FULL INTERVIEW with Yuri Bezmenov: The Four Stages of Ideological Subversion (1984)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErKTVdETpw

https://web.archive.org/web/20200901231111/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErKTVdETpw

Stage one: Demoralisation. Preparatory period 10 to 30 years

Infiltration into mass media, educational systems, organised religion and religious groups, cultural and professional groups and organisations. The main goal: psychological change of national and individual perception of reality to such an extent that majority of a nation does not perceive any danger emanating from totalitarianism, moreover the hostile system is ultimately accepted as non-belligerent and even in certain aspects desirable, in any case – functional as an alternative to the present one. (ie: Too many people, LGBT tolerance, Climate Change, lover of self, etc….)

The most efficient methods of demoralisation is semantic manipulation of population, or word pollution, whereby the normal true meaning of the words and traditionally accepted meanings are being gradually replaced by Orwellian type surrogates, partly or totally opposite to the reality.

Subversion on this level requires infiltration into domestic institutions of a nation as well as into her foreign policymaking bodies. Domestically, the aim of the subverter is to weaken the home defences, such as security services, police, army, civil service, other public services (transport, post office, hydro if nationalised, etc). The methods discreditation of the administration of the most vital national services. Investigations of "wrong doings"; corruption affairs, sex scandals – implication of the national leaders and politicians in fraudulent or dubious affairs, smear tactics in media etc. Ridicule everything "patriotic" as psychotic. Describe every effort to reveal the activity of subverter - as "paranoid". Discredit everyone, who can testify to the public.

Stage Two: Destabilisation (2 Years To 5 Months) Covid roll out

Encouragement and provoking unrest by infiltrating. provoking unnecessary lockdowns, creating inflation, lowering productivity with simultaneous propaganda of increased demands; propaganda of "strong government" and necessity of "controls" – militarisation of the "grass roots" movements and minority groups (gays, coloreds, womenlib, prisonlib, kidlib, fartlib) and sidetracking of the public attention to the non-issues. Propaganda of gun control for the law-abiding population with simultaneous relaxation of attitude towards recidivist criminals. Thus, rendering a nation helpless and defenseless in the future event of political terrorism; breaking down of democratic institutions and replacing them with a number of centralized govt. appointed bodies, people can not re-elect or get rid of otherwise; breaking down of national unity (ethnic, racial, religious linguistic etc); sabotage and arrangement of accidents on transport, power stations etc. to create an atmosphere of insecurity and panic.

Blackstone Prepares A Record $50 Billion To Snap Up Real Estate During The Coming Crash

The past two months have seen a barrage of negative news coverage focusing on the US housing market…

Is The Housing Crash Starting?

Why The Housing Bubble Bust Is Baked-In

The One Housing Chart That Shows A 'Buyer's Market' Has Returned

As Mortgage Rates Explode Price Cuts Soar And Buyer Demand Collapses

Housing Market Peaks: Home Prices Finally Drop From All-Time Highs

… which is predictable: after all, with mortgage rates soaring at the fastest pace on record to decade highs, and sending US housing affordability to the lowest in history…

… only a handful of the "1%" can afford the American Dream.

Alas, it also means that just like in 2007, a housing crash is now just a matter of time.

That much is known. What is also know, is that once housing craters, the largest US residential and commercial landlord - private equity giant Blackstone - is about to get even bigger. That's when it will deploy some (or all) of the record $50 billion in dry powder it has raised to prepare for just the coming housing crash.

According to the WSJ, Blackstone is the final stages of raising a new real-estate fund that would set a record as the biggest vehicle of its kind, defying market volatility and a crowded landscape for fundraising.

The private-equity giant said in a regulatory filing Wednesday it has closed on commitments totaling $24.1 billion for Blackstone Real Estate Partners X, the latest iteration of its main real-estate fund.

According to the WSJ, Blackstone is committing about $300 million of its own capital and has allocated an additional $5.9 billion to investors, which will bring the fund to $30.3 billion when it is finalized. The firm raised the fund, expected to be the largest traditional private-equity vehicle in history, in just three month. It was also Blackstone that set the prior record, with the $26 billion buyout fund it raised in 2019. The new real-estate fund will be 50% larger than its predecessor, a $20.5 billion pool raised in 2019.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/blackstone-prepares-record-50-billion-snap-real-estate-during-coming-crash

Two Morgan Management Employees Sentenced For Bank Larceny

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdny/pr/two-morgan-management-employees-sentenced-bank-larceny

British pedophiles target Ukrainian refugee children

The sex offenders claimed they were providing “humanitarian assistance”

A number of known British pedophiles have been asked to leave Poland after British authorities discovered they traveled there to target Ukrainian children in refugee camps, the National Crime Agency said on Thursday.

The ten men were interviewed by Polish immigration authorities before being sent home, the National Crime Agency (NCA) told The Independent. According to an NCA spokesperson, the men were required by law to declare their convictions upon arriving in Poland, but “we find inevitably they haven’t.”

The convicted predators reportedly claimed they were offering “humanitarian assistance” to refugees fleeing the conflict in Ukraine, of which at least 5,000 in Poland are unaccompanied children, the spokesperson continued.

“For us, it’s about making partners aware that these convicted child sex offenders are on their turf, for obvious reasons,” the NCA official said. “Making sure [the children are] safe is absolutely paramount.”

It is unclear whether the pedophiles came in contact with any Ukrainian children before they were deported.

In addition to child refugees, women fleeing Ukraine have also been threatened by abusers. Ukrainian authorities arrested the leader of a criminal gang earlier this month, claiming that his group offered jobs abroad to women looking to leave the country, only to traffic them into prostitution in Turkey.

A surge in interest in Ukrainian prostitutes has created “a strong incentive for traffickers to recruit and exploit Ukrainian women at scale,” Valiant Richey, the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking, told a conference in Ireland in May.

Human trafficking has long been a problem within Ukraine too. A US State Department report last year noted that while authorities had made “significant efforts” in clamping down on trafficking, the country downplayed the number of victims, and government officials were found to be complicit in some cases.

Children in state-run orphanages were singled out by the report as “especially vulnerable to human trafficking,” and carers in these facilities were described in some cases as “complicit or willfully negligent in the sex and labor trafficking of girls and boys under their care.”

https://www.rt.com/news/559423-british-pedophiles-poland-ukraine/

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jul/07/ukraine-prosecutors-uncover-sex-trafficking-ring-preying-on-women-fleeing-country

Bannon defense in closing arguments say former White House adviser denied constitutional rights

Prosecution team rested its case Wednesday after two days, in federal court in Washington, D.C.

Defense lawyers for Steve Bannon in closing arguments Thursday for the former Trump White House adviser argued their client is being deprived of his constitutional right to confront witnesses against him.

The argument follows U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols denying Bannon access to House Democrats associated with the chamber's Jan. 6 committee including Chairman Bennie Thompson and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who organized the committee.

"I do think we would be entitled to have the whole committee here, quite frankly," defense lawyer David Schoen argued.

Bannon is on trial in a Washington, D.C., federal court on contempt changes for having not complied with two subpoenas issued by the committee – one to provide a deposition and another to turn over documents related to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot.

Schoen argued that his client should have the opportunity to question members of Congress in hopes of demonstrating that his non-compliance was not intentional.

In response, Nichols asked: "What does Mr. Thompson’s testimony tell us about Bannon’s mens rea," or knowledge of wrongdoing.

Schoen said Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, can provide information speaking to Bannon’s belief that the dates on the subpoena "were flexible," thus the reason for his non-compliance.

The defense team has argued from the start of the case on Tuesday that Bannon was negotiating with the committee about complying with two subpoenas.

The team started and rested its case Wednesday without calling a single witness.

The prosecution will make closing arguments Friday, then the case will go the the jury.

Justice Department lawyers have thus far argued Bannon knew about the deadlines to comply with the subpoenas and willingly ignore them. They also called two witnesses, an attorney for the committee and FBI, to answer question about the case that serve to prove their argument.

Bannon was indicted in November on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress, a month after the Justice Department received the House panel’s referral.

In a departure from House norms, Pelosi last year rejected two of the five House Republican picks for the panel, prompting GOP leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to pull all five of his party's choices from the committee. Pelosi then handpicked two anti-Trump Republicans to join the seven Democrats on the committee.

Each count carries a minimum of 30 days of jail and as long as a year behind bars upon conviction, the wire service also reports.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/bannnon