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Something is smelling decidedly ‘off’ in today’s world, with nauseating levels of corruption, mass murder, lies, hypocrisy and repression. These three essays are based on three books I happen to have recently read, each of which provides fascinating but necessarily limited insights into the reality of contemporary society. Placed alongside each other, however, they can help us to identify the source of the odour.The ruling group in our society uses its propaganda to inverse the truth of the moral relationship between itself and its opponents or victims, as we saw in the previous essay in this series.And its manipulation is particularly convoluted with regard to the notion of conspiracy.While the dominant group is constantly conspiring against the public in its own selfish interests, it likes nothing better than to accuse its enemies either of spreading false “conspiracy theories” about its own nefarious activities or of themselves being involved in criminal “conspiracies”.Joseph Heller (pictured), author of the iconic American satirical novel Catch-22, said in 1973: “What illegal conspiracies have been formed more likely exist between prosecutor, judge and policeman, who draw their paychecks from the same bank account and depend for promotion on the same political superiors.“Throughout the novel there are ...

Something is smelling decidedly ‘off’ in today’s world, with nauseating levels of corruption, mass murder, lies, hypocrisy and repression. These three essays are based on three books I happen to have recently read, each of which provides fascinating but necessarily limited insights into the reality of contemporary society. Placed alongside each other, however, they can help us to identify the source of the odour.Eric Hazan, the French writer and publisher who died this summer at the age of 88, goes out of his way in his 2006 book LQR: La propagande du quotidien (‘LQR: Everyday Propaganda’) to insist that he is “obviously not equating neoliberalism with Nazism”. [1]This is a rather puzzling thing for him to have written, since not only is neoliberalism very similar to Nazism and Fascism, as I have often pointed out, but this fact is also strongly confirmed by his book!Moreover, the equation that he denies making even lies behind the book’s title, as he explains in the opening pages.A German-Jewish academic Victor Klemperer kept note of the newspeak rolled out by the Hitler regime and in 1947 published his observations, using the term LTI, Lingua Tertii Imperii, Language of the Third Reich, to describe the ...

Something is smelling decidedly ‘off’ in today’s world, with nauseating levels of corruption, mass murder, lies, hypocrisy and repression. These three essays are based on three books I happen to have recently read, each of which provides fascinating but necessarily limited insights into the reality of contemporary society. Placed alongside each other, however, they can help us to identify the source of the odour.“The French government has been totally captured by Israel. The president behaves like a Zionist agent. The mass media are controlled… I am astonished by the power of the Jewish lobby. It practically dictates the Middle East policies of France and of Europe”. [1]“Here are people who control most of the mainstream media, who have at their disposal intermediaries in the highest spheres of the state, not to speak of considerable financial clout, and they cannot tolerate the existence of a little rebel group… These people have decided to attack all forms of pro-Palestinian expression. They are everywhere, they are powerful and above all are diabolically efficient. They must certainly be working with intelligence services”. [2]The two statements above are fictional. Or rather, they are fictional in that they have been put into the mouths of fictional ...

People’s Choice – 20 x 32 inches (51 x 81 centimeters), Oil on Canvas, by Jordan HendersonNobody cares.Nobody is on your side.Nobody tells the truth.Nobody will defend your freedom.Nobody is truly independent.Nobody will end the wars.Nobody will stop arming Israel.Nobody will restore power to the people.Nobody will challenge the power of the central banks.Nobody will stop the systematic theft of your collective wealth.Nobody will defy the evil global criminocracy.Vote for Nobody!Thanks for reading Paul Cudenec! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Source: https://paulcudenec.substack.com/p/vote-for-nobody Article courtesy of Paul Cudenac. https://paulcudenec.substack.com/ ...

This is a news report I wrote for the latest Acorn bulletin over on the Winter Oak site. I have also included other material from that same issue, which I am sure will prove of interest to readers.The government Inquiry into one of Britain’s worst recent tragedies, the Grenfell Tower fire, has ignored the real cause of deaths, according to a whistleblower.The lethal role of flame retardant chemicals in furniture, imposed by legislation in the UK, is not mentioned in the September 2024 findings, says former civil servant Terry Edge.He asks: “Is the reason for the Inquiry’s failure to address the massive influence of the failed furniture regulations on Grenfell fire toxicity because of their huge profitability as they stand and the fear that there could be huge financial repercussions once the entire population learns they are being poisoned in their own homes and at huge risk of death in a fire for no good reason other than profit?”The deadly blaze that broke out in west London in June 2017 was the worst UK residential fire since the days of the Blitz in the Second World War.Seventy people died at the scene and two later in hospital, with many other ...

Nature, in the organic radical tradition, is regarded as the manifestation of Good.Whether seen as the self-realisation of divinity or as its precious creation, it represents all that is sacred to us: life, authenticity, beauty.But what about the other side of the coin? How might we regard the abstract notion of Evil as manifesting in our world?It would have to take the form of everything that opposes the force of Good we have already identified, everything that impedes its thriving, blocks its divine light.Within the human mind, we could identify this as the ego, the little self who is only interested in his own narrow desires and thus, like soul-selling Faust, puts himself at the service of Evil.But when a world is dominated by individuals who have deliberately embraced selfishness, unashamedly and even jubilantly, this germ of inner Evil will then expand to assume a social and physical form.Certain apologists for the current industrial system like to claim that the enormous social and environmental problems associated with it are the result only of the specific way in which our society is being run at the moment.The technology, or Technik, involved, they insist, is itself “neutral” – it is merely the ...

It is today not considered possible by our culture for a sane and serious person to be entirely opposed to the modern world, to its infrastructure and to its thinking.So many intellectual and cultural taboos have been built to block such a perspective from being voiced and shared, that it has become more or less inaudible and invisible.Even – or should I say especially? – the so-called environmentalist movement works hard to banish any such worldview, constantly repeating the lies that technology is neutral, that development can be sustainable, that economic growth can be green.This has not always been the case though, and – before the disaster of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich – there was an important wave of anti-industrial feeling in Germany.Explains Gilbert Merlio: “In the last quarter of the 19th century, criticism of modern civilization was fuelled by a rapid and brutal industrial revolution.“Alongside anti-Enlightenment traditionalists there emerged particularly here a “life philosophy” (Lebensphilosophie) which saw spirit or reason as destructive of the ‘world of life’.“In parallel there appeared in Germanic lands a nebula of social movements which voiced their protest against the harm caused by industrialisation”. [1]Merlio adds that Ludwig Klages, whose ideas I presented in my ...

As humankind shuffles ever closer to the jaws of the global death-machine, all the magic seems to have gone out of our lives and our thinking.Reduced to mere units of “human capital” by the usurious slave-masters, hypnotised into dull passivity by their weapons of mass distraction, too many people appear to have no ideas of their own to express and no words of their own with which to express them.That is why it is so refreshing to have encountered the writing of Ludwig Klages, the beyond-left-and-right critic of modernity whom I described in my last essay.Not only does he not speak the language of the industrial system, but he does not even use its syntax, to use Guy Debord’s terms. [1]Take this passage for example:“What in a moment of grace touches a chord in us from nature or from the works of the spring-spirits with a daimonic force is not something intellectually devised and constructed in the imagination, rather it is – born“. [2]Or this one:“It matters little to know if life reaches beyond the sphere of individuals or not, if the Earth, as the ancients liked to believe, is a living being or whether, as the moderns maintain, it ...

The global industrial-financial complex has been doing its best for decades now to ensure there is no real ideological opposition to its life-hating agenda.In part, it achieves this through relentless propaganda assuring us that its brutal assault on humankind and nature amounts to “progress” or “growth” or “innovation” or positive “change”.It has also taken care to ensure that its apparent political enemies stop short at opposition to the form its rule happens to take at any one time and in any one place, and never challenge its essence, which is the relentless trail of destruction it calls “development”.Thus Marxism, at the very core of its outlook, insists on the so-called “need” for this process, as I set out in ‘The false red flag’. [1]And its supposed diametric “opposites”, Italian Fascism and German National Socialism, were also used to push through an acceleration of the “modernisation” so dear to the criminocracy.The system also constantly attacks, ridicules and shames anyone who dares to question the wisdom of its greed-fuelled “progress”.We are labelled “reactionaries”, “cranks”, or “tree-huggers”, who want to “drag us back to the stone age”.Ironically, we are also sometimes smeared with alleged ideological association with one of the fake and pro-industrialist ...

I am delighted to be able to share a link to a new 16-minute video that has just been published by Drs Mark and Sam Bailey in New Zealand, based on some of my recent writing.It is here.Dr Sam Bailey The Corruption is Real and Sickening"In writing about 'pandemics' we are well aware that they need to be considered within a wider global context. In 2021, Mark and co-author Dr John Bevan-Smith wrote in The COVID-19 Fraud & War on Humanity, 'this assault on humanity relies on a Trojan horse to deliver the fraud into our minds and bodies, making possible the fulfillment of the globalist a… Listen nowa day ago · 170 likes · 41 comments · Dr Sam BaileyPlease do have a look and, if you like it, share it with others.Thanks for reading Paul Cudenec! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Source: https://paulcudenec.substack.com/p/video-the-corruption-is-real-and Article courtesy of Paul Cudenac. https://paulcudenec.substack.com/ ...

Our Beloved!You are within us, around us and beyond usWe feel you, we see you, we know youYou move us and breathe through usYour heart is our soulYou gave us birth, we give you bodyYou gave us everything and so we will give our whole selves to youWe will be your song and your swordCarried by the wind of your divine loveBurning with the fire of your vital spiritSwelling with the ocean of your eternal becomingWe will root out the dark cankerThat has laid us so low for so longAnd bring back your light, your joy, your wisdomTo this precious place[Audio version]The spirit of Sophia: wild air and wisdomThe spirit of Sophia: nature and graceThe spirit of Sophia: against Moloch and the machineThanks for reading Paul Cudenec! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Source: https://paulcudenec.substack.com/p/the-spirit-of-sophia-our-promise Article courtesy of Paul Cudenac. https://paulcudenec.substack.com/ ...

For readers primarily interested in my political writing, this current exploration of the sophiological tradition via the pages of The Heavenly Country might not seem terribly relevant.But in fact the ideas I have been discussing here are of fundamental importance for the building of our New Resistance against the criminocracy.Their pertinence to the great struggle ahead of us is, indeed, expressed time after time in the pages of the book.Editor Michael Martin (pictured) declares in the introduction: “We live in an age of untrammelled superstition: the hope that science will save us from ourselves and bless us with prosperity and, even, that it will allow us to overcome death.“This is an age of the totalization of the technological and the technocratic, an age of the unreal, the artificial, the illusory, of the simulacra”. [1]“In this paradigm, the human person is viewed as a machine among other machines, replete with updateable hardware, a myriad number of applications, and the promise of replaceable as well as changeable parts. I, human, iHuman…“Accepting the human person as a machine ultimately distances the human person from himself, from the awareness of himself as a human person, as an integrally somatic, pneumatological and existential being.“Yet it ...