Paul Haeder, Author

Yikes: Cardio Rehab three times a week, TV sound off, Friends reruns on, and the illustrative lobotomy session, just 1 hour, of that Holly-Dirt and Chosen People’s Power of Persuasion/Brain Harvesting

Paulo Kirk

Feb 02, 2026

A bit too daft British Sweet: Bernays was more than a MONSTER.

Makes me want to vomit and then get the machetes out and chop chop chop this Jewish fucking TV Qualudes!

Creators: Marta Kauffman, who was raised in a Conservative Jewish household, and David Crane were the main creators, writers, and executive producers.

Production: The show was produced through Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions.

Jewish Elements: While not heavily focused on religion, the show featured notable moments like the “Holiday Armadillo” (Ross teaching his son about Hanukkah) and the Geller family, with actress Christina Pickles (Judy Geller) and Elliott Gould (Jack Geller) playing Jewish parents.

Cultural Context: The show is often analyzed as a reflection of the “Jewish American dream” and assimilation during the 1990s.

Who’s Jewish on “Friends” by Nora Lee Mandel

So, nu? Which “Friend” do you think is Jewish? My unscientific, all-ages sampling of the huge audience for “Friends” uniformly responded this way: “Well, Ross Geller (David Schwimmer) is definitely Jewish, so that would make his sister Monica (Courtney Cox) Jewish.” Then what about Rachel Green (Jennifer Aniston), Monica’s best friend from a Long Island childhood and Ross’s long-sought objet d’amour? Uniform confusion was the response. This isn’t just a stab at Jewish geography or tribal conspiracy theory. If both Ross and Rachel are Jewish (and, more importantly, perceived as Jewish), for as long as their TV relationship lasts they will, therefore, be the first young, sizzling Jewish couple on television. An impressive first, let alone on such a popular sitcom, where the demographics include the impressionable 12-15 set.

[Julianna Margulies, David Schwimmer and Over 260 More Implore Academy to Include Jews in Inclusion Standards | Exclusive]

[“Jewish people being excluded from the Motion Picture Academy’s Representation and Inclusion Standards is discriminating against a protected class by invalidating their historic and genetic identity,” the letter read. “This must be addressed immediately by including Jews in these standards.”

Other notable signees on the letter’s growing list of supporters are Ginnifer Goodwin, Tiffany Haddish, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Brett Gelman, Michael Rapaport, Iliza Schlesinger, Nancy Spielberg and “Friends” cocreator Marta Kauffman and producer Kevin Bright.]

Like so many other Jewish sitcom writers, creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman, buddies from their Brandeis days, backpedal from having their characters perceived as too Jewish. Crane was recently quoted in the Boston newspaper The Phoenix as rationalizing the confused perceptions, “In our minds, the back story is that Ross is half-Jewish because Elliott Gould (as Ross’s father) is, and Christina Pickles (as Ross’s mother) sure isn’t. So he and Monica are half-Jewish. And I suppose Rachel is Jewish, though that’s not an aspect we’ve done much with. Now her mom’s Maria Thomas. We’ll see who we end up casting as her dad, and that will give us a better clue.” Ron Leibman was cast as her dad. Dr. Leonard Green, seeming to clarify that Rachel too is “half-Jewish,” though, like the Geller siblings, she yearns to celebrate a traditional family Christmas. The ambiguous entrails of the show can be further picked apart for contrary indications: wasn’t that a mezuzah at Ross’s parents’ front door? Virtually half of all TV watchers in the country are glued to NBC watching “Friends” every Thursday night. Could it be something other than Monica and Rachel’s possibly non-Jewish mothers that keeps viewers from perceiving them as Jewish women? Are these women too thin, too sexy, and too struggling in their nondescript professions to be considered Jewish? Quick, how many actresses playing Jewish women can you name who’ve posed nude on the cover of Rolling Stone as Aniston did?

At a time when more and more women writers/producers—particularly Jewish women—are getting a chance to show how successful they can be, we are barely creeping closer to breaching the last taboo on television—an appealing Jewish couple who are more than just “Friends.”

Doing an hour of cardio workouts while endless Friends reruns play, and the endless artery-clogging foods of AmeriKKKa are hawked on TV. . . . Oh, the fucking Pizza Hut shit, all the Chipotle, all the Princess Cruises line promos, all the fucking pet foods and allergy meds, all of the antidepressant fucking crap, Lazy Boys and at-home hospital beds:

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) legalized drug commercials on TV in the mid-1980s, and pharmaceutical companies view them as an increasingly effective way to reach viewers, especially older Americans, who often need long-term or life-saving treatments.

Common Categories of Daytime Ads

• Health and Wellness: A high volume of ads for pharmaceuticals, weight-loss brands like GOLO and WW, and over-the-counter medications.
• Legal and Financial Services: Frequent “call now” spots for personal injury lawyers, J.G. Wentworth (structured settlements), and debt relief services.
• Household Products: Commercials for cleaning supplies (detergents, dish soap), kitchen gadgets (as seen on TV), and grocery delivery services like Instacart.
• Insurance: Heavy rotation of car and life insurance ads, often featuring recognizable mascots like the GEICO Gecko.
• Educational Services: Advertisements for online colleges and vocational training programs

And they have the most fucked up mixed marriage-relationship actors EVER:

• Skyrizi (Risankizumab-rzaa): Used for Crohn’s disease and psoriatic arthritis.
• Dupixent (Dupilumab): Used for eczema, asthma, and eosinophilic esophagitis.
• Rinvoq (Upadacitinib): Used for rheumatoid arthritis, eczema, and Crohn’s.
• Keytruda (Pembrolizumab): A major cancer immunotherapy.
• Mounjaro (Tirzepatide): Used for Type 2 diabetes and weight management.
• Vraylar (Cariprazine): Used for bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder.
• Eliquis (Apixaban): Used for blood clots and stroke prevention.
• Sotyktu (Deucravacitinib): Used for moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis.
• Jardiance (Empagliflozin): Used for Type 2 diabetes and heart failure.
• Biktarvy (Bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir): Used for HIV treatment.
• Astepro (Azelastine): Allergy nasal spray.

Side effects?

• Death or Major Cardiovascular Events: Some drugs, particularly those for dementia in the elderly or specific diabetes medications, have warnings for increased risk of death, stroke, or heart attack.
• Severe Infections and Immune System Issues: Drugs targeting autoimmune conditions (like arthritis or psoriasis) often warn of serious infections, tuberculosis, fungal infections, and cancer (lymphoma).
• Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors: Many antidepressants and treatments for chronic conditions (e.g., Lyrica, Chantix) include warnings about new or worsening depression and suicidal ideation.
• Severe Skin Reactions: Some medications can cause rare but fatal skin conditions, such as Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS), which involves blistering, peeling, and shedding of the skin.
• Severe Allergic Reactions: Anaphylaxis, a life-threatening allergic reaction, is a commonly listed risk.
• Compulsive Behaviors: Certain dopamine agonists used for Parkinson’s or restless legs syndrome (e.g., Requip, Mirapex) can cause intense, uncontrollable urges to gamble, binge eat, or spend money.
• Internal Organ Damage: Potential risks include liver failure (hepatotoxicity), kidney failure, severe gastrointestinal issues, or pancreatic damage.
• Severe Neurological or Movement Disorders: Some medications, such as antipsychotics (e.g., Abilify), can cause uncontrollable movements, such as tardive dyskinesia.

Nah, just more rumors:

The Dark Ages were rife with plague, fanaticism, and accusations that Jews secretly fed off the blood of children. In 2020, we too are beset with plague, rampant medical misinformation, and a persistent rumor that “global elites” torture children to harvest the chemical adrenochrome from their blood, which they then inject in order to stay healthy and young.

Chuck Schumer (D-New York) said on Sunday that one of his most important jobs as Senate minority leader is to “fight for aid to Israel,” as the Trump administration’s masked federal agents continue their deadly raids of the U.S. with little to no pushback from Democrats.

In remarks at a breakfast gathering of Jewish leaders in New York City, Schumer said, “I have many jobs as leader … and one is to fight for aid to Israel, all the aid that Israel needs.” Part of the remarks at the ​​UJA-Federation of New York gathering were posted online by The Forward reporter Jacob Kornbluh. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) also spoke at the event.

Schumer went on to brag that the U.S. has sent Israel more military funding under his leadership “than ever, ever before,” referring to “many” threats that Israel faces in the region that Schumer does not specify.

More Jewish Criminals: The philanthropic organization, formed by Meta cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, is cutting about 70 jobs, or roughly 8% of its workforce, a CZI spokesperson confirmed to Fortune. The layoffs happened primarily at the organization’s Redwood City headquarters in San Mateo, Calif.

Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg are raising their children in the Jewish faith. Despite Chan having a Buddhist background, the couple holds weekly Shabbat dinners and incorporates Jewish traditions, including having Zuckerberg recite prayers in Mandarin to their daughters.

French tech giant Capgemini to sell US subsidiary working for ICE

The next frontier of work is here, where AI agents are the new coworkers and algorithms operate as office assistants. The advanced tech is already causing a wave of layoffs, resulting in more than 54,000 announced job cuts last year alone. Now, Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser is joining the list of bosses who are stepping in to make sure their staffers can weather the storm.

The power of the fucking billionaires: As AI wipes out desk jobs, Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser says the company is training 175,000 employees to ‘reinvent themselves’ before their roles change forever

Mor white trash: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday defended the Justice Department’s release of more than 3 million pages from the department’s files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as survivors and lawmakers criticize the disclosure as insufficient and filled with redaction errors.

A group of Epstein survivors issued a statement Friday slamming the latest release, and demanding accountability for others they say either enabled Epstein or have been accused of abuse by victims as well.

A cunt and her Semen Drip: The propaganda film is eager to present the First Lady as a benevolent political force, and pretend she isn’t part of her husband’s racist, authoritarian project. It fails at both.

Newly released documents from the Jeffrey Epstein files include an email summarising a complaint alleging that child “auctions” were held at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home – accusations denied by the White House.

Donald Trump has been told to pay the six-figure legal costs of a company he sued over claims of “perverted” sex acts and bribes to Russian officials.

Mrs Justice Steyn threw out the case against Orbis Business Intelligence, a consultancy founded by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele, last month.

She found that Mr Trump’s compensation claim was “bound to fail”.

In a new ruling she also ordered Mr Trump to pay Orbis’s costs “of the entire claim”.

The order, obtained by the PA news agency on Thursday, also said Mr Trump has made no attempt to bring an appeal.

Mr Steele, who previously ran the Secret Intelligence Service’s Russia desk, was the author of the so-called Steele dossier.

This included uncorroborated intelligence claims, denied by Mr Trump, that the former US president had been “compromised” by the Russian security service, the FSB.

Earlier this month (2021), Donald Trump announced to a room full of Republican donors that his sexual kinks do not involve being peed upon. Why did he do this? Had someone in the audience raised their hand during a Q&A session and asked, “I was just wondering, do you enjoy having women pee on you?” According to a report from The Washington Post, the ex-president offered the information totally unprompted, which, it has to be said, is a very odd thing to do if you’re trying to assure people you don’t enjoy being treated like a toilet.

Church mother fucking freedom? Fuck the cunt churches far and wide:

Don Lemon’s arrest balances freedom of religion vs. freedom of the press, Todd Blanche says. Cunt White SLavers.

‘[ under the Trump administration, these guidelines were rescinded, allowing ICE to enter churches with a proper warrant ]

ICE officials lacked a search warrant. Community activists took Aguirre to Augustana Lutheran Church in Northeast Portland, which gave him refuge. He spent his first few nights sleeping under the altar. Church leaders had to get him a portable shower so he could bathe.

“Living for 81 days in the church, it’s not easy,” Aguirre said. “You can’t sleep. You always think that anytime they can break in and take you.”

The Rev. W. J. Mark Knutson of Augustana Lutheran Church on Jan. 26, 2025. The pastor says it’s a key tenet of the church’s philosophy of social justice to provide sanctuary to undocumented immigrants who seek refuge

.The memo suggests the rules are designed to give ICE greater flexibility to quickly arrest unauthorized immigrants who are not the original targets of an operation but are nonetheless encountered and found to have violated U.S. immigration law. Those detentions are known as “collateral arrests,” and typically involve immigrants accused of civil immigration violations but who lack serious criminal histories or any at all.

The memo was issued by acting ICE director Todd Lyons on Wednesday and submitted to a federal court in Minnesota on Friday. Its contents were first reported by The New York Times.

From Bone Spurs, Pussy Grabbing, Pedophile, Rapist and Thief Semen Drip Trump. MAGA MAGA MAGGOTS:

‘We heard the call, we came running’: Trump’s NATO troop remarks have shaken allied veterans

President Donald Trump partially walked back his claim that NATO troops in Afghanistan stayed “off the front lines,” but veterans aren’t likely to forget the remarks.

But then his memory of that day in May 2011 fractures. One moment he was walking through an unsecured compound with his patrol, the next he was on his back, staring into swirling dust and black smoke, his body unresponsive. He had been hit by a blast from an improvised explosive device that had been buried underground for months.

“I felt like I had dust from my tonsils to my prostate,” Little, 44, told NBC News this week in Peterborough, a cathedral city 75 miles north of London. As a trained medic, Little pressed a fellow Royal Marines commando to be honest about the damage to his right leg. Eventually, he received the reply: “It’s gone.”

The same explosion killed two of Little’s friends and an interpreter as their patrol pushed into a hostile area not yet controlled by NATO — part of the same allied mission that President Donald Trump denigrated last week.

“They’ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan, and they did,” Trump said. “They stayed a little back, a little off the front lines.”

Taking long pauses as he spoke and appearing to rein in his frustration, Little responded to Trump’s comments that cast doubt on whether NATO allies would be there for America “if we ever needed them.”

“When I was hit, I was so far in front of the front line that I couldn’t see the front line in my rearview mirror,” he said.

Trump’s assertions about NATO forces not coming to the United States’ defense are incorrect: More than 1,000 NATO troops from over 25 countries, including 457 British service personnel, died in Afghanistan. Double that number were seriously wounded. Around 2,400 U.S. service members died in the conflict between 2001 and 2021.

Many Haitians may soon not be able to work in the US. That will make caring for the elderly much harder

Fred Trump III calls uncle Donald Trump ‘atomic crazy,’ says he used racial slur decades ago

“I was in the Oval Office 12 times about. And that was our mission: to advocate for people with complex disabilities,” Fred Trump III said.

He added, “It culminated in May of 2020 in the Oval Office. Donald was there, and he was very gracious. Several other folks were there, including the group that we brought down. We dispersed. I was asked to go back and see Donald. He greeted me with his familiar, ‘Hey, pal. How’s it going?’”

He says he “sat down for a bit” with his uncle.

“And he just came out with, ‘These people, all the expenses. They should just die,’” Fred Trump recalled. “He’s talking about human beings who have complex issues, and the first thing he could say was they should just die.”

Send ICE home in body bags.

ANd these people? Hunt them down, hunt their friends and family down, save the world:

Buried within the Epstein Files is the partial guest list of , the “Dialog” conference in 2014, a secretive meeting run by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel and SafeGraph CEO Auren Hoffman- a self-described, “two-day bipartisan retreat discussing how to change the world.”

Axios, reporting on this secretive retreat reported in 2025, “Dialog, often compared to a tech-era Bilderberg, has quietly become one of the most elite, and mysterious, gatherings for CEOs, elected officials, and intellectual heavyweights.”

Axios noted that, “Dialog has no public-facing website and avoids media coverage — it has never publicly shared a list of participants” and added “Past Dialog participants, who cut across a wide swath of elite influencers, include Elon Musk, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Larry Summers, Chamath Palihapitiya, Henry Kravis, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D), Eric Schmidt, Grover Norquist, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Robert Hur and Sophia Bush. Also, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Jared Kushner, Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Reema Al-Saud, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, European Commission Vice Chair Kaja Kallas, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, chess champ and activist Garry Kasparov, pastor and author Rick Warren and CFR president emeritus Richard Haass.”

But now, thanks to the DOJ released Epstein Files, a partial list of participants in the 2014 “Dialog” meeting has now been revealed , through multiple emails within the files where participants Ian Osborne and Lisa Randall shared their invitation to the conference and a partial list of attendees.

High-profile attendees of the 2014 retreat at Sundance Resort, designed to “help implement the plans we develop,” include:

• -Jason Bordoff: the Senior Advisor for Energy and Environmental Policy to U.S. President Obama.
• -Stephen Cohen: another Palantir co-founder
• -Adam D’Angelo: the CEO of Quora and former Facebook CEO
• -Lanny Davis: the former Special Counsel to the President (under Clinton)
• -Jeff Epstein (not to be confused with Jeffrey Epstein)- the former CEO of Oracle.
• -Niall Ferguson: the British neoconservative historian and now CBS News contributor.
• -Richard Haass: the president of the Neo-Con Council on Foreign Relations.
• -Reid Hoffman: the co-founder of LinkedIn.
• -Garry Kasparov: the former World Chess Champion turned Neo-con activist.
• -Joe Lonsdale: Another Palantir co-founder.
• -General Stan McChrystal: a retired 4-star U.S. General.
• -Wes Moore: the former Special Assistant to Secretary of State Susan Rice.
• -Bret Stephens: the Neo-con Zionist mainstream media writer.

The full list of attendees of the Dialog conference in 2014 listed in the innovation are:

Susan Athey – Professor of Economics, Harvard University. Chief Economist, Microsoft. 2007 Winner of John Bates Clark medal.

Byron Auguste.– Director and Head of Social Sector Office, McKinsey & Co. Chm, Hope Street Group.Boards: William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; Pacific Council on International Policy; Center for American Progress.

David Barron. — Professor, Harvard Law School. Fmr Acting AsstU.S. Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel.

Kirsten Bartok.– CEO, AirFinance. Fmr CFO of XOJet. Fmr GP at Alpine Investors.

Evan Bayh— Sr Advisor, Apollo Management. Partner, McGuireWoods. Fmr U.S. Senator (D-IN) (1999-2011). Fmr Governor of Indiana (1989-1997). Author, /From Father to Son/.

Tom Bedecarre— CEO, AKQA.

Nick Beim.— GP, Matrix. Boards: Gilt Groupe, TheLadders, Care.com, Conductor, Intent Media, BuyWithMe.

Nicolas ’Berggruen— President, Berggruen Holdings.

Charles Bests—CEO, DononrsChoose.

Elizabeth Blackburn.— Prof of Biology and Physiology, UCSF. 2009 Winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine. President, American Association of Cancer Research.

David Bonderman. — Founding Partner, Texas Pacific Group (TPG). Founding Partner, Newbridge Capital. Boards: Continental Airlines, Bowe Bell & Howell, Ducati Motorcycles, Credicom Asia, National Education Corp, Beringer Wine, Carr Reality, Virgin Cinemas, CoStar Group, GemAlto, RyanAir Holdings, Wilderness Society, World Wildlife Fund.

Jason Bordoff.— Senior Advisor for Energy and Environmental Policy to U.S. President Obama.

Erik Brynjolfsson— Prof of Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management. Director, MIT Center for Digital Business. Chair, /MIT Sloan Management Review. / Author, /Race Against the Machine/.

John Burbank—CEO, Passport Capital.

John Burbank. — President, Nielsen Strategic Initiatives. Fmr CEO of Online, Nielsen. Fmr CMO, Nielsen. Fmr CMO, AOL.

Leah Busque— Founder, TaskRabbit.

Marc Cenedella— CEO, TheLadders.

Stephen Cohen.— cofounder, Palantir.

Gio Colella — CEO, Castlight Health. Fmr CEO, RelayHealth.

Mark Colodny.— Managing Director, Warburg Pincus. Boards: CAMP Systems, GlobalSpec, MLM Information, i Paradigms, Multi View, A Place for Mom, EVIDON, eCert, Spigit, OnTargetJobs.

Boykin Curry. — Managing Director, Eagle Capital. Creator of Playa Grande. Cofndr, Girls Prep. Boards: Alliance for School Choice, Democrats for Education Reform.

Adam D’Angelo— CEO, Quora. Fmr CTO, Facebook.

Mitch Daniels — President, Purdue University. Governor, State of Indiana (2005-2013). Fmr Director, Office of Management and Budget (2001-2003). *

Lanny Davis.– FmrSpecial Counsel to the President (under Clinton).Author of Scandal and The Emerging Democratic Majority.

Ken Denman.— CEO, Machine Perception Technologies. Fmr CEO of Openwave. Fmr CEO of iPass (IPAS). Fmr CEO, AuraSery Communications. Fmr SVP MediaOne. National Markets.

Marc Ecko—Chief Creative Officer, Marc Ecko Enterprises. Award-winning artist.

RP Eddy -CEO, Ergo. Fmr Director, White House National Security Council. Fmr Chief of Staff to U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. Sr Fellow, Manhattan Institute.

Juan Enriquez.— CEO, Biotechonomy. Founding Director of the Life Sciences Project, Harvard Business School. Boards: Cabot Corp, Craig Venter Institute. Fmr CEO, Mexico City ‘s Urban Development Corporation.

Jeff Epstein. — fmr CFO, Oracle. Fmr CFO, DoubleClick. Fmr CFO, King World Productions. Boards: Priceline.com, Stanford University Hospital.

Niall Ferguson.— Prof History, Harvard. Author of /The World’s Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild/,/The Cash Nexus/,/Empire, Colossus/,/The War of the World, The Ascent of Money/, and others.

Brad Garlinghouse.— CEO, YouSendlt.

Julius Genachowski— Chairman, Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Jared Genser. — MD, Persesus Strategies. Founder, Freedom Now. International lawyer for Aung San Suu Kyi.

Jeff George— Global Head, Sandoz. Member of Exec Committee, Novartis.

Dave Goldberg. — CEO, SurveyMonkey.

Tom Goldstein.— Partner, Goldstein & Howe. Fmr Partner and head of Supreme Court practice, Akin Gump. Has argued over 20 cases before Supreme Court. CEO, SCOTUSbIog.

Fabrice Grinda— CEO, OLX. Fmr fndrand CEO, Zingy. Fmr CEO, Aucland.

Ash Gupta’— Chief Risk Officer, American Express.

Richard Haass.— President, Council on Foreign Relations. Fmr Director of Policy Planning, U.S. State Department. Fmr U.S. Special Envoy to Northern Ireland.

Victor Halberstadt’— Prof of Economics, Leiden University (Netherlands). Fmr President, International Institute of Public Finance. Mbr, Investment Committee, ABP Pension Fund. Boards: RHJ Internationall.

Janet Hanson’— CEO, 8SBroads.

‘Hollie Moore Haynes.— MD, Silver Lake Partners.

Bob Hertzberg. — Chairman, G24 Innovations. Partner, Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw. Fmr Speaker, California State Assembly (200O-2002). Fmr Regent, University of California. Fmr Chm, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa transition team. Board: Solar Integrated Technologies (Chm), California Historical Society, MALDEF, Town Hall Los Angeles, Century Housing.

Jim Himes’— U.S. Congressman (D-CT).

‘Auren Hoffman’– CEO of LiveRamp. Chm, Rapleaf. Curator, Dialog Retreat. Board: Retargeter.

Reid Hoffman’— Chairman and founder, Linkedln. Partner, Greylock. Boards: DoSomething, Kiva, Endeavor Global, Mozilla. Zynga.

Jacob Hsu.— CEO, Symbio.

Daisuke Iwase— cofounder and COO, Lifenet Insurance (top life insurance company in Japan).

Christian Johansson’— Secretary of Department of Business and Economic Development (DBED), State of Maryland. Fmr CEO, Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore.

David Kamenetzky.— Group Head, Mars & Co.

PV Kannan— CEO, 24/7 Customer.

Andy Karsner— CEO, Manifest Energy. Fmr U.S. Asst Sec of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (2005.2009). Fmr Managing Director, Enercorp. Boards: Applied Materials, Conservation International.

Garry Kasporovs— Fmr World Chess Champion. Chm, United Civil Front of Russia.

Neal Katyal— Partner, Hogan Lovells. Fmr Acting Solicitor General for the United States (2010-2011). Professor of Law, Georgetown U. Lead counsel for the plaintiff in Supreme Court case Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld. Terry Kawaja CEO, Luma Partners.

Juliette Kayyem— Foreign Affairs Columnist, Boston Globe. Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard. Asst Sec. for Intergovernmental Affairs, U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security.

Jeff Kearl.— Chm, SkullCandy.

Peter Kellner— MD, Richmond Management. Cofounder, Endeavor. Fmr partner, VectisGroup.

Chris Kelly— Fmr Chief Privacy Officer and Head of Global Public Policy at Facebook . Fmr Chief Privacy Office, Excite@Home.

Pradeep Khosla— Chancellor, UC San Diego. Fmr Dean of College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon.Boards: Quantpoint, BioMatricore, BitArmor, Children’s Institute, IIT Foundation, Mellon-Pitt Corp.

Charlie Kim— CEO, NextJump.

David Kirkpatrick— Author, /The Facebook Effect/. Fmr head technology writer, FORTUNE.

Henry Kravis— Co-CEO of KKR. Chm, First Data. Boards: Claremont McKenna College, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Council on Foreign Relations, Columbia Business School, Rockefeller University, others. Fmr Chair, Partnership for New York City.

Marie-Josee Kravis— Boards: Publicis, LVMH. Boards: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Robin Hood Foundation, Council on Foreign Relations, Qatar Museum Authority. President, Museum of Modern Art board of directors. Fmr Board: Ford, IAC, CIBC.

Will Lansing— CEO, FICO (NYSE: FICO). Fmr CEO, InfoSpace. Fmr CEO, NBC Internet. Fmr COO, Prodigy Communications.

Renaud Laplanche— CEO, Lending Club.

Laura and Gary Lauder— General Partners, Lauder Partners. Cofndrs, Socrates Society.

Jenna Lee. — Anchor, Fox News. Host, /Happening Now/ on Fox News.

Jorge Lemann— Fmr Owner, Am Bev (largest brewery in Latin America) and now one of the largest shareholders in Anheuser-Busch InBev. Boards: Lojas Americanas, Gillette, Swiss Re, Burger King.

Max Leychin. — fmr CEO, Slide. Fmr co-founder, PayPal.

Jonathan Levin. — Prof and Chair of Dept of Economics, Stanford. 2011 Winner of the John Bates Clark Medal.

Ann Lewis — President, NoLimits. Fmr Director of Communications to the U.S. President (1997-2000).

Rob LoCasio.— CEO, LivePerson (NASDAQ: LSPN).

Jeremy Liew.— GP, LightSpeed Venture Partners. Investor in: Bonobos, CarDomain, Flixster, Focus, Kixeye, Kongregate, LivingSocial, Playdom, RockYou, ShoeDazzle, and others.

Joe Lonsdale— CEO, Adepar. cofounder, Palantir.

Doreen Lorenzo — President, Frog Design.

Bob Luskin— Partner and Co-Chair of Litigation Dept, Patton Boggs.Attorney to Karl Rove and Lance Armstrong. Fmr Chief Counsel to the Organized Crime & Racketeering Section of DOJ

Jorn Lyseggen.— CEO of Meltwater.

John Maeda— President, Rhode Island School of Design. Author, /Laws of Simplicity./

Divesh Makan.— CEO, Iconiq Capital.

Meyer Malka— co-CEO, Lemon.’

Andy McAfee— Principal Research Scientist at the Center for Digital Business, MIT. Author of /Race Against the Machine. /

General Stan McChrystal.— Ret. 4-star U.S. General. Led all U.S. forces in Afghanistan. *Fmr Commander, Joint Special Operations Command.*Current Principal, *McChrystal*Group. Sr. Fellow, Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.*

Andrew McLaughlin’ s— Fmr VP, Tumblr. Fmr Deputy CTO of the United States, White House. Fmr Dir of Public Policy, Google. Boards: Public Knowledge, Code for America. •

Dmitri Mehlhorn**— COO, *StudentsFirst..*

Lenny Mendonca— Director, McKinsey. Head of McKinsey’s strategy practice. Chm, McKinsey Global Institute. Chm, Bay Area Council. Board: McKinsey & Co, Economic Institute of the Bay Area, Bay Area Science and Innovation Consortium, The New America Foundation, Common Cause, Committee for Economic Development, ChildrenNow, and DonorsChoose.

Eugene Meyer.— President, Federalist Society.

Chris Michel’— GP, Nautilus Ventures. Award-winning photographer. FmrCEO, Affinity Labs. •Fmr CEO, Military.com. Boards: International Data Group, Dale Carnegie, Kixeye, Castlight’Health, USO, Marine Corps University Foundation.

Katie Mitic — Fmr Head of Platform Marketing, Facebook. Fmr SVP, Palm. Fmr VP Product Strategy, Yahoo! Fmr Fndr and CEO, Fourll. Boards: eBay, Special Olympics International. *

Wes Moore’– Author, “The Other Wes Moore”. Fmr. Special Assistant to Secretary of State Rice. Fmr Director of Information Operations, 82nd Airborne Division, US Army, Afghanistan 2005-2006.

Nader Mousavizadeh— CEO of Oxford Analytica.

Luke Muehlhauser’— Exec Director, Singularity University.

‘Matt Mullenweg — Founder, WordPress.

Roger Myerson’— Prof of Economics, U of Chicago. 2007 winner of Nobel Prize in Economics.

‘Scott Nathan’— Partner, Baupost Group.

Meghan O’Sullivan’– Professor, Harvard Kennedy School of Govt. Fmr Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan, President George W. Bush. Mbr, Trilateral Commission.

Chamath “Palihapitiya— CEO, Social+Capital. fmr VP Growth, Mobile, and International at Facebook. Fmr GM of AIM at AOL. Boards: SecondMarket, FixYa, Lemon, Integrated Plasmonics. Co-Owner, Golden State Warriors.

‘Eli Pariser—Fmr President, MoveOn.Cofndr, Avaaz.org. Boards: MoveOn, Avaaz, New Organizing Institute and Simon’s Rock College.

‘Mark Penn’— Corp VP of Strategic Projects (reports to the CEO), Microsoft. Fmr CEO, Burson-Marsteller. President, of polling firm Penn, Schoen and BerlandAssociates. Fmr Chief Strategist, Hillary Clinton for President 2008. Author, Microtrends. Fmr pollster to President Clinton. Fmr pollster to Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Lois Quam’— Executive Director, Global Health Initiative — part of the State Department and she reports directly to Secretary Clinton. Fmr CEO of Public and Senior Markets, UnitedHealth Group ($30 billion division).

‘Dan Rosensweig ‘— CEO, Chegg. Fmr CEO, Guitar Hero. Fmr COO, Yahoo.

‘Robert Rubin’—Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations. Fmr U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1995.1999). Fmr Director, National Economic Council (1993.1995). Chm, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). Fmr Co-Chairman, Goldman Sachs.

‘Sal Russo’— Founder, Tea Party Express. Partner, Russo Marsh.

‘Tod Sacerdoti— CEO, BrightRoll. Board: ReTargeter.

‘Amy Salzhauer — CEO, Ignition.

‘Cami Samuels’— General Partner, Versant Ventures. Boards: Achaogen, APT Pharmaceuticals, Kythera Biopharmaceuticals, Semprae Laboratories.

‘Ken Sawyer’– CEO, Saints Ventures (manages over $1 billion in capital). Selected to Forbes Midas List. Boards: Continuous Computing, HK Systems, Cleargauge, Travel Intelligence, Envivio, Alliance Consulting, Acsis and Laureate Pharmaceuticals.

Barry Silbert ‘1— CEO of SecondMarket.

Josh Silverman’— President of US Consumer Services, American Express. Fmr CEO, Skype. Fmr CEO, Shopping.com. Fmr CEO and Fndr, eVite.

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy— Chm, JOYUS. Fmr CEO, Polyvore. Fmr President of Asia Pacific and Latin America, Google. Boards: TripAdvisor (TRIP) and Formspring.

Megan Smith— VP Business Development, Google. Fmr CEO, PlanetOut.

Charles Songhurst-– GM and Head of Strategy and M&A, Microsoft. MD, Katana Capital.

Angelo Sotiras— CEO, DeviantArt.

Bret Stephens’– Member of Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal. Main Foreign Affairs Columnist, Wall Street Journal. Fmr Editor-in-Chief, Jerusalem Post.

Simon Stevens— EVP, UnitedHealth Group. Fmr CEO, Ovations (revenues of $31 billion). Fmr Health Policy Director to British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Henry Sweica’— CEO, Talpion Fund Management. Fmr co-founder, Highbridge Capital Management.

Alexander Tamas– Partner, DST. Boards: Forticom, mail.ru

Peter Thiel.– CEO of Thiel Capital. Managing Director, Founders Fund.Fmr founder and CEO of PayPal. Boards: Facebook and Palantir.

Steve Wayne’— CEO, Jensen Group.

Will Wechsler— Deputy Asst. Sec of Defense for Counternarcotics and Global Threats.

Adam Weiss’‘—co-CEO, Scout Capital. *

Katharine Weymouth”— Publisher, Washington Post.*

Michael Wolf’—CEO, Activate. fmr President and COO, MN Networks. Fmr Prtnr, McKinsey. Former Senior Partner, Booz Allen & Hamilton.

Paul Wolpes— Director, Center of Ethics. Prof of Bioethics, Emory. Sr Bioethicist, NASA. Co-Editor, American Journal of Bioethics.

Jed York’— CEO of San Francisco 49ers.

Lauren Zalaznick’— Chairman, Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media, NBCUniversal. She oversees Bravo, Oxygen Media, Style, PBS Sprout, Telemundo, iVillage, Swirl, Daily Candy, and Fandango.

Eric Zinterhofer — co-CEO, Searchlight Capital. Chm, Charter Communications. Fmr Sr Partner, Apollo Management. Boards: Central European Media Enterprises, Dish TV India.

‘Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg’— fmr Minister of Defense, Germany. Fmr Minister of Economics and Technology, Germany.

You can watch this video on YouTube here.

The world still looks American.

But power no longer moves the way it used to.

Empires rule through armies, territory, and conquest.

Today, Israel rules through leverage, institutions, surveillance, and proxy control.

This video explores the idea of Pax Judaica — not as a slogan, but as a framework for understanding how power now operates in the modern world. Why Israel’s influence appears disproportionate to its size. Why regional actors court Jerusalem before Washington. Why resistance hasn’t disappeared — but no longer has a path to victory.

From historical Pax systems to proxy rule, from geopolitical judo to surveillance and artificial intelligence, this is a breakdown of how dominance is enforced without occupation — and why the next phase of empire won’t announce itself.

Whether you see this as analysis, warning, or speculation, one thing is clear:

Power has changed.

And most people are still looking in the wrong place.

Why so many Jews involved with Epstein?

George finally asks. Don’t expect Aaron, Katie, Max, Norman, Glen, et al to ask that question.

“Almost 40 years later, members of the Jewish establishment in France (on the right and left), still consider that it is not good to describe the misdeeds of these elite figures under the Nazi occupation.

‘Professional’ Jews were the most vehement in denouncing the publication of this book, judging that this could only do harm to the Jewish community as a whole, at a time when anti-semitic activities are sometimes regaining a certain vigour”.

Watch the video ABOVE this one.

Nah, Chris Hedges, et al won’t have this fellow on: Collaboration & Denial by Paul Cudenec

The French state is apparently very keen to ensure accurate memories of traumatic historical events – since 1990 “the denial of the existence of crimes against humanity”, such as the mass extermination of Jews during the Second World War, has been a criminal offence.

But, for reasons which are perhaps best explained by Jacob Cohen in his 2010 book Le Printemps des Sayanim or by Jean Bouvier in his 1983 tome Les Rothschild, ] this same rigorous commitment to truth sometimes seems to waver, depending on the identity of those regarded as having committed such crimes.

A new law on the way through – known as the Loi Yadan because it is being pushed by Zio-Macronist government minister Caroline Yadan – sets out to criminalise criticism of Israel and Zionism.

Based on the absurd IHRA expansion of the definition of “anti-semitism,” it aims in particular to penalise any suggestion that Israel’s actions are similar to those of Nazi Germany. [5]

This therefore, seems like an appropriate moment to write about a 1980 book by Maurice Rajsfus on elite Jewish collaboration in the WW2 deaths of what he estimates at 75,000 Jews living in the country.

A shudder of recognition ran down my spine when I read the account of how, in July 1944, Brünner, commandant of the Drancy camp, refused to spare Jewish children’s lives because “these children were future terrorists”.

Well, the Christ thing, and what will you say to god thing, but this is the Marvel Comics books about it ALL.

The Central Intelligence Agency reportedly hadcredible evidence that at least 10 members of its staff, some of whom were contracted employees, committed sex crimes involving children, but only one individual was ever charged.

Senior investigative reporter Jason Leopold and investigative reporter Anthony Cormier with Buzzfeed News detailed their findings in an article after combing through hundreds of internal agency reports they obtained throughFreedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits.

Leopold and Cormier say the declassified reports “show a pattern of abuse and a repeated decision by federal prosecutors not to hold agency personnel accountable.”

The featured reports detail 14 years of accusations against several CIA employees and contracted employees.

One employee was accused of having sexual contact with both a 2-year-old and a 6-year-old before he was fired. Another employee resigned after being accused of purchasing sexually explicit videos of “young girls” filmed by their mothers. A contractor had his contract revoked after allegedly arranging to have sex with an undercover FBI agent who was posing as a child.

Sexual crimes involving children, including the viewing of images of abuse, have been uncovered at other agencies that handle sensitive information. In a November 2009 report, the Department of Defense acknowledged that dozens of Pentagon staff members or contractors had such images. In 2014, the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community found that two officials from the National Reconnaissance Office, which oversees America’s spy satellites, acknowledged viewing images of child sexual abuse during polygraph examinations.

At a symposium in 2016, Daniel Payne, a top Pentagon security official, said that when workers’ computers were examined, “the amount of child porn I see is just unbelievable.”

Bernays, where oh where are you?

Three U.S. Olympic winter sport national governing bodies have changed the name of their Milan hospitality space over concerns about ICE protests in Italy during the Olympics, a person with direct knowledge of the situation told USA TODAY Sports on Sunday afternoon. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

U.S. Figure Skating, USA Hockey and U.S. Speedskating decided to change the name of The Ice House to The Winter House.

An Italian volunteer restorer has been accused of painting PM Giorgia Meloni’s face into angel on church fresco.

Authorities are investigating whether the fresco was faithfully restored, as restorer denies the likeness.

Amid public and political outcry, Meloni has also denied the comparison.

While GAZA burns, this shit: This investigation will enable it “to determine not so much who the restoration resembles, but whether any changes have been made, because the restorer would have had to follow the original lines,” a spokesperson explained.

If the authority finds that Valentinetti has altered the image, hiding a portrait of Meloni in the fresco, the artwork will be returned to its original composition. Those judged responsible may also receive a penalty.

Valentinetti has claimed that the original fresco is too contemporary to be protected by heritage law. He claimed in La Stampa that the Soprintendenza had approved his work on the fresco after the parish shared his qualifications.

The Gaza Genocide, West Bank, and Israel

• Casualty counts: At least five Palestinians were killed and four injured in Israeli attacks over the past 24 hours The total recorded death toll since October 7, 2023 is now 71,800 killed, with 171,55 injured. Since October 11, the first full day of the ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 526 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 1,447, while 717 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble, according to the Ministry of Health.
• Israeli attacks on Gaza continue Monday after bloody weekend: At least three Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza today, according to Al Jazeera, including a three-year-old child in Al-Mawasi, who was killed by machine gun fire from an Israeli gunboat, as well as Israeli attacks in Khan Younis and Jabaliya.
• Rafah crossing opens to extremely limited numbers: The Rafah border crossing with Egypt opened on Monday for limited traffic in what some have described as a largely symbolic development. The crossing will reportedly only operate for six hours a day and the numbers allowed to cross will be limited to 50 medical evacuees per day permitted to leave Gaza, accompanied by two people escorting them, while 50 Palestinians can return to Gaza per day, according to the AP citing Israeli and Egyptian officials. The Gaza Health Ministry has said around 20,000 sick and wounded Palestinians need treatment abroad. Health authorities have said at least 1,268 Palestinians have died in Gaza while waiting for medical transfer after Rafah was closed by Israel in 2024. Before the war, Rafah was Gaza’s only gateway to the outside world not controlled by Israel and it was the main crossing for Palestinians moving in and out of the enclave.
• Deadly night of Israeli attacks across Gaza: At least 32 Palestinians were killed on Saturday as Israeli forces carried out sustained airstrikes and artillery fire across Gaza, and 30 more were wounded, according to Gaza’s Civil Defense. The attacks included a strike on a family tent west of Khan Younis and a bombing of an apartment near the Abbas intersection in Gaza City, while additional strikes hit eastern Al-Bureij and areas near Jabaliya. Women and children were included among the dead.
• Israel strikes Gaza police station: Another Israeli airstrike on Saturday hit the Sheikh Radwan police station in western Gaza City, killing about 13 people, including six Palestinian police officers—four of them women—according to Palestinian media and Drop Site reporting. Gaza’s Interior Ministry said at least 15 police personnel were wounded and others are believed missing under the rubble, while detainees and civilians present at the station were also among the casualties. Drop Site correspondent Abdel Qader Sabbah provided footage of the attack and its aftermath, available here.
• Mladenov adopts Israeli narrative on killings in Gaza: Nickolay Mladenov, the Director-General of Trump’s “Board of Peace,” said he is deeply concerned by reports that Hamas fighters emerged from a tunnel in Rafah, which he implied were responsible for the subsequent Israeli strikes which killed civilians, warning both events could undermine the ceasefire’s progress. Senior Hamas official Basem Naim rejected Mladenov’s framing, saying Israel has rejected a negotiated exit for the trapped fighters, and used their sightings as pretext to launch strikes on company targets across rest of Gaza.
• Egypt, Qatar, and league of Muslim and Arab states condemn Israeli ceasefire violations: Egypt condemned repeated Israeli ceasefire violations after strikes killed at least 32 people across Gaza, warning the attacks risk inflaming the situation and undermining efforts to restore stability, according to a Foreign Ministry statement. Qatar also condemned Israel’s repeated ceasefire violations on January 31, saying the attacks constitute a “dangerous escalation” that undermines mediation efforts. And later, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Türkiye, and Saudi Arabia issued a joint statement to the same effect, which also noted the need to respect Palestinian self-determination and statehood. All statements urged adherence to the ceasefire agreement.
• Hamas warns ceasefire cannot hold: Hamas said it held intensive discussions with mediators and international parties to condemn Israel’s continued ceasefire violations and attacks across Gaza, warning the agreement cannot hold unless Israel is compelled to comply, with Khalil al-Hayya, head of Hamas in Gaza, stressing that “the resistance’s commitment to and respect for the agreement requires obligating the occupation to abide by it and preventing it from continuing its crimes.”
• UAE in talks to run Gaza civilian administration: The United Arab Emirates is holding advanced talks with Israel and the United States on a proposal for Phase 2 of the so-called ceasefire, with Abu Dhabi offering billions in investment in exchange for control over the Strip’s civilian infrastructure, according to Israel’s Channel 12. The proposal would place markets, trade, aid distribution, and logistics under Emirati management using Israeli suppliers and contractors, backed by Emirati armed forces and U.S. private security firms.Israeli officials say the government supports the move, describing the UAE as Gaza’s future “civilian patron” and that the plan would impose a foreign-run civilian system that sidelines Palestinian authority, with daily life, trade, and security, all managed by outside states and private forces.
• Epstein advised Barak on Palantir, audio reveals: Drop Site’s Ryan Grim shared newly released U.S. Justice Department audio, which shows that as Ehud Barak was leaving Israeli government service, he sought guidance from Jeffrey Epstein, who pointed him toward Palantir, a data company founded byPeter Thiel. Listen to the audio here.

In February 2024, just over three months into Israel’s war on Gaza, U.S. ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, and his deputy, Stephanie Hallett, blocked an internal cable intended for wider distribution among senior officials in the Biden administration that warned northern Gaza had turned into an “apocalyptic wasteland,” according to Reuters. Lew and Hallett reportedly blocked the cable, which described the consequences of Israel’s assault in harrowing detail, because they believed it lacked balance.

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Edward Bernays was Freud‘s nephew, born in Vienna in 1891. His father, Freud’s wife’s Martha’s brother and his mother was Freud’s sister. The Bernays emigrated to America, and returned to have holidays in the Alps with the Freuds, which they had done before.

Freud sent his nephew his Introductory lectures as a gift, in return for the gift of Havanna cigars his nephew had sent him. Ernest Bernays used his understanding of Freud’s unconscious as a foundation for his 1928 book Propaganda, on how to manipulate people’s behaviors, without them realising it. Bernays saw that linking products with emotions could cause people to behave irrationally.

The president of a tobacco company asked him how he could increase his sale by getting women to smoke. It was taboo for them to do so at that time. Bernays consulted AA Brill a NY psychoanalyst. Brill told him that cigarettes were a symbol of male power. Freud had said women wanted a penis and felt the lack. This led to a campaign by Bernays, which he called ”Torches of Freedom” He got debutantes to walk down 5th Avenue at the Easter parade with this banner and at a given time they took, hidden under their skirts, the cigarettes and lit up. Press was there and it was the beginning of women smoking in public and it increased sales. It was sold as a symbol of liberty.

This was a time when America produced more than they could sell. Bernays was instrumental is changing how the public bought, from needs to desire. The consumer became vital, not just the worker.

The next change was to increase bacon sales for Beechnut company. Americans should eat hearty breakfasts. Freudian group psychology to repeat a stimulus and create a habit, inundate the consumer with advertisements and follow up with more ads and discounts and rewards. Film stars were used to sell cars, symbolizing, sexuality, power,fashion.

President Coolidge asked for Bernays’s help with his image, as he was seen as dull. Bernays arranged for him to be visited by 34 film stars and it was in all the newspapers that the president entertained actors & his image changed.

Edward Bernays was rich and famous.

How much Freud was aware of his nephew’s use of his psychoanalytic ideas we do not know. He responded to his nephew sending him his book ”Crystalising Public Opinion 1923. “ I have received your book” as a truly American production it interested me.” Freud asked his nephew for help when facing financial ruin in Vienna. His nephew arranged to have his uncle’s work published in America, so Freud could get American dollars. Freud was appalled by his nephew’s proposal that Freud write popular articles for the Cosmopolitan. Freud disliked America.

Here are some quotes from Bernays:

• “If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.”
• “Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government, which is the true ruling power of our country.”
• The engineering of consensus is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.”
• “We are dominated by the relatively small numbers of persons who understand the mental processes of social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the moves which control the public mind.”
• “Small groups of persons can and do make the rest of us think what they please about any given subject.
• “Propaganda will never die out.”

Edward Bernays’ influence to make people want things they did and do not need to satisfy a desire to be happy, dominates much of the world today.

These quotes are sobering, as their implementation are alive with us even more now.

Vamik Volkan quoted the Turkish saying” the fish that lives in water does not know what water is.” We are in danger of not being aware of our own embededness in the social climate.

The war in 1914 Freud saw his theory of aggressive instincts confirmed, he disliked America and was depressed at the state of the world and group behaviour. He saw more dangerous forces that were submerged being unleashed. These needed to be controlled. Bernays thought there was a need for an elite to manage social control of these animal drives. Edward Bernays had developed techniques to manage crowds the masses, by “engineering for consent”, enlightened despotism tapping in to fears and desires.”

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Edward Bernays was involved with setting up a Committee of Public Information when America joined the war and went to the peace conference in Paris with Woodrow Wilson. He saw how Wilson was received and how propaganda could and would be used to sway the masses in peace. He set up The Council of Public Relations instead of using the word propaganda.

By 1928 it was seen that Bernays had created consumerism as a mainstay of American life and a key to economic progress. There was a constant stimulation of the irrational self, with desire to have things to make him-her happy & to feel good.

Edward Bernays dominated politics and was among the rich and famous, like a magician who made things happen. His view of those around him and the masses was that they were stupid. His children spoke of how he told them they were stupid,

The financial crash in 1929 affected the boom time, not only in America, also in Europe.

Freud’s Civilisation and its Discontents saw individual freedom as impossible, he was pessimistic. The Nazis were coming to power, chaos and instability of the market. Goebels , Minister of Propaganda, was interested in Edward Bernays work and used it.

I hope to say something about leadership, before we stop, as how they are able to use their influence for good or ill is crucial. The use of scapegoats in group behaviour comes into this, too. This may be developed in our discussion

In 1932, there was a new president in America, who had a new way of dealing with the masses. Roosevelt wanted what was good for the whole country, the people, not just big business. His new deal, was created. He called in George Gallup to arrange small groups to gauge what people wanted, trade unions were set up. Roosevelt believed people could be talked to and could be trusted and could know what they wanted.

This was different to Bernays’ view and all he and big business stood for and feared to lose. He and big business were opposed to Roseveldt and fought back with ideological warfare against the new deal. Bernays believed people were stupid and irrational and should be manipulated.

The National Association of Manufacturers’ campaign was launched. Bernay’s campaign behind the scenes, corrupting and deceiving the public, was no match for the government.

Goebels was impressed and saw this as the way the government should take on the problem. He learnt from Bernays propaganda ideas and implementation.

1939 Bernays was behind the creation a world fair in NY, Democracy and American Business a large white dome created by general motors. Capitalism was seen as capable of doing anything with a vision of successful passive consumerism capturing desires. Bernays believed people were not capable of decision-making power and just should be controlled.

This was different from Roosevelt, who set up trade unions and had a different view.

The 2nd world war confirmed Freud’s view even more, with an increased pessimism and hatred of the crowd.

A Hobbsian view, man’s lust for power & self interest.

Bernays then worked for the CIA to manage the masses and control the minds of the people. To suppress the savage barbarism that lurked under the surface.

Politics turned to these consumer rules, responsive to whims of market, as business sold products, politicians can do the same, understand uncs.. ads on tv target worries of swing voters, ultimate goal to be elected.

It was the end of Roosevelt’s view of social beings with concern for welfare systems, rather a pandering to desires. New left used what worked for business, ‘96 Clinton got in Blair followed these ways and also got in ‘97, copying America.There was no protection from greed of business. A way of controlling not liberating, initiated & developed by Edward Bernays using Freud’s ideas of the unconscious. In 1953, there was added fear of the bomb and heightened Cold War. Bernays, working for the CIA, & consultant to President Eisenhower, ramped up the fear and propaganda against Russia in the Cold War.

The way Bernays used power to get what businesses wanted had no scruples. It was clear the ends defeated the means.

United Fruits had banana plantations in Guatemala. A new president saw all the profits going to them in America and not to his people and the workers and wanted to change this. He wanted the land to belong to them. Bernays, came in on behalf of United Fruits & made it seem like an attack on American democracy. It was said Abends the president was a Communist threat. Bernays organized the campaign.(They were nothing to do with Russia at all.) CIA organised a coup and it was said they had toppled a Marxist regime. Nixon was shown Marxist literature planted there in the president’s palace. The CIA took his work much further and we know of various coups, in South America, I remember Chile, & over the world, including Ukraine, 2014, organized by them for their interest.

Leadership externally and internally needs to be more than this.

JFK was assassinated when he wanted to change the banking system. Vamik Vlokan reminded us of an example of collapsed time, of how Slobodan Milosovic reactivated a chosen trauma in the history of Serbia in the 1389 Battle of Kosovo & on 600th anniversary of this battle, exhumed the remains of Prince Lazar killed in that battle and took it round the country for a year. He had been killed by Ottoman Muslims. Bosnian and Albanian Muslims became to be seen as extensions of those Muslims in 1389 and created an opportunity for revenge for humiliation 600 years previously, Serbs felt entitled to rape and kill Muslims. In Yugoslavia before, they had all lived peacefully together. We can think of other examples. Ireland and over the world where the feelings of the past become condensed in the present, often at times of uncertainties, economic and political anxieties creating scapegoats.

(The story of the destruction of use of hemp products an example of vested interest.)

Gathering this & aware of what has transpired socially over the last 2 years, I thought of Eric Fromm & his book Fear of Freedom published in 1941, at the time of totalitarianism in Europe. I think it is relevant now. The propaganda , lies and censorship has penetrated through technocracy and our digital world. The information and advertisements flood our consciousness more than newspapers and radio of the time of Eric Fromm.

He saw our dependency and lack of security within and need to belong to the group, as a vulnerability in our fear of not being safe and in danger. This is when a ”strong” authoritarian outside leader & system can be adhered to. The sado- masochistic vertex relationship feels safer than being alone, without protection, powerless & actually in danger from the totalitarian state.

Fromm believed we need to understand the context of the culture the individual was molded by.

(Once again, the fish does not know what water is that he is swimming in.)

There has been a history of compliance in religions. Luther and Calvin saw man as evil, needing submission to god. Escaping from freedom, we fuse with the outside, belong and feel safe. Danger of what happens to those who do not conform, in any group is real.

To quote Fromm, “Modern man lives with the illusion he has what he wants, while actually wants what he is supposed to want.”

Exactly what Edward Bernays has created in our social sphere.

I had a neighbour here who was part of Mussolini’s Black Shirt youth when young. He said it was the best time of his life, belonging and being part of something he felt proud of and larger than his puny little self. I had a similar conversation with a German man who was in the Hitler Youth. He said he was stronger than my mother. His father had been damaged in the First World War and a passive figure. That was a relief to be away and part of a group, singing songs, being in the countryside. Ayan Hirsi Ali described her relief in being part of the Muslim Brotherhood, also as an adolescent. Feeling protected, also by being covered totally, being protected from an arranged marriage and one’s own feelings, to be part of an ideology bigger than yourself that you could aspire to.

A patient who was distressed when they heard news of a dictator being ousted and actually stumbled & fell, also adhered to this strong authority inwardly, as she felt weak and powerless.

Another patient was paralyzed with fear in the face of strict inner elders of her religious upbringing. How to reach the imprisoned self?

A child patient told me when I asked why she could not tell me news, that we both knew, said, “You would be upset and run out of the room and leave me alone with the monsters.”

I think we can all think of examples in our daily work. How can we be perceived as strong enough to protect the vulnerable self who is in the thrall of a different kind of protection.

I brought Edward Bernays today as his legacy has multiplied massively in our technocratic age. There is a danger we lose our minds and capacity to discern how polluted the water we are swimming in is.

When we are aware of how the masses have been duped, we will be needed to help with the grief that emerges.

I heard Sherri Mitchell, a North American Indigenous elder, tell of the myth of the cannibal giant who ate and destroyed everything. Hannah Arendt wrote that the next totalitarian state will be led by bureaucrats & that the totalitarian state is a monster that devours her children. The cannibal giant maybe more alive among us than we can admit.

Edward Bernays, using Freud’s work, sowed social seeds beyond “The Hidden Persuaders”, Vance Packard and “Amusing Ourselves to Death”, Neil Postman, creating a way of life that is to be pursued at all costs. This has relevance to our practice and bringing this awarenesss today I hope to trigger further thought and discoveries.

GREED.

Money for Gestapo. Brownshirts, Uniformed Paid Mercenary Services, the BIllionaires, but . . . . . A crisis emerges across the US as ‘forever chemicals’ quietly contaminate drinking water wells

The Ahlstrom paper mill in Rhinelander, Wis. Rhinelander’s water utility first tested for PFAS in 2013 to comply with federal rules. By 2019, the city shut down two utility-owned public wells to protect customers.

Tom LaDue baits a hook with his grandkids in 2022 before PFAS contamination was discovered in Snowden Lake in Stella, Wis.

The Cape Fear River flows over Lock and Dam No. 1 at Riegelwood, N.C., on Jan. 18, 2025.

Faye Jackson gets her blood tested at a medical clinic in Calhoun, Ga., on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, as her daughter Marie waits outside for her turn. Their blood tests revealed they have PFAS levels above the safety threshold outlined by national health experts.

Construction is underway on a reverse osmosis treatment facility which is designed to filter out PFAS from local drinking water in Gadsden, Ala., on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025.

Snowden Lake in Stella, Wis., seen on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, is contaminated by PFAS and officials say the fish is no longer safe to eat.

Associated Press writers Todd Richmond in Madison, Wis., Jason Dearen in Los Angeles and M.K. Wildeman in Hartford, Conn., contributed. Dylan Jackson and Justin Price of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution contributed from Atlanta.

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• Allegations of mistreating employees (such as low wages and poor benefits).
• Driving small businesses out of business.
• Contributing to environmental degradation.
• Accusations of contributing to increased local crime rates due to store policies that require frequent police calls for petty incidents.