Following publication of Benedict Crumplethorne's piece on the Covid19 hoax and Garth Bland's risk assessment on the wearing of masks in record offices, the editorial team received a request from Ellison Millinocket, chief scientific adviser to SQA, asking to present a differing opinion for the cause of the harsh lockdowns and associated Covid19 regulations.
Benedict could well be right, the whole Covid thing is to conceal the implementation of the NWO, Technocracy, Internet of Things and the Great Reset. However, there could even be more to it than that.
Observers like myself have noticed politicians been looking nervous and even panicky since the beginning of the lockdowns and restrictions in Spring 2020. Of course this could be because they have been found out and Covid19 doesn't exist and they realise the consequences of being held to account for their destructive actions.
However, an analysis of the hoax epidemic isn't complete without considering the asteroid theory circulating around the Internet.
Suspicions that something serious might lie behind the hoax epidemic emerged when US Secretary of State and former CIA director Mike Pompeo described the lockdowns and restrictions as a "live exercise". President Trump responds under his breath "I wish you'd told us". See the video here:
These comments weren't broadcast on TV. The question can fairly be asked, what is Pompeo referring to? The useless presstitutes in the room failed to ask what he meant so we have to use Occam's Razor and find out for ourselves, notwithstanding which we will no doubt be labelled conspiracy theorists.
However, we deduce if the lockdowns and restrictions are part of a live exercise, a live exercise so damaging to personal freedoms, the biological need to breathe clean air, the survival of small and medium sized enterprises, education, mental health, the food supply chain and accountable government, it must surely be in relation to something correspondingly grave. What? Bringing in the Great Reset? Or more than the Great Reset? Is the Great Reset just a corollary of something else?
We might have a clue in an interview of retired CIA officer John Moore by Steven Ben-Nun of Israeli News Live in which Moore explicity states the purpose of the lockdowns and restrictions is to enable governments to prepare for an impending period of 6-24 months asteroid bombardment. In other words, the lockdowns and restrictions are the "live exercise" Pompeo was referring to. It must be assumed, at least in the case of the UK, that existing legislation including civil contingency legislation was considered inadequate for events of catastrophic proportions.
The makers of the documentary Shackled to Silence take this position, arguing that evidence exists for an impending large-scale asteroid bombardment.
It is hard to verify the asteroids hypothesis. The nearest thing to a benchmarking process is to monitor the NASA Near Earth Objects (NEO) website which neutral observers agree has shown a marked increase in near approaches including several large objects passing less than one lunar distance from the Earth. Given NASA's faking of the Apollo Moon landings, it is doubtful we can trust this site. It could in fact conceal a larger number of NEOs, apart from which NEO's aren't always identified and monitored by NASA by their own admission.
Aside from the NASA website recent YouTube videos also seem to indicate an increase in fireballs, meteors and asteroids entering the atmosphere as witnessed by the general public. The second video below shows a recent two-mile long scar in the Antarctic, with smoke still rising.
An interesting and possibly significant occurrence took place in 2018. All seven solar observatories around the world were closed down, simultaneously. For such a closure to have been possible, a very powerful organisation operating at a global level must have been involved. an organisation that is perhaps unknown to the general population and with the powers of a global government, a world government in all but name. In the case of the US solar observatory, a rumour circulated that illegal material had been found on staff computers, and that the FBI were involved. However, no prosecutions were made (see here and here). Furthermore, since April, the world's largest telescopes have been shut down. One can hardly envisage observatories harbouring a supposed infection any more than a passenger aircraft. Passenger aircraft are still flying packed to the gunnels while observatories, like small family businesses, are forced to close.
The question arises why were these observatories closed a false pretext was given? A photograph taken by an amateur astronomer purported to show an extra-terrestrial space fleet positioned between the Sun and Earth, an explanation which appealed to ufologists. However, this could have been misdirection. The photograph could equally well show asteroids.
Above: small and large objects purportedly comprising mother ships and smaller craft.
The real reason might have been that globalists wanted to prevent the solar observatories from promulgating images of something altogether different, a newly arrived planetary group and accompanying asteroids. We also have a possible indication from the closing of the solar observatories of the time of arrival in the solar system of something anomalous.
At this point, I should explain the nature of the asteroid theory. It is that a group of objects that perform an elliptical orbit of the sun every 3600 years has this time been drawn into close orbit around the sun and remains in the inner solar system, instead of continuing on their journey. The main object, a dwarf star commonly known as Wormwood, the size of Jupiter, with three moons, accompanying asteroid cloud and an iron oxide particle cloud, are now possibly in an unstable orbit of the sun. The main object may be projected outward again and though it is thought it will miss the Earth, could rip away much of our atmosphere causing catastrophic oxygen depletion. The asteroids will cause serious damage, likewise the iron oxide cloud. There could be a polar shift resulting from the gravitational effect of the main object. It is possible earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and extreme weather events taking place are the result of the main object's influence.
It is reported the period of asteroid bombardment could last from six to twenty-four months.
Left: Wormwood seen in orbit around the sun.
Now you can begin to see what Mike Pompeo could have meant when he talked about a live exercise. We might also suspect the real reasons for the emptying hospitals (which are currently 85% empty in the UK) of routine cases, the building of the so-called Nightingale hospitals (also completely empty), social distancing, the dissolution of normal urban and workplace demographic concentrations, lockdowns, the bulk buying of ventilators and deployment of the armed forces on the streets are to prepare for and mitigate these natural disasters.
There are reports of the US Army's tank and engineering forces being dispersed to remote locations around the USA and that the CIA has been dispersed from Fort Langley. It is also reported the US Navy's carriers have all put to sea for the first time. These reports are confirmed by either mainstream news media sources and to some degree by videos uploaded by the public.
Right: one of many images of Wormwood being captured by the public (lower right in image).
In summary, I suggest we consider the possibility this alternative narrative is true. In which case we are the victims first and foremost of propaganda supporting draconian measures disguised as mitigation of the effects of a (fictitious) disease actually intended to mitigate the effects of adverse gravitational influence, a shift of the Earth's axis causing severe weather anomalies, gravitational effects caused by the main object's influence including extreme weather events, increased volcanic and seismological activity, dust clouds, damage caused by asteroid impacts comprising fallout, intense heat, pressure waves, tsunamis, flooding and earthquakes. The underlying assumption is that the public would panic if told about the impending asteroid event.
Documentary on the development of research into and censorship of the Nibiru Planet X system "Destroyer of Generations" by Skywatch Media News: Nibiru-Planet X System and its impact on our solar system
Interview with Carlos Munoz Ferrata on Hercolubus or Nibiru
Update 18 December 2021 we seem to have acquired a new moon and extensive video captures of new planets between the Earth and Sun
Model risk assessment relating to the wearing of facemasks and the enforcing of the Covid19 vaccine on staff working in record offices
Garth Bland, County Archivist of Loamshire, has prepared a risk assessment for all persons in his record office in response to the alleged Covid19 pandemic. We believe this is unique among county record offices, although surely a legal requirement. We asked Garth if we could publish his document as a model risk assessment for the wearing of facemasks in all record offices. He kindly consented.
RISK ASSESSMENT: LOAMSHIRE RECORD OFFICE
Prepared by Garth Bland, County Archivist of Loamshire for Dr. Eoin Foggarty, chief medical officer, Loamshire County Council.
Terms of reference: to assess the risk of wearing masks by archivists, para-professionals, archives assistants, paper keepers or strongroom assistants, reception staff, visiting elected members, contractors and visiting members of the public in response to the alleged Covid19 pandemic.
Assumptions:
(1) viruses can spread from person to person through the air. Not proven, viz "Germ Theory".
(2) facemasks are in themselves safe to wear and stop the inhalation of contaminants including viruses. False. The wearer breathes in fibres that are injurious to the lungs and broncheoli in the long term. They reduce inspired oxygen from 21% to 18%, leading to brain damage in the long term. The wearer inhales previously exhaled air containing contaminants, e.g. carbon dioxide. Viruses are 1000 times smaller than the smallest holes in the facemasks.
Empirical test conducted by Dr. Ted Noel
Dr. Andrew Kaufman exposes the mask hoax
Legal implications: legal action against employers and trades unions for causing brain damage, lung diseases and restricting biological needs by enforcing the wearing of facemasks without scientific evidence in support their effectiveness or legal power do so; legal action against employers and trades unions for failing to carry out risk assessments on the wearing of facemasks; legal action against employers and trades unions for causing lung diseases and fungal infections caused by enforcing the wearing of facemasks; legal action against employers and trades unions for adverse reactions arising from enforcing the Covid19 or other vaccines on employees (adverse reactions so far including Bell's Palsy, paralysis, allergic reactions).
Categories of persons potentially exposed
Archivists. Respiratory risks: high, based on occasionally breathing dust-filled strongroom air, especially during stocktaking. Dermatological risks: high risk of facial mould infections, based on (a) wearing facemasks for several hours a day and (b) handling documents, especially parchment documents infected with moulds. No risk of virus cross-infection, as Covid19 is a hoax. Covid19 risk: nil.
Archives assistants (including paper keepers and strongroom assistants). Respiratory risks: very high, based on frequently breathing dust-filled strongroom air, especially during stocktaking. Dermatological risks: high risk of facial mould infections, based on (a) wearing facemasks for several hours a day and (b) handling documents, especially parchment documents infected with moulds. No risk of virus cross-infection, as Covid19 is a hoax. Covid19 risk: nil.
Para-professionals e.g. education officers, marketing officers, exhibition officers, venue managers. Respiratory risks: moderate, based on occasionally breathing dust-filled strongroom air. Dermatological risks: moderate risk of facial mould infections, based on (a) wearing facemasks for several hours a day and (b) handling documents, especially parchment documents infected with moulds. No risk of cross-infection, as Covid19 is a hoax. Covid19 risk: nil.
Contractors, visiting members of the public and visiting elected members. Respiratory risks: low, based on shorter lengths of exposure to enclosed air. Dermatological risks: low risk of facial mould infections whilst on site, based on wearing facemasks for limited periods. No risk of cross-infection, as Covid19 is a hoax. Covid19 risk: nil.
Archival conservators and repairers. Respiratory risks: moderate, based on occasionally breathing dust-filled strongroom air. Dermatological risks: high risk of facial mould infections, based on (a) wearing facemasks for several hours a day and (b) handling documents, especially parchment documents infected with moulds. No risk of cross-infection, as Covid19 is a hoax. Covid19 risk: nil.
Chief archivists in local government. Respiratory risks: inhalation of high humidity, based on breathing in hot air expired by visiting elected members and chief and senior officers. Dermatological risks (a) low risk of facial mould infections based on wearing facemasks for limited periods (b) rarely handling documents, especially parchment documents infected with moulds. No risk of cross-infection, as Covid19 is a hoax. Covid19 risk: nil.
Order your fake syringe now! As used on members of the elite in hoaxing the public!
Source material: guidance issued by the Society of Qualified Archivists 2020
"THIS IS THE GREATEST HOAX EVER PERPETRATED ON AN UNSUSPECTING PUBLIC.The bottom line is simply this: there is utterly unfounded public hysteria driven by the media and politicians. It should be thought of as nothing more than a bad flu season. It's politics playing medicine - and that's a very dangerous game." *
Press release, Society of Qualified Archivists
21 November 2020
Immediate
STARTS
The Society deplores the wholesale temporary closures of record offices, ranging from the UK’s National Archives to English county record offices, for the second time this year. The Society also deplores the mandatory wearing of facemasks in record offices. Its protests to the authorities have gone unanswered.
The Society alerts record office staff and the researching public to the following facts.
1. The UK government has produced no evidence a fatal and highly contagious disease variously known as Coronavirus, Covid19 or SARS-COV-2 exists.
2. The UK government has produced no evidence any such disease is transmitted through the air from person to person, over any distance
3. The UK government has produced no evidence the wearing of facemasks reduces exposure to airborne viruses.
4. The UK government has produced no risk assessment for facemasks
5. No local government authority has produced a risk assessment for the effects of wearing facemasks on its staff and visitors to its premises.
6. NHS hospitals have sent home staff, wards have been emptied and the new Nightingale hospitals have remained unused.
7. The death rate is normal by comparison with previous years. Some areas in the UK have a lower death rate than in previous years.
8. The UK government has produced no evidence a virus can be more easily transmitted from person to person in a record office, public house, restaurant or club than a supermarket.
9. Doctors have been ordered to give Covid19 as the cause of death regardless of evidence.
Benedict Crumplethorne, principal spokesman for SQA, states
“It appears the Government has cleverly renamed ‘flu’ Covid19. Flu deaths are down by the same amount as claimed Covid19 deaths. There is clearly no pandemic. There are no extra deaths. As to a virus being transmitted through the air over any distance, this appears to be based on the controversial and unproven “Germ Theory”. In fact, many scientists argue the common cold and flu are triggered by the body’s own immune system and represent the body detoxifying itself resulting from environmental changes. This is a beneficial process and in any case not one that can or should be inoculated against.
We are concerned about our members and record office users having to wear facemasks. The smallest hole in the facemasks is 1000 times bigger than a virus, on top of which wearers re-inhale previously exhaled contaminants and inhale a reduced amount of oxygen. Masks also lead to skin diseases and inhibit communication especially for deaf people.
We ask archivists and record office staff to demand from their employers and unions firstly Proof of Claim that the disease exists, secondly Proof of Claim that facemasks prevent diseases from being exhaled by one person and inhaled by another person and thirdly risk assessments for staff and public wearing facemasks.
These are minor concerns in relation to the shutting down of small and medium sized businesses, the house arrest of the population, isolation of old people, school and university closures, food shortages, suspension of travel, increased mental illness and suicides.
SQA calls for the immediate re-opening of record offices and an end to the lockdowns.
ENDS
SQA, famed for its strategic assessment of major crises and trends affecting archives, asked Mr. Crumplethorne for an explanation as to why the UK government had implemented such a totalitarian system of restrictions.
“We are seeing the dovetailing of several longstanding globalist ambitions. The New World Order (NWO), the Global Technocracy and Communitarianism. The Plandemic or Scamdemic as we call it is being used as a pretext for a Global Reset, planned since at least 1980. The World Economic Forum (WEF) website explains about the Great Reset in depth. In the following video, investigative journalist Harry Vox of New York interviews Dr. Klaus Schwab, founder and president of the WEF who explains the grim aims of the project and how it will affect us all.
The NWO has a long history in development and can be traced to at least the Treaty of Versailles if not the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. It was heralded in by the false flag attacks on America on 9/11 2001 but appears not to have gained as much momentum as had been hoped by its planners until now. Technocracy also has an old pedigree and merges eugenics and more recently with the United Nations’ various agendas including Agenda21 and Agenda 2030. So-called sustainability and control of man-made fossil fuel emissions are part and parcel of Technocracy. Communitarianism represents the fusion of Chinese Communism with decaying western political systems and their industrial bases and the emergence of a world government modelled on China.
The Covid19 hoax is the latest attempt to create world government and a global slave worker race. The vaccines being planned contain nano particles intended to interface humans with the Internet of Things. The vaccines are also intended to interfere with Chromosome 8 to enable the transition to transhumanism.
The sad thing is that archivists, despite thinking themselves intelligent, like academics and many other professions, teachers and lawyers most obviously, fail to realise the agenda. And not only that, but they fail to realise archives and archivists have no part to play in the Technocratic agenda. In fact, in SQA we have pointed out time and time again how archives constitute the antithesis of the NWO project, the EU and Technocracy.”
* Dr. Roger Hodkinson, pathologist, from audio recording of his contribution to a video conference with Edmonton City Council, Alberta, Canada (source interview here) Bio
Italian MP Vittoria Sgarbi exposes the CV hoax in a speech in the Italian Parliament
Was the London Olympics opening ceremony predictive programming for CV19?
Journalist Harry Vox explains in an interview how the hoax was planned at least as early as 2014
Sadistic contact tracer explains his motives in an interview
Report by The Dollar Vigilante exposing fake Sky News story about high rate of use of Mexico City crematoriums and fake death counts
Appeal by prominent Roman Catholic clergy including Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, Bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, Cardinal Janis Pujats, Archbishop emeritus of Riga, Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Mueller, Prefect emeritus of Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith against the Covid19 restrictions
Journalist from the BBC silences a doctor for exposing the PCR test as fake
Professor John Lee, pathologist, exposes the UK government's fake Covid narrative
Here is a talk given by Marc Van Ranst of Belgium at Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs) in 2018 including guidance on how it is possible to deceive the public into believing there is a pandemic based on reporting routine deaths from flu as an epidemic, i.e. by not reporting flu deaths at all and instead renaming Covid-19 deaths. This event was attended by at least one UK government minister:
We fear that many local government archivists and their counterparts in the private sector, quite apart from archivists in the civil service, are ignorant both of the real basis of regionalisation and of their part in its advancement. Possibly some are more witting and are secretly happy to collaborate with European integrationists.
Sadly, the place of the historical county and diocesan system in England and Wales, the basis for so long of archival organisation and local identity is under threat. The many archivists in a headlong dash to perform best regionally are no doubt ignorant of this too, quite apart from their users.
The UK Euro-Regions: note England is not mentioned
The extent to which regionalisation has crept into planning for archives development is summarised on the National Council on Archives web site.
To regard the artificially and recently created regions as legitimate expressions of local, cultural or economic identity in the UK is grossly misleading and inaccurate. To understand the real purpose of the regions, we need look no further than the origins and purpose of the EU itself. In any case, UK government files released under the Thirty Year Rule have confirmed the last great round of local government reorganisation of 1974 was conceived as a means of enabling future regional government.
HM Government file FCO30/1048 written in 1971 and not released for many years, states: "After entry (to the European Economic Community in 1972) there would be a major responsibility on HMG and on all political parties not to exacerbate public concern by attributing unpopular measures or unfavourable economic developments to the remote and unmanageable workings of the Community" ... "The transfer of major executive responsibilities to the bureaucratic Commission in Brussels will exacerbate popular feeling of alienation from government" ... "The more the Community is developed ... the more Parliamentary sovereignty will be eroded". So, Ted Heath and his cronies knew exactly what they were letting us in for, and decided not to tell us.
Now we know why economics is so often given as a justification for increasing access to archives. This economic driver is mentioned powerfully in the report of the Archives Task Force, Listening to the Past, Speaking to the Future. Recommendation two of the report is actually to: Position UK archives as key contributors to local, regional and national social and economic objectives and a key policy statement contained within the report advocates An archival heritage unlocked and made open to all citizens in a way that engages them and empowers them to use archives for personal, community, social and economic benefit.
Professor Frank Furedi has noticed how economic factors are crucial in the drive towards political correctness and in the dumbing-down of cultural heritage read more
So a pattern is evident: archives and cultural heritage, disguised as regional economic tools, will drive European integration through diminution of real national or local identity and the undermining of traditional academic critique. Ignorance and deception, both among the general population and among an intellectually emasculated academia will thus enable European integration by subterfuge, at least in the UK.
EU institutions are more frank, in the tradition of Monnet. The Assembly of European Regions states in its declaration of 1996: the regions are an essential and irreplaceable element of European development and integration (see below). Similarly, the Council of European Municipalities and Regions works to promote a united Europe that is based on local and regional self government and democracy. No mention is made of national democracy (see also below).
The Public
Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) has appointed (or had appointed to
it) its second Director and Deputy Keeper of the Records of Northern Ireland
to have no archives or records background, setting a trend. Although a similar
situation has existed at the UK National Archives (formerly the Public Record
Office) with the appointments of Sarah Tyacke or Natalie Ceeney, the same trend
has been less evident outside London. The appointment of Ms. Ceeney led to
journalist and historian Max Hastings and others decrying the development,
as we reported in a previous blog post. The PRONI appointment has elicited a
response from John Chambers, Chief Executive of the Archives and Records Association,
which covers the UK and Republic of Ireland.
Maeve Walls
Mr. Chambers
has corresponded with the minister concerned and received no reply. The main
ground for the concern is that the relevant legislation, the Public Records Act(Northern Ireland) 1923
“states clearly that the Deputy Keeper should be ‘a fit person duly
qualified by his knowledge of records’, that is to say someone with
appropriate, credible and formal experience of the sector who can make
judgements based on best professional practice and established standards and
conventions” (quoting Chambers’ letter).
The
concern about Maeve Walls’ background is compounded by the appointment having
taken place surreptitiously, apparently without a competitive selection
process.
SQA
has an insight into what might be happening at PRONI. In view of the fact Ms
Walls is a Fulbright scholar and Fulbright is partnered with Common Purpose (CP), it is reasonable to suppose there is a CP involvement. CP is a British based educational charity supported by the UK government
whose “graduates” are embedded in public and private sector organisations to
further the process of establishing socialist world dictatorship, also known as the New World Order (NWO). This process is necessarily one that starts in a national context. Lenin first laid down this principle in what he termed the National Revolutionary Subversion Process which is to say, the hollowing out of the western democracies from within. The process is best described by the famous Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci, as reported in an earlier post.
Thus this development looks like a drastic attempt to keep the NWO
project culturally on track. Archives are again being targeted as a
counter-revolutionary cultural threat to the NWO for which Northern Ireland has been
something of a proving ground. General John de Chastelain, the NATO
general brought in to assist with the NI peace process, supposedly from a
non-partisan Canadian background in fact represented not only NATO but also the federal North American
Union, the nascent superstate combining the USA, Canada and Mexico. General Chastelain
is a director of the Forum of Federations, whose main aim seems to be the
Balkanisation of existing federal regimes and the creation of new enlarged
federations (like the EU and NAU) as stepping stones to world government…i.e.
world dictatorship. In NI he thus played an important role in the
process of devolution or Balkanisation in the UK.
General John de Chastelain
Recent
revelations have also shown that MI5 and MI6 were involved in the running of
the IRA campaign, presumably as a precursor to NI’s part of the Balkanisation
of the UK. If Martin McGuinness (MI6 codename “fisherman”) and Jerry Adams were
working for British Intelligence it would help explain the NATO involvement in
NI and the readiness of royalty to meet both men at the conclusion of the
“Troubles”.
Lord
James of Blackheath confirmed the extent of the government’s management of the
IRA and its funding arrangements in a speech in the House of Lords,
while the EU’s control of financial institutions extends to undermining
attempts to deal with members of the NI judiciary who allegedly collude in fraud.
We
asked our principal spokesman, Benedict Crumplethorne, for an analysis of the corruption of democratic accountability in NI.
The
appointment echoes the appointment of Natalie Ceeney, a former employee of
McKinsey, the controversial and secretive global
consultancy firm known as the Jesuits of Capitalism, specialising in the
pharmaceutical and retail sectors, who before that managed clinical services in
the National Health Service. She has described herself as a "general manager". We reported on this in a previous blog.
This looks like a similar development but it’s more than just another
manifestation of the cult of managerialism.
My deduction
is that Ms. Walls’ appointment is a continuation of the process of embedding
CP change agents in the civil service in readiness for the next planned
constitutional changes. Following the EU referendum in which NI voted remain,
federalists no doubt believe NI is ready for positioning for attachment to the
Republic and remaining in the EU. We can possibly also predict a ramping up of
the process of the cultural attack on archives we have reported on elsewhere
over the last few years, e.g. Ruskin College, Oxford.
Our main fear in SQA is that the Malvine Project and the mounting hostility
to archives and archivists heralds the destruction of archival collections, perhaps by
digitising them, using increasing storage challenges as a pretext for no longer
preserving original archival material post digitisation. The Malvine Project
seeks the same outcome but by more subtle means, by excluding the conservation
and repair of archives unless they support federal projects including European
integration, thereby making them less likely to survive as counter
revolutionary cultural evidence.
You see,
archives constitute evidence, which is why we keep them. But this evidence can
be inconvenient because retrospection and historical evidence can be used
against new political systems, so when radical change comes archives are
necessarily destroyed as counter revolutionary. Our readership may well say
they see no justification for this but of course we are dealing with what David
Icke calls the “totalitarian tiptoe” approach.
This
notwithstanding, it is refreshing to see ARA doing something, in marked
contrast to the old Society of Archivists. Is it a vain hope that one day it might be a
legal requirement for such office holders to be qualified, professional
archivists?
Following on our recent blog about the trashing of Ruskin College, Oxford's archives SQA is saddened to learn of academic disappointment with the various archives advocacy, professional and umbrella organisations' record in intervening in or speaking up for archives under threat of closure, destruction or dispersal. This it transpires extends beyond Ruskin College to a surprising number of third sector organisations including the Women's Library (London Metropolitan University), the Scottish Roman Catholic Church, the Law Society's Mendham Collection held by the University of Kent at Canterbury and Canterbury Cathedral Library.
Where's the fire brigade?
This disappointment is expressed by Anne Summers in a post entitled Archives: A House on Fire? on History Workshop Online
In her post Ms. Summers echoes many of SQA's concerns down the years, levelling at the National Archives, Archives and Records Association (ARA) and the Parliamentary Group on Archives and History the accusation that they have been conspicuously quiet and ineffective in defending archives. It is an indictment on these organisations that Summers can say in 2012 "no single body in Britain holds the ring for archives". She goes on to accuse "those bodies who do have a protective remit of gross dereliction of duty." Furthermore, her approaches to ARA and the Parliamentary Group for further information went either unanswered or even unacknowledged.
The best metaphor to emerge from Ms. Summers' article is that of the burning house. Let us quote her in full.
The other day I stood politely at a reception at the House of Lords, organised to launch the Campaign for Voluntary Sector Archives, as representatives of The National Archives and of the all-party group talked about the good work they did issuing guidelines for the care and maintenance of organisational records. It was as if a bunch of firefighters were handing out leaflets on fire prevention while standing, apparently oblivious, next to a blazing building. When are they going to get out the hoses?
This picture contrasts with the official public image of the National Archives as national leader for archives under recent arrangements following the demise of the Museums, Libraries and Arts Council and its allies at the launch of the Campaign for Voluntary Sector Archives attended by Tristram Hunt MP, chairman of the Parliamentary Group on Archives and History and Oliver Morley, Keeper of the Public Records and Chief Executive of the National Archives. Ms. Summers might have added that for good measure that ARA had just completed its self-congratulatory annual conference where members were at least able to put out fires of a different kind at Horatio's Bar on Brighton Pier.
So far, so good. Ms. Summers has drawn the appropriate conclusions about the archives umbrella organisations in the UK. However, like other bystanders watching the house on fire, she has yet to see through the smoke and identify the real nature of the malaise. Conspiracy theorising doesn't come easily to self-respecting acamedics, even after considering and excluding all rational explanations and in face of the fact that nearly all conspiracy theories are borne out. Katherine K. Young, professor of religious studies at McGill University, states "the fact remains, however, that not all conspiracies are imagined by paranoids. Historians show that every real conspiracy has had at least four characteristic features: groups, not isolated individuals; illegal or sinister aims, not ones that would benefit society as a whole; orchestrated acts, not a series of spontaneous and haphazard ones; and secret planning, not public discussion."
Where is national archives legislation? Why are archival collections not listed or scheduled like historic buildings?
Conspiracy in the corridors of power is not far to seek. Alongside the inocuous sounding Parliamentary Group on Archives and History is the Parliamentary Group on World Government which aims to steer the UK towards submission to unaccountable collectivist world government. How could any world government ever be accountable? The EU, itself the product of a deception plan in the UK and beyond is a good enough indicator of corruption and dictatorship on the supra-national scale and it's only just warming up.
Just as in Fahrenheit 451, Britain's firefighters are not there to put out fires. They are there to start them and stoke them.
How best to explain the real agenda to the uninitiated? Well, we are talking about dialecticalism, as in Soviet or Communist dialecticalism. By way of example of how things aren't always what they seem, we refer to the declassified US Government document entitled in brief "Food for Peace", authored by Henry Kissinger, which outlined how to use US food aid to stabilise unstable regions. Suspicions arose among journalists and academics when civil and regional wars flared up in regions targeted for food aid, as though the effect of US policy was to inflame traditional divides and racial hatred not quell them. Eventually, the policy document emerged and it became plain it could be read as a manual for destabilisation rather than stabilisation, hence dialecticalism.
So welcome to the world of archives dialecticalism!
However, SQA wonders whether leftist-leaning academics might have only themselves to blame for this continuing trend…..we call to mind Lenin's useful idiots.
Antonio Gramsci
Among Lenin’s contributions was the theory of the vanguard. Since the proletariat masses would never rise up, Lenin argued that it was necessary for a relatively small number of vanguard leaders—professional revolutionaries—to advance the revolutionary cause by working themselves into positions of influence. By taking over the commanding heights of labor unions, the press, the universities, professional and religious organizations, a relatively few number of revolutionaries could multiply their influence and exercise political leverage over their unwitting constituents and society at large......While Lenin was seizing power in Russia , Antonio Gramsci was emerging as a leading Marxist theoretician in Italy and would found the Italian Communist Party in 1921. After being imprisoned by Mussolini, the Fascist Prime Minister of Italy, Gramsci authored what came to be called the Prison Notebooks, partially published in 1947 and in complete form in 1975, a legacy that made him one of the most important Marxist thinkers of the 20th century. Gramsci argued that power for the communist is best attained in developed, industrialized societies such as Europe and the United States through “the long march through the institutions.” This would be a gradual process of radicalization of the cultural institutions—“the superstructure”—of bourgeois society, a process that would in turn transform the values and morals of society. Gramsci believed that as society’s morals were softened its political and economic foundation would be more easily smashed and restructured.......Cultural Marxism was also in vogue at the Institute of Social Research at Frankfurt University in Germany —that is until 1933 when the Nazis came to power. Many members of the Frankfurt School, such as Herbert Marcuse, Eric Fromm, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkeimer and William Reich fled to the United States, where they ultimately found their way into professorships at various elite universities such as Berkeley, Columbia, and Princeton. In the context of American culture, “the long march through the institutions” meant, in the words of Herbert Marcuse, “working against the established institutions while working in them.” The countercultural influence of radicals like Marcuse and Gramsci has been advanced more by insinuation and infiltration than by confrontation. Their “quiet” revolution was intended to be diffused throughout the culture, over a period of time, to remake society.
Scott Powell, senior fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle and author of Covert Cadre.
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