The power of film

Posted by Guessedworker on Monday, 26 February 2007 01:54.

A few days ago my attention was drawn to Aaron Russo’s free upload to Google Video of his blockbuster documentary, America: Freedom to Fascism. Whatever you think of the film itself, and the ten or twelve major issues it covers, it is one hell of a piece of propaganda. It is immensely thought-provoking and entertaining throughout. It is courageous, too - even when, as in Russo’s case, you have the IRS after you with $2 million dollars of leins in their bony hands.

Russo is a blunt, engaging fellow, if a little flaky. He likes to tell the world that his past producing successors, Herp Alpert style, “included” Trading Places (a good earner but 1983!) and The Rose (Midler and it was all the way back in 1979!!). He claims that AF2F premiered in Cannes, meaning we should think it was screened at Cannes. Actually, he rented a portable system and showed the film to small audiences on the beach.

But never mind. Because Russo is also extremely determined. AF2F lays into the arcanery of the Federal Reserve’s founding with a will. It questions the real whereabouts of the Fort Knox gold, the legality of Federal Income Tax, the massive abuse of power by the IRS (of course), the independence of judges (except those on the Supreme Court) and of Congress (except Ron Paul), and even open borders. He socks it to the banking giants and politicians of yesterday, the New World Order of tomorrow, the planned National ID Card, and the frighteningly versatile Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. Along the way he gets threatened by a very reluctant and sinister spokeman for the Federal Reserve. “You understand Yiddish don’t you,” this character says, and spits out a few funny words. Aaron duly explains to us that he said, “No one will help you.”

Wrap it all up in a professionally scripted, shot and edited package and you have the best advertisement for libertarianism I have ever seen. Whether it’s right on Federal Tax Law (or the absence thereof) I cannot say. Certainly, it veers heavily towards agitprop, if not actually hysteria, on the dark machinations of government, secretive and manipulative bankers, and George Herbert Walker Bush’s upcoming NWO. But I don’t mind. When have any of these issues received such an airing in the past? And from a Hollywood Jew?

Russo bases his more spectacular claims on things said to him in 2000 by one-time friend and apparent NWOer Nicholas Rockefeller. These included remarks to the effect that second-wave feminism “was us”, and the elite’s long-term aim is a World Government with its boot on the throat of a compliant, micro-chipped proletariat. But the best was this:-

There’s gonna be an event and out of that event we’re gonna invade Afghanistan so we can run pipelines through the Caspian sea, we can go into Iraq to take the oil and establish bases in the middle east and to make the middle east part of the new world order and we’re going to go after Venezuela - that’s what’s going to come out of this event”

On hearing these things, and without a thought for those IRS leins, our Aaron transmogrified into a crusader for freedom, a man with a respect for the Founding Fathers that he nurtures only second to his desire to tell us about it.

But nobody can question his committment. He states plainly, and as a solemn promise to the American people, that he, Aaron Russo, will personally not allow the Great Conspiracy to succeed. So he travels America screening his film where he can and shaking hands with whomever is curious enough to show up to see it. He runs a very good website with supporting documentary videos and a blog complete with e-cards (nice idea), a blast at Wikipedia censorship, more video and a publicly-donated fighting fund heading for $500,000.

It is all impressive. No, it’s more than that. It’s a rather amazing effort by one extraordinarily energetic individual. We may not learn too much from him factually. But for anybody looking at ways to influence public opinion, the out-reach effort is wholly instructive.

I shall watch to see what happens to him and to the level of interest he is stirring up, over and above that already created by the Fair Tax movement. Probably, he will exhaust himself or be brought down by the IRS. But that, too, would hold a useful if sobering lesson for us.

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Posted by Rnl on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:09 | #

“What about all the Good Jews”?

No one is more obsessed with the good Jew than WM, and it’s easy to see why:

As a colony organism, Jews must always remain very strange to us, as we are herd animals. The greater interest Jews show in the preservation of their Race-Culture compared with the rather lacksadaiscial attitude among Aryans regarding loss of life can be simply explained: we have billions of individual lives to lose, whereas they have only one.

For WM the theory determines the evidence. Or more accurately WM’s metaphor of the hive-like Jewish organism, with only one life, determines the evidence. There can only be one Jew, because WM has announced that Jews form a colony organism with one life. The good Jew - e.g. a Jew intentionally saying something that assists White nationalism - challenges the metaphor, so he doesn’t exist, and reference to his existence constitutes philo-Semitic apologetics.

Is it true that Lawrence Auster says “it’s everybody but the Jews”? No, it isn’t true. I point that fact out, and I become a apologist for Jewish power. I don’t believe in the single-Jew theory, which WM has pronounced ex cathedra.

Of course I only disbelieve WM’s reductive metaphor. A political metaphor that can be debunked by a single incompatible example is worthless, which explains why WM gets so irritated at anyone who believes in the existence of good Jews.

Jews have higher levels of ethnocentrism than Whites. They have a long tradition of hostility toward their host populations and rarely feel strong loyalty toward the non-Jewish cultures they inhabit. Judaism is a non-proselytizing religion, so unlike Islam it can never hope to dominate a host population demographically. Hence the sympathy of most Jews and all major Jewish organizations for non-White immigration. Since it weakens us, they conclude, it strengthens them. Jews accordingly have an interest in promoting ideas (especially anti-racism) that reduce our willingness to resist challenges to our racial and cultural interests. We are their enemy, and they prefer to fight an enemy who has disarmed himself. A raceless White has disarmed himself. He has no objection to seeing his culture rearranged to suit Jewish preferences.

The preceding is sufficient to explain anti-White Jewish behavior. You don’t need to believe in WM’s metaphor of the hive-like organism animated by a single life.

If WNs choose to believe it, that’s fine. But Wintermute’s bad example of picking fights with disbelievers should be avoided.

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Posted by Fred Scrooby on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:12 | #

Jews have higher levels of ethnocentrism than Whites. They have a long tradition of hostility toward their host populations and rarely feel strong loyalty toward the non-Jewish cultures they inhabit. Judaism is a non-proselytizing religion, so unlike Islam it can never hope to dominate a host population demographically. Hence the sympathy of most Jews and all major Jewish organizations for non-White immigration. Since it weakens us, they conclude, it strengthens them. Jews accordingly have an interest in promoting ideas (especially anti-racism) that reduce our willingness to resist challenges to our racial and cultural interests. We are their enemy, and they prefer to fight an enemy who has disarmed himself. A raceless White has disarmed himself. He has no objection to seeing his culture rearranged to suit Jewish preferences. The preceding is sufficient to explain anti-White Jewish behavior. (—Rnl, 9:09 PM)

Good summary.

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Posted by yllica on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:07 | #

Regarding Fade/Daedalus/Occidental Dissent.

I would advise people not to invest too much time and effort in any future internet exploits of Fade/Daedalus.

I wasn’t satisfied by his explanations for Occ.D’s temporary shutdown in response to my questions at thephora.net and at Occ.D, and I’m pleased I didn’t waste any more time posting at his site.

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Posted by yllica on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:45 | #

Rnl said: I don’t believe in the single-Jew theory, which WM has pronounced ex cathedra.

You need to ask yourself, ‘‘what is a Jew’‘; if someone identifies as a Jew, what does he identify with?

It’s the particular characteristics of Judaism which define Jewry most clearly. What are they Rnl?

The Old Testament and the the Talmud are instructive. And including a more contemporary overview, When Victims Rule details Jewish self-perception, and the effects of Jewish interests upon host communities.

I’m aware you haven’t responded to Wintermute’s specific claims or even attempted to deal with his broad argument, except to say you ‘don’t believe it’ (so what do you believe? and which specifics in Wintermute’s thesis do you have grounds to disbelieve?), but more importantly, how do you view the validity of group interest claims for <u>us</u>.

If not for Jews, why for us?

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Posted by Rnl on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 07:29 | #

It’s the particular characteristics of Judaism which define Jewry most clearly. What are they Rnl?

Hostility to the surrounding culture and a self-interested habit of using non-Jews as resources.

I’m aware you haven’t responded to Wintermute’s specific claims or even attempted to deal with his broad argument

I agree with most of the specific claims. There was no broad argument.

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Posted by Daniel J on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:42 | #

God damn…. Here is a good idea….

Lets get the smartest Gentiles around [ and the most promising youth ] in one place and have them fight about nonsense…

Like are the Jews this or that…

Keep cutting each other up.

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Posted by JB on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 05:54 | #

Frank McGuckin:

The pro-Hitler stuff is just insane.

perhaps but our enemies will equate european ethnocentrism with nazism anyway and it will keep on working not because we don’t dissociate ourselves enough from Hitler but because we’re afraid of contradicting them on WW2. Agreeing with them is shrugging your shoulders over the death of millions of us in that war. If our fathers and grandfathers knew that they were directly and indirectly helping communist regimes and fighting for governments that would soon after the war establish race replacement - the destruction of the people it is supposed to represent and defend - as their top policy, do you think they would have fought for the anglo-american axis ?

To repeat the mantra that the 2nd World War was a Good War because we defeated Evil Incarnated is to give in and accept that millions of us had to die so that a bunch of ungrateful kikes could live freely among us, accumulate power and wealth and use it against us by corrupting politicians, poisoning our minds with their television and entertainment pollution, legally tie our hands and our tongues and do whatever they could to allow our lands to be invaded by foreign races.

we should all turn the familiar jewish saying around and openly ask : Was WW2 good for us ?

it may not be the easiest way to break the intellectual ice and slip some doubts in the minds of whites but I somewhat did it once and it provoked interesting reactions.

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Posted by JB on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 05:56 | #

back to the topic : these are not really films but video interviews that are worth watching and deserve a wider cyberdistribution

8 minutes excerpt of an hour long interview with Kevin MacDonald on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnNK5YoxnXc

a long quote from this interview on this page:

http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=3915

the DVD ‘Decyphering Jewish Intellectual Movements’ [the MacDonald interview] can be bought from Marwen Media’s website

http://www.marwenmedia.com/Documentaries.html

former Congressman Paul Findley interviewed

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3252642434022358005

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Posted by JB on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:40 | #

in case anyone still had doubts about who runs Hollywood, here’s an 10 minutes excerpt of an interview with Simcha Jacobovici the jew who directed the documentary Hollywoodism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7—FG8o57WI

“Can you imagine any director being able to make a film in Hollywood to this day that celebrates the KKK ?”

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Posted by Guessedworker on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:23 | #

Aaron Russo lost his battle with cancer a couple of days ago. RIP.

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Posted by ES on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:04 | #

Aaron Russo speaks on Nicholas Rockefeller and 9/11, parts 1 and 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIcowkQ7T9Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvtOzxt6uZM&mode=related&search;=