How
many exposés do you need?
by Not Sure
21 April 2024
How
many exposés do you need, how many admissions
do you need from those involved to start to get the picture? Or do you go straight back into, do you fall right
back into the emotional he said/she said stuff in politics the next day? Hm? Because it’s all drama, isn’t it?
We’ve never seen so much drama today. And it’s like a soap opera. If you
noticed, you’re not getting much of what governments are really up to about policies and so on because they’re
training you into a new system altogether, where you’re not really involved at
all. Before you weren’t involved but at least you had an idea of what was going
on to an extent in some areas, not, maybe 40, 50% of the stuff you’d never know
but, in some areas, they had to tell you some.
Today they don’t. You’re given soap operas instead. In all countries.
All countries.
Alan
Watt, Sept. 30, 2018 “Control over Minions from Ancient
Times Meant Studying Prey then
Disabling Minds”
***
The Quote Investigator says that Albert Einstein did NOT
give us that famous quote on the insanity of repeating mistakes. Perhaps it came from an October 1981 meeting
of Al-Anon in Knoxville, Tennessee.
"Insanity is doing the same
thing over and over again and expecting different results."
The Quote Investigator's second-best answer is what was
found in a pamphlet printed by the Narcotics Anonymous organization in November
1981.
"Insanity
is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results."
***
Alan Watt mentioned that Carroll Quigley wrote in Tragedy
and Hope that the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House)
and the U.S. branch, the Council on Foreign Relations, had been selecting our
leaders for sixty years at the time of publication of that book (1966). But still you vote.
I spent so much time researching corruption and political
drama, country by country, that now I don’t have time to write. But check out those links! Apologies if I missed your country or your
favorite episode of scandal or corruption.
Instead of writing something new, I will steal a paragraph from the Not
Sure piece that went up with this talk the last time it was played in November
of 2022:
Soap operas got their name because
many years ago these long-running daytime radio and later television serials
were sponsored by soap manufacturers. There
was a familiar cast of characters, and you could root for the young lovers and
hate the villains and vixens. My
grandmother watched a soap called Days of Our Lives which started in
1965 and is still going. The opening
image was an hourglass. “Like sands
through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.” One summer, my folks dropped us children off
with Mema for a couple of weeks. I was
about eight or nine years old and didn’t really enjoy being parked in front of
the TV, especially to watch a show about old people. But it was required viewing at Mema’s house.
On Monday, a set of actors were
introduced, and I saw all about their little problems. Then on Tuesday, an entirely different set of
actors were shown, with all their petty dramas.
Come Wednesday, the first set of people were back, but the thing that
annoyed my restless, childish mind was that on Wednesday those actors talked
about what had bothered them Monday.
Almost nothing happened. On
Thursday, Tuesday’s actors reappeared and once again, nothing happened.
To please Mema, I tried to sit
quietly, but this was a painfully boring part of each day. The following year, we all went back to my
grandmother’s house, but this time my folks were there too. Everything stopped for Days of Our Lives. A year later and the drama seemed to be in
the same place as when I’d left it. I
said to my mother, “Nothing has happened!
This is exactly what they were doing a year ago! I can’t believe it!” Mema shushed me. Mom squeezed my knee, and I sat staring at
the television in total disbelief that adults would watch such rubbish, and
worse, chat about it later as if it was real.
I always remember that brief
childhood excursion into the world of the soap opera whenever I am looking at
anything that is put out for us to follow.
We’re given melodrama with emotive topics. Politicians wave their hands and promise to
drain the swamp. Old Orange Hair announced he’s back in the ring for
2024. This week, the rapper disgraced
for his anti-Semitic remarks and Tweets announced he too will run for President
of the U.S.A. As of this writing, his
campaign manager will be a character right out of central casting, whose fall
from grace stemmed from his 2017 comment that a relationship between an adult
male and a teenage boy could be “beneficial.”
The fashion label Balenciaga cut ties with the disgraced rapper last
month, but now they find themselves being criticized for their recent ad
campaign that looks an awful lot like child pornography.
Too bad Old Orange Hair will be running against “The Rapper
Formerly Known As”, because he could offer the Rapper a bit of advice on how to
overcome bad press. After all, Old
Orange Hair survived that video where he bragged about groping women without
their consent. Days of Our Lives.
In November of 2022, Kanye/Ye/Yeezus announced his bid for the
presidency, showed up at Mar a Lago in the company of
a white nationalist and asked Trump to be his running mate. Ye claimed that Trump started screaming at
him. Trump described the meeting as
uneventful, but said later that he met with Kanye to “help a seriously
troubled man, who just happens to be black... who has been decimated in his
business and virtually everything else”. Trump also stated that he told West, “don't
run for office, a total waste of time, can't win”. In December he told Alex Jones he “loved” Adolf Hitler.
Since then, he has mostly been spotted out and about with his wife who
does not like to wear clothes. His
attorney stated in October of 2023, that Kanye was not running for president in
the 2024 cycle, having failed to file his campaign documents with the Federal
Election Commission.
With Biden running for the Democrats and Trump for the Republicans,
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has had to content himself to run as an Independent. We all saw what gave him credibility in
certain circles for the last few years.
He broadens his appeal by happily discussing his uncle’s assassination
and refuting the Lone Gunman account.
RFK Jr. is going to deliver on UFO disclosures on “day one” of his
presidency.
I could not make this stuff up, but somebody does. For every group in society, in every country,
little political dramas play out. One
drama fades from view, but new ones have already started to bubble up. Wag the dog is a political term for creating
a diversion from a potentially damaging situation, usually with the use of
military force. The dog wags the tail,
but if the tail was smarter, it would wag the dog. Our American Cousin was the play that
Abraham Lincoln was watching at Ford’s Theatre in 1865 when he was assassinated
by John Wilkes Booth. In 1871, in a
Democratic convention publication, a character from that play, Lord Dundreary,
was referenced:
“Calling to mind Lord Dundreary's conundrum, the
Baltimore American thinks that for the Cincinnati Convention to control the
Democratic party would be the tail wagging the dog”.
The 1997 movie Wag the Dog shows the lengths to which an
administration might go to cover up a potentially scandalous situation. But in thinking on this further, I see that
the political system itself is as much “the tail” as any diversionary drama,
Hollywood produced, or not. Until we can
admit to ourselves that the dog and the tail are one and the purpose of the dog
and its tail is to keep us from ever identifying the dog handler, we’re doomed
to sit in front of Mema’s television forever, watching a soap opera with no
end.
© Not Sure
Additional reading:
Nothing was true but everything felt real - by
Not Sure (Nov. 2022)
https://cuttingthroughthematrix.com/articles/Nothing_was_true_but_everything_felt_real.htm
Peter Murrell police charge 'incredibly
difficult' - Nicola Sturgeon (2024)
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-68856924.amp
Angela Rayner dealt further blow in homes row as
new document emerges (2024)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1890627/angela-rayner-council-house-row
How Tony Blair’s Labour built the ‘New
Corruption’ (2021)
https://socialistworker.co.uk/long-reads/how-tony-blairs-labour-built-the-new-corruption/
List of federal political sex scandals in the
United States (1796-2022)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_sex_scandals_in_the_United_States
Bill Clinton 1998: 'I Did Not Have Sexual
Relations With That Woman'
Impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden (2023)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_inquiry_into_Joe_Biden
Disgraced former Stormy Daniels lawyer says he
would now testify for Trump (2024)
https://news.yahoo.com/disgraced-former-stormy-daniels-lawyer-211410724.html
South Africa’s parliament speaker resigns over
accusations of bribery (2024)
How South Africa's former leader Zuma turned on his allies and became a
surprise election foe (2024)
How Russian Corruption Is Foiling Putin’s Army in
Ukraine (2022)
Netanyahu Will Return With
Corruption Charges Unresolved. Here’s Where the Case Stands. (2022)
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/world/middleeast/netanyahu-corruption-charges-israel.html
Israel seen as increasingly corrupt for fourth
year in a row, index finds (2021)
Why China can’t clean up corruption (2014)
https://www.law.berkeley.edu/article/why-china-cant-clean-up-corruption/
Xi Jinping's never-ending hunt for corruption in
the Communist Party (2024)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-68213161
Scandal after scandal: timeline of Tory sleaze
under Boris Johnson (2022)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/01/scandal-timeline-tory-sleaze-boris-johnson
When power corrupts:
U.S. -- 16 of the biggest political scandals of the last 50 years (2016)
Court clears France’s justice minister of
conflict of interest following an unprecedented trial (2023)
Despite Macron's denial, magazine shares photos
of Brigitte as a 'boy' (2024)
https://www.albawaba.com/node/despite-macrons-denial-magazine-shares-photos-brigitte-boy-1557777
Macron faces corruption scandal as two ministers
fight criminal charges (2023)
https://news.yahoo.com/two-macron-ministers-fight-criminal-120034741.html
Macron faced with corruption charges over
McKinsey contracts (2022)
Timeline of Hillary Clinton’s email scandal
(2016)
https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/28/politics/hillary-clinton-email-timeline/index.html
Fresh revelations contradict Joe Biden’s sweeping
denials on Hunter (2023)
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/05/hunter-joe-biden-business-testimony-00125056
Brazil's former president Lula walks free from
prison after supreme court ruling (2019)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/08/lula-brazil-released-prison-supreme-court-ruling
Lula sworn in as Brazil president as predecessor
Bolsonaro flies to US (2023)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-64138739
Sunak faces fresh Infosys scrutiny as minister
accused of giving it ‘VIP access’ (2023)
Zelensky's Corruption Problem (2024)...but
elsewhere, according to fact-checkers, Zelensky does not own a yacht
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-zelensky-corruption-problem-1863644
Zelenskyy - Almost all Ukrainians think the
country has a problem with corruption (2023)
Priti Patel repeatedly backed company accused of
obtaining Nigerian gas contract through corruption (2020)
Daniel Morgan murder: Priti Patel’s delay of
report into police corruption ‘suspicious’, family believe (2021)
Mexico: Ex-President Enrique Peña Nieto accused
of corruption and bribery (2020)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-53746715
Mexico rocked by claims of corruption against
three former presidents
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/20/mexico-corruption-former-presidents-emilio-lozoya
‘There is literally no paper trail’: How Russia
experts say Putin hides a fortune (2022)
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/17/business/putin-wealth-sanctions-invs/index.html
Former Italian PM Berlusconi acquitted in bribery
case (2022)
Silvio Berlusconi, scandal-ridden former Italian
prime minister, dies aged 86 (2023)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/12/silvio-berlusconi-former-italian-prime-minister-dies
Hillary Clinton puts lesbian rumors to bed:
'Never even been tempted' (2019)
Clinton body count conspiracy theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_body_count_conspiracy_theory
A plagiarism scandal rocks Norway’s government
(2024)
https://apnews.com/article/norway-plagiarism-borch-kjerkol-1cde4d0c7305b7107852eaee478a983c
The extent of corruption in Sweden may be
underestimated (2024)
https://www.newswise.com/articles/the-extent-of-corruption-in-sweden-may-be-underestimated
Latvia - Former customs official Vaskevics sentenced to 6 years in jail for corruption
(2024)
Latvia - Former ECB governor to testify on
bribery allegations (2023)
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/former-ecb-governor-testify-bribery-allegations-2023-07-04/
Trump says he's allowed to grab women 'by the
p---y' because he's famous (2016)
Polish lawmakers arrested inside Presidential
Palace, as showdown between new and old ruling parties intensifies (2024)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/10/europe/poland-pis-arrests-tusk-duda-tensions-intl/index.html
Romania’s Most Powerful Man Is Sent to Prison for
Corruption (2019)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/world/europe/liviu-dragnea-romania-corruption.html
Robin McAlpine: There is a giant corruption at
the heart of Scottish life and we need to fight it
(2020)
Is it corruption? German finance minister under
scrutiny (2023)
German conservatives mired in ‘the swamp’ (2021)
https://www.politico.eu/article/german-conservatives-mired-in-the-swamp/
Iran-Contra affair (1981-1986)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair
The Real Reason Behind Peru’s Political Crisis
(2023)
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/01/25/peru-protests-political-crisis-castillo-boluarte-corruption/
US charges Bolivian ex-minister Murillo with
corruption (2021)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-57268054
Betta Edu probe: Nigeria recovers $24m in poverty
minister investigation - EFCC (2024)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68759033
The eye of OMSAC :
Assessment of the fight against corruption in Algeria from 2020 to 2023
Iran's supreme leader lashes out at his own
judiciary for corruption (2023)
Leaders of INDIA bloc are
either in jail or bail: J P Nadda (2024)
Top Indian Opposition Leader Arrested on
Corruption Charges (2023)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/27/world/asia/india-manish-sisodia-arrest.html
A guide to Donald Trump's four criminal cases
(2024)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61084161
Wag the dog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_dog