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Warnings of 911 in Back To The Future
Marty brings his hands to his mouth and shouts out loud, “I have to tell you about the future!”
The creators of Back To The Future said the same thing.
\"I have to tell you about the future!\"
It was known
The destruction of New York's Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 was not a surprise attack. The plan for 911 was known two decades before, as far back as the early 1980's.
Details of 911 appear in the blockbuster trilogy “Back To The Future”, the first movie of which was released in 1985.
I first learned Back To The Future contained warnings of 911 from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPJQ-1Y8jfY.
In this post, I expand on the examples presented in that video, providing additional supporting arguments of my own. I include a few more 911 warnings I spotted myself.
So come along and enjoy this ride, as we rupture the space-time continuum and create a paradox of our own.
Terrorist attack at Twin Pines Mall
In the first Back To The Future movie, a terrorist attack (pic 1) takes place at the Twin Pines Mall (pic 2).
This is a warning of a future terrorist attack on the Twin Towers on 911. “Pines” represent the towers. “Twin” is… well… just plain obvious.
A terrorist attack at Twin Pines Mall - filmed 1985.
A terrorist attack at Twin Towers - happened 2001.
The numbers
When Marty first arrives at the mall, the clock reads 1:16, which is 911 upside down (pic 3).
When Doc shows Marty two synchronized watches, the time is 1:19, which is 911 backwards (pic 4).
911 once; 911 twice.
If you don’t like having to turn the mall clock upside down or flip the watches backwards, don’t worry. There is an even clearer reference to the numbers 911 later on - in their proper order.
Lone Pine Mall
When Marty returns to the mall at the end of the first movie, Twin Pines Mall (pic 5) becomes Lone Pine Mall (pic 6).
You probably already see how this foretells 911. Let’s break it down.
The site where the mall stands used to be owned by Old Man Peabody, who had two cherished pine trees (pic 7). When the mall was built, both pine trees were still on the property, and so the mall was named Twin Pines Mall.
When Marty travels back in time, he travels from the mall directly to Peabody’s land. Same spot, just different time period.
While trying to escape, Marty knocks down one of Peabody’s two pine trees (pic 8). Thus, two pines become a lone pine after they were crashed into.
This foreshadows the aftermath of 911, when the Twin Towers (pic 9) were replaced by a lone tower (pic 10) after they were crashed into.
What is more, the replacement tower is named One World Trade Center. “Lone” vs “One” – even the name is a near-perfect match. Even the name!
Looks like an airplane
When Peabody and his family first see the car (pic 11), Peabody describes it as “an airplane without wings”.
Later, the car is modified to fly (pic 12).
Add these details together and what do we have? A car described as a plane, which later flies, that crashes into a tree symbolizing one of New York’s Twin Towers – precisely what happened years later on 911 (pics 13-14).
Towers on fire
After the Twin Towers were struck on 911, they began burning. The makers of Back To The Future anticipated this and depicted it.
Near the end of the first movie, as the DeLorean takes Marty back to his time, the car’s tires leave two twin tracks on the road (pic 15). The twin tracks are on fire, an unmistakable depiction of the Twin Towers burning.
Doc then runs between the burning twin tracks, shrieking loudly (pic 16). As he runs from the top of the tracks to the bottom, he looks and sounds like people falling off a building - a haunting foreshadowing of 911.
Yet the burning twin tracks represent more than just the Twin Towers on fire. As the camera pulls out, a store sign in the shape of the number 9 comes into view on the left (pic 17). The sign and burning twin tracks together form an undeniable 911.
Notice the placement of this store sign is perfect for indicating 911. It is not at the end of the street at the top of the twin tracks, nor is it to the right, but is perfectly placed to the left of the burning 11.
Notice too that the sign could have been a 3, or a 5, or a 7, or a J, or an S, and would still have served its function of pointing to the store. But it was none of those shapes. It was a 9. And the camera pulls out enough to capture the whole 9 perfectly.
Where the earlier examples of the mall sign and watches might be too much of a stretch to suggest 911, this 911 at the plaza leaves no room for denial.
The falling towers
On 911, after the Twin Towers had burned for a time, they ultimately fell. So too in the Back To The Future movies. The first movie ended with the Twin Towers on fire. In the second movie, we see the Twin Towers falling.
Jennifer is on the sofa in her future home (pic 18). She looks up in astonishment. Through her look, the movie is telling us… “Pay attention to this. This is shocking.”
What is Jennifer looking at that shocks her so? She is looking at the TV.
She then exclaims, “I’m in the future!” (Pic 19). With this, they have taken us to the future - to 911. And this is what we see…
A moment later in this scene, we see two pine trees projected on the TV screen (pic 20). When Lorraine clicks the remote, the pine trees are replaced by New York’s Twin Towers (pic 21). This confirms our understanding that the pine trees really do represent New York’s Twin Towers.
The TV then glitches and scrolls upward (pic 22). As the frames scroll up, the towers appear to be rising.
But notice one of the characters is upside down. Why is there an upside down person in this scene? Since he is the closest character to the audience, the movie is telling us to look at the TV from his perspective. And what does he see? As the TV frames scroll up, he sees the towers falling down (pic 23). He sees New York’s Twin Towers falling down.
All three characters are looking at the Twin Towers on TV (pic 24), just like millions of people were viewing the actual towers on their TV’s on 911.
Yet the TV screen looks like a window, complete with curtains on either side. Lorraine even calls it a window when she says, "... this window is still broken." Notice too the torch of the Statue of Liberty at the bottom of the shot. Why is the torch of the Statue of Liberty in this shot? To create the impression of being in New York City, with a view of the Twin Towers from our window.
Lorraine points directly at the towers. The characters in this scene are the people of New York, looking at and pointing to the Twin Towers on 911. With this scene, the movie is telling us... "It's going to happen here, in New York, at the Twin Towers."
Talk about pointing something out! This is as pointed as it can get. What was for them a window onto the Twin Towers, was for us a window into the future.
911 was staged
Yet the creators of Back To The Future might be telling us one thing more about this future terrorist attack. They might be telling us it is not a real terrorist attack at all. It might be a staged, agency operation.
Three times, as the DeLorean passes through the time barrier, it is racing toward things related to cinema... ie: the stage.
The first time the car breaks the time barrier, it is racing toward a film booth (pic 25). The second time, it is racing toward a movie theater (pic 26). In the third movie, the DeLorean breaks the time barrier while racing toward a drive-in movie screen (pic 27).
Though the Twin Towers really were tragically brought down, the creators of Back To The Future may have been telling us that the circumstances behind the disaster were - like in cinema - not what they appear to be.
For more on the likelihood 911 was a staged pretext for war, see my other post: https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy_posts/comments/1db3m5u/government_coverups_excuses_for_war_world_war_3/
But where did the creators of Back To The Future get this information? How did they know about 911 twenty years in advance?
Fortunately for us, they put that in the movie too.
Message received
Marty received knowledge of a specific event (pic 28). What event? A tower being struck (pic 29). The message came with an urgent plea… save the tower.
In the real world, a group of people learned that New York’s Twin Towers would be struck. They wanted to save the towers.
Message delivered
Marty asked Doc for his help getting back home, and delivered the message of a tower being struck (pic 30).
In the real world, the people who learned about 911 delivered their message of the Twin Towers being struck to Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale (pic 31), asking for their help in getting the warning out.
Rob and Bob suggested making a movie about it (pic 32), to get their message out through cinema – which was worked into the movies by Doc instructing Marty to go through the movie screen (pic 33).
The message
The warning of 911 is woven throughout the movies, along with an urgent plea to avoid the disaster.
Marty writes in a letter to Doc: “Please take whatever precautions are necessary to prevent this terrible disaster.” (Pic 34)
Notice the letter was made fully visible in the movie. This is the message the creators of Back To The Future wanted to announce.
Notice too they used the word “disaster”. While the shooting of a man (Doc) is indeed terrible, referring to it as a disaster is a little strong. In using the word “disaster”, the creators were really referring to 911, which could truly be called a disaster. They even spelled the word "Disaster" with a capital "D", even though it isn't at the beginning of a sentence.
Also note the word “please” is underlined. The creators were imploring.
The source of the message
But where did the people behind Back To The Future get their knowledge of 911? The people who contacted Rob and Bob with knowledge that the Twin Towers would be struck... Where did they get that information?
As with everything else, this too was worked into the movie… The woman in the plaza (pic 35).
She is the one who gave Marty the flyer about the tower (pic 36). She is the source of that knowledge. She knows every detail about the tower, including how and when it was struck. She also gives Marty the urgent instruction to save the tower.
The woman is positioned directly beneath a store sign that reads “The Third Eye” (pic 37). An eye inside a pyramid is used instead of the word “eye”. This symbol is called the “all seeing eye”, and it lines-up perfectly with the woman’s forehead.
This shot replicates mysticism iconography (pic 38), where the third eye is depicted on the forehead as a symbol of enlightenment. The all-seeing-eye symbol is also used in Freemason iconography (pic 39).
Add these details together and what do we have? Marty learned of the destruction of the clock tower from a woman depicted with her forehead directly beneath the all-seeing-eye of the Freemasons. With this shot, the creators of Back To The Future are telling us they learned about the destruction of the Twin Towers from Freemasons.
911 was approved
Another link to the Freemasons is shown on the clock at Lone Pine Mall (pic 40). When Marty returns to the mall at the end of the first movie, the clock reads 1:33.
33 is a special number in Freemasonry (pic 41). The number 3 represents completeness, such as the 3 dimensions of the physical universe. It also denotes stability, since 3 is the minimum number of legs a table needs to remain upright. Doubling the number 3 as in 33 signifies achieving a complete and stable degree of enlightenment, which is why 33 is the highest level of membership in Freemasonry.
By placing the number 33 together with Lone Pine Mall, the creators of Back To The Future are telling us 911 had Freemasons behind it, approved by those at the highest level.
Why so cryptic?
But why present this information about 911 in such a cryptic way, with so much symbolism? If they wanted to warn us about 911, why not just come out and tell us plainly and clearly?
To be frank, I don’t know why. All we can do is speculate.
Perhaps they were under oath. The people trying to sound the warning of 911 were likely Masons who did not agree with other Masons concerning 911. Coming out and publicly denouncing the plans of their own fraternity would have landed them in serious trouble.
Another possibility is that while the date of 911 was known so long in advance, the year was not. Consider what came immediately after 911. 911 opened the door to US invasions overseas. 911 could not be launched until the US was ready for such operations in foreign lands. The country needed to be prepared politically, economically, and militarily. Only then would the year for 911 be chosen.
So even though the plan for 911 was known as far back as the early 1980’s, not knowing the year was problematic. What could anyone do about it? Ground all flights on September 11 of every single year for decades? No one would take such a warning seriously, nor would authorities take such precautions.
Yet another possibility is to prepare people and society for planned changes, guiding people into becoming more accepting of them. "Predictive Programming", as it has come to be called, is the "theory that the government or other higher-ups are using fictional movies or books as a ... tool to make the population more accepting of planned future events." - https://u.osu.edu/vanzandt/2018/04/18/predictive-programming
Still another possibility is simply to clear their conscience. If the ones planning the disaster make their plans known ahead of time, they believe they will escape its moral and spiritual consequences, leaving them free of guilt. This is similar to a country announcing a planned attack on a city or facility through television, radio, and dropping leaflets from planes. They warn people of their planned attack, indicating its precise location, date, and time, in order to escape culpability for any loss of life that may result. The idea is: "We warned you. If you are injured or killed, it is your fault, not ours." As unbelievable as that sounds, such twisted reasoning is used by governments and militaries to this day.
One final possibility I can think of is that the creators of the Back To The Future movies realized they would not be able to stop the 911 disaster, and produced the movies for posterity’s sake. They wanted people to know the truth - that it was not a surprise attack, but a planned operation approved long in advance by people connected to powerful organizations. They wanted people to know… it was known.
As Marty often said, “That’s heavy.”
Joseph Cafariello
10:00 UTC
The Fascist Plot - Government cover-ups, Excuses for war, World War 3 nears
They look for excuses to expand their power and influence. And when an excuse does not readily exist, they create one.
The Façade
Recent history confirms this. Let's review several cases over the last 130 years in chronological order.
■ At the end of the 19th century, the US wanted to expand its sphere of influence. In 1898, they sabotaged one of their own battleships, the USS Maine, in the harbour of Havana, Cuba, blaming it on the Spanish. US newspapers built the case for war, which was viewed as a pretext even at that time, as represented in the movie Citizen Kane.
From https://www.workers.org/2022/04/63411/ :
"A declassified CIA document written March 13, 1962, outlines Operation Northwoods, a plan for a U.S. attack on Cuba following its 1959 Revolution: (tinyurl.com/2p9cj7ek)"
"On page 11, during an outline of false-flag tactics, the CIA directly uses the phrase “a ‘Remember the Maine’ incident”, and follows with plans to intentionally blow up a U.S. ship to start a desired “war on communism”. Our revolutionary comrades in Cuba hold as official history that the 1898 incident was a planned, false-flag operation."
As a result of the sinking of the USS Maine, the US gained the port of Guantanamo in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and control of the Philippines as a foothold in the Orient. Note the theme... a covert act by government used as an excuse for war, and using the media to spread misinformation to gain public support.
■ Next example, WW1. England wanted to draw the US into the war for some badly needed support. So Winston Churchill, who was serving as First Lord of the British Admiralty, created the excuse the US needed to justify joining the war.
The English Channel was swarming with German submarines (U-boats), attacking British shipping. The British implemented shipping by convoy under protection of British warships. But on May 7, 1915, Churchill called-off naval protection for the RMS Lusitania, a British commercial liner with 123 Americans onboard, which was subsequently sunk by the Germans. "A ship sacrificed. Her innocent passengers, pawns in a cruel new era." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0X01_RGcNE / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH11zZlppRY
The sinking turned American public opinion against Germany, and contributed to US entry into the war. "Remember the Lusitania" became a rallying cry repeated in the papers.
■ Next example, WW2. On the morning of December 7, 1941, the day Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor, a sequence of intelligence and messaging failures sealed the base's fate.
Prior to the attack: "Radio communications intelligence 'lost' the location of Japanese carriers." "Kimmel did not inform Short." "Washington issued 'War Warning' messages." "Anti-aircraft guns to protect Pearl Harbor were not deployed or had their ammunition locked up. No fighters were ready to engage a Japanese attack." https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/pearl-harbor-missed-tactical-warnings
The morning of the attack: Japanese submarine periscope sightings, dismissed. A huge wave of aircraft blips on radar, dismissed. Nervous phone calls from radar operators, dismissed. One desperate message was found "balled-up in a trash can". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_warning_of_Pearl_Harbor_attack
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was not a "false-flag" event; it indeed happened, and Japan was indeed the perpetrator. But such readiness failures despite warnings give me the impression it was made just too easy for them, that the gate was left open.
Was Japan baited and lured into attacking Pearl Harbor by suggestions, whether private or public, that the American public did not want war, and the US government would simply cede territories in the Pacific? This theory has been in circulation since the war. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pearl-Harbor-and-the-Back-Door-to-War-Theory-1688287
Whatever the cause, the US government got what it wanted... a reason to join the war.
■ Next example, sabotage proposals: The US Department of Defense proposed "Operation Northwoods" (cited in the 1st example above) to President Kennedy in 1962, outlining a number of "false flag" missions to make it seem the US had been attacked by Cuba. The proposal suggested the US government engage in "acts of terrorism against American military and civilian targets, blame them on the Cuban government, ... to justify a war against Cuba." Among the proposed acts of sabotage were shooting down a remote controlled aircraft painted as a US Air Force plane, blowing up an American ship (described above), and orchestrating acts of terrorism in US cities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
Other proposals: "Create an incident which has the appearance of an attack on US facilities in Cuba"; covert attacks on British Commonwealth member states Jamaica and Trinidad-Tobago to "incite the people of the United Kingdom into supporting a war against Castro"; and "bribe one of Castro's subordinate commanders to initiate an attack" against US Navy base Guantanamo. All such proposals were flatly rejected by President Kennedy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mongoose
■ Next example, Vietnam War. On August 2, 1964, US forces carrying out amphibious operations off the coast of North Vietnam were confronted by North Vietnamese troops. On August 4th, the US claimed it was attacked by North Vietnam. On August 7th, US Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave newly installed President Johnson (less than one year after Kennedy was assassinated) legal justification to enter the Vietnam civil war.
But as Wikipedia explains: "Later investigation revealed that the second attack never happened." "The National Security Agency, an agency of the US Defense Department, had deliberately skewed intelligence to create the impression that an attack had been carried out." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident
The US weapons industry had been wanting another war since the Korean War ended in 1953. But President Kennedy wasn't cooperating. After Kennedy was conveniently taken out of the way, Johnson got what he always wanted - the Presidency, while US weapons manufacturers got what they wanted - war.
■ Next example, US involvement in Iran-Iraq war 1980-88. In 1978-79, Iran’s religious revolution overthrew Iran’s king, the Shah of Iran. The new religious regime confiscated the oil fields and facilities of US oil companies operating in Iran.
The US oil barons called on the US government to get their oil fields back, citing US interests in controlling global oil flows. The US wasted no time attacking Iran immediately following the revolution, but not directly. Instead, the US backed the forces of Iraq in what became the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War
■ Next example, 1^(st) Gulf War 1991. By the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1988, the US had not been able to orchestrate Iran’s downfall, and thus had not been able to retake the oil fields it had lost in Iran. The US decided it needed to put its own troops in the Middle East and finish the job against Iran themselves.
But the US needed an excuse to station US troops in the Middle East close to Iran. So it created another pretext, making Iraq believe the US would not interfere in Iraq’s plans to invade Kuwait.
“On the 24 July [1990], U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, Margaret Tutwiler, told journalists, "We do not have any defense treaties with Kuwait, and there are no special defense or security commitments to Kuwait.[10]" On the 25 July ... American diplomat April Glaspie ... said, "We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait," and, "... the issue is not associated with America.[11]" Some historians believe that these comments represented an unwitting green light of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_Gulf_War
On August 2, 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait. On January 16, 1991, the US launched Operation Desert Storm against Iraq in what is now called the 1^(st) Gulf War.
■ Next example, 911. I know. People have been refuting a US cover-up since day one. I'm not going to sidetrack into that debate here.
The main question concerning 911 has always been: Would US agencies commit acts of terrorism against their own cities as a pretext for war? Given the scenarios presented in operations Northwoods and Mongoose cited above, the answer to that question is: Yes.
For more evidence that 911 was a planned American operation, see my other post: https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy_posts/comments/1daih25/warnings_of_911_in_back_to_the_future/
■ Next example, false claim of WMD in Iraq. In late 2002, US intelligence presented grainy satellite images of what appeared to be military trucks and supply depots in Iraq. They claimed the trucks and depots hid weapons of mass destruction. Congress gave the military permission to attack Iraq, which it did in March 2003 in what is called the 2nd Gulf War. And behold... there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
David Kay, Head of Iraq Survey Group, later blamed the false claim on "a lack of human agents inside Iraq in the months before the war", and "analysts being under pressure to draw conclusions". https://www.sipri.org/commentary/essay/2023/twenty-years-ago-iraq-ignoring-expert-weapons-inspectors-proved-be-fatal-mistake
What did the US get out of 911 and the false WMD claim? Excuses to invade Afghanistan and Iraq... neither country of which ever had any involvement with 911.
The official reason for entering Afghanistan was to capture Osama Bin Laden. Yet after OBL was killed in 2011, the US remained in Afghanistan until 2021. Why did the US remain in Afghanistan for an additional 10 years? Because Afghanistan borders Iran.
■ Iran has always been the principal target of interest. The US oil barons have been eyeing Iran since its religious revolution of 1978-79, which confiscated the properties and facilities of US oil companies operating there.
On failing to dislodge Iran's regime in the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-88, the US realized it wasn't going to get Iran without direct US involvement. 911 and the false WMD claim gave the US excuses to plant troops on either side of Iran - in Iraq on the west, and Afghanistan on the east.
After removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq in 2003, the US remained there, fighting groups backed by Iran. This was followed by the conflict in Syria starting in 2011 and still ongoing, with the West fighting Iranian-backed groups there as well.
From the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88, to post-Hussein Iraq, to Syria from 2011 onward, the US has been engaged in a 40-year proxy war against Iran. What has been only a proxy war until now is poised to turn into a direct conflict soon, as tensions between Israel and Iran continue to escalate.
The Rehearsal
Preparations for war require more than just fabricating excuses, but also conditioning the population. This includes spreading misinformation, controlling the judiciary, and displaying intimidating force. Trump's presidency worked on all three.
Trump's term in office was a dress rehearsal in spreading misinformation and manipulating the news, principally through Fox News and a large number of conservative talk shows across the country.
"Fox News has been described by academics, media figures, political figures, and watchdog groups as being biased in favor of the Republican Party in its news coverage, as perpetuating conservative bias, and as misleading their audience in relation to science, notably climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic...", as well as spreading misinformation regarding the 2020 election. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_controversies
The paper "What is Fox News? Partisan Journalism, Misinformation, and the Problem of Classification" - a collaborative work by several university academics - questions "the idea that Fox should be considered a news source in the first place, claiming it should be considered something more akin to propaganda". https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/19312431211060426
Trump's presidency was also a dress rehearsal in influencing the judiciary, filling the courts with loyalists to promote the group's causes, including overthrowing Roe v Wade. This will come in handy when the time comes to suspend other rights and freedoms, including the constitution.
Then came the COVID lock-downs - a dress rehearsal in suspending rights and freedoms nationwide.
They also practiced displaying force by mobilizing militias and far-right extremist groups behind the insurrection of January 6, 2021. A rehearsal of things to come?
The Actors
What next? They're already working on their excuse for WW3 in the Middle East. Israel continues shelling Palestine and Lebanon, violating international law by expanding its illegal settlements on other countries' land.
Nada Al-Nashif, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, addressed the 55th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (March 26, 2024):
"There are now around 700,000 Israeli settlers in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. These settlers live in 300 settlements and outposts, all illegal under international humanitarian law, as they amount to the transfer by Israel of its own civilian population into the territories it occupies." https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements-and-speeches/2024/03/occupied-palestinian-territory-reporting-settlements-and-occupied
"Israeli settlements in ... Palestinian territories of the West Bank ... Gaza Strip ... Golan Heights, are illegal under international law. These settlements are in violation of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and in breach of international declarations." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_Israeli_settlements
The settlements are illegal because they lie within other nations' borders. Just as the US, the UK, Russia, and other countries have done in the past and in the present, so too Israel uses false flag claims of having been attacked to justify starting and restarting wars of its own - with the sole aim of acquiring more territory.
The recent conflicts in Syria, Palestine, the Persian Gulf, and Lebanon are just the latest excuses to draw Iran into a war. When they feel they have enough justification, they will attack Iran directly. It will be an allied invasion, composed of the US, the UK, Israel, and Russia (which borders Iran to the north).
Russia is allied with this group. Recall the glowing accolades Trump showered on Putin. Recall the assistance Russia gave to Trump in the 2016 election. https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/russian-interference-in-2016-u-s-elections
Trump even asked the Russians to find Hillary Clinton's emails. Why would Trump ask Russia to find US government emails unless he knew they were hacking US government computers? Why ask Russia and not US law enforcement? Why Russia and not another country? Because Russia was already helping him. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-asked-russia-to-find-clintons-emails-on-or-around-the-same-day-russians-targeted-her-accounts / https://www.vox.com/2020/9/29/21493319/trump-russia-if-youre-listening-comments-rewrite-history
Recall also how Trump kept denouncing NATO, challenging it, threatening to withdraw the US from it, weakening it from within. The intent was to make it easier for Putin to take Ukraine and other former Soviet territories in Eastern Europe. Had Trump won in 2020, Putin would have been free to achieve his ultimate objective of rebuilding the USSR. All handed to Putin in exchange for helping Trump get elected, and for Russia's participation in the up-coming war against Iran. Fathom that. After all the effort Ronald Reagan put into dismantling the Soviet Union, Trump would help Putin rebuild it.
Notice too how Koch Industries, the 2nd largest private company in America with over $125 billion in annual revenue, refuses to observe US sanctions against Russia, and has continued doing business in Russia. The Koch brothers have also refused to denounce Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Koch's ties with Russia go back to the 1930's, where their father, Fred C. Koch, made fortunes building oil refineries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_C._Koch
Today, Koch Industries engages in a range of industrial enterprises. A severe polluter of the environment, Koch Industries finances misinformation denying climate change, buying political influence to fight environmental legislation. The brothers' political influence supporting conservative politicians and conservative think tanks has been described as "overwhelming". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Brothers_Exposed
President Eisenhower identified another player pushing the world toward war, which he called "the military-industrial complex", a cluster of industries that benefit from war. They need war to clear-out their inventories so they can produce more weapons. They prosper from armed conflict, and thus influence politicians to pursue war. As Eisenhower warned in his farewell address to his nation, "We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists." https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwight-d-eisenhowers-farewell-address
Another major actor in this drama is big-oil, which benefitted from US control of Iraq and its oil fields, and is salivating over the prospect of regaining control of Iranian oil fields. And big-pharma, which benefitted from government money for COVID vaccines, but then refused "to waive intellectual property rights and share vaccine technology" with developing countries, "fuelling an unprecedented human rights crisis". https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/09/new-report-shows-leading-covid-19-vaccine-pharma-companies-fuelling-unprecedented-human-rights-crisis
And who else belongs to this cast but Elon Musk, who not only defended Putin's invasion, but also cut-off Starlink's satellite service in Ukraine to prevent Ukraine's military from launching satellite-guided missiles to defend themselves against Russian attacks.
Not all conservatives belong to this malicious group; the vast majority do not. The conservative camp has become divided into two broad clans: the “middle-right” and “far-right”. I use “clans” because the two groups do not get along.
The middle-right are reasonable, cooperative, respectful of the law, devoted to the order of government, and committed to building the nation for the benefit of all its citizens.
The far-right, though, are radical in their dealings. They are divisive, they lie profusely, they incite violence, they threaten other members of congress, they are disruptive to orderly government and international cooperation, they do not know the meaning of "compromise" which is essential to keeping the nation united, they are unreasonable.
The Directors
The directors of this drama are from this far-right clan. These directors manipulate the actors from behind the scenes. They put the various actors on stage and in the spotlight to sway and stir the audience, while they themselves hide behind the curtains.
To identify the directors in control, we simply need to look at who benefit from war.
In 1935, US Marine Corps Major General Smedley D. Butler published a scathing rebuke of the business of war. https://www.heritage-history.com/site/hclass/secret_societies/ebooks/pdf/butler_racket.pdf
“War is racket,” he begins. “A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many.”
Butler confirms our understanding… the reasons for war are not always what the public has been lead to believe. Butler then provides a lengthy list of war’s profiteers of his day.
'Munitions makers. Ship builders. Airplane and engine manufacturers. Meat packers. Garment makers. Steel plants. Coal producers.' “And let us not forget the bankers who financed this great war [WW1]. If anyone had the cream of the profits it was the bankers.”
'The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are 6, 8, 10, and sometimes even 12 per cent. But wartime profits - ah! - 20, 60, 100, 300 and even 1800 percent. Uncle Sam has the money. Let's get it,' Butler mocks.
With so much profit to be made, these directors finance the election campaigns of politicians, putting people in government who will do their bidding - pushing laws that benefit their business interests, defeating those that restrict them. They create war after war to generate profit for their businessmen patrons. From behind the curtains, the heads of industry pull the strings of the puppets they put on stage, controlling both government and military to protect their business interests at home and abroad.
Butler witnessed this firsthand, as he led numerous military expeditions overseas for the benefit of American corporations. Note these sobering citations from his book:
- "I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. … I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.” “I spent 33 years in the Marines, most of my time being a high-class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for Capitalism.”
- "Who provides the profits? We all pay them - in taxation. But the soldier pays the biggest part of the bill. Of course, it isn't put that crudely in war time. It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country, and "we must all put our shoulder to the wheel," but the profits jump and leap and skyrocket - and are safely pocketed.”
These are examples of “ultranationalism” – ‘an extreme form of nationalism in which a country asserts or maintains supremacy or other forms of control over other nations to pursue its specific interests’. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultranationalism
In our modern times, nothing has changed. The US military increased its presence in the Middle East following the Iranian revolution which confiscated the facilities of US oil companies, just as in Butler’s day when he led numerous military expeditions for the benefit of American corporations overseas.
The heads of industry and banking, along with the upper-class elites, are the directors behind not only the wars we fight, but also behind the politicians we elect. Recall the Koch brothers mentioned earlier, whose funding of politicians has been described as "overwhelming".
The directors put the various actors on stage to sway the public into supporting their causes... more war, more profit, more influence, more control.
The Script
The directors of this show follow a closely guarded script, a set of goals and methods borrowed from fascist ideology.
Following are just 5 of the main interests of fascism. Determine for yourself how closely they align with the interests of industry and big-business.
- Fascism opposes environmental regulation – it opposes environmental conservation and pollution controls, and denies climate change;
- it opposes unions and labour movements – it has a history of union-busting and strike-breaking;
- it slashes social programs – it heavily reduces healthcare, welfare, childcare, senior pensions, and other social assistance benefits;
- it reduces immigration – it allows less immigration and more deportation, it disparages immigrants and blames them for the woes of society, it foments xenophobia and racism;
- it denies voting rights – it aims to deny voting rights to racial and other minorities, which frees the fascist government from paying attention to their needs. It denies the vote to sections of the population who do not vote for it. Case in point: Leading up to the Presidential election of 2000, “Florida sent its county election supervisors a list of 58,000 alleged felons to purge from the voting rolls.” Most were not felons. The Republicans won Florida by only 537 votes. “… people began to see that in very competitive elections, you could make a difference by keeping certain voters from participating”. https://billmoyers.com/2015/07/31/how-the-2000-election-in-florida-new-wave-voter-disenfranchisement/
Note: Convicted felons are not allowed to vote, but convicted felon Donald Trump is allowed to run for President?
Fascism also embraces violence as a means to intimidate and threaten opposers. Fascist organizations recruit, train, and equip gangs, squads, militias, and paramilitary units who are called upon to vanquish rivals, intimidate the media, clash with workers, and assert their political will on the population.
Major General Butler recounted how the right-leaning corporations of his day recruited veteran soldiers from the American Legion to break-up labour unions.
"You know very well,” he asserted, “that [the American Legion] is nothing but a strikebreaking outfit used by capital for that purpose, and that is the reason we have all those big clubhouses, and that is the reason I pulled out from it. They have been using these dumb soldiers to break strikes." https://www.heritage-history.com/site/hclass/secret_societies/ebooks/pdf/butler_racket.pdf
Donald Trump made use of far-right paramilitary groups in his attempt to forcibly stop the certification of the 2020 US presidential election which he lost.
"The United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack public hearings explored the relationships which existed between [far-right extremist groups] the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, and Trump's allies, with evidence of coordination in the run-up to the Capitol attack." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism_in_North_America
Donald Trump’s speeches and interviews are laced with fascist-leaning rhetoric - denying climate-change, denouncing unions and labour movements, disparaging women and immigrants, promising large-scale deportations, voicing his desire to restrict voting rights, as well as praising dictators the likes of Russia's Putin, North Korea's Kim Jong Un, Venezuela's Maduro, and others.
"Some scholars have argued that the political style of Donald Trump resembles the political style of fascist leaders. Such assessments were first made during Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, continuing over the course of the Trump presidency as he appeared to court far-right extremists ... culminating in the 2021 United States Capital attack." "...some commentators who had initially resisted applying the label to Trump came out in favor of it..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism_in_North_America
From the same article:
- "Harvard University professor of government Daniel Ziblatt also drew similarities between Hitler's rise and Trump's."
- In its July 14, 2021 issue, New York Magazine asked, "Is it finally time to begin calling Trumpism Fascist?"
- "In a July 2021 piece for The Atlantic, George W. Bush's former speechwriter David Frum wrote, "Trump's no Hitler, obviously. But they share some ways of thinking. ... It's time to start using the F-word [Fascist] again, not to defame - but to diagnose.""
The book "Fascism in America: Past and Present", published online by Cambridge University Press, notes:
"While scholars in the United States have long regarded the prospect of “Fascism in America” as unlikely, they have begun to reconsider their views since the rise of Trumpism." https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/fascism-in-america/introduction/0A3FBCE6BFD86B8F2BE5C18498E1C0BA
We have seen this movie before
The situation today is frighteningly similar to pre-WW2. Leading up to that war, fascism spread throughout Europe, most notably in Italy, Germany, and Spain.
Today, fascism in Europe is again on the rise...
"The battles of the past still smolder." "We are seeing things in these recent years that are very similar to what happened at the beginning of the regime [pre-WW2]." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aulPANNCBz0
"In Europe, voters in 27 countries have elected more far-right members to the European Parliament." "France's far-right parties for the first time won more seats..." "Voters in Germany, Italy, Austria and the Netherlands also sent more far-right candidates - some in Germany campaigned using Nazi overtones - to the European Parliament." "They include candidates who campaigned against immigrants, against support for Ukraine, against climate change policies..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwEld1kA5Eo
Other similarities between pre-WW2 and today send shivers down our spines... Putin has mimicked Hitler's moves:
- In 1938, Hitler annexed Austria, and in 1939 invaded Poland;
- In 2014, Putin annexed Crimea, and in 2022 invaded Ukraine.
Just as Italy's Mussolini dreamed of recreating the Roman Empire, and Germany's Hitler dreamed of recreating the pre-WW1 German Empire, so too Russia's Putin dreams of resurrecting the U.S.S.R.
Putin is also following Hitler's strategy in spreading propaganda in the United States:
- "In May 1933, Nazi Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess gave ... authority to form an American Nazi organization. Shortly thereafter ... created the Friends of New Germany." It "was openly pro-Nazi and engaged in political activities ... publish[ing] pro-Nazi articles, and infiltrating ... German-American organizations." "The German American Bund ... was a German-American Nazi organization ... established in 1936 ... to promote a favorable view of Nazi Germany." ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American_Bund ) "More Americans supported Hitler than you may think." https://time.com/5414055/american-nazi-sympathy-book/
- Today: "Russia secretly worms its way into America's conservative media." "Federal prosecutors say Russia paid an American media company to push pro-Kremlin messages from social media influencers including Benny Johnson, Tim Pool and Dave Rubin." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/07/business/media/russia-tenet-media-tim-pool.html
Just as in the 1930's, when Germany spread Nazi propaganda throughout the US, so too today, as Putin finances pro-Russia and anti-Ukraine propaganda across America's conservative radio network.
Trump’s attempted coup d'état on January 6, 2021 was another echo of the past – reminiscent of a failed coup by a fascist group of American businessmen, politicians, and military men known as “The Business Plot”.
“The Business Plot ... was a political conspiracy in 1933, in the United States, to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and install Smedley Butler as dictator. Butler, a retired Marine Corps major general, testified under oath that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans' organization with him as its leader and use it in a coup d'état to overthrow Roosevelt.” “… the congressional committee final report said, "There is no question that these attempts were discussed, were planned, and might have been placed in execution when and if the financial backers deemed it expedient."” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
Yes, this is the same Major General Butler quoted above, who blew the whistle on the plot before it could succeed. You can watch his newsreel address here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo1hp_LMGF8
Butler’s speech transcribed:
“I appeared before the congressional committee, the highest representation of the American people, under subpoena to tell what I knew of activities which I believe might lead to an attempt to set up a fascist dictatorship. The plan, as outlined to me, was to form an organization of veterans to use as a bluff, or as a club at least, to intimidate the government and break down our democratic institutions. The upshot of the whole thing was that I was supposed to lead an organization of 500,000 men which would be able to take over the functions of government. I talked with an investigator for this committee who came to me with a subpoena on Sunday, November 18th [1934]. He told me they had unearthed evidence linking my name with several such veteran organizations. As it then seemed to me to be getting serious, I felt it was my duty to tell all I knew of such activities to this committee. My main interest in all this is to preserve our democratic institution. I want to retain the right to vote and the right to speak freely and the right to write. If we maintain these basic principles, our democracy is safe. No dictatorship can exist with suffrage, freedom of speech and press.”
The question now is… Should Trump lose the 2024 election, will he and his far-right junta attempt another coup? Given the rise of fascism in Europe, Russian propaganda in America, and Trump's fascist rhetoric, the danger of a fascist coup in America if Trump does not win is very real indeed.
"The history of racism in the US is fertile ground for fascism. Attacks on the courts, education, the right to vote and women’s rights are further steps on the path to toppling democracy." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/22/america-fascism-legal-phase
The Supreme Court has already shifted to the right. Some rights and freedoms have already been removed. The proliferation of right-wing propaganda has already tainted the news. The disparaging of immigrants has intensified. What more can they do?
Plenty… A third world war. Another mass lock-down. More rights and freedoms removed. Mass deportations. The constitution suspended. A one-party system that eliminates elections. Autocracy.
In this digital age, anyone protesting the new regime can be barred via user-specific digital shutdowns. No buying or selling, cards deactivated, crypto seized, investment accounts emptied, property confiscated, people erased from society.
Trump has made his love of dictators and his lust for dictatorship very clear, even expressing his desire to control the Federal Reserve Central Bank which oversees interest rates and money printing. There is no telling how far Trump and his far-right financiers will take the country on the path to a fascist dictatorship. Trump has attempted a coup before, and the leaders of industry and banking previously attempted one of their own.
The next phase of the plan for World War 3 to forcibly impose a global network of fascist governments is rapidly advancing. Russia’s fascists are already on the march. Europe’s fascists are organizing. America’s fascists await the outcome of the upcoming election before deciding their next step.
Once again, a fascist storm is sweeping the planet. History begs us to look at the lessons it has preserved for us… When fascist sentiments rise, democracies fall.
Joseph Cafariello
Post-script:
So how can we endure what is coming? Better still, how can we avoid it?
One word... truth.
All the turmoil and chaos we are experiencing come from deceptions, distortions, and lies. What they build on lies, we can demolish with truth.
Everything built on lies is unstable, since lies shift like sand. Whereas truth is stable and constant, and cannot be destroyed.
Embrace only truth, reject lies. Speak only truth, abandon lies. Receive only those who come to us with truth, dismiss those who deliver lies.
Remove the façade and expose the actors who try to deceive us. Reveal what has been concealed, uncover what has been covered, speak what has been hushed.
Only then will we have a better world, a stable world, a world built on truth, a world of freedom. Because lies enslave those who believe them, whereas truth sets us free.
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