Frank Zappa allegedly once said, “Hollywood is just the entertainment arm of the Pentagon.”  This is absolutely true, and what started as a joke often wasted on Facebook on numerous comment threads has ended up becoming an entire dissertation for me.  Zappa also said once that “government is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex,” which is also true.  Personally, I don’t like the term, Military Industrial Complex (M.I.C.), all that much because it’s just as much of a cynically calculated misnomer as the term “Corporate America,” in that it works as a red-herring to pull people off the scent of the actual issue of concentrated private power (A.K.A. feudalistic aristocrats/plutocrats hiding behind corporate structures, foundations, and think-tanks).

Were it not for Hollywood, military recruitment probably would’ve dropped even further, long before 9/11, believe me.  If not for Chuck Norris, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Tom Cruise, they might’ve had to reinstate the draft after we attacked ourselves to start this current never ending War of on Terror, bringing me to the original source of my joke.  But rather than get all sidetracked into a lengthy digression about the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, Stanford Research Institute, the RAND Corporation, and the social engineering shenanigans of the Hollywood studio system, I’ll just tell you my joke.

“If you ever wanted to know what the Anglo American Establishment was really up to, just watch 24, they’ll tell you.”

24, starring Kiefer Sutherland, is actually one of my favorite shows of all time for this very reason.  Because if there is one thing I can tell you about Fascists, they’re not exactly what I would call creative.  They pull the same gag over and over again.

“All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”

Hermann Goering

Not to go all Building 7 here, but anyone with a rough idea of how the Hollywood studio system works already knows that a television show doesn’t just come out right away.  24 premiered in November of 2001, just two months after the September 11th attack. Incidentally, CDR Richard Marcinko, USN, SEAL was technical advisor to this show which coincidentally came out right after 9/11.  As an ex Navy guy familiar with old Demo Dick, I find it awfully coincidental that he was technical advisor to a one-hour, live-action, counter-terror drama series that was already developed, pitched most likely to several different producers long before finding the one who could actually walk it into a network like Fox, cast it, shoot it, and meet deliverables deadlines to be ready for broadcasting at too coincidental a moment in history to be anything less than a pattern.  Coincidentally, Dick Marcinko often crows about how he doesn’t believe in coincidence either, mind you. Those of you not familiar with Dick Marcinko, he was the founder of everyone’s favorite go-to SEAL Team of arbitrarily ignorant reference, SEAL Team 6 (now commonly known as DEVGRU).  Everyone’s favorite television counter-terror operative, Jack Bauer, is allegedly based loosely on his experiences.  I’m not sure how true that is necessarily, but I’ve read enough of his material to at least give this Internet rumor a little bit of credibility.  However, as I understand it he was only technical advisor to Season 5, but I digress…

But 24 is more than just a television series, it is without a doubt the finest imaginable salesmanship mechanism for not only the War on Terror but for the overall American political narrative as well, in that it’s helped to change attitudes, reinforce stereotypes, and normalize torture in the perceptions of millions of people whom normally would have found it morally repugnant less than 20 years ago.  One could even go so far as to call 24 a high rated torture porn, but we’ll get to that shortly.

I remember a time not all that long ago, where if you were to mention torture in casual company, it would’ve been frowned upon. But somehow, the Fox Television Network action-drama, 24, had this insidious way of bringing a pro and con torture debate into numerous episodes with the obligatory, “but we’re America, we don’t do that, it’s against the Geneva Convention,” etc., subsequently followed by, “but he’s got a bomb, he’s got a nuke, he’s got a virus, he’s going to kill the _______,” and torture would win the debate, even if it meant that old Jack Bauer had to “go dark,” with  everyone hot on his tail with shoot to kill orders nipping at his butt, just to get ‘er done.

Jack can get ‘er done, no?

To ensure that you forget that Jack Bauer just tortured somebody to get the doohickey that was going to blow up something or another, the bad guys will capture Kiefer Sutherland and give him a good torturing too, to further remind the American psyche that it’s okay to torture the bad guys because their guys are probably torturing our guys too, no?

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When I first moved out to Los Angeles in 1992, less than a week after the Rodney King Beating Verdict ignited riots that set several, noticeable upon arrival, portions of L.A. ablaze.  Growing up in small town Midwest America, we didn’t have a lot of easy access to alternative media as you would find in a city like Los Angeles.  I’m not saying that we’re particularly unique in that regard because Chicago was never all that far from my hometown, but in small town America an underground bookstore just wasn’t all too common.  In L.A., I’d met all sorts of different people from all walks of life who’ve passed me information of various significance, books, pamphlets, files, and the like.  I never knew that there was a name for it until I recently started seeing various YouTube videos talking about “predictive programming.” 

If you ever want to know what the Anglo American Establishment is up to, just watch 24, they’ll tell you flat out.  I read some material more than twenty years ago that explained how this system actually works.  Allegedly, between the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, the RAND Corporation, and Stanford Research Institute, a psychological profile of the American public is performed annually to determine just what we the people are ready to accept next.  Based on such input, trends and fads are preset for everything from music to fashion to film and television as a part of a societal destabilization to further centralize authority and ultimately control it through such destabilization.

Narratives are easiest to implement through film and television, and as far as I have been able to determine, it goes kind of like this.  Your news media is lying to you 24 hours a day 7 days a week, 365/12, on just about every mainstream media news outlet.  But you are being fed tiny snippets truthful information, however, mixed up with Hollywood razzmatazz (A.K.A. “bullshit”), and it’s implemented in this manner so that you’ll already be of an unofficially indoctrinated train of thought where if the actual truth were somehow exposed, you already knew it anyway.  Meanwhile, actual whistle-blowers end up getting mixed in with the hodgepodge of self-anointed “research journalists” on YouTube and blog-pages like this one.  Any of the Hoi Polloi out there like myself who calls the system out on their thought-form propaganda can easily be dismissed as someone who saw one too many episodes of 24, one too many episodes of the X-Files, one too many episodes of Person of Interest, one too many episodes of  ________________ .

Enter Jack Bauer and Fox Television’s hit series, 24.  Before I go too far here, don’t get me wrong because I too enjoy a bit of escapism and 24 happens to be one of my all time favorite shows.  I actually own the entire series on DVD.  But my little 24 dissertation here is really one of the main things I love about it, that and the action. Being that I’m a closet gamer fanboy too, I had the game and loved that as well.  I’ve always been an admirer of Kiefer Sutherland too, being that he can cowboy with the best of them and I’m one of those weird bookworm blogger pothead musicians who actually likes rodeos and thought that he was badass in The Cowboy Way, but I digress.  As I had stated previously in How 24 Sold the War on Terror, it was awfully coincidental to release a “real-time” War on Terror action thriller just 2 months after 9/11.  I don’t believe in coincidences, so there’s that. But back to “predictive programming”, because with the exception of two things, the ridiculously overblown terror scenarios and Hillary Clinton, everything else on 24 pretty much came to pass.

Don’t believe me?  Let’s start from the beginning, Season One of 24 starts off, not necessarily on the radical Islam tip right off the bat, but we’re given a vague explanation about how U.S. covert actions in the Balkans are coming back to bite us in the ass.  But in a vain similar to 1997’s the 5th Element (Tommy “Tiny” Lister), 1998’s Deep Impact (Morgan Freeman), 2003’s Head of State (Chris Rock), and 2006’s Idiocracy (Terry Crews), the Military Industrial Complex propaganda wing that is Tavistock, RAND, and Stanford Research Institute, Hollywood studio system’s predictive programmers present veteran actor, DENNIS HAYSBERT to let y’all know  —>> BLACK GUY, gonna be the President of the United States, and you are going to just LOVE him.

• RAND/Tavistock/Stanford mind-fuck: engineering of public opinion:
  • Government duplicity
    • False flag operations
      • False Flag Operations Against Venezuela
      • CNO Lauds Return of False Flag Operations
      • Mujahideen – the Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend
    • Fabrications of narratives
      • The Sony Hack and The Interview
      • 9/11 Truth Comes Out
      • Bernays and Tavistock 9/11
      • Tavistock and Public Perception
    • Support of terrorist groups, states, or regimes
      • Contra Revolution of Nicaragua
      • Orlando Bosch
      • Al Qaeda / ISIS / Daesh
  • Torture and enhanced interrogation normalization
    • physical coercion – waterboarding
    • pharmaceutical interrogation
    • electric shock
    • actual torture
  • Racial or Personality stereotype reinforcement
    • Middle Easterners = radical Islamic terrorists
    • Latinos = drug traffickers, potential traitors, criminals
    • Patriots or constitution fans = potential terrorists, criminals (which is proving itself to be truthful)
  • Predictive programming
    • Engineering the American psyche to accept the narrative as it unfolds.

But let me give you the skinny on Season One of 24, so that we’re all on the same page.  Jack Bauer, whom was already disliked an mistrusted by numerous people at CTU because he had brought down a number of CTU agents as corrupt, was placed on a high alert when he and his coworkers at CTU are informed that there is a plot to assassinate Senator David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) on the day of the California Presidential Primary.  Jack’s daughter, Kim (Elisha Cuthbert) is kidnapped as a means to coerce Jack to be the one to kill the Senator and soon after his wife, Teri (Leslie Hope) is additionally kidnapped and dragged into the whole mess, we learn that all of this links back to an operation that Jack participated in, in which Senator Palmer authorized a Delta Force unit to be sent to Kosovo, Yugoslavia, to assassinate one Victor Drazen (Dennis Hopper).

Let’s start with the torture, shall we? It didn’t really dawn on me right away, but come season two it was already kinda filling itself in. Never underestimate the devious nature of the ideological Fascist in the sense that you must always remember that at their very heart of hearts, degradation is their endgame.

The normalization of torture is a societal degradation in that it degrades our collective sense of morality. It doesn’t matter that it’s been demonstrated and clearly stated by numerous intelligence professionals that torture isn’t a reliable means of producing actionable intelligence. I think Nice Guy Eddie said it best when he said the following…

After several episodes of shooting, looting, and drama, not to mention to torture of Ted Cofell (Currie Graham) as shown previously above, the show does end with Jack Bauer getting his man and getting his kid back but at a grave cost to him personally.  But I have to take a slight detour here, because this is going to go on for more than a few posts and something’s been bugging me for years that I’d nearly forgot to address.

I want to talk about the treason of Jamey Farrell (Karina Arroyave) a moment before I wrap this up.  The writers really didn’t put too much thought into it, which disgusted me to no end and I can’t help but to stop and say a little something about this because it was one of the first things I’d noticed since it was all just way too cliche.  When they find out that Jamey was working for Ira Gaines (Michael Masse – R.I.P. 2016), they gave the most ridiculously stereotypical answer on planet earth that they give for every Latina character ever given on television or cinema.  What was it?  She had a baby, it’s always because she had a baby and needed to take care of the baby.  Are you fucking kidding me??  You mean to tell me that these racist fuck-stains in the writers room, whom came up with just about every contingency imaginable to the point that a common line throughout the show was “contingency plan” couldn’t come up with a better reason for a CIA data analyst or data scientist who lives with her mother in Echo Park in 2001 (Echo Park was nowhere near gentrified back then, it was a shithole) to completely betray her country and participate in a plot to assassinate a U.S. senator running for president was because she had a baby to take care of?  You jive ass motherfuckers don’t know that a CIA (there IS no CTU, welcome to Hollywood) data analyst can make anywhere from $81,732  – $122,598 per year.  A CIA data scientist’s salary ranges from $126,205 – $138,317.  Perhaps the next time nitwits decide to come up with a reason for an individual to betray their country on television, they could at the very least come up with something better than the most racist unpolished turd reason they could cook up.  But I digress…

• RAND/Tavistock/Stanford mind-fuck: racial stereotype reinforcement.  Poorly thought through, but thoroughly engaged.

The season ends with Jack getting his daughter back, saving Senator Palmer, and killing Victor Drazen, only to be rewarded with his wife being murdered by one of his most trusted work associates, Nina Myers (Sarah Clarke).  I’d say that puts us all on the same page for the first season of 24.  The one major takeaway for the American psyche is that traitors, spies, and infiltrators are literally everywhere and our guys can’t even trust each other.

Season One was kind of easy on the torture, but in the second season they go all the way, believe me.

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**ALERT — SPOILER HEAVEN***

Previously on 24, Season 5, my joke became a thesis on 24 being a mechanism for not just selling the War On Terror, but normalizing torture, crisis normalization, as well a means of disseminating truthful information through fictional programming. At risk of redundancy, you are being lied to 24/7 – 365 on every news outlet in all 50 states and beyond. But you are being given tiny portions of truthful information through fiction for purposes of acclimating not just the American mind but minds around the globe. This way, if the actual truth comes out, the shock is diminished. Call them out on it and you’ve simply watched too much television and have become disconnected from reality.

Season 6 of 24, however, was the least popular season of the entire series. Observe below…

All jokes aside, let’s dive right in. After a Russian separatist break from the Islamic Terrorism narrative in Day 5, Season 6 spreads it on pretty thick. At 0600 we see a news report of numerous terror attacks nationwide, creating fear and suspicion of all Muslims across America. After a brown skinned man is rejected by a bus driver, a different guy already aboard detonates a bomb, killing everybody. Homeland Security Secretary Karen Hayes and White House Chief of Staff Tom Lennox (Peter MacNicol) argue over the ethics of choosing security over liberty to protect American lives before President Wayne Palmer

• RAND/Tavistock/Stanford mind fuck: manufacturing consent – since before 9/11, even before the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, Americans pretty much viewed terrorism as a foreign phenomenon. But the Oklahoma City Bombing, “terror in the heartland” brought about the Comprehensive Terrorism Prevention Act of 1995, and Americans started slipping down the slope. But because it was some militia “patriot movement” white boys, it still didn’t quite have the oomph that 9/11 offered, giving the military and security industrial complex the green light for a thorough militarization of our entire nation’s police forces, effectively turning them into an occupation force of our very own kin on our very own soil.

Back at CTU, former lower level analyst, Milo Pressman (Eric Balfour) in charge mid-level. Chloe O’Brian whom recently got reunited ex-husband, Morris O’Brian a job at CTU, learns that Jack Bauer had been released from the Chinese prison.

As you may recall in Day 3, Jack Bauer was compelled to execute a senior colleague, Ryan Chappelle, whom was sacrificed by President David Palmer to buy more time to hold off Stephen Saunders from staging more attacks. This time, President Wayne Palmer is sacrificing Jack Bauer to placate a terrorist named Abu Fayed (Adoni Maropis) over Jack’s torturing his terrorist brother to death in Beirut, having already given $25,000,000, to stop another terrorist, Hamri Al-Assad (Alexander Siddig) from orchestrating more suicide bombings. Plenty of demurring and equivocating happens in the White House over it. It’s not about right or wrong, but what’s necessary to “protect Americans,” effectively winning all arguments in this crisis normalization mechanism called 24. The moment Tom Lennox steps out of the Oval Office, Karen Hayes confronts him about the detention centers he set up around the country, utilizing sports arenas and the like, claiming he didn’t implement them, merely positioned them in case the president changes his mind.

• RAND/Tavistock/Stanford mind fuck: true lies on television – Again, though we tell the world that the USA doesn’t negotiate with terrorists, we do. Not only do we negotiate with terrorists, we’ve traded prisoners with them, releasing dangerous extremists in quid pro quo deals. We’d funded and trained terrorists through the Cold War and beyond up to today. ISIS and Al Qaeda are our enemies when we need an Emmanuel Goldstein to scare people. But “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” is an ancient proverb that actually comes from the Arthashastra, (often translated as the “science of politics”), an ancient Indian treatise on the art of statecraft.
• RAND/Tavistock/Stanford mind fuck: predictive programming – you already knew about them, I’m sure. Detention centers have been around since the 1800s in case you were unaware. However, they were largely kept out of the public view and away from scrutiny. Allegedly, we became more enlightened on the issue, but not really. 2 years after the McCarren-Walter Act of 1952, “Operation Wetback” was implemented, deporting 1.1 million undocumented immigrants. Mind you, I’m referring to immigrant detention. But do you or do you not recall President Trump using terrorists hiding within the migrant “caravan” as his excuse? He tried the human trafficking angle as well. Either way, all this came to pass about a decade after Day-6 aired. The disturbing part of it all is that such behavior and action has already become normalized.

In a local L.A. neighborhood, the Wallace family observes a Muslim neighbor snatched up by the Feds as his son, Ahmed Amar (Kal Penn) protests the arrest of his innocent father. A MAGA guy from up the block harasses Ahmed when Ray Wallace (Raphael Sbarge) intervenes, telling him to come stay with them awhile. Meanwhile at CTU, Morris and Chloe access an illegal Uzbekistani satellite because Fayed knew all of CTU’s surveillance protocols, but Buchanan catches them and shuts them down.

• RAND/Tavistock/Stanford mind fuck: engineering consent – subtle repetition of terror threats and crisis normalization paves the way for people to accept sacrificing their liberty and freedom as an acceptable price to make white people feel safe. However, the insidious way the writers hem and haw at the idea of shredding the constitution in the name of “national security” is far more dangerous to our individual liberty than you might realize.

• RAND/Tavistock/Stanford mind fuck: torture normalization – just a not so subtle reminder that they do it too. The typical 24 torture pattern is that we do it to get actionable intelligence because so-and-so has a bomb, a chemical, biological, or radiological weapon (dirty bomb), or nuke. Then they’ll show one of our guys getting tortured by the baddies, wash, rinse, and repeat.

After Abu Fayed tells him that Assad isn’t behind the attacks, but wants to give up terrorism altogether, stating that he’ll die for nothing, Jack escapes. He calls CTU to stop an airstrike on the location Fayed gave them, but they don’t listen. But Jack gets there just in time to save Assad from an Apache helicopter launched missile strike.

• RAND/Tavistock/Stanford mind fuck: engineering consent – I don’t think I’m reaching here, but eventually the chickens are coming home to roost. If missile and drone strikes are already normalized as part of implemented policy to take out terrorists abroad, what’s to stop them from being implemented domestically?

Sandra Palmer (Regina King) talks slippery slopes with her POTUS brother, Wayne, it doesn’t help much to protect her clients, the Islamic-American Alliance or her beau, Wallid al Rezani (Harry Lennix) from FBI data mining or stop the rounding up and detention of Muslims. She actually gets herself and Wallid arrested when she shreds the files. Meanwhile, Jack helps Hamri Al Assad to find and stop Fayed.

Ahmed’s MAGA neighbor came back when Ahmend went home to grab a package, getting himself shot because the FBI arrested the wrong Amar. Elsehwere, Jack and Assad foil a subway suicide bomber. CTU learns Bauer foiled the attack and Chloe proved Jack was right, showing the White House, whom Fayed calls to coerce President Wayne Palmer into releasing several terrorist prisoners. Jack convinces a reluctant Assad into letting CTU to help with satellite coverage and Curtis is rerouted to pick them up, a bad idea. Ahmed, injured by MAGA man’s assault, takes the Wallace Family hostage to have a package delivered. Jack and Assad’s plan worked to acquire the suspect on satellite, but when they figure out that he was only going to a dead drop, they move on him and he blows himself up. Ray Wallace delivers the package ($50,000) but the recipient demands more, leaving Ray no choice but to kill him, taking the component. Jack retrieves data from suicidal suspect’s damaged laptop showing a components list for a Former Soviet suitcase nuke, determining the bombings were a ruse to trick the POTUS into releasing Hasan Numair (Shaun Majumder), whom was helped to escape by a National Guard Sergeant, sending him to Fayed to activate the suitcase.

• RAND/Tavistock/Stanford mind fuck: fear peddling (nuclear) – a continuous barrage of nonstop necessary illusions of radical Islamic terrorism, the American mind is systematically engineered to accept the erosion of our individual liberties.
  • *** personal opinion *** Okay, now this is just me talking here. I mentioned Boss of Bosses, Semion Mogilevitch in a previous post. He trades in nuclear materials (long read), allegedly he is in possession of several missing low-yield nuclear suitcase bombs from the Former Soviet arsenal. Our current POTUS, Trump is connected to this man whom the CIA once labeled “the world’s most dangerous gangster,” and I find it odd that he was removed from the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted before all of this, and living for several in exile as persona non grata, now he lives openly with his family in Moscow. I find it deeply disturbing that Evangelicals who hate Jewish people and solely support Israel because they want apocalypse to occur to bring Jesus back for a final conversion, support Trump unquestioningly. I also find it equally disturbing that Evangelical evildoer, Erik Prince, roams about with a private mercenary army of the highest caliber without oversight, while Trump provokes Iran incessantly on behalf of Bibi Netanyahu. I’ve read enough of the Bible to be wholly familiar with Revelation and see Prince as being qualified to plan and execute a false flag operation to plant a nuclear device in Jerusalem to fulfill Biblical prophecy. I’m not saying this is the truth or that I really know anything here. But as I’ve stated previously, I don’t believe in coincidences, nor do murder police nor do counter-terror or counterinsurgency officers either. Just something to consider, but I digress.

Jack, Curtis, and Assad save Scott Wallace (Michael Angarano) from Ahmed just before he was about to kill him, then this happens…

So Jack Bauer initially called it quits, but the smoking gun snaps him back into action. Hamri Al Assad is brought back to CTU for a briefing with Bill Buchanan, and clearly Fayed has 4 more suitcase nukes. Assad names Former Soviet General Dimitri Gredenko (Rade Serbedzija) as a source he knew of, but never met. When Morris O’Brian looks into possible business contacts, the names Phillip Bauer (James Cromwell) and son Graem “Gray” Bauer (Paul McCrane) (whom we’d seen unnamed in Season 5, pulling President Logan’s strings) and BXJ Technologies, appear and they call Jack to tell him and he calls “Gray”, looking for their father. The White House shilly-shallies over what to do, debating suspending civil liberties, mass detentions and deportations. At the meantime, CTU is clueless of Fayed’s lack of an no engineer and triggering mechanism for the remaining 4 suitcase nukes. Darren McCarthy (David Hunt), originally assigned to dismantle them for BXJ and recycle componants for nuclear energy production, but instead sold them to Abu Fayed, was offered even more money to find an immediate replacement engineer. Jack shows up to his brother, Graem’s house and asks politely with a plastic bag over his head. Meanwhile at the White House, Tom Lennox strong-arms Karen Hayes into resigning in the middle of a crisis so he can further shred the Constitution and hamstring CTU’s own people based on their Middle Eastern background. When Jack and Gray get to McCarthy’s office, their father shows up and Gray takes them both away in cuffs when their Father’s security guys turn out to be working for Gray.

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