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It’s All About Money

Published January 7, 2019 / by Lee Kessler / 1 Comment on It’s All About Money
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If current events and political discord leave you scratching your head or shouting at your TV screen, “What the hell are you fighting about?,” you are not wrong in your common sense.   Some things are so obvious that one is dismayed there is any disagreement.   Yet there seems to be a point/counter-point on every single issue facing us and our elected leaders today.

In our lives, we would have figured it out. Yet, those people on the other side of the Potomac, and the salivating media that makes money through the discord, seem stymied by it.  They pontificate, and sit in stalemate.

Our current border situation is such an issue.   No matter what you want to do with MOSTLY kind, opportunity-seeking immigrants who have chosen to jump the line and enter our country illegally, no matter what your compassionate heart strings say, I think only those in denial would choose to suggest  we are talking about LEGAL immigration to this country.   We are talking about ILLEGAL immigration.   To conflate the two is disingenuous, if not downright deceptive.   So, I am setting that aside, giving every reader here the benefit of the doubt.

Only those in denial, or complete unawareness of events around the world before and since 9/11, would ignore the obvious.   Bad guys will hide amongst good guys.  It is called infiltration.   It is called undercover operations.  It is a fact that drug cartels are moving their product and their distribution channels into the US–killing tens of thousands of Americans every year.  It is a fact that MS13 is infiltrating the US. It is a tragic fact that slave traders–otherwise known as “human traffickers”–regularly bring the slaves into the US.   It is a FACT that Al Qaeda and Isis and others infiltrate our country across that border.

Why then would anyone not want to put in a barrier system that prevents bad guys from entering, respects the legal process with people waiting in line for immigration, sorts out legitimate asylum cases, and prevents ILLEGAL entry by the decent, AND the far-from-decent, people from various parts of the world?  The question is not whether you want more people here.   The question is do you want to reward legal behavior, or reward illegal behavior?

Long ago, a business mentor of mine taught me a valuable lesson–a lesson all Americans I believe would be well off to learn right now.  He said, “Lee, it is all about money, and always about money.  So, just follow the money and you will find out the who and the why.”  Continued conflict and divisiveness will never be about principles, ideals, philosophies, humanitarianism.   They are the cover story, the camouflage. It will always be about money.

Therefore, I think we all would have a lot more peace of mind, and not be so vitriolic towards each other on this admittedly difficult problem, if we asked ourselves a question.   Every President before this one has faced that border problem, and begun a solution.   Then, mysteriously, every one of them has backed away.   The question you should have asked is, why?  Why did they change course?   Why, even now, are politicians in Washington who a few years ago wanted to have, and voted for, a barrier now reversing course and digging in for a fight?

It’s all about money.   Ask yourself:   Who benefits from drug cartels operating inside the US?   Who benefits from tens of thousands of people illegally entering and overloading the public services areas–education, law enforcement, medical, judicial etc?   Who benefits from people being dragged across our border and sold into all kinds of horrific slavery?  Who benefits from terrorists entering surreptitiously, forming cells in cities across the US?    Who benefits from the ensuing political chaos?

Someone is fighting this current President with everything they have.   His “crime?”   He did not back away.   He stayed on course.  Perhaps he was naïve, or perhaps he was bold.  But that “course” has put him on a collision course with the men and women who are the “answer” to the questions I asked above.   They are the “Who.” They are corrupt people, whose only motivation is money and power.   And We the People, the Press, and Politicians are being manipulated.

This begs another question, a really tough one:  Are those people IN the Press?   Are they IN Washington?  This should keep you up at night.   It does me.  (It is why I wrote “White King and the Doctor” and “White King Rising.”)

Follow the money.   Who stands to gain financially from this?  Who gains from us being divided? Who gains by stopping the President from fulfilling what other Presidents also promised? Look, just look.

And while you are at it, look at Reid Hoffman and his latest “project.”   He is the subject of the next Blog.

The Strategies Deployed Against You

Published November 27, 2018 / by Lee Kessler / Leave a Comment
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In the novel “White King and the Doctor” I theorized the strategies and tactics our then-enemy would deploy against America and Americans in order bring us down.   With limited manpower and resources, the Mastermind of Al-Qaeda and his Propaganda Chief assessed the areas of strengths and weaknesses within our government and country.   One by one, well-known military strategies–likely studied in military programs since the beginning of recorded warfare–have been deployed against you.   The difference is they were done so subtly, and with such skill, backed up by one of the best Public Relations campaigns ever conceived, that you didn’t notice it.

Long ago, a mentor of mine taught me how to cook a frog.  If you put a frog in boiling water, it is quick enough to jump out once it perceives the obvious mortal danger.   But, it you put it in cold water and turn the temperature to low, allowing the water to warm up gradually, the frog is lulled.   It adjusts to the temperature, until it is too late.   It is too weak, and can no longer escape.    America is being cooked.

These are the strategies being deployed against you.   The stunning accuracy of that novel came from my recognizing them, spotting them in our society, and writing a story that revealed them to you.   Unfortunately there is a real enemy out there.  And in real life, the strategies of war are being waged.   And you are the target.   See if you can spot which strategy lines up with the current political event or societal event you are preoccupied with–that has you scratching your head, wondering in fear how the world seemed to have tipped upside down.  The new world, and the goal of the enemy, is a world where right is wrong, and wrong is right.   That’s what drives sane people to yelling at the TV, and getting into arguments.

But, once you spot what has happened, I think you may find some relief.   I want to encourage you to comment on this.   Give me your ideas.   Here are some of the enemy’s attack lines:

  1. Divide and conquer.  ( I challenge you to look around at how Americans are being divided, and ask yourself, “who benefits?”)
  2. A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
  3. A truth so outrageous, it is rejected as a lie.
  4. Hide in plain site.   (This one is more insidious than you can imagine.)
  5. Turn America’s strengths into weaknesses.   Get them to do it to themselves.
  6. Use a Trojan Horse to bring the enemy inside.
  7. Recruit a Fifth Column: a military term for a force within whose purpose is to sabotage, and to break solidarity.

I used these to begin the analysis that unraveled so much in the White King Trilogy.   Asking myself questions about these strategies led me to the truth, and to actual people and organizations.   In upcoming Blogs we will look at each of these, spotting where each is being used against an unsuspecting people on a daily basis.   Should be fun!   Here’s why.   There is nothing a BAD GUY recoils from more than someone who sees him, knows what he is up to, and refuses to yield.   What’s even more fun is that the more playfully you can confront these strategies and the folks behind them, the more they unravel.   Trust me, this is going to be more fun than a video game!

Three Fingers Pointing Back

Published November 20, 2018 / by Lee Kessler / 1 Comment on Three Fingers Pointing Back
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Your mom or grandmother may have once said to you, “When you point the finger of accusation at someone, remember there are three fingers pointing back at you.”   It’s an image that sticks and makes its point.   If you haven’t done it, point your finger at someone, and see where the other three fingers are.   They are in fact pointing at you.

So, what was your grandmother, or friend, or mentor who said that to you trying to teach you?   Responsibility most likely.   They were trying to get you to understand that for every situation where we want to point blame at someone, or excoriate them, there is a part of that situation we must take responsibility for.   We contributed.   It’s a great life lesson.  And it’s a mature person who can ask himself, “What did I do?”

But there is a greater truth attached to it than even your grandmother may have known.   That truth is this:   When one has committed a very harmful act, in order to deflect attention and discovery away from themselves, they point the finger of accusation at someone else.   They blame someone else for whatever horrible thing they just did.

The more extreme the criticism of someone, the more “over the top” the accusation against that person is, the more vitriolic and hate-filled the accusation is, the more you know this:   the person making the accusation is the one who has in fact committed the very things he has accused the other person of.   He may be pointing the finger, and he may be skillful at it, but there are in fact three fingers pointing back at him.

This will be true, my friends.   My late husband was a turnaround consultant, and one of the things he had to do was locate who, within a company, was actively trying to destroy it.  (Remember the Blog about Good and Bad.)   And one of his greatest detective tools was his understanding of the truth of this:   The harmful act speaks very loudly in accusation of others.  Therefore to locate who did what, he had only to find the one doing the most extreme criticism of others, the one whose tone was the harshest and seemingly the least grounded in reality, and he knew he had located the person who was not just upset and disgruntled, but–get this–the person who was doing the very thing he was accusing others of doing.

It never failed.   Find out who is pointing fingers in an unusual and inflammatory or defamatory  way, and rest assured that person will have done the very thing they are trying to pin on someone else.   The person is guilty of the accusation they are making–if it seems extreme, unverifiable, and unduly emotional or unrestrained.

This is how I uncovered many of the villains and truths you experienced in the White King novels.   I looked around in life, and listened for who had preposterous and highly emotional things to say about another person in authority.    Some horrible things said are true.   But, when it defies common sense–no matter how much you may want to believe it–the accusation may be your clue as to what the person himself has done.   Ignore this insight at your own peril.   Because one day they will turn that finger at you, and you, though innocent, will be accused,

There is one man I have a great deal of attention on right now, because I have observed him openly threaten the President of the United States on multiple occasions on major news channels.  I have observed this former Director of the CIA–where precedent would normally have a Director leave office and remain quiet, in the shadows as they have likely been throughout their career–step out into the daylight and make outrageous accusations against the current President.

I don’t really care what your opinion is about the President, but I am trying to direct your attention to the fact that the harmful act speaks loudly in accusation, and I believe there are three fingers pointing back at Director Brennan right now.   Someone needs to pull the string on him.   Just turn the light of investigation on him, and I believe you will discover more than you dreamed possible.

Take just one of many things he has said, directly TO the President, not just about him.

@JohnBrennan

“When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will  not destroy America…America will triumph over you.”

That’s a little bit over the top, don’t you think?  Vitriolic and hate-filled?  Maybe not for Robert DeNiro, but certainly for a former high-ranking government official that we trusted with all our secrets. (The person he is defending, you ask?  Andy McCabe is the now-disgraced and fired Deputy Director of the FBI.   The Inspector General has made a criminal referral to the DOJ on him, and he, I believe, currently has a Grand Jury looking into his possible misdeeds.)  To my investigative writer’s mind, I can’t help but ask myself, “What are those three fingers pointing back at you, Director?  What have you done, that you need to point that finger in such a reprehensible way?   What are you hiding in that clenched fist?   If I pull the string, what will I discover?”

I hear grandmothers’ words, and my husband’s targeted words as he would ask the finger pointer, “what have YOU done?” And my own life experiences tell me that we should look for those reprehensible traits of venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption in the man who is making the accusations.

Stay tuned.   I am not done with this subject yet.  Director Brennan’s remarks have caused me now to bring Andy Weir and Brian Washington Carver out of retirement.   For those of you who do not know them, and their formidable skill sets, I invite you to read my trilogy.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!   We have much to be thankful for.   We are still free!

Public Relations vs. Propaganda

Published November 1, 2018 / by Lee Kessler / 1 Comment on Public Relations vs. Propaganda
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In the novel “White King and the Doctor” the Grandmaster Chess Champion, Andy Weir, is recruited by the CIA to help them identify what “moves” the mastermind of Al-Qaeda would make.   As Andy laid out a series of chess games he felt the terrorist was playing, he labeled each game from Religion, Military, Intelligence, Money, and others in an attempt to get the sequence the enemy might use.   Because of his own fame, and the fact he had a Public Relations person, Andy fatefully labels the game our government would have labeled Propaganda as Public Relations.   And it was that almost accidental choice which opened the door to finding a sabotaging force within the United States.

Are Propaganda and Public Relations one and the same?    Almost.   It’s how they have been used, and by whom, that has been the distinguishing factor.   But in reality, both implant data in the minds of the public often enough, and interestingly enough, that the public accepts the data, and begins to reach for more of the product, or more of the information.   Once the susceptibility to the message is in place, then the propagandist and the PR person can begin to use Marketing Buttons to get you to do what they want you to do.    The single word or phrase that you associate emotionally with the product now is symbolic of the product, or the information itself.   Thus, they no longer need to go through long press releases, or explanations of benefits, or reasoning on why you should take action.   They simply need to punch the Button, and you–having been preprogrammed on a stimulus-response basis–react the way you are intended to.   If skillfully done, you may not even know you are being manipulated.

I remember back in the 70’s and 80’s certain advertising agencies were even caught placing subliminal messages in their commercials, so that you  unconsciously would behave as they wanted.   Today, they are more overt, but manipulative nonetheless.

Regrettably the mere assigning of a label to a group for the actions or attitudes of a small number of individuals within that group, and then using that label as a “Button” to be punched in order to arouse emotions, has entered the landscape of American Politics.  You should look for “Buttons”–for if you do not, you will most certainly be manipulated.   We’d all like to think our evaluations and actions are reasoned.   But, the Black Public Relations person is as skilled as the Black Propagandist.    And he will get you to do his dirty work.

For example, in the 2016 election, I learned a great deal about myself–supposedly.   In many cases I even had to look up the words to see what “Button” was being pushed in someone else’s mind to get them to react to  me.   Remember that summer.  That was the summer that hundreds of millions of Americans were accused of being xenophobic, racist, misogynistic (to this day I have to look up the spelling of the word–which was not part of anyone’s parlance I dare to say until a very skillful Public Relations team made it so,), sexist, deplorable, bigoted, and the list goes on and on.

Some of you may remember being startled that your fellow countrymen thought so ill of you that they either called you names, or allowed you to be called names, where the name itself engenders hatred and violence.   You, as a reasoning, smart, thinking individual could be dismissed as just a “word”–as if the word summed up the totality of who you are and what you have stood for.

That’s insane, and you know it.   What you did not know–and I am revealing for the first time in this Blog–is  that “pulling the string” on that led me early on to find a Black PR firm.   The firm was masquerading as an Opposition Research firm, but it appears they just didn’t “research,” they also then got into “creative writing” to write and disseminate inflammatory, defamatory material about politicians they wanted to take down.   And some political candidates appeared to embrace them and their material.   It is one thing to dig up dirt on someone; it is altogether another thing to fabricate it, dress it up in a slick report, and pass it off as true.

So, before I end, I want you to brace yourself.   If you know me, you know I write political fiction which has proven to be astonishingly prophetic.   And well over a year ago–while still researching to see if I could find the real life “Samir” that I wrote about in my books–I stumbled upon a Black PR firm.   Long before the name came on your radar screen I brought the name up at the end of a “Meet the Author” event in Santa Clarita, Ca.    I asked the attendees to write down a name I was about to give them, and even though they would not know the name, I asked that they remember it, as I was quite certain it would become a household word in the coming year.

The name:   FUSION GPS

It’s time for you to unmask them for yourselves.   In my opinion, with people like this running around acting like friends of our country, who needs enemies!  Their only real mistake was in thinking you are too dumb or disinterested to ever really look into them, let alone actually perceive their vile manipulations.  I have never held you–or any other American citizen–in that light.   I believe in you, and your sanity, and I think that is why I was able to unlock the secrets of the White King Trilogy.   Prove me right please!

 

Russian Collusion

Published September 26, 2018 / by Lee Kessler / Leave a Comment
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In my novels, my villain who compromised the American Media and took down a global Media empire was a man named Samir.   Since I firmly believed he does exist, or a group of men exist, I continued watching current events to locate him in real life.    Perhaps I have an advantage over you in that I have lived with this character for a decade, and I wrote about how he was taught and what his propaganda strategies would likely be.    And scenario by scenario proved true in actual life years after.   You will likely be unable to differentiate between fact and fiction in my novels, because my projections of his tactics into our American culture have proven to be accurate.

So, it was not a surprise to me to find a group who specialized in Black Propaganda–otherwise known sadly as Opposition Research today.   Opposition Research in my opinion might involve dirt, but it should be true dirt, don’t you think?   Not something made up wholesale and then planted on gossip channels as “anonymous sources” forever protected by one of our Constitutional Guarantees.    Gossip, rumor, behind-your-back shadowy accusations cannot be defended.  They should not be classified as “research.”   (Catch the deception in the name itself?  The lie that making stuff up is research, if told often enough, becomes the norm through which you view things and evaluate them.  Many Americans think that if it was done by a research firm, it must be true. Making stuff up is creative writing, not research!)   The name deceives you. In my opinion, the “opposition research” today, if unscrupulous, is the sanctuary of the Black Propagandist, who gleefully knows his lie will bloom.   After all, who doesn’t love a good juicy scandal, especially if it brings down the powerful?

NOTE TO THE MEDIA:   IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT THE BLACK PROPAGANDIST OR INFORMATION WARFARE WARRIOR REMAIN HIDDEN, HARD TO FIND AND EXPOSE TO THE HARSH LIGHT OF TRUTH.   THEREFORE–PAY ATTENTION NOW–YOU, AS A PROTECTED GROUP IN AMERICA REGARDING YOUR SOURCES AND STORIES, WERE SELECTED BY AN ENEMY AS THE PERFECT GROUP TO TURN INTO UNWITTING ACCOMPLICES.  YOU WERE CHOSEN BY THEM.   HOW DOES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL?

Remember also that one of the strategies of propaganda warfare is to tell a truth that is so outrageous it will immediately be dismissed as a lie.   Remember when newly-elected President Trump suddenly announced he believed his campaign was being spied on in Trump Tower?   Remember the mockery the press made of that, and politicians too as they ridiculed him, claiming he was insane.   Well, turns out he WAS being spied on, and that inconvenient truth–initially dismissed as a lie–has exposed a cabal.

I was honing in because of my discovery of the Black Propaganda Group Fusion GPS.   Long before that bunch came on your radar screen, let alone is becoming a household name much to their chagrin, I believed I was very close to identifying Samir.   At a book event, I brought it up to the people attending, admonishing them to remember that name, as I believed it would surface within a year and become a subject of great controversy and shame in our political landscape. I concluded that “Samir” is not actually part of that group, but rather he is manipulating them.   And that should terrify, not only us, but also Fusion GPS.

Well, Fusion GPS didn’t disappoint me.  Very likely, it is one of this group who manufactured and planted the lie that became the Steele Dossier.   That Dossier spread through media and political circles, and the unwitting embraced it as true–eventually leading to the accusation of Russia Collusion.    The brainwashing on this has gone on now for over a year, and I venture to guess that most Americans will embrace it–unexamined–as true.   The lie told often enough becomes the truth.  I do not believe “Samir” is part of that group, but rather that he is manipulating them.

Sadly for Fusion GPS, however, some brave American souls have brought this nasty bunch up into the daylight.   NOTE TO MEDIA, AMBITIOUS POLITICIANS, AND THE JUSTICE DEPT:   YOU KNOW WHAT I AM SPEAKING ABOUT IS TRUE. IT HAS TO BE.   THE LIE HAD TO BE COVERT, IT AND ITS SOURCES HIDDEN.   THEREFORE THEY HAD TO CHOOSE YOU IN ORDER TO HIDE BEHIND THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, THE PROTECTION OF SOURCES, AND THE SECRECY OF A COURT.  A Secret Court.  Think of it my friends.   Anyone could say anything in secrecy, and the target of the lie would never even know it had been said, let alone be able to defend.  This would make the judges of the Spanish Inquisition salivate.

This will prove true.   And I want you all to stop for just a moment.   Set aside your bias, any personal prejudices, (we all have them), and your emotions.   I don’t care whether you love Donald Trump or can’t stand Donald Trump.   The lie has obscured a very important truth.   There is the office, and the man or woman who occupies it.   We as Americans must never forget this.

If anyone dares to do this to the President of the United States, what do you think they would dare to do to you?   Even more alarming, if they dare to do it out in the open, brazenly eliciting your help in the “lynching,” who among is safe?

To really understand, our next couple of Blogs will address Differentiation: the ability to see differences.  We will address how to overwhelm someone’s reason. And we will further address a globally known and taught military term known as the Fifth Column.   In the words of the infamous former CIA Director John Brennan, “Stay tuned…stay tuned.”