Welcome to the age of psychological manipulation…

As I write these words, I am indulging in the process. It’s unfortunate… It is unavoidable as it becomes harder and harder to pinpoint the borders between truth, reason and beliefs. What’s new is the array of modern means in which we are propagandised — methods that are becoming more sophisticated and targeted to our more refined prejudices. This creates confusion, even in the strongest of focused minds. Your choice is to trust me or not. And this is not new.

The CIA and the KGB — and the French SDECE, before it tanked in 1969 — have been masters of disinformation. it is hard to know which one placed its front foot first… Probably a spy at Jules Caesar’s service… or the guy who ran the first marathon (490 BC)…

One CIA chief told us:

“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”

This quote, attributed to the late CIA Director William J. Casey, is being widely and unreliably circulated as a Casey policy statement.

According to some sources the quote is false. It was wilfully fabricated. 

Or was it, says Gus? It makes so much sense that someone at the CIA should have got a medal for it…….

About the KGB, Bezmenov told us:

"The main emphasis of the KGB is not in the area of

intelligence at all. Only about 15% of time, money, and

manpower is spent on espionage and such. The other 85% is

a slow process which we call either ideological subversion or

active measures ... or psychological warfare.

Bezmenov was a Soviet KGB propaganda agent. After defecting to Canada in 1970, he described the long process of national subversion used by the USSR on international targets. He died in 1993 and it looks like he was forgotten, though over the past decade summaries of his interviews pop up during crises. I (PORLANDO — along with others) recently discovered his work and found that his framework for slow national subversion spoke to the modern era.

But was Bezmenov just a crank seeking attention? One of his most cited interviews is with someone often described as a conspiracy theorist (at least by Wikipedia) though I don’t believe that people citing that 1984 interview know that. He has been criticized by another ex-KGB spy (Jack Barsky) who questioned how Bezmenov, who had been stationed in India and a junior operative when he defected, could possibly have known the details he revealed. Or was Bezmenov actually revealing the truth? Whether he revealed an existing ideological subversion operation, or inadvertently provided a blueprint for those who came later, we can learn something from him.

AND we can learn the same shit from the vast numbers of CIA ops… Even before the CIA existed, the OSE was employed in doing covert “psychology”…

Hitler knew the trick. Most of his henchmen knew the trick.

Even Cleopatra knew the trick of psychological manipulations…

On this site, we have mentioned many times the clever control of double-agents during WW2 by the master of psychological manipulation: J.C. Masterman… I knew one of his double-agent handler… Barely in her 20s and working for Masterman, this very clever woman had to manage very uncontrollable agents, mostly to spread disinformation about British troops to the German headquarters. And she was honestly very good at it.

Prior 2021, the Western media was focusing on the Nazis in Ukraine… Then they vanished to become “freedom fighters”… They are still Nazis or neo-Nazis … The CIA/Pentagon goons instructed via “truth” channels that THERE WAS NO NAZIS in Ukraine and that the Russian invasion in 2022 was UNPROVOKED… The media flipped easily because, since 1917, the American psyche (the underlay to our Western beliefs) was that Russia is an enemy FOREVER or until it is destroyed, whichever comes first. Slowly, REAL truth channels are proving that there are NAZIS in Ukraine and that the Russians WERE PROVOKED in intervening in the Donbass… 

So, the next instalment of WESTERN BULLSHIT is that Putin wants to invade Europe… I leave you five seconds to consider this proposition.

Okay, you are intelligent enough to realise that this invasion of Europe would be suicidal for Russia — in the same manner as it would be suicidal for NATO to have (official) troops in Ukraine… 

Meanwhile, the Western media does not mention the damage Zelensky is doing on Russian civilians while engrossing in interviewing a couple of poor Ukrainians, hurt when Russia bombed some close-by military installations… As well, in the Panama Papers, Zelensky was a vainglorious crook…

As the war of attrition continues in Russia’s favour in Ukraine, [or is it?], the amount of false information is thus massively growing — and Zelenskyy the unintelligent dummy of the West (an asset of MI6) sprouts what the West wants from him…… It looks that European governments have run out of ammos but not of “goodwill” yet… and in my book, they are playing the dirty bad cop in Donald’s deception to entrap Putin…

Meanwhile, we have to trust some information channels more than others. Can we find truth in Shakespeare’s cautionary tales or rediscover Plato’s wisdom in the TikTok age, now degraded to an American bullshit outlet? 

Do we trust the [international] National Unity Club, which seems to be a notch above the AI generated outfit we exposed a while back?

At least we can rely on a few performers, like HistoryLegends and Col. Daniel Davis… and Larry Johnson who could have be spoofed by an AI [international] National Unity Club for all we know, until he officially endorses this on his real website…

Much of the rain — say the present storm — of information is as reliable as a Jackie Chan movie script in regard to international relations… There are baddies everywhere and we could be the bank robbers ourselves…

Why is this so?

For years, we have claimed on this site that “intelligence agencies” are about 90 per cent disinformation. The rest of their activities is spent on trying to find the hidden truth of the “ENEMY” as defined by those we do not like and believe they want to harm us. Some of the time, it’s just about eliminating [killing] “others”…

On a certain level, we have to believe the West is bullshitting us BIG time… Yes, ban RT and sputnik, but you cannot properly expose their supposedly deception… because they mostly tell the truth…

Why sanction Jacques Baud? This one says it all… The west is worried about the truth. The REAL truth….

For my part, this goes back to my early days in political cartooning, when the bullshit was not manipulated by Artificial Intelligence, but supplied by very skilled dudes working for the “intelligence agencies”. Safe crackers, precision artists, seamstresses, photo-retouchers, spies and counter-spies, writers, killers. 

I did omit journalists here deliberately… Most journalists do a honest job, except they do not suspect that the information they get from “unnamed official sources” is already false, fabricated or slanted to suit a government next moves.… Journalists will salivate at exclusive leaks, which within days prove to be crap… or is a dangerous revelation/deception on behalf of the government(s) and of their media proprietors who are usually working for the governments….

Yet, the Master of deceit were and are the priests, the rabbi and the imans. But they have been themselves deceived by a long-established concoction of senseless stories designed to corral the sheep into the yard. If we don’t believe in eternity, what’s the point of being shot at the frontlines? 

Say, the fact is that the Nord Sea pipelines got blown up. We know, but by whom? This should be easy to find out… We know that the US administration under Trump and under Biden hated the project. We know Trump and Biden [he said he would destroy it, before going completely senile] wanted to stop the Russian NordSea gas delivery to Germany… We know that Germany is subservient to the USA (Marshall plan, US troops, education of leaders) despite the present rumbling theatrics… It is highly likely that the Germans also know who blew up the pipelines, but cannot say without upsetting the USA and this is why they keep pushing some idiotic “possibilities”… I suspect the Russians know and the Americans know the Russians know, but no-one is telling… 

Same with the Skripals… They have performed the “We hate the Russians” symphony that was paralleled with Bucha, Navalny and other beautifully scripted events that would shame Hollywood… We could write another million words on each of these subject and not a single letter would come close to the truth. 

It is very difficult to run democracy in our heart under these circumstances.

The Daily Telegraph screams "JIMFLATION" ! It is blaming Jim Charmers, the Australian Treasurer for the prices of stuff going up by a tiny notch… Yes! How do you stop GREED? GREED? Something loved by the Daily Telegraph! Can't Jim Chalmers ends the speculation on everything, including HOUSES? Thanks to Donald Trump's stupidity… the price of petrol is "stable", but fragile — as he goes again on a piss-war walk about, like the fellow who escaped the cuckoo’s nest… Still nuts….

HOW CAN WE STOP this mad man? For what it’s worth, the CUBANS might be the least global warming people on Earth and possibly the best socially organised … DONALD hates this!

Trump loves trampling people. He loves slavery and domination, sexism and racism… He even hates his yes-men, but loves them to do what he wants....

2026 is proving to be the year of the fascist imbeciles…. and it’s getting harder and harder to get rid of them. Democracy may not be enough…

Gus Leonisky

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         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.