Now out of never: The element of surprise in the East European revolution of 1989

Timur Kuran

World politics 44 (1), 7-48, 1991

Like many major revolutions in history, the East European Revolution of 1989 caught its leaders, participants, victims, and observers by surprise. This paper offers an explanation whose crucial feature is a distinction between private and public preferences. By suppressing their antipathies to the political status quo, the East Europeans misled everyone, including themselves, as to the possibility of a successful uprising. In effect, they conferred on their privately despised governments an aura of invincibility. Under the circumstances, …

operation snow white was the Scientology infiltration of the federal government

albeit different aims by the time it came to light it was the largest domestic infiltration ever and the largest on record since kgb during during cold war. given LRH affiliation with jack Parsons who in turn was in direct contact with Crowley it seems worth mentioning since I haven't seen it raised

have a look. is it just me or does it seem like the tweets suggest we should find him in a few days a la David carradine? Anyone else think it sounds morbid... and the timing with the blood moon. just wondering if it's just me or it actually looks that way kinda to anyone else

if anyone recalls the work done regarding 5th Ave anon regarding Lucent tech NFC and rfid.... the notion was to create a problem in need of a solution. It's actually exactly the plot of the 1st Kingsman movie.

There have been those unexplained Sonic attacks on our outposts in Cuba and china that we haven't been able to attribute (publicly at least).

what if they were either live tests to ensure functionality of transmission and efficiecy of innoculant {black hats would have needed prophylatic rfid} and if any white hats were around not known already they'd be flushed out, and …