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Let’s go to the movies—or not

by Jon Rappoport

December 3, 2021

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I was going to make a list. But I gave up. The list would probably reference the majority of Hollywood movies.

The common theme: a heinous crime is committed against the lone hero’s loved ones. He goes outside the law to enact his revenge on the perpetrators.

Why do producers and studios make so many of these films? They sell.

Why? Because the audience knows the legal system of justice is broken. The audience has a visceral desire to see actual justice delivered. They want to see a hero make criminals pay.

Imagine this: A new honest flaming reformer takes over Tony Fauci’s job as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. On his first day, he holds a mass meeting in a giant hall, where all his researchers are present.

He says: “I know many of you people have been carrying out brutal research on animals and children. This has been going on for years, decades. It stops now. If I catch any of you committing these horrific crimes, I’ll see to it you’re punished within an inch of your lives…”

During the shocked silence that follows, a researcher stands up. He’s a preppie, ex-yuppie, millennial, genial psychopath whose smile resembles Gavin Newsom’s.

He says: “How do you plan to punish us? Are you going to call in the Department of Justice? Do you really think that old hack, Merrick Garland, or some other tool of a sitting president is going to raid our labs, seize our computers and files, put us in cuffs, and stick us in jail on felony charges? That’s a nice fantasy, but it’ll never go down…”

Or this: “Mr. Smith, this is a courtroom. I know you know that. You’ve been here many times before. I’m the judge. I hold your fate in my hands. Now let’s see. Your latest charge…assault with a deadly weapon. But you also have three other older charges pending. Rape, possession of opioids with intent to distribute, and witness intimidation. You’re out on bail on those prior charges. So I’m going to follow suit. Bail is set at $3000. Your next court date is 60 days from now. The bloody knife will be kept as evidence. Your pistol will be returned to you…”

You could say Hollywood makes its money on the back of a broken legal system.

However, there are unspoken rules. For instance, you’re not going to see a movie about a vengeful super-hero whose sister died in jail after being arrested for repeatedly refusing a COVID lockdown order.

You’re not going to see a movie about a vengeful hero whose wife died after taking a COVID vaccine ordered by her employer.

There are limits.

If the hero’s daughter died in the hospital because doctors gave her a toxic drug, the hero will take hostages in the hospital. Cops will surround the building. A negotiator will get on the phone with the hero—who’s portrayed as mentally unbalanced—and try to talk him down. This will be a very different kind of movie, and it won’t make a profit.

For that matter, you won’t see a movie about Mr. Smith, the man the judge let out on bail even though multiple felony charges against him were pending. You won’t see the brother of the woman Smith raped take his revenge on Smith. Verboten.

There are rules and limits.

—Look, Marty, I really think this script has possibilities. The hero has a small café in Middle America. When the lockdown comes, he has to close his doors. He goes broke. Bankrupt. He’s living in his van. So he calls his old buddies who served with him in Special Forces in Afghanistan, and they go after—

Stop right there, Sid. Are you crazy? They could put us in jail for making a movie like that.

Why? It’s just a movie. It’s not real life.

They’d get us on incitement charges. A bunch of Special Forces crazies invade a governor’s mansion? Come on. We’d rot in prison for a year before they bring us to trial.

Think of the box office. There are millions of people out there who are VERY pissed off about the lockdowns. They’d pour into theaters to watch this film.

Doesn’t matter. I’m not going to risk getting canceled for producing it. Besides, I bet the government would censor it, order theaters not to run it.

Are you serious?

Of course I’m serious. This isn’t the old America. We have to toe the line. Now if you can find me a script about a simple kidnapping—the bad guys take the hero’s daughter, and he tracks them to an Eastern European country and disembowels them and rescues the girl…I’m all in.

You mean the movie that’s already been made 500 times?

Exactly. Tried and true, baby. OK, look, I’ll give you an acceptable version of the script you’ve got. There’s a very weird lab. Its evil CEO is really a non-human entity from another dimension. He intends to kill people with a new experimental drug. So we have a team of super-heroes who have special powers. They can fly, shoot rays out of their eyes. They go to war with the interdimensional CEO creature—

Which destroys the whole premise of my script.

I know that. I’m just giving you another way to go.

How about this? The evil CEO is trying to bring a new vaccine to market. It changes people’s DNA.

No dice.

Why?

Come on. It hits too close to home.

We could call the interdimensional CEO Omicron.

Hmm. Maybe. And the super-heroes are all doctors who were injured in a research accident—that’s how they gained their powers. They still wear white coats in the film. They still work at a hospital saving lives.

And OK…they have a boss, a guy who gives them mission orders. He’s an old friend from medical school who’s now the head of the CDC.

Right. That could work. The Omicron creature isn’t developing a new toxic drug. He’s secretly spreading a super-virus from another dimension.

And the only way to stop it is to stop the economy and stay home under lockdown. The whole population.

Here’s the kicker. There’s something on Earth that activates the virus and makes it deadly. Carbon Dioxide.

Wow. So all industry has to be shut down on the planet. And then the skies are clear again.

We have a winner.

Lots of wrinkles we could add.

Like…the super-hero doctors discover there are certain people who are immune from the virus. And they’re all transgender.

Killer.

The movie was eventually made, on a budget of $200 million.

International ticket sales amounted to just under $50 million. It was a total flop.

But reviewers, critics, pundits, news talk shows, prime ministers, and presidents hailed the two producers as “the real heroes.” Within months, the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Institute bankrolled a new documentary-film studio, and the two producers were brought on board to launch a series “exploring experimental cutting–edge genetic technologies on the frontier of medical treatment for human enhancement in the New Normal. ‘Soon, we may have modalities that render populations innately immune from many classes of viruses’…”

The two producers made 15 documentaries about genetic treatment and enhancement. Television networks ran clips from the films as “medical segments” on their news broadcasts.

“Genetic alterations for the good of humanity in these troubled and desperate times” was the new message. It flooded news and talk shows.

Editorial and magazine writers, professors, politicians, and even social activist groups pushed genetic alteration as “the herald of a better future for all.” Some labeled it THE NEW SPIRIT OF OPTIMISM IN THE COUNTRY. GENETICS, THE FINAL FRONTIER.

The two producers launched an unprecedented six-hour special that aired over the course of a month on CBS, NBC, and ABC. It largely consisted of sit-down interviews with Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci, who both asserted that very soon, genetic modification would make vaccination obsolete…

And that’s how two shlock Hollywood denizens led the way toward a Brave New World.

“Humans as they are, are obsolete and unsustainable. The pandemic proved this. Our only option is altering humans.” This is was the emerging theme.

It was hailed by those in charge as The Great Step Forward.

Until the worldwide riots started…

Exit From the Matrix

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Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

Why hasn’t the History Channel been shut down?

by Jon Rappoport

August 19, 2019

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As I pointed out in a recent article, mainstream media outlets are delivering conspiracy theories—at least by implication. Therefore, in light of the recent FBI “finding” that such theories can fuel violent terrorism, these outlets should be investigated, censored, blacked out, and de-platformed.

The History Channel would be a prime candidate.

In its series, Ancient Aliens, we are treated to the theory that John Kennedy was murdered to keep him from…here is the quote from the History Channel:

“Theorists propose the possibility that John F. Kennedy was assassinated in order to keep the truth about [extraterrestrial] aliens on Earth from getting out in this clip from Season 12, Episode 9, The Majestic Twelve.”

In the episode, this opinion is made clear: government players might well have carried out JFK’s murder.

Is the FBI now investigating the History Channel? Is the Bureau walking into History Channel’s office and confiscating show notes, memos, computers, and footage? At the very least, the Ancient Aliens series should be taken off the air, right?

Where are the politicians and CNN talk show heads in this conspiracy scandal? Millions of History Channel viewers are being subjected to the idea that the CIA killed Kennedy. How many unbalanced individuals, exposed to this inflammatory notion, have taken up anti-government positions, and how many have resorted to the use of weapons?

Of course, you and I and every other decent citizen want to fall in line with the FBI’s conclusion that conspiracy theories fan the flames of terrorism. Certainly. Absolutely. Definitely.

Therefore, let’s insist the FBI shut down the History Channel as soon as possible.

But wait. Oh. I see. Conspiracy theories forwarded by the mainstream are acceptable, but theories proposed by “outliers” are the dangerous ones. How convenient. Whew. Everything is OK. The structure is preserved. We have a standard of judgement.

Mainstream=good; dissenting individuals=evil.

The Matrix Revealed

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Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

Newsflash: George Clooney doesn’t know N. Korea hacked Sony

What? George Clooney knows that N. Korea hacked Sony? Really?

by Jon Rappoport

December 20, 2014

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“…it [the Sony hack] wasn’t just probably North Korea; it was North Korea.” — George Clooney, Deadline Hollywood.

This article isn’t about new repressive Internet legislation, or Sony pulling the Interview movie, or theaters refusing to show it, or lawyers’ advice, or TMZ fodder.

It’s about Hollywood stars and how they claim to know what they know.

It’s simple, really. They’re naïve. They’re given that precious breathless thing: inside access. That’s the game.

You want a star to promote your narrative or your cause? Take him inside closed doors and hand him privileged information.

Well, not information. Conclusions based on secret “information.”

Clooney states that N. Korea hacked Sony? Somebody in Washington told him so: “Look, George, we know, okay? It’s for sure. We scoped it out. No question about it. We investigated. You can take it to the bank. We won’t release details, but I can tell you, as a friend, it’s true. Slam-dunk. Pay no attention to the idiots at Wired. They’re all speculating. They don’t know what we know. They can’t.”

Well, that’s it then. The hacker wasn’t the NSA or some other fed agency. It wasn’t an independent group. It wasn’t an insider at Sony. It was N. Korea.

This is the routine, over and over again with stars.

“Listen, GMO farming will save Africa. We have the data. Forget the crazies running around saying Monsanto is Satan. We’ve done the studies. This is Science.”

“We had nothing to do with the mess in the Ukraine. I promise you. That’s Russian propaganda.”

“Don’t believe the people who say we’re funding terrorists. That’s crap.”

The star doesn’t have to get his news from the NY Times. He can get it from the FBI, from the CIA, from the White House. The inside scoop.

Privilege. Access. Special briefings off the record. He’s a friend. Which is to say, he’s vulnerable. He can be used. He normally sees events at the level of one-inch deep, so when he’s handed “special” knowledge, he’s happy. He thinks he’s reached the bottom.

And his pals in government are true-blue, so he has to protect them. He can go off and say corporations are destroying America, but he can’t say they’re doing it with the collusion of the government. No, legislators are victims of corporate $$ and lobbying and can’t do anything about it. They can’t say no. It’s not their fault.

He especially can’t say the Democrats and the Republicans are both decimating the country, or that, on the really important issues like Globalism, both parties are on the same page.

Nor can he suddenly drift out of the conventional orbit and pick an issue on his own and blindside his government friends. Like the FDA, for example, who approve drugs that kill, at minimum, 100,000 Americans every year, like clockwork. Or the Fed Reserve, that august group of bankers who pretend they’re a federal agency and engineer booms and busts. Or the CDC, for whom lying is a way of life.

No surprises. Stay within the boundaries. Left vs. Right, progressives vs. liberals. Feed the conventional narrative.

The Matrix Revealed

The star doesn’t quite realize or admit that what he’s getting from “the inside” is just more conventional narrative dressed up with hush-hush.

And why didn’t the other big movie studios rally around Sony and stand together against a perceived intimidation tactic and a crushing of free speech?

Aside from the usual reasons—competition with Sony in the marketplace, glee at seeing a competitor thrown into chaos—there was no signal from their inside friends at the White House.

The other studio execs and big-time agents didn’t get a call to come together and mount a unified defense.

Absent their own courage, which is minimal in situations like this, they stood down, they remained silent—because that’s part of their bargain with government power players, too.

“Well, I guess the White House is handling this one on an international level, since North Korea did it. Not our business. Nobody important is demanding anything of us. We shouldn’t stick our noses in, as private citizens, and unilaterally make an issue out of the 1st Amendment. Free speech, the Constitution? That’s heavy stuff. Above our pay grade…it’s government turf.”

These Hollywood execs would never consider they’re getting a blast telling them they have no control over free speech…and that the warning could be coming from those same government insider pals of theirs.

If the thought does cross their minds, they won’t be emailing each other about it.

Clooney told Deadline: “I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven years old, and I’ve been around them my whole life.”

Maybe that’s the problem. He’s been listening to lies and cover stories and fakery for a long time.

In his estimable movie, Syriana, he left out one factor. Among all the forces at work engineering a massive corporate merger of energy companies, the US government was such a weak sister it couldn’t affect the machinations of those corporate titans.

Again, big gov is a victim. It has no clout.

Really?

During this Sony fiscao, the US Dept. of Justice must remain silent? It can’t weigh in publicly? It can’t take the lead and deal from strength? And the State Dept., likewise, has to keep its mouth shut, too?

Obama can only make a public statement (“Sony made a mistake” in not releasing the film) days after the fact? The President also takes a back seat during the scandal?

Kim Zetter, writing at Wired, throws a monkey wrench into the US government narrative:

“…in their initial public statement, whoever hacked Sony made no mention of North Korea or the film. And in an email sent to Sony by the hackers, found in documents that leaked, there is also no mention of North Korea or the film. The email was sent to Sony executives on Nov. 21, a few days before the hack went public. Addressed to Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton, Chairwoman Amy Pascal and other executives, it appears to be an attempt at extortion, not an expression of political outrage or a threat of war.

“’[M]onetary compensation we want,’” the email read. ‘Pay the damage, or Sony Pictures will be bombarded as a whole. You know us very well. We never wait long. You’d better behave wisely.’

“To make matters confusing, however, the email wasn’t signed by GOP or Guardians of Peace, who have taken credit for the hack, but by ‘God’sApstls,’ a reference that also appeared in one of the malicious files used in the Sony hack.

“A person purporting to be a Guardians of Peace spokesperson then emphasized again, in an interview with CSO Online published Dec.1, that they are ‘an international organization … not under direction of any state.’ The GOP’s members include, they wrote, ‘famous figures in the politics and society from several nations such as United States, United Kingdom and France.’

“The person also said the Seth Rogen film was not the motive for the hack, but that the film was problematic nonetheless in that it exemplified Sony’s greed and fed political turmoil in the region:

“’Our aim is not at the film The Interview as Sony Pictures suggests,’ the person told CSO Online. ‘But it is widely reported as if our activity is related to The Interview..’”

power outside the matrix

Clooney is quite, quite sure the Sony hack was the work of North Korea. In his Deadline interview, he says that with a little digging, anybody should be able to figure that out.

But his version of digging appears to be a tip and an assurance from someone inside the Executive Branch, where lies and cover stories are the daily bread of life.

To put the cherry on the cake, newly discovered emails from the Sony hack reveal that the CIA has been urging movie studio execs to help in the effort against ISIS. That would be the very same ISIS the US government has been supporting in Syria.

But don’t worry. If the White House says North Korea hacked Sony, then North Korea hacked Sony. The US government is a straight shooter.

And I have condos for sale on Jupiter.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at NoMoreFakeNews.com or OutsideTheRealityMachine.