement these days, given that in many of their endeavors they seem to be spinning wheels. They ought to rejoice when a victory, even a small one is achieved.
Yellow Vests
Let’s not ignore the significance of the Yellow Vests movement on the streets of Paris. The “gilet jaunes” had their first anniversary 5 days ago. I wouldn’t doubt that Frenchman’s legacy of the storming of the Bastille in 1789 helped to prompt this:
A flashback from History.com:
“At dawn on July 14, a great crowd armed with muskets, swords, and various makeshift weapons began to gather around the Bastille. Launay’s men were able to hold the mob back, but as more and more Parisians were converging on the Bastille, Launay raised a white flag of surrender over the fortress.
“Launay and his men were taken into custody, the Bastille’s gunpowder and cannons were seized, and the seven prisoners were freed. Upon arriving at the Hotel de Ville, where Launay was to be arrested and tried by a revolutionary council, he was instead pulled away by a mob and murdered.”
You just never know when the Deep State may wave a white flag!
The Opposing Forces
The Yellow Vest thing doesn’t predict that folks are going to revolt. Much less does it say that, if they tried a revolution, they would have a decent chance of success. Governments will crack down more harshly and use more aggressive weapons domestically.
Or they might simply arrest potential protestors or kill off potential leaders. Consider the 15,000 Polish officers whose careers were “pre-empted” by the Katyn Forest massacre, or the 3,000 students and activists whom Augusto Pinochet bagged in one hit at a stadium in Chile.
An interesting side note is that one accompaniment of the Yellow Vest teargassing by cops has been a large increase in suicides within the ranks of the gendarmerie! Maybe police who become aware of the extent of public dissatisfaction with government , may be more hesitant to use their weapons.
Books That Tip Things Over
Books can engender a tipping point. Some books do indeed get noted as such and are widely appreciated for what they do. I am not referring here to books that have a huge impact — Darwin’s Origin of Species or the Analects of Confucius, or even Tom Paine’s The Rights of Man.
I am referring to exposes, or simply reportage, of what is happening in power relations. These may recruit popular belief and enable change. But it’s not enough for an accurate, exciting book to exist. If it stays hidden on a shelf, social action will not emerge.
I can think of several books that ought to create a tipping point, but have not been seized upon by the public, at least not yet. For example:
Elias Davidson’s Hijacking of America’s Mind on 9-11 — nails down all the supposed phone calls from the planes
Lyndon Barsten and John Ray’s Truth at Last — definitively shows who killed Martin Luther King
Chalmers Johnson’s The Sorrows of Empire — tells why the US has 800 military bases on this planet
James and Kenneth Collier’s Votescam: the Stealing of America — shows how your vote is not counted
John Gatto’s, Weapons of Mass Instruction — reveals what public schools are really getting up to
William Engdahl’s Seeds of Destruction — warns of the consequences of terminating natural agriculture
Arthur B Lane’s I Saw Poland Betrayed! — Lane was a US ambassador on the spot in Europe, postwar, watching “Yalta” become reality.
In regard to World War I, the 2013 book by Jim MacGregor and Gerry Docherty, Hidden History, is making some headway, while Barry Domville’s From Admiral to Cabin Boy still awaits to alert people about the skullduggery of WWII. I think Frank Capell’s important book, Kissinger, can be said to have missed the boat.
Perhaps Gen Smedley Butler’s War Is a Racket, illuminating US foreign policy back to 1910, has reached a quorum of brains, albeit by slow motion. Mae Brussell’s radio talks of the 1970s are still only reaching the public, individual by individual after a half century.
Many folks now know, and believe, what Carroll Quigley said in 1966 in Tragedy and Hope, but that didn’t create the Yellow Vests. Oh, wait, maybe it did. And it may well be that Charlotte Iserbyt’s The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America has succeeded in its mission.
David McGowan’s Programmed To Kill is not taken seriously enough. It is a remarkable compendium of so-called mass murderers and spree shooters. Gunther Russbacher’s CIA memoirs, in Rayelan Alan’s Obergon Chronicles, got buried, unfortunately.
And, for that matter, George Seldes 1935 masterpiece, Sawdust Caesar — Untold History of Mussolini and Fascism, died in the water but if revived today would help us get yellow-vested pronto.
Mary W Maxwell’s Books
Several of my books are barely on the radar. Inquest: Siege in Sydney, goes nowhere. (Funnily enough, I read just today that the guy acting as Man Haron Monis in the Lindt siege may have been a body double. Hmm). Still, if Australians understood that the inquest was fraudulent, would they care? I think not.
Port Arthur: Enough Is Enough, co-authored by myself and Dee McLachlan, is another sleeper. It wouldn’t qualify as a tipping point, I guess, as the tipping point had already been reached. That is, many Aussies are simply aware that we got took, in 1996, and that Martin Bryant is carrying the cross for everyone. They don’t know how to deal with it, though, or don’t want to.
My “cancer book,” Consider the Lilies: A Review of 18 Cures for Cancer and Their Legal Status, could easily do some major tipping. It is the definitive book, maybe the only book, about the very successful medical antidotes to cancer that were known to Medicine, pre -1940. Here at Gumshoe we recently pulled together Dr William Coley’s cure. A summary of the 18 cures appeared here almost five years ago.
And Then There Is Boston
My book, The Soul of Boston and the Marathon Bombing, could cause a tipping point.
Since September, I have mailed out, or handed out, 70 copies but, except for close friends, there has been no response. I take that to mean people are scared when they see a deviation from the party line. And I am sure they do not know they are scared. It is sub-rational.
There is a bit of a rush in regard to The Marathon case. Oral argument in Tsarnaev’s appeal will take place at the federal circuit court in Boston on December 12, a fortnight from now. Yet the Defense shows no sign of calling attention to the main point of law that was violated at trial, namely the suppression of exculpatory evidence.
As Gumshoe recently pointed out, the “oral argument” is going to focus on the Waltham murders! And we have just learned that the government wants to keep part of the court proceedings secret. Oh my.
And of course CNN, The Boston Globe, and other units of the MSM will be blaring false information. Probably we will get to hear again that Jahar has deeply jihadist tendencies. And we will hear again that Boston is “strong” for having come through such a terrible experience.
Makes you wonder what it would have been like if Boston had come through weak.
Oh, lookie, The Soul of Boston is now available at Amazon for $12 USD. Also, it’s freely downloadable here. Please help to spread it around!
Mary I am ashamed to say that I only own three of the books you list, Tragedy and Hope, the Deliberate Dumbing Down and your Port Arthur one – thanks again for that. I will try to make some head way with the others.
However methinks in these times books are maybe unlikely catalysts for action. Perhaps due to the declining attention span it is more likely to be a 30 second video?
I actually suspect also that the general populace is presently being both medicated and frequency manipulated (obviously without consent) and that we can be manipulated either to remain calm or whipped into a frenzy. There is plenty of science in this space already. This could have a big effect on any “revolt.”
Professor Darrell Hamamoto, formerly of UC Davis has previously discussed the technology being used to mind control the masses on US campuses.
All this will become evident when Trump wins 2020 and the left lose their tiny minds.
I agree that a short video is better. But Richard, I think the human species is not set up for internal revolt. (Fight against an enemy, yes; but the Downstairs fighting the Upstairs? I don’t think it happens.)
See: https://gumshoenews.com/2019/09/22/people-dont-revolt/
Yes medicating goes a long way. Gun control goes a long way. Luckily one of the questionnaires I got last week as a candidate asked me for my position on guns. I said:
“Quote unquote, a well-organized militia being necessary for the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
However Congress and the state legislatures are doggedly writing new restrictions.
Hope the tipping point does not have us going from the frying pan into the fire.
I call shenanigans on the yellow vest movement. Has all the hallmarks of a mi6 Soros operation complete with a colour.
Simon… the Yellow Vests movement horrifies Soros, as much as it does Macron. It also has the 70% support of the French people.
Mary and Dee, the Iran rebellion is US inspired (NED, TC, CFR, etc) and supported by the wealthy elite.
Having said that, thanks for a brilliant and collectible summation of literary geopolitical analysis.
Soros has the same horror for the 1940’s event of note. Macron has the same horror that Bonaparte and all Rothchild’s have.
Tony, our analysis may diverge from time to time, but you, me and this real grassroot movement, who’s macro agenda is ours together seems aligned to me. With respect, you know.
Tony, Robert Dreyfus says, persuasively, that the 1979 revolution in Iran was also US- led (I.e., CIA led).
Tony, I get Trilateral Commission and Council on Foreign Relations, but not NED. Do you mean National Endowment for Democracy? If so, who runs that? Remember Freedom House? Are they still in business?
wow, Wow, WOW !! – do I have some homework to do! – thank you Mary.
As far as tipping points go (in ‘awokenness’), I cite the following article
General Patton’s Warning by Dr. William L. Pierce
https://nationalvanguard.org/2014/12/general-pattons-warning/
“And in a letter of the same date to his wife: “I will probably be in the headlines before you get this […] I can’t tell them the truth that unless we restore Germany we will insure that communism takes America.””
[His denunciation of the politicization of the Army was scathing … Two months later, on December 23, 1945, General George S. Patton was silenced forever.]
In acknowledging your vast array of reading, we may have all read/be reading different things which are worth sharing.
One more quote:
“A [] bookseller orders a book to be written, just as a manufacturer gives directions for weaving a piece of cloth; and unhappily there are authors to be found, whose necessities oblige them to sell their labors to these dealers, like work-men for hire; hence arise these insipid panegyrics, and defamatory libels, with which the public is overrun, and is one of the most shameful vices of the age.Never did history stand more in need of authentic vouchers, than at this time, when so infamous a traffic is made of falsehood.”
Voltaire in Author’s Preface to “The History of the Russian Empire under Peter the Great” (1759)
In no particular order …
My list:
• All of Robert K Massie‘s books on the Romanovs
From Peter the Great through to the massacre of the last Romanov family in 1917 and the aftermath including the decades long hoax involving Anastasia to keep us all distracted.
• Svetlana Alexievich – Secondhand Time
A compilation of interviews and conversations recorded by ordinary Russians of all ages and backgrounds giving personal insights into life in the Soviet (pre-1990s) era. The author calls this an ‘oral history of emotions’ .
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – Two Hundred Years Together
Extraordinary history of the coexistence of Russians and Jews over the past 200 years.
I have seen it commented that you cannot understand the events of the 20th century globally without reading this. So far this seems a valid comment.
• Mikhail Bulgakov – The Master and Margarita
Said to have inspired Mick Jagger to have written ‘Sympathy for the Devil”
“And I was ’round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game”
It said that Bulgakov had to burn his manuscript and then re-write it because he would have certainly been executed as a dissident under the Stalin regime had he been caught with it.
The phrase “Manuscripts don’t burn” is now part of modern Russian folklore.
• Savitri Devi’s books – start with the simple “Joy of the Sun: The Beautiful Life of Akhanaton King of Egypt”
A history of Akhanaton (and Nefertiti ) written for young people – and a subtle history of the birth of monotheism.
• Yuval Noah Harari – Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
As the title says – a brief history of humankind 😊
Harari proposes that what distinguishes the human species from other animals is its ability to IMAGINE – and therefore create myths. It is this ability to imagine that has allowed it to become the dominant species, firstly by creating myths and then devising ways to conquer other species – and of course competing tribes.
One of my favourite quotes comes from here:
“So perhaps happiness is synchronising one’s personal delusions of meaning with the prevailing collective delusions. As long as my personal narrative is in line with the narratives of the people around me, I can convince myself that my life is meaningful, and find happiness in that conviction.”
• Richard Fidler – Ghost Empire
A unique and personal approach to the history of Constantinople from someone interested in history who does not claim to be a historian. You know him from the excellent “Conversations” programme on ABC radio.
• D M Murdock (aka Acharya S) – Did Moses Exist? The Myth of the Israelite Lawgiver
An extraordinarily scholarly tour de force. The title speaks for itself. Also see Savitri Devi.
Enough for now – but I would love to hear from others including Arlyn and his collection of 4000 books.
A final word from A. Edward Newton:
"Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access reassurance."
My final word – tsundoku
Come home Arlyn,
Some music peep wrote somewhere sometime _ you don’t know what you got till it’s gone.
Genuinely, your reference catalog was a time saver for the important “fast catches up with people “,that we foster here.
Simon,
yes the unique Joni Mitchell, the MichaelAngelo of songs in our times,
Heartfelt emotions through voice and strings in the keys of life.
JONI MITCHELL == THIS PLACE
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Events in Israel make Netanyahu a very dangerous man until he is dragged out of there.
Paul, please say a few words more on this. The WSJ article was about the clash of Likud and the Blue and White Party. Not very helpful.
Well, war as distraction. I don’t think it was coincidence that while Israel’s government is in limbo another attack was launched on the Palestinian territory. There have also been constant provocations against Iranian targets around the area since the election (and before). It seems that across the democratic world politicians stand apart from the Law while in Office, so if you are under a legal cloud like Bibi is then remaining in Office would be an imperative to avoid investigation. One way to do that would be to have an emergency where democratic processes can be suspended if needed (War-On Terror?). Thus it becomes in Bibi’s interests to get Israel under attack so he can hold onto power while he fixes things…gosh that may take years….oy vey, who knew? Israel is very good at provoking things under the radar, and then claiming the retaliation as being the unprovoked attack. The Iranians seem to understand this well.
I hear you, but on the ground, that Bibi meets US Congress (link 4 yourself lazy(not Paul the messenger) , we all saw it).
How can we negate this absurdity.
In regard to cancer cures, Mal Hughes had learned from Dr Campbell Douglass’s’ writing that the Budwig diet (for cancer) also works on osteoarthritis. Here at Gumshoe, Mal offered his success story and he permits me to repeat it, as follows:
I was diagnosed with OA of the knees in 1997/98 and had to give up work. For about the next five years I followed doctors orders and took pain killers and for a short time anti-inflammatory drugs, until the latter gave me bad reflux.
Mal’s Recipe For Flaxseed Oil Regimen:
1 Largish eating apple
1 Largish banana
1 Handful sultanas
125gms ricotta cheese or Philadelphia cheese
2 or 3 Tablespoons of raw virgin flaxseed oil.
Pulp up all fruits in blender, using apple unskinned. If fruit not breaking up too well in blender, add some of the oil for moisture. Then add cheese and remaining oil. Store in refrigerator. I take 2 desert spoons in morning. This mixture can be made up using vegetables instead of fruit, but I find the banana base brings a sweetness to the flavour and makes for a palatable food.
Depending on how juicy the apple is can make the paste thicker or thinner from previous batches.
Using this paste once each day, just before breakfast, I am very happy with the result. No pain killers needed for me.
Natural Vitamin B needs to be taken also, to help the body absorb the flaxseed oil.
The flaxseed oil needs to be “raw cold pressed virgin oil”. Do not use linseed oil from hardware supply it may have dangerous preservatives.
Raw flaxseed oil (linseed oil) can be purchased online. http://www.vetnpet.com.au I have been using this supplier for about 11 years and have had success with treatment. In that time have not taken any pain killers.
I also take glucosamine sulphate supplements.
Of course my doctor will not accept that my own treatment has brought about the lack of pain. [Natch, Mal.]
Note: Mal told me that his mixture will last for about 10 days in the fridge. That is contrary to the Budwig cancer diet of flaxseed (not flax oil), which Johanna Budwig advises to be freshly ground shortly before mixing with ricotta and eating. By the way she permits you to use canned peaches to flavor it. She also says that the chemical reaction that she aims for in this diet has extra oomph if you are in the sunshine.
There are 5,000,000 non citizen guest workers that have come, to Melbourne and Sydney, in past 10 years. Tipping point has arrived here, lucky Howard took the guns away two decades ago.
If the people protested here, on the streets, sure bet the black tanks and black riot squads would confront all dissenters. For the time being, we have computer games to keep the mass complacent and stupefied. Tricks and treats to subvert and fleece the nation into a blended melting pot of obedient underpaid workers. Mogadishu meets Bangladesh etc. in the united nations of our two major cities. At the same time luxury vehicles, with P plates grow exponentially, as the elite of distant lands come here to be served by exploited slaves. The once great middle class here is history along with the eight hour working day. No wonder the fence has been erected around parliament house just in case ……..
I could go on but it’s too depressing.
Life is for enjoying and we are living in paradise.
Hug your kids and be happy with new neighbours cause we’re all pawns in the game now.
Exposing China’s Digital Dystopian Dictatorship
Foreign Correspondent – Youtube
Sorry, I was being a bit lazy when I quoted History.com in regard to the French Revolution. Please note, however, that my point was that the “legacy” of Bastille (the inspiration re revolting) may have helped motivate the Yellow Vests — not that the Bastille would pass as real revolt. (I honestly don’t know if it would.)
I now quote http://www.JewishVirtualLibrary.org
“The conceptual inspiration for the Protocols can be traced back to the time of the French Revolution at the end of the 18th century. At that time, a French Jesuit named Abbe Barruel, representing reactionary elements opposed to the revolution, published in 1797 a treatise blaming the Revolution on a secret conspiracy operating through the Order of Freemasons.
“Barruel’s idea was nonsense, since the French nobility at the time was heavily Masonic, but he was influenced by a Scottish mathematician named Robison who was opposed to the Masons.”
Now please see Gumshoe’s praise for Robison:
https://gumshoenews.com/2017/05/09/john-robison-proofs-of-a-conspiracy-1798/
My daughter came to visit today, said here house mate arrived home at 5.30 am yesterday after going to work at 8 am the previous day. This is in a law firm, her friend is a young lawyer.
Am hoping that the good attorneys, here at gumshoe, can explain how or why it came to be that this young lady has to work three days in one day?
Interesting point, the circular redundant language has 5pm to 7pm covered. Young medical personnel also are deprived.
Par for the course, or she’s a hooker(jokes).
Like u I remember when a 18 hour shift, should it continue would pay charity, not the worker who clearly is a danger to themselves and crew
or he, for accuracy, to my comment
A bit from left field – one book that represented a tipping point on a certain topic is “Son of Hamas” by Mosab Hassan Yousef (with ghost writer Ron Brackin).
Mosab Hassan Yousef writes and speaks as the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founder and spiritual leader of Hamas.
The book starts out with a blood-curdling description of how Mosab was treated by the Israelis but then turns the narrative by describing how much WORSE the Palestinians are to their own kind. Mosab eventually claims or have converted Christianity and moves to the United States. As a Palestinian ‘infiltrating’ his own people on behalf of the Shin Bet, his code name was ‘The Green Prince’.
The book was recommended to me as one of those ‘inspirational’ stories but I ended up with so many questions based on passages such as:
• “Two weeks later, on September 11, nineteen Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four jetliners in the United States. Two crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City. Another crashed into the Pentagon in Washington. And the fourth went down in a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.”
• “The [Park Hotel] explosion killed 30 people and wounded about 140 others. Some were Holocaust survivors.”
• “On March 29, I checked into the City Inn Hotel on Nablus Road in Al-Bireh, where the BBC, CNN, and the rest of the international media were housed.”
• “[] I told them. “They’re New York Times best sellers. [] They’re just stories about human experiences.”
• “that same month I started a job in the Capacity-Building Office of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Village Water and Sanitation Program, headquartered in Al-Bireh. Long title, I know, but then again, it was a very important project.”
• “My job with USAID gave me a certain amount of protection and freedom as well. And the Shin Bet always had my back.”
The intrigue only deepened when I saw this:
“Son of Hamas” aka “Green Prince” speaks at Jerusalem Post 2016 Conference
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