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This post reminded me of a David Rockefeller quote. Rockefeller had deep CIA ties, of course: https://thegrayzone.com/2017/03/21/david-rockefeller-us-foreign-policy-cia-kissinger/

Here's the quote: "We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years......It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries."

In the quote we see all the traits you mentioned -- Rockefeller as the hero of his own narrative, a glib arrogance and aggression, a hatred of national populism, the necessity of quiet conspiracy so the masses wouldn't wake up...whatever perspective is necessary so he and his friends stay in power and everyone else stays out of it...

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Apr 22·edited Apr 22Liked by Grant Smith

Also, there is something about what we think of as an "evil" personality -- they tend to deny their own darkness. In Jungian terms humans becomes more whole and complete when we acknowledge our unconscious/subconscious desire and beliefs which regularly are dark and disturbing -- by bring the darkness into the light, by acknowledging and incorporating it, we ascend to another level of personal and spiritual development.

By denying their own darkness, though, these "evil" types tend to subconsciously project their own traits onto their hapless enemies. As Scott M. Peck states in People of the Lie, p.73-75, "A predominant characteristic, however, of the behavior of those I call evil is scapegoating. Because in their hearts they consider themselves above reproach, they must lash out at anyone who does reproach them. They sacrifice others to preserve their self-image of perfection....Scapegoating works through a mechanism psychiatrists call projection. Since the evil, deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world's fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad….In The Road Less Traveled I defined evil "as the exercise of political power - that is, the imposition of one's will upon others by overt or covert coercion - in order to avoid...spiritual growth". In other words, the evil attack others instead of facing their own failures. Spiritual growth requires the acknowledgment of one's need to grow. If we cannot make that acknowledgment, we have no option except to attempt to eradicate the evidence of our own imperfection....Utterly dedicated to preserving their self-image of perfection, they are unceasingly engaged in the effort to maintain the appearance of moral purity. They worry about this a great deal. They are acutely sensitive to social norms and what others might think of them....the words "image," "appearance," and "outwardly" are crucial to understanding the morality of the evil. While they seem to lack any motivation to be good, they intensely desire to appear good. Their "goodness" is all on a level of pretense. It is, in effect, a lie. This is why they are the ‘people of the lie.’”

Also, p. 119: “Evil [is] defined as the use of power to destroy the spiritual growth of others for the purpose of defending and preserving the integrity of our own sick selves. In short, it is scapegoating. [The evil] scapegoat not the strong but the weak. For the evil to misuse their power, they must have the power to use it in the first place. They must have some kind of dominion over their victims.”

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Apr 22Liked by Grant Smith

I am not American but I'm reminded of so called socialist "futurism" - that we must endure hardship and censorship today so our future children can live in a stable, equal world. But it's a clever and insidious piece of sophistry; tomorrow never comes, and WE are the children whom our parents were trying to secure the best future for. We must not allow those in power and influence dictate our current actions to bring about their future

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Apr 22Liked by Grant Smith

Spooks or demonically infested?

The lilting, placating voice is bone chilling and abhorrent at the same time. Drives my spidey sense off the charts.

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This is why until the blighted 20th century Intelligence was always a military function, counterintelligence a police function because then these characters were under positive legal and Constitutional control.

By Charter the CIA of course is an Independent agency, answering really to neither President nor Congress. The IC are the Ivy League Gentlemen’s clubs that took over the West.

That the IC become a private sector intelligence agency for Blackrock and Halliburton should surprise none.

Not even the East India Company at its height had this much power over London, we Americans are more in the position of Delhi and Bengal.

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Apr 23Liked by Grant Smith

She is being displayed to make us believe we are screwed. Sort of a psyop to make us feel unsettled and provide an opening for demonic forces. A real Jezabel

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Apr 22Liked by Grant Smith

This could be the defining bit to explore more vigorously (as it might explain why Spooks spook, fascinate and bewilder us), and I look forward to your doing so: “Unfortunately for us many of the spooks are hedging their bets by adopting both strategies concurrently, but that is another story.” Thank you.

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Important essay. We’re ruled by a shadowy Gendarmerie in suits.

Time people met the real boss.

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The Heart Of Darknes.** Khan Younis. 2024.

We stumbled into this fabulous incisive excellent article.Thank you magisterial trenchant and stentorian Mr Smith. Extrapolating the diverse psychosis of .."the ends justify the means" we noted something very odd..unsettling... in the face of "that woman"..a souless snarky officious solipsism..in short, a mindset to self enrich beyond ideological pretexts.could it be avaricious cupidity and 30 pieces of silver again?.....the ...*eyes without a face*demonism that refuses to disappear and die in hell for a few more millenia,. All these *females* like Nina J...Mandy C..Chelsea c....javanka .Ursula vdr.leyen..mutti Merkel... Mrs.satanyahoo..Pelosi..baerbock..wallensky...............zelensky s "wife"... all exude something horrifying and arbitrary such as we intuited when looking at the whitewashed amoral Barbie doll sort of pseudo intelligent pretentious face...isn't it high time to tar feather and hang satanic malefactor traitors?...just a thought....**Great article.**

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You make them sound rather weak and pathetic, without the power of the State. Which implies the only way to disempower them is to disempower the State.

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Methinks Grant doesn't actually know any real spies, lol. Why not go interview say Sam Faddis, his And Magazine is here on Substack. He was a spy for 30 years...You'll find he's nothing like this article describes. Also, why not avail yourself of the work of MIke Benz? His take on all this is 100x times more credible than, and he can explain why and what is happening. Hint: After 2014, the West turned it's NatSec missions towards internal forces in a coordinated way, using their 'information tools' against their own citizens in ways never before contemplated. It all overlaps with Grant's take but it much narrower and far more precise.

But I guess conspiracy theorists are gonna theorize. And far as it goes, this isn't a bad one...

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