Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Jon Rappoport

American Artist and Investigative Journalist, Publisher of nomorefakenews.com

"A lot of issues need to be swept under the carpet---and poof, along comes SARS. Whether or not its appearance was coordinated, up front, to coincide with these scandals and tragedies in Iraq, one thing is for sure. SARS has been used as a smokescreen to keep the global public diverted and in fear."

"All of the arguments that historians and scholars, teachers and students, enter into are lacking in this dimension that I am giving you, and if they weren't lacking in this dimension, they would being to perceive much more significant questions than their arguments with one another. They would be, for example, considering the periods of history as being bookended by a consciousness that history had ended, and then on the other side a belief that history had begun again, and armed with just those ideas alone one could redo a great, great deal of history."

"Although they like to call themselves journalists, that's a myth even they don't really believe anymore. They're mutts on short leashes."

"Another starting point would be WHO (World Health Organization). As a possible front for larger power players who were pushing a depopulation agenda in the Third World. HIV served and serves well as a smokescreen for the continued massive death tolls from starvation, dirty water, and vaccines given to millions of people whose immune systems already sit on the brink of extinction. WHO, of course, was behind most of those vaccine programs. And WHO, while making genteel noises about the need for cleaning up contaminated water supplies and providing agricultural lands for food to the poor, has accomplished, on its massive budget, very little in this direction."

"Are human beings becoming social constructs? Populations are undergoing a quiet revolution. We can cite some of the reasons: television; education; job training and employment requirements; the Surveillance State; government organizations who follow a ?zero tolerance? policy; inundation with advertising. It?s all geared to produce people who are artificial constructs. And this is just the beginning. There are a number of companies (see, for example,affectiva.com) who are dedicated to measuring ?audience response? to ads and other public messages. I?m talking about electronic measuring. The use of bracelets, for instance, that record students? emotional responses to teachers in classrooms, in real time. Then there is facial recognition geared to the task of revealing how people are reacting when they sit at their computers and view websites. Push-pull, ring the bell, watch the dog drool for his food. Stimulus-response. It?s not much of a stretch to envision, up the road a few years, whole populations more than willing to volunteer for this kind of mass experimentation. But further than that, we could see society itself embrace, culturally, the ongoing measurement of stimuli and responses. ?Yes, I want to live like this. I want to be inside the system. I want to be analyzed. I want to be evaluated. I want to accept the results. I want to be part of the new culture. Put bracelets on me. Measure my eye movements, my throat twitches that indicate what I?m thinking, and my brain waves. Going to a movie should include the experience of wearing electrodes that record my second-to-second reactions to what?s happening on the screen. I like that. I look forward to it?? In such a culture, ?Surveillance State? would take on a whole new dimension."

"As far as the very embarrassing and growing list of AIDS survivors was concerned ? the people who had rejected the idea of HIV and were rebuilding their health successfully without medical drugs ? we tried to keep track of pending stories on these people, and we went to those media outlets and told them these people were 'vegetarian kooks' and 'anecdotal examples who had not been studied by real scientists' and 'publicity seekers' and so on. We said some of them had never really been HIV positive to begin with. It was like shooting pigeons. We did pretty well. Some stories did appear on these survivors, but the general tone was, 'so and so is a strange curiosity and scientists are studying why he has managed to live for so long without getting sick, and this may hold promise for future research.' You know, all that crap."

"A person may ask: Well, how do I get into that state [of creative consciousness]? What do I have to do? What baggage do I have to get rid of? Is this like 8 years of psychoanalysis, or do I have to drop acid, or do I have to stand on my head for 15 years? Do I have to do some sort of a ritual or a ceremony, or do I have to join a cult or become part of some religion, or do I have to go to school and get a degree, or what? Do I have to find a guru in a cave? My basic answer is: You have to understand what the state is, and then you decide that you're going to get in it. And one of the best, sort of, bridges, you might say, to getting in it once you decide you're going to, is by doing something creative."

"According to the new catechism, any food plant that can?t withstand a bio-attack from an enemy is a potential weapon that can be used against America?and Monsanto is at the forefront, along with other biotech giants, in engineering food crops that will, in fact, repel bio-attacks launched with plant pathogens, fungi, viruses, etc. ?Monsanto will ensure the protection of America.? This incredible fantasy takes on new Trojan-Horse meaning with the recent announcement, by the World Health Organization, that Monsanto?s number-one herbicide, Roundup, is a probable cause of cancer. Protect Americans by killing them? Of course, diminishing the perception of safety and value of organic food crops, in any way possible, expands Monsanto?s bottom line: money. Profit. Profit, domination of the food supply, and bio-security are now joined at the hip. Add to that the obsession to make anything natural into something synthetic, and you?re looking directly at Monsanto. Using the premise of ?bio-attacks from anywhere and everywhere,? Monsanto and the federal government are collaborating to make GMO food the universal food, the food that protects America from bioterrorism. Monsanto. The Pentagon. The war machine. Lunatic brothers in consciousness."

"At the highest levels of the medical cartel, vaccines are a top priority because they cause a weakening of the immune system. I know that may be hard to accept, but its true. The medical cartel, at the highest level, is not out to help people, it is out to harm them, to weaken them. To kill them. At one point in my career, I had a long conversation with a man who occupied a high government position in an African nation. He told me that he was well aware of this. He told me that WHO is a front for these depopulation interests."

"As if that isn't enough, you'll also be able "gain new insights," because your brain and the super brain (computer) are in sync. But none of this really involves active thought, because what the two brains are doing is automatic. So insights, whatever they may consist of, are programmed into you. If that sounds like freedom, Pavlov was Thomas Paine. Brain activity on any level, whether biological or chemical or machine, isn't about freedom. It's about carrying out directives that originate in free choice. Actual thought is based in freedom. You think, which is to say, you make inquiries and decisions and conclusions outside the automatic venue of chemical and biological activity. You do that."

"Dr. Loren Mosher, psychiatrist, former chief of the Center for Studies of Schizophrenia at the National Institute of Mental Health, in his resignation letter sent to the American Psychiatric Association(APA), wrote: "Finally, why must the APA pretend to know more than it does? DSM-4 is the fabrication upon which psychiatry seeks acceptance by [the profession of] medicine in general. Insiders know it is more a political than a scientific document."

"Do you really believe you'll be able to plug into a reservoir of data about playing the piano and immediately sit down and roll out Chopin and Beethoven? Take chess. We've already seen that big computers can defeat human chess champions. Does that mean you can plug into the computer's programs and become Bobby Fisher? Having access and actually doing something with that access are two very different things. Doing something means you are making choices and decisions, freely. It doesn't mean you're submitting to a mechanical pattern."

"Far from reality being this oppressive, constant, repeating, conventional consensus of unfolding and unrolling of events, reality can also be a kind of blank canvas on which one can begin to invent whatever, whatever, whatever."

"How did we get into this mess? The answer is simple. We forgot about what freedom is. For decades, we've taken it for granted. We've overlooked the study of freedom and its implications."

"First, you can "download" information from the super brain. You can perceive it all and somehow incorporate it. Translation: the super brain will impose itself on you. This is called mind control, plain and simple. You'll be able to "think with the super brain," which directs your thought patterns and your conclusions. Again, mind control. The super brain is like a very, very wise parent who gives you "best information and best conclusions." You will obey, because the parent is right, correct, and is looking out for your best interests."

"I used to wonder why God used a prop like the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil to inflict guilt on Adam and Eve, until I realized it could have been a steak or a plate of fries or a bagel. Anything. Making people feel guilty is a staple of religion and society in general. It works. And if you can transfer guilt from a real criminal to an innocent bystander, you've really got something going. It's a magic stage trick that can make a career."

"I?m not breaking a system into parts. I?m not trying to teach a person how to tie his shoes. I?m talking about the proliferation of endless new worlds, not seen through a porthole, but imagined and invented. If you?re going to be the adventurer, if you?re going to develop a vision of your future, how much sense does it make to restrict, shrink, and lessen the vision? And how much sense would it make to build the vision and then just leave it there, like one of your possessions, on a shelf?"

"How is imagination torn down? Through disappointment. Through the ?practical? advice of those around us who are tied to conformity. It is also diminished through a loss of appetite for adventure. How can we possibly give power to our imaginations if we?ve lost our appetite for adventure? Why is it that people believe the odds they?re facing are insurmountable? Because they?ve devalued themselves. Consequently, we devalue our imaginations. Let?s get back to the best of who we are. One might say that to the degree which success has been attained in any area, there has always been a kind of quantum leap, a devil-may-care attitude. Jon invites us to renew our sense of the ?leap.?"

"If I were an editor at one of the big national newspapers, and one my reporters walked in and told me, "The most powerful psychiatrist in America just said the DSM is bullshit but it's still important," I think I'd make room on the front page."

"Imagination is larger than any universe. It needs no sanction from the world or from other worlds. It is not some secret form of physics. It is not religion. It is not cosmology. It is not any one picture of anything."

"If you investigate the last 25 years of Hepatitis B, the disease, you will find or put together a chapter on the promotion of fear about the disease in the male gay community of America. Leading to? Large numbers of gay men getting vaccinations against Hep B. Leading, in turn, to false positive HIV tests. Leading to the administration of killer, cell-destroying drugs."

"If you develop a vision about the future you want, that's thought taking place in a sphere outside the automatic chemical/ biological reflexes and processes of the brain. That's you thinking, freely."

"If somebody else is making the rules for you, no matter how good the payoff is for you, you're being conned."

"Imagination isn?t a system. It might invent systems, but it is non-material. It?s a capacity. It feels no compulsion to imitate reality. It makes realities. Its scope is limited only by a person?s imagining of how far imagination can go. Here is the secret about time. There is always a gap, a discontinuance between the past and present. Why? Because you and your vision and action are that gap. It is always there, in the same way that a blank canvas is always there for the painter."

"In March, Mr. Obama submitted a plan to the United Nations detailing how the United States would meet its target [on reducing global warming]. It said it would do so chiefly through enactment of Environmental Protection Agency regulations on emissions from cars, trucks and power plants. Translation of the above quote: Obama will bypass Congress and make global warming decisions for the future of America through executive fiat. Poverty, hunger, climate change. Solving these problems is the announced objective, tying together Obama, the Pope, and the UN. A moment?s reflection reveals the absurdity of their high-flying rhetoric. Would you trust these three to reduce poverty in the world, when none of them can point to a single prior success in drastically reducing poverty in any nation in the world?"

"In educating people about a subject, you can break down information into palatable bits. When you do that with imagination, you disintegrate power. What does waiting accomplish? What does postponement achieve?"

"Medavoy has recounted to me his role in shaping media response to HIV. "It was a false piece of science to begin with. HIV causes disease like a toy rocket can go to the moon. It was our job to make sure media, governments, scientists, and the public swallowed the idea that an unproven germ caused 'a new plague.'"

"Let?s face it. The word ?scandal? doesn?t begin to describe what?s been happening at the CDC all these years. RICO crime is a bit more apt. The CDC is a mafia, whose objective is to protect the pharmaceutical industry, while it stands by and watches, with depraved indifference, as untold numbers of children suffer brain damage from the injection of vaccines."

"In this sense, the universe, the cosmos is the last stop on a train route. It sits there. It doesn?t offer you a ride. It doesn?t collect a ticket. It doesn?t present a fount of wisdom. You do all that. That?s when the universe comes alive."

"My book instead proved that HIV - wherever it came from - was a harmless retrovirus that was being used as a cover story to explain/conceal an emerging depopulation operation in the Third World. HIV was also a cover for other agendas outside the Third World. As long as AIDS is the target of WHO/UN "humanitarian" efforts, the actual causes - which are easily reversible - of death in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are allowed to remain and fester and expand."

"My prediction is that in the next three years the definition of AIDS will continue to expand. This will increase the numbers of cases being reported, and it will convince most people we are suffering from a new plague. When the vaccines and 'curative' drugs are introduced globally, newer definitions of AIDS will be framed. When the definitions are again narrowed, it will appear that suddenly the numbers of cases, owing to the miracle of the new drugs, has diminished. Heroes will be crowned, but in fact a few will realize that the drugs were worthless all along ? a few like you."

"Once you embark on a road of imagination and creating, all bets are off. All preconceptions about what you must do, make, think, assume, and believe are yesterday?s news."

"Obama and his allies are promoting a medical system that is the third leading cause of death in America. It's that stark and it's that simple."

"Now, what about this higher hidden elite or elites, what about it, or them? We get a glimpse of this in organized religion. An organized religion is a sort of sewn-up, finished-off, complete cosmology of the universe at whose apex sits the ruler. Now, this really has little, if anything, to do with one's own personal relationship with what one takes to be God, whatever that may be if it exists for you at all. What organized religion offers instead is a map, a cosmological map, in which there is established a hidden elite that makes the game, that puts the time-space continuum here and keeps it going and adds to the confusion of the ebb and the flow of invented civilizations and destroyed civilizations by somehow insisting that its members undertake certain anti-human activities: cruel crusades, wars, conflicts, efforts to convert the great unwashed and all of that which play such a key role in the history of this planet."

"It?s interesting to remember an earlier period when you had more imagination at your disposal. You might find an array of feelings you appreciate more than the feelings you?re feeling now. You might realize imagination stimulated those feelings and brought them into view. Imagination can go anywhere. It can especially go to places that don?t exist. But now they do."

"Reality, as it is presented to us, is NOT our only option. Imagination is that quality that does not simply accept reality as it as presented ? it fills us with the power to create our world."

"Feelings are considered to be internal human structure and architecture. But what you imagine and create are far more important?and the creative process radically and naturally changes feelings, as a side effect. The same is true for the cells of the vehicle you?re inhabiting, your body. They respond as you create the vision of your life. That?s when they really come into their own."

"See, the idea is to actually create something. That's what you do. And then you create something else, and you keep creating. And the more you do that, and the more you know that you're doing that, on purpose, things begin to change. Oh yea. They definitely begin to change."

"Talent, achievement, and creative imagination are far more interesting and marvelous than programs. They originate in non-material spaces where the individual invents thought and energy."

"Technocracy is a mirror of that amnesia. Technocracy is a surrender to that amnesia. It's a blockbuster movie loaded with special effects that hide its paucity of real ideas. It's lack of free thought parading as advanced thinking. It's simplistic plot operating like junk food---pleasant impact followed by vacuum and blank stare. Before you can figure out all the lies, we'll have you trapped in a new system. That's the challenge hurled at us. How we respond will decide the future of life on planet Earth. Our response depends on our understanding and conviction about what we are. Free and intensely creative beings, or sub-machines connected to the Big Machine."

"Since 1960, there have been more plastic syringes available than anyone could need. And yet, for the decades since then, WHO has done NOTHING to stop the spread of vicious diseases that result from the mass re-use of dirty needles."

"Some other operatives I was aware of played a role in getting mainstream researchers to lobby for, and win, a new standard for HIV illness, based purely on numbers of T-cells. [Note: this "innovation" came later, long after 1987.] Tests would determine if a person was 'getting sick,' or if he was 'getting better' after taking his AZT ? all measured by how many T-cells [part of the immune system defense] showed up on the tests. These operatives knew, and had been briefed on this, that T-cells could actually vary all over the place, up and down, depending on factors like the time of day a person was given the test. It was another area of shoddy science, and they took advantage of it. I'll give you an example. You've got some guy who has been told he's HIV positive, and so, even though he's not sick at all, he gets tested every few months for numbers of T-cells. Sooner or later, those numbers will go down on a test. If the doctor isn't really attentive, he'll tell the patient he is now officially diagnosed with full-blown AIDS, because those numbers are too low. If the patient hasn't been taking AZT yet, he will go for it now."

"Technocracy and its utopian fantasies provide a perfect negative example. Addled researchers look forward to the day when your brain, connected to a massive computer that is "a super brain," will have instant access to so much information it will ascend to a new level of knowledge and power... and then Greater Reality will emerge. But on what assumptions is this fantasy based?"

"Technocracy Is Failed Mind Control. Whether we know it or not, like it or not, want it or not, we are engaged in a struggle, and that struggle concerns the human spirit---understanding it, experiencing it, defending it against attacks. The spirit isn't some vague ghost or apparition. It?s front and center, even in this blind world. It animates action. It has great power. It defies reduction. The spirit proliferates thought and vision. It doesn't settle for simplistic harmonies that short-circuit its inventions. It isn't a happy-happy rainbow. It isn't a child's fairy tale. Human thought originates in a non-material sphere. A sphere outside conventional energy and space and time. That means the brain isn't thinking. It's performing calculations directed by ideas that are far more than chemical/biological reflexes."

"Technocracy is the latest piece of insanity derived from the notion that you can have everything you want handed to you on a silver platter. I have news. At bottom, people don't want that silver platter. They want the fruits of their own efforts. They want the joy that comes from those efforts and freely made choices. Technocracy is the latest effort to explain "the genius mystery." It offers the lunatic notion that genius is a mere program that can be loaded into a brain. That's called a metaphor, but it's being taken seriously as a literal explanation."

"The august editors of medical journals have a game they can play. Suppose a drug company has just finished writing up the results of a clinical drug trial and has submitted the piece to a journal for publication. The editor knows the company carried out a half-dozen other such trials on the same drug...and they didn't look good. The drug caused wild fluctuations in blood pressure and blood sugar. There were heart attacks. Strokes. But this ONE study, the one submitted for publication, looks very positive. The editor knows if he prints it and forgets about "ethics," the drug company will order re-prints of the piece from him and distribute them to doctors all over the world, and to reporters, professors, government officials. The drug company will order and pay for so many re-prints, the medical journal can make $700,000 from publishing THAT ONE STUDY. Let's see. In one hand, the editor sees: I won't publish it=no money. In the other hand, he sees: I'll publish it=$700,000. What to do?"

"Technocracy is all about "best answer." It's a fairy tale in which all humans go along with a master plan. And as for the nuts and bolts... do you really believe that if you have access to a program that teaches a foreign language, you'll instantly be able to speak in that language? If the super brain gives you a one-second blast of information about automotive repair, do you really think you'll be able to open the hood of your car and fix it?"

"The CDC has large numbers of vaccine scandals buried in their files. One of them involves a vast over-exaggeration of flu deaths in the US every year. As researcher Peter Doshi noted, years ago, the old canned figure for annual flu deaths, 36,000, was a gross exaggeration. One year, the actual number of confirmed flu deaths in America?where the flu virus was positively identified?was, wait for it: 18. Of course, the CDC uses those flu-death stats to convince Americans they must take the flu vaccine."

"The germ is presented as the Devil. It is the source of fear, accorded its due by the priest, the doctor, who administers the injection"

"The CIA mind-control apparatus has been well known since 1975, when 10 large boxes of documents were released pursuant to Freedom of Information Act requests. Several good books were then written on the subject of the CIA program known as MK-ULTRA. Officially spanning ten years from 1952-62, MK-ULTRA involved the use of LSD on unwitting military and civilian subjects in the United States. LSD and more powerful compounds were given under duress as brainwashing and truth serum drugs. The program?s aim was to find drugs which would irresistibly bring out deep confessions or wipe a subject?s mind clean and program him or her as ?a robot agent.? In experimental test situations, people were given acid without their knowledge, then interrogated under bright lights with doctors sitting in the background taking notes. Threats would be made. The test subjects were told that their LSD ?downer trips? would be extended indefinitely if they refused to reveal their closely-guarded military secrets. The people being interrogated in this way were CIA employees, U.S. military personnel and, abroad, agents suspected of working for the other side in the Cold War. Long-term severe debilitation and several documented deaths resulted. Much, much more could be said about MK-ULTRA. None of this prepared people for the explosive testimony made on March 15, 1995, in Washington, D.C., before the President?s Committee on Radiation, however. In unpublicized sessions, New Orleans therapist Valerie Wolf introduced two of her patients who had uncovered memories of being part of extensive CIA brainwashing programs as young children (in one case, starting at age seven). Their brainwashing included torture, rape, electroshock, powerful drugs, hypnosis and death threats. According to their testimony, the CIA then induced amnesia to prevent their recalling these terrifying sessions."