The stage had been set by President Franklin Roosevelt referring to the ‘lunatic fringe’ in a 1944 speech.319 The American Jewish Committee had sponsored The Authoritarian Personality to ‘prove’ that those with hitherto normal values were latent ‘Fascists’, and society was in need of social engineering. This social engineering is now regarded as more efficacious in eliminating dissident views than targeting individuals for ‘treatment’. Dissidents, by which is meant traditional conservatives and rightists, can now be readily marginalised by the mass media, as values that were assumed to be normal until a few decades ago have become stigmatised as regressive, passé, patriarchal, Fascist, White supremacist, Nazi, sexist, racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, transphobic, ad infinitum. The words induce a Pavlovian reflex.
There is no longer a requirement to crudely incarcerate dissidents in psychiatric institutions in the manner which seemed to have been quite routine for several decades.320 The way that Senator Joseph McCarthy was portrayed by CIA-sponsored journalists shows that one can be destroyed to the point of death as surely as cyber-bullying can induce a teenager to commit suicide. The same psychological methods are at work through ever greater means of mass communications and mind-manipulations that are far more invasive and enduring than the blatant propaganda of ‘people’s democracies’. If a dissident becomes too problematic, the media is sufficiently influential, and its consumers sufficiently pliant, to demonize the individual to the point where he becomes a pariah.
The method of pathologising traditional values has been refined within the social sciences, and in well-funded think tanks that are organised to study ‘the danger of the Right and of populism’. From these the mass media across the world is fed with backgrounders to enable hack-journalists to uniformly generate smears.
The Christchurch (New Zealand) mosque shootings of March 2019 opened up an intensive campaign against the Right and ‘populism’ that has not abated. The term ‘witch-hunt’321 is precise in describing the campaign.
Since it was discovered that Christchurch mosque shooter Tarrant gave small donations to Martin Sellner of Generation Identity (GI) in Austria over a year previously, and consequently a couple of emails were exchanged in acknowledgement, a witch-hunt has been launched against the ‘Far Right’ in a cynical use of the Muslim deaths.
In particular, Sellner was targeted because of his articulate and professional manner. It is claimed that Sellner is of such influence that his (GI’s) campaign against the United Nations Compact on Migration was responsible for several states not signing as the result of what is called ‘fake news’ and ‘lies’ about the U.N. document being ‘binding’. Whether Sellner was responsible for Israel rejecting the Compact on the basis that it interferes with national sovereignty was not stated. The Compact is the equivalent of U.N. ‘covenants’ that have become ‘binding’ in terms of being legislated as laws and policed by U.N. agencies. The Compact provides for such policing to ensure the compliance of signatory states. The purpose is to open borders for the benefit of globalisation and address demographic imbalances in industrialised states through what the U.N. calls ‘Replacement Migration’.322 Accusations about Identitarians and others of the Right making false claims are nonsense, as reading the provisions of the Compact readily shows. The Right is ridiculed for its so-called ‘scare-mongering’ and ‘false news’ (sic) in referring to open borders and mass migration flows into Europe as ‘The Great Replacement’, but the term is close in both phrasing and meaning to the U.N.’s own term ‘Replacement Migration’.323
A primary question to be asked is the whence of the media’s information on the Identitarian ‘Far Right’. It is the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD). Here we reach ‘conspiracy theory’. Indeed, following the ‘Far Right’ and ‘White supremacist’ websites, according to the ISD, ‘conspiracy theory’ websites were most responsible for spreading Sellner’s so-called ‘lies’ on the U.N. Migration Compact. It is not plausible, we are assured, that conspiracies among oligarchs exist, in contrast to an ‘international Austro-Nazi conspiracy’, which is so influential and well-funded as to be determining the policies of major political parties and governments.
Patrick Gower, a New Zealand television current affairs journalist, who was determined to redeem himself after his humiliation in the course of an interview with Canadian ‘right-wingers’ Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern,324 used the ISD as his source for smearing the supposed ‘Far Right’ in New Zealand, stating:
An investigation by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, which monitors extremism online, found: ‘Far-right and right-wing populist influencers... began spreading large-scale distorted interpretations and misinformation about the UN migration pact’.325
What hack journalist is going to investigate the character of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue? According to Gower it is some type of definitive authority, ‘monitoring online extremism’, and almost sounds official, like a branch of Interpol. The ISD embarked on an international smear campaign against Generation Identity and Sellner. It is pertinent to ask whether this has been undertaken precisely because Sellner and GI upset the proverbial applecart in regard to the U.N. Migration Compact; a cause that happens to be a part of the ISD agenda?
Among the major smears against GI and Sellner, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung featured an interview with Jakob Guhl, ‘Project Associate at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), where he mainly works with the Online Civil Courage Initiative, a project that aims to improve and promote civil society reactions to hate speech and extremism on the Internet’. Guhl claimed in regard to the U.N. Migration Compact that,
While the agreement was barely talked about on social media until mid-September, far-right and right-wing populist influencers ‘discovered’ the issue in mid-September and began spreading large-scale distorted interpretations and disinformation about the UN migration pact. … and far-right representatives such as Martin Sellner played a big role in shaping the discussion about the migration pact online. His ‘Stop Migration Pact’ petition was the most shared URL link in our dataset until the end of October.326
Guhl complained that there was insufficient information about the Compact, until the ‘Far Right’ discovered it. That the U.N. was negligent in providing information on the Compact is surely an indictment on that body, not on the ‘Far Right’, which sought to address the information void. It was the ‘Far Right’ that helped publicise the very scant information that the U.N. did provide, which enabled one to make an informed judgement based on the presentation of both sides, which clearly the U.N. and its allies were unwilling to do.
‘The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) is the oldest political foundation in Germany with a rich tradition in social democracy dating back to its foundation in 1925. The foundation owes its formation and its mission to the political legacy of its namesake Friedrich Ebert, the first democratically elected German President’.327 There is nothing new about a leftist organisation taking its party-line from a plutocratic think tank such as the ISD. In good left-wing Social Democratic fashion, the Ebert Foundation promotes NATO, trans-Atlantic free trade, and generally how to keep Germany subservient to the USA.
A report in the New Zealand Herald stated that ‘European investigators are digging deeper into possible links between far-right ideologues and the suspected Christchurch mosque gunman, who sent at least two donations to an anti-Muslim group with branches around Europe … “One of the dangers of this ideology is that it creates an imminent threat from the outside: a coming war if we don’t do anything about it,” said Austrian right-wing extremism researcher Julia Ebner, with the London-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue. “A violent escalation is part of their ideology.”’328 The mass media presents such baseless scare-mongering as ‘expertise’. As GI showed in a detailed response to media smears and Establishment repression, there was no violent intent.329
A report in The Washington Post included the widespread theme that there were ‘extensive’ links between Sellner and Tarrant, citing Jacob Davey, ‘the author of a forthcoming Institute for Strategic Dialogue paper on the subject’;330 meaning, there were three brief emails in regard to Tarrant’s small donations. Post columnist Anne Applebaum, introducing a Judaeocentric dimension added:
The obsession with the Jewish financier George Soros, a feature of far-right propaganda everywhere from Hungary to Alabama, is linked to this set of ideas. And when President Trump or Italian Interior Minister Matteo SSalvini talk about immigrant ‘invasions,’ they are nodding and winking to Identitarianism, too.331
A conspiracy involving ‘anti-Semites’ is the frequent fare for commentators: reductio ad Judaeum. However, Applebaum having mentioned Soros, an examination of those behind ISD renders familiar results. Should there be involvement from Soros, are we supposed to overlook the fact lest it indicates an ‘anti-Semitic obsession’?
The ‘partners and funders’ of the ISD are high-powered globalist corporations. They include: Facebook, Google, Twitter, Jigsaw, M & C Saatchi, Microsoft, Love Frankie, Asia Foundation (Rockefeller), Carnegie Corporation NY, Eranda Rothschild Foundation, Gen Next, Open Society Foundations (Soros), Robert Bosch Foundation, Vodafone Foundation.332
Love Frankie is a Saatchie-sponsored ‘social change’ project in Asia. Among those who ‘Love Frankie’ are the U.S. State Department, USAID, World Bank Group, Facebook, Google, various U.N. agencies, et al.333
Other partners of the ISD include the U.S. State Department, International Republican Institute, Brookings Institution, Chatham House, the London School of Economics ‘Arena’ project that targets anti-globalists; Royal United Services Institute, etc.
The ISD is a globalist institution founded to smear and agitate for the suppression of opposition to globalisation. The character of its sponsors makes this clear. They exist to target anti-globalisation as ‘fascistic’. That is their terminology:
We believe it is the task of every generation to challenge such divisive, fascistic movements and to invest in the ongoing edification of open, democratic, and free civic culture, without which there can be no lasting protection of the rights of others, no cohesion and no lasting peace’.334
Here again is the doctrine of the Critical Theorists such as Marcuse with his double-think ‘repressive tolerance’.
ISD has ‘advised 40 governments’, reached 120 ‘strong cities network members’, indoctrinated with their globalism 80,000 youths in ‘education programmes’, presided over 75 reports and policy briefings, and ‘trained over 32,000 activists’.335 ‘Activists’ is usually a euphemism for psychotics of the antifa variety.
Based on our far-right analysis and research we briefed and advised a range of national and regional policy makers, ministries and security and intelligence agencies on the latest trends in online and offline extremism. Our research and analysis featured across major international and national news outlets and informs our engagement with tech firms and civil society.336
This is where the governments and media get their smear briefings from, and it should be noted, ‘security and intelligence agencies’, which might explain the baseless character of the police witch-hunt for elusive ‘far rightists’ in New Zealand, and the banal questions police pose to those suspected of dissident views.
Among ISD ‘partners’ are organisations — ‘civil society’ — that have been involved in ‘regime change’ and ‘colour revolutions’, on behalf of the U.S. Government and/or international plutocracy, including: The International Republican Institute, established to promote the USA’s version of democracy and culture-pathology worldwide. IRI funders include USAID, The Bush Institute, Freedom House, National Democratic Institute, Solidarity Center of the AFL-CIO, Australian, Canadian and British governments, and many others.337 IRI states that it influences the formation and policies of political parties around the world.338 It encourages ‘civil society organizations’;339 that is, it establishes subversive organisations in states marked by the USA for ‘regime change’ of the type that were expelled from Russia and Hungary. It uses ‘the digital revolution’340 that has been a major factor in facilitating ‘colour revolutions’ across the world. While IRI boasts of its global interference in the internal affairs of states, they have the audacity to moralise via their ‘Beacon Project’ (founded to suppress alternative views over the internet) that ‘IRI is launching a new program aimed at countering the increasing threat of Russian soft power and propaganda’.341 What is the IRI, other than an agency to purvey the ‘soft power and propaganda’ of the USA?
Other ISD sponsors, Gen Next, Facebook, and Google, were among the founders of Movements.org, a globalist project aiming to use digital technology to foment ‘regime change’ in states targeted by globalists. Its original name was Alliance of Youth Movements. Corporate sponsors of Movements.org have included Howcast, Edelman, Music TV, Meetup, Pepsi, CBS News, Mobile Accord, You Tube, MSNBC, National Geographic, Omnicom Group, Access 360 Media. ‘Public Partnerships’ are Columbia Law School and the U.S. State Department. Representatives at the organisation’s summits have come from the Rand Corporation, World Bank, National Democratic Institute, YouTube, Freedom House, et al. Movements.org was particularly active in the ‘Arab Spring’, where a string of regimes were toppled in quick succession.342
ISD initiated its own youth-focused, digital project, similar to Movements.org, YouthCAN (Youth Civil Activism Network).343
The ISD is part of a world-wide network of NGOs, so-called ‘civil society’ that promotes globalisation. The part the ISD plays in this process is to help suppress dissent against globalisation in the name of combatting ‘racism’, ‘xenophobia’ and ‘Fascism’. Those who dissent from this process must be eliminated by being demonised and delegitimised, and smeared as a prelude to the actual banning of dissidents with the use of terms such as ‘hate speech’, and ‘counter-terrorism’. The result is a form of mass brainwashing concomitant with what Dr. Szasz referred to as the therapeutic state. The incessant media campaigns, in conjunction with the entertainment industry, are the liberal state’s quieter — and hence more insidious — version of the incessant loud-speaker sloganeering of Mao’s China and Jim Jones’ Guyana commune. Both versions are intended to impose and maintain conformity.