The ineptness, terrible opsec, and macho buffoonery isn’t surprising. What’s surprising to us is that the Oath Keepers grift was netting them $1000 A DAY in donations from like-minded chuds! Until, of course, the weight of their own incompetence collapsed everything.
As the son of Italian horror legend Mario Bava (Black Sunday,
A Bay of Blood), Lamberto Bava had enormous shoes to fill as a filmmaker, but he
learned the tricks of the trade from two of the all-time greats. In
addition to working closely with his father on several of his works, he also
served under another revered Italian horror maestro in Dario Argento (Suspiria, Deep Red) as assistant director on Inferno and Tenebrae.
The Bava progeny made several good movies throughout his career, but
his undisputed crowning achievement is 1985’s Demons. Produced by Argento,
the film updates the elder Bava’s stylish sensibilities for the
high-octane, blood-thirsty 1980s.
Written
by Bava, Argento, Dardano Sacchetti (The Beyond), and Franco Ferrini
(Phenomena), the plot begins when an ominous man in a mask (future
director Michele Soavi, Cemetery Man) gives Cheryl (Natasha Hovey) free
passes to a movie preview. She drags her friend Kathy (Paola Cozzo, A
Cat in the Brain) along to the Metropol cinema in Berlin for the event.
They hit it off with a pair of flirtatious preps, George (Urbano
Barberini, Opera) and Ken (Karl Zinny, Delirium), and sit down for the
mystery movie. On screen, a group of friends discover Nostradamus’ tomb
containing a metallic mask that is prophesied to contaminate the world
by turning people into demons.
“[W]e must understand the [CIA’s] fondness for conversion narratives and its deep appreciation for “reformed Marxists,” a leitmotif that traverses the research paper on French theory. “Even more effective in undermining Marxism,” the moles write, “were those intellectuals who set out as true believers to apply Marxist theory in the social sciences but ended by rethinking and rejecting the entire tradition.” They cite in particular the profound contribution made by the Annales School of historiography and structuralism—particularly Claude Lévi-Strauss and Foucault—to the “critical demolition of Marxist influence in the social sciences.” Foucault, who is referred to as “France’s most profound and influential thinker,” is specifically applauded for his praise of the New Right intellectuals for reminding philosophers that “‘bloody’ consequences” have “flowed from the rationalist social theory of the 18th-century Enlightenment and the Revolutionary era.” Although it would be a mistake to collapse anyone’s politics or political effect into a single position or result, Foucault’s anti-revolutionary leftism and his perpetuation of the blackmail of the Gulag—i.e. the claim that expansive radical movements aiming at profound social and cultural transformation only resuscitate the most dangerous of traditions—are perfectly in line with the espionage agency’s overall strategies of psychological warfare.
The CIA’s reading of French theory should give us pause, then, to reconsider the radical chic veneer that has accompanied much of its Anglophone reception. According to a stagist conception of progressive history (which is usually blind to its implicit teleology), the work of figures like Foucault, Derrida and other cutting-edge French theorists is often intuitively affiliated with a form of profound and sophisticated critique that presumably far surpasses anything found in the socialist, Marxist or anarchist traditions. It is certainly true and merits emphasis that the Anglophone reception of French theory, as John McCumber has aptly pointed out, had important political implications as a pole of resistance to the false political neutrality, the safe technicalities of logic and language, or the direct ideological conformism operative in the McCarthy-supported traditions of Anglo-American philosophy. However, the theoretical practices of figures who turned their back on what Cornelius Castoriadis called the tradition of radical critique—meaning anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist resistance—surely contributed to the ideological drift away from transformative politics. According to the spy agency itself, post-Marxist French theory directly contributed to the CIA’s cultural program of coaxing the left toward the right, while discrediting anti-imperialism and anti-capitalism, thereby creating an intellectual environment in which their imperial projects could be pursued unhindered by serious critical scrutiny from the intelligentsia.”
here’s the story. i know expressvpn has been recommended in some 🏴☠️ how-to posts but it is not trustworthy. the parent company, kape technologies, not only used to distribute malate but has ties to multiple state surveillance agencies. and be careful where you look for info about good vpns, because kape technologies owns a bunch of “vpn review” sites too
In case anyone can’t read the article for whatever reasons, the VPNs acquired are:
ExpressVPN
Private Internet Access
Zenmate
CyberGhost
And the VPN review sites they purchased are:
vpnMentor
Wizcase
So if you use any of those, time to look for other options.
It’s risky to attribute the growing strike wave to a single cause, the US’s grotesque mismanagement of the pandemic. But I think a lot of what an EMT said at a DSA mtg last year: “when you realize your boss will kill you, it changes your relationship to work.”
The timestamp of the tweet is October 14th, 2021. /ID]
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