My local cell phone provides identifies itself as Tsel-PakaiMasker. The Tsel is short for the company, Telkomsel, and PakaiMasker translates to Use Mask. B.C. (Before Covid), the identifier was probably Tsel LTE. See Figure 1. Additionally, I receive a daily barrage of unsolicited messages exhorting me to do the right thing. Below is just one example:
COVID19 is spread by droplets that come out when you cough, sneeze or TALK. Therefore, always keep your distance, wear a mask and wash your hands with soap.Covid19.go.id
The propaganda is relentless and there are signs everywhere as you walk about reinforcing the same message. By and large, everybody is complying. The promotion of mask wearing is an important part of this psyop. It's a visible symbol that people are fighting an allegedly dangerous pathogen that is spread by other people. Despite evidence that mask wearing is useless at stopping airborne virus infection and is a health hazard, the "masquerade" continues. One definition of masquerade is a false show or pretense, which is quite appropriate. If mask wearing had not been encouraged or, as in some countries, mandated, it would of course seem as if nothing had changed.
The mask has become very much a symbol of conformity, differentiating between those who accept the propaganda and those who don't. Of course, the muzzled masses will always be an overwhelming majority and so anti-maskers are easily parodied or even demonised.
Of course, this is part of the psyop. Many potential anti-maskers will wear masks to avoid the inconvenience of being barred from entering stores or to avoid the risk of fines and imprisonment in countries where mask-wearing is mandated.
Another definition of masquerade is an attempt to deceive people about the true nature or identity of something. In this sense, it has to be conceded that the COVID-1984 scamdemic is certainly a very successful masquerade and the mask, an essential component of any literal masquerade, is a brilliant accessory.
I have a friend in Australia who more or less accepts the mainstream narrative about COVID-19 and regards the WHO as genuinely caring about the health of the world's citizens. In response to exhortations on my part to find alternative and credible sources of information, he claimed Transparency International as one of his sources of information.
I had not heard of this particular NGO so I did a little investigation. It's motto is:
WE HAVE ONE VISION, A WORLD FREE OF CORRUPTION
This of course is a laudable goal but typically these sorts of NGOs are set up by the puppet masters to corner the debate on certain issues, corruption in the case of Transparency International and health in the case of the WHO. Many well-intentioned individuals will work hard for these organisations, often as volunteers, in the belief that they are doing something worthwhile. This harnessing of the energy and idealism of youth is deliberate because, if directed elsewhere, it might really expose corruption or improve world health. Arundhati Roy puts its nicely when she says:
Armed with their billions, these NGOs have waded into the world, turning potential revolutionaries into salaried activists, funding artists, intellectuals and filmmakers, gently luring them away from radical confrontation.
Anyway, Transparency International (TI) seems to be one of the more obnoxious NGOs around. It's founder, Peter Eigen, is a former regional director for the World Bank. Say no more. It has connections with various UN bodies and is in full support of sustainable development goals. Even the Wikipedia article for TI is far from flattering, highlighting several controversies, and finishing with this telling quote:
"On 25 March 2020 Wolfgang Wodarg was dismissed from his place as a member of the board of directors of Transparency International, after he expressed the opinion that the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 was only one of many similar viruses which usually go undetected as part of an ordinary seasonal period of respiratory infections, and that the worldwide activities to stop the pandemic were "hype" caused by the selective perception of researchers."
It is remarkable how effective such organisations are in gaining credibility, thanks to the support of the MSM and the social media giants. James Corbett has produced an interesting video on US-based NGOs, focussing on their role in undermining foreign governments:
More generally however, NGOs are instruments of the Global Elite and designed to further the globalist agenda. Though some have their headquarters in a particular country, they are not closely associated with the government of that country. TI is an example of such an NGO:
Transparency International is a German non-governmental organization founded in 1993. Based in Berlin, its nonprofit purpose is to take action to combat global corruption with civil societal anti-corruption measures and to prevent criminal activities arising from corruption.
Along with governments and corporations, the two torrents of power in the global landscape, NGOs are seen as a third force. Indeed, the big international ones – the BINGOs – with budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars are pretty powerful. But are they a countervailing force, striving tirelessly for social justice and the underdog? Poverty alleviation may be the rhetoric, critics argue, but in practice little that is lasting has been achieved on this front by NGO activism.
There is the compromising nature of their funding to consider – today contributions from governmental and intergovernmental aid agencies and from corporate donors often form the largest chunks of their income. Although some BINGOs will still deny it, this influences their outlook, making them increasingly accommodated to the wishes of their donors. Their language becomes all about forming partnerships with these interests, rather than challenging them. Work within the system, and business will transform the lives of the poor – it’s the Bono school of development, but with taxes.
In a recent article Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, the secretary-general of Civicus, a global network of civil society organizations and activists, wrote: ‘We have become a part of the problem rather than the solution. Our corporatization has steered us towards activism-lite, a version of our work rendered palatable to big business and capitalist states. Not only does this approach threaten no-one in power, but it stifles grassroots activism with its weighty monoculturalism.’
My advice to my friend was to avoid NGOs as sources of information, relying instead on individuals who, as far as can be determined, did not have any links to vested interests. Of course such individuals are hard to find or, if they gain any degree of prominence, are invariably denigrated by the MSM.
Two weeks ago I had an unusual dream involving a white cat. In the dream I encountered an unidentified woman and a white cat. The woman said to me, as I looked at the Persian-like cat, that it had arrived from Hiroshima the day before. Hiroshima has a particular association for me because I first arrived to start a new teaching job in China on Hiroshima Day, August 6th of 2009. The woman mentioning the day before and Hiroshima in the same context meant August 5th to my waking mind as I considered the dream on the morning after.
The dream was so unusual that it stuck in my mind and I became somewhat apprehensive as the date approached. On the morning of August 5th, I was watching RT on YouTube and saw the Beirut explosion that had happened the day before, around 6pm, in that city. The initial explosion was clearly non-nuclear but the second clearly was, despite subsequent that it was not. Most people have seen video footage of nuclear explosions and this was clearly the same, only on a smaller scale. It's only now, on Hiroshima Day, that I've drawn the connection between the Beirut explosion and my dream with its mention of the day before Hiroshima.
My dream does seem a little precognitive but that's not important. What's important is the devastation caused by the second and far more powerful explosion that to me seems clearly nuclear and not caused by ammonium nitrate. Whatever the cause, the damage has been done and Lebanon has been plunged into an even more difficult financial situation.
Terrifying Explosion in Beirut Wasn't Nuclear, Experts Say
The "experts" have been very quick to leap in and assure everyone that the blast was not nuclear. Israel is the likely suspect as it has fomenting unrest in the country for the past fifty years or more. I must confess to not knowing a great deal about the history of Lebanon and didn't realise that it has been under French control until its independence in 1946. It's certainly an interesting country but one that has suffered terribly from its proximity to the rogue state of Israel.
Lebanon’s Prime Minister, Hassan Diab, said that 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate that had been stored for six years near the waterfront had accidentally ignited causing the explosion. As a means of comparison, the fertilizer bomb Tim McVeigh used to destroy the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995 contained only 4,800 pounds of ammonium nitrate.
Of course, the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995 and the framing of Tim McVeigh is another can of worms entirely. Explosions of this sort are nothing new. In 2015, there were reports of tactical nuclear weapons being used in Yemen. The responses from mainstream media sources were as predicable back then are they are now. Here is one example:
Recent weeks have seen numerous reports that an explosion in Yemen was a “nuclear bomb” or even a “neutron bomb”. These particular reports, about a large explosion in Yemen in late May 2015 are largely re-circulating due to articles in the widely derided and generally discredited Veterans Today. It is clear to me, for reasons that I will explain below, that the reports of nuclear warfare in Yemen are a fabrication, and that a large conventional explosion has, once again, fooled the unwise, uneducated, and/or deluded into thinking that a nuclear weapon was used.
Note the reference to Veterans Today as "widely derided" and "generally discredited". Hmmm ... derided and discredited by whom? Anyone who could even entertain the possibility of a nuclear attack is "unwise, uneducated and/or deluded". The reference to Veterans Today however, prompted me to check out what this site had to say about the Lebanon explosion and there is general agreement that it was a nuclear attack by Israel, specifically:
First explosion was caused by Gabriel anti ship missile of Israel. The second explosion was caused by Israeli Delilah missile from F16.
After watching further footage on Veterans Today of the explosion from various angles, it's clear that the second blast was nuclear and, tellingly, the Beirut Governor has called the explosion a national disaster akin to Hiroshima. It's interesting to note that August 12th 2015 also marked the date of the explosion in Tianjin that some have attributed to a tactical nuclear strike.
I'm not quite sure what the orientation of the Veterans Today website really is. There is some weird stuff there. For example, this August 3rd 2020 article runs:
Unmasking the Zionist COVID Disinfo Machine
There is a huge and well-funded conspiracy theory disinfo operation that encompasses Chemtrails, vaccines, 5G, and now COVID-19. The authors of these theories are all Zionist stooges, mostly working for well-funded think tanks that function as disinfo outlets.
Hilariously, the author goes on to identify some of the "Zionist-funded disinfo scumbags" as David Icke, Tony Cartalucci, Whitney Webb, Eric Zuesse, James Corbett, Jon Rappoport, Patrick Henningsen and Paul Craig Roberts.
It will be interesting what some of my other regular alternative news commentators have to say about this Beirut explosion in the coming days.
As shown in Figure 1, free "advertising" for WHO pops up on my YouTube home page whenever I access the website. It's the same on many other sites, especially social media. I don't have the stomach to click on the LEARN MORE button but I'm sure many do, desirous as they might be to find out more about the what the **** is going on. Unfortunately, they will not find anything useful by following the link. Instead they will be subjected to more propaganda from the World Hoax Organisation and guidelines on how best to cope with the plandemic that it created and that is sustained by the relentless propaganda spewed out to the sleeping masses by the mass media.
Even browsing mainstream garbage sites like the BBC is enough to make you question your sanity. Figure 2 shows what greets the visitor to the site's home page:
Figure 2
No opportunity is missed by the the BBC to promote the narrative of a rampaging virus that has penetrated to every corner of the planet. More disturbing are the morons who post photos of themselves on social media, with masks on, clearly proud of their conformity. Worse still are headlines like these (source):
Melbourne residents urged to dob their neighbours in for breaking lockdown rules - as police launch DRONES in coronavirus hotspots
36 suburbs across ten post codes plunged into lockdown on Wednesday night
Victoria Police has urged residents to report any suspected lockdown breaches
Drones and number plate scanners will also be used to catch and rule breakers
Chief Commissioner warned anyone caught flouting rules would be fined $1,652
The article goes on to say:
Victoria Police has been flooded with calls from concerned neighbours and urged people to continue reporting breaches on their website or non-emergency phone line. On average, police received around 3,500 non-urgent calls a day, but after the outbreak of the deadly virus became inundated with up to 11,000 everyday - the majority reporting those flouting the rules.
These statistics are a terrible indictment of the gullibility and conformity of Australians. One expects that the politicians will do as their masters decree and that their uniformed thugs will enforce these decrees. However, it's the compliance of the public that is most disturbing.
Figure 3
The caption to the photo in Figure 3 states "each motorist is being asked where they are going, where they have come from and the reason for their travel". The article continues:
More than 1,000 police officers, including members from elite units, will stalk the streets over the month-long lockdown which has been set in 36 suburbs in the city's north west. Drones will also be hovering above neighbourhoods ...
1984 was late in coming but it finally arrived, neatly packaged and promoted in the form of Covid-1984. Figure 4 sums it up nicely.
I watched a very informative video recently between Spiro Skouras (interviewer) and Patrick Wood (interviewee). Patrick Wood is a leading and critical expert on Sustainable Development, Green Economy, Agenda 21, 2030 Agenda and historic Technocracy. He is the author of Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation (2015) and co-author of Trilaterals Over Washington, Volumes I and II (1978-1980) with the late Antony C. Sutton.
This led me to Patrick Woods' website at https://www.technocracy.news/ and in particular a series of articles that he wrote shortly before Christmas of 2019. There are twelve articles, written over twelve days, and the first is titled: We Were Warned About Technocracy. I've known about technocracy for some time now but listening to Patrick Wood and reading his articles on the subject, I suddenly had a Eureka moment. In particular, it was his comment that the New World Order is essentially a new economic order and not a political one.
With control of the world economy, there is no need for political control. The politicians in every country will meekly follow the directives of the technocrats as they are largely doing now in following the directives of the WHO in dealing with Covid-1984. These directives will emanate from the UN and other organisations with technocratic agendas far removed from what their nominal titles suggest, just as the World Health Organisation has little to do with the health of the world's citizens. It is a takeover by stealth and it is already well underway. The politicians are mere puppets who will implement the technocratic directives.
As Patrick Woods says, China in the 1970's was set up by the West to be a model of technocracy and that plan has succeeded to a remarkable degree. Prior to Xi Jinping, China was certainly ruled by technocrats, most of them engineers, but now that Jinping has elevated himself to the level of autocrat I fear the global elite is not pleased. The technocrats dislike autocrats because they are likely to follow their own individual whims and not pursue technocratic goals. I would imagine that Jinping's days are numbered.
So far I've not heard Patrick Woods criticise Israel or suggest that the technocratic elite might be predominantly Jewish in composition. Given that Israel is leading the world in technological innovation, it seems that the issue needs addressing. He readily identifies Bill Gates, Elon Musk and others as technocrats but who is really running the show? Is technocracy being used as a tool by Jewish supremacists or have Jewish supremacists chosen to align themselves with technocracy? It may be a mixture of both. Zionism and Technocracy share a lot in common, despite intrinsic differences.
In any case, I've acquired a copy of Patrick Woods' book: Technocracy Rising, the Trojan Horse of Global Transformation. After reading this, I should have a better idea of what his stance is on the involvement of Zionists. I suspect he will be silent because the backlash from accusations of antisemitism would cause many to dismiss his message. It's far safer to refer to a global elite rather than to a Jewish global elite and thus not incur the wrath of the ADL (Anti Defamation League).
He does not differentiate between Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin. Hitler did care about the German people whereas the other two were psychopathic despots. Any attempts to rehabilitate the image of Hitler however, bound to end in failure and provoke furious rebuke from all sides. I think Woods shares the popular view of Hitler even though, as is stated at the start of this post, Woods collaborated with the late Anthony Sutton.
As the former says on his website:
Antony Sutton uncovered and exposed the globalist cabal and subsequently got kicked out of UCLA and Stanford as his books were blacklisted. I am proud to have co-authored Trilaterals Over Washington, Volumes I and II with Sutton, which was also blacklisted and suppressed.
Sutton wrote Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler and which I've yet to read. Meanwhile, Woods has recently released Technocracy: the Hard Road to World Order that is an update to his Technocracy Rising. Anyway, one book at a time. I'll add some more comments to this post once I've read his 2015 book.
REVIEW OF TECHNOCRACY RISING
Having read the book, I can only express disappointment. Patrick Woods is clearly a Christian and spends time describing how the religion is being eroded by organisations like the United Religions Initiative (URI). To quote about URI from his book:
URI was founded in 1993 by William Swing, Bishop of the Episcopal Church Diocese of California, as an interfaith organisation that sought to bind religions of the world into one common organisation. The concept of interfaith organisations was nothing new, but few had made much headway in a conflict-ridden world. By contrast, URI grew at a spectacular rate, up to 100% per year. In his book, False Dawn, Lee Penn writes,
In 2002, New Age author Neale Donald Walsch said that the URI is “more global in scope, and more universal in reach” than other interfaith organisations, adding that “I am not sure that any other interfaith organisation casts that wide a net.”
The people and organisations who have drawn close to URI are striking: The World Economic Forum, Earth Charter Initiative, Ted Turner, Ford Foundation, Dee Hock (inventor of the VISA credit card, founder and former CEO of VISA International), Maurice Strong (Canadian billionaire and organiser of the U.N.’s 1992 Rio Conference) and Bill Gates among others. Former Secretary of State and ex-Chairman of Bechtel Group George P. Shultz, also a member of the Trilateral Commission, is listed as an Honorary Chair of the President’s council. The URI is also closely allied with the United Nations. At least two URI summit conferences have been held at Stanford University. Carnegie-Melon University in Pittsburgh hosted the 2000 conference.
Despite his Christian concerns, there is virtually no mention made of Christian Zionism, although he writes at length about end-time prophecies. Similarly, Israel is never mentioned except in passing reference to the U.S.-Israel Free Trade Agreement and in this reference to "The Late, Great Planet Earth":
The Late, Great Planet Earth was the first modern book that related specific Bible prophecies to current events. The Bible’s books of Daniel, Isaiah, Ezekiel and Revelation played prominently, and events like the re-founding of Israel in 1948, the congealing of the European Economic Community, famines and earthquakes all appeared to be easily identified building blocks of the foretold “end times” and the visible return of Christ to the earth.
However, Woods does not follow up on "the re-founding of Israel in 1948". It's seems to me that he is studiously avoiding any reference to the influence of Jews in the politics of the United States and the interconnections between the Israel and the United States. It's clear that he believes Hitler to be a madman, bent on world domination and the extermination of the Jews.
While Woods does a good job in this book of explaining how Technocracy is achieving its goals, I find that the great deficiency is the total absence of any suggestion of a connection between Technocracy and Israel. He writes:
... the world is being actively transformed according to a very narrow economical/political/social philosophy called Technocracy, and it is impacting every segment of society in every corner of the world. Furthermore, Technocracy is being sponsored and orchestrated by a global elite led by David Rockefeller’s and Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Trilateral Commission.
Israel occupies a very important corner of the technological world and yet he has nothing to say about the Israeli innovation and dominance in areas that are central to the technocrat's dream of total surveillance and control. Perhaps technocracy arose independently of Zionism but it's clear that by the 1970's, a confluence had arisen. In Woods' view, the technocratic global elite is led by David Rockefeller’s and Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Trilateral Commission. Neither David Rockefeller nor Zbigniew Brzeznski are Jewish and so there is no danger of inviting accusations of antisemitism.
I think the global elite are predominantly Jewish and that Israel and Technocracy are nowadays very much interlinked. It is at least an idea that ought to be explored in any honest examination of technocracy. Such is the power of the ADL in American life however, that it dangerous to explore these links without being branded antisemitic. Patrick Woods seems open and sincere and I suspect he really does believe that technocracy is an invention of David Rockefeller and the Trilateral Commission.
In conclusion then, there is a lot more going on with technocracy than this book would lead us to believe. I must judge the book superficial and its author naïve. He says that:
The dark horse of the New World Order is not Communism, Socialism or Fascism. It is Technocracy.
I recently watched a video about a group of Mennonites who found that their way of life in Belize was being increasingly encroached upon by modern civilisation and so they resettled in a remote area of the Amazon rain forest in Peru.
The text accompanying the video stated that:
Like the Amish in the US, the Mennonite Christian community shuns the modern world. Most Mennonites live in secluded, self-sufficient colonies. We get a rare glimpse into the life of a devout and isolated community.
Unlike the majority of humanity, that group at least is free of the current pandemic madness and their withdrawal from the world now seems less extreme than the measures that are being implemented to deal with this manufactured crisis. A friend of mine in Australia is planning to visit an elderly relative in an aged care facility but he must first produce evidence of having had his flu shot before he can enter the premises. He has no problem with that because he dutifully gets his flu shot each year and probably all the other vaccinations that are recommended for my friend's age group (he is over 65). Figure 1 shows a list of the vaccinations that are recommended:
What vaccinations are recommended for older adults?
In some ways, I'm envious of my friend who is blissfully unaware of the deep and dark plotting that I perceive to be going on in the world. He likes to travel, both locally and internationally, and he'll be able to do so if travel restrictions ease because he will submit to whatever vaccinations are required. He knows nothing about what's in them or how the ingredients might impact his health and he doesn't care. It won't be so easy for me.
This takes me back to the Mennonites who of course are beyond the reach of vaccinations and other hazards of the modern world's "health" systems. There are a similar group in Java called the Badui. Here is a little bit about them (source):
Their traditional belief system, known as Sunda Wiwitan, is based on sacrifices made to their ancestor spirits. Throughout its development, Sunda Wiwitan has been influenced by Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam. Their core belief is in pikukuh, which means following an absolute set of determined traditions in their daily lives. The most important teaching of pikukuh is the concept of "no change whatsoever" or as little change as possible. A Baduy proverb states, "Lojor heunteu beunang dipotong, pendek heunteu beunang disambung," which means, "The long must not be cut short, the short must not be lengthened."
The most important object of this belief system is Arca Domas, a secret location that the Baduy consider to be the most sacred place in the world. The Baduy visit Arca Domas to make sacrifices once a year in the month of Kalima according to the Baduy calendar. Only the puun as the highest chief and a few chosen members of the community may join the group that sacrifices at Arca Domas. At Arca Domas, one can find hollows in the rocks that store rain water. The Baduy believe that at the time of the annual sacrifices, if the rocks are full of clear water, this is a sign that there will be plentiful rain that year and the harvest will be good. If the rocks are dry or contain muddy water, this is a sign that the harvest will be poor.
The world is becoming an increasingly ugly and oppressive place. Maybe it always has been. In any case, there are sound reasons for withdrawing from it as the Mennonites and Badui have done and which other groups may attempt to do in the future. I wrote about this in an earlier post where I wrote:
The alternative is to grab your guitar and go "up the country". There's a chance that communes and communities may spring up that turn their back on technology and try to exist beyond the reach of Big Government, Big Pharma and Big Medicine.
Of course, the reach of Big Government, Big Pharma and Big Medicine only extends as far as the physical world and beyond that of course they have no jurisdiction. That is another way out for people who have become bankrupted or unemployed or in some other way traumatised by the plandemic.
Suicide rates have never been higher and they will only climb as this worldwide economic disaster, brought on by the plandemic lockdowns and disruptions to supply chains, broadens. The architects of the unfolding New World Order have no problem with this as population control by all means fair and foul is acceptable. For others, the stress brought on by the consequences of the plandemic will undermine their physical and psychological health by inclining them to eat more, drink more, exercise less and socialise less. The new restrictions placed on pubs and restaurants are a mighty disincentive to visiting them at all.
I visited a local mall myself today and it was a depressing experience. Most of the shops were closed. There were few people about but social distancing signage proliferated. There were more security personnel than patrons. Everyone was masked and, when I dropped my own mask under my chin as I wandered about inside the mall, a little man in uniform came trotting up to me to remind me to keep it covering my face. I complied. Why make a scene? There seem to be rules now gathering every aspect of social interaction. Figure 2 is just one example of the sort of madness that now prevails.
In my last post about King Louis IX, I wrote about the hypocrisy of a member of Chabad-Lubavitch criticising this French monarch given his organisation's espousal of Jewish supremacy and its pursuit by all means fair and foul. It was certainly by all means fair and foul that the modern state of Israel came into existence. I was reminded of this again while reading Volume 2 of Planet Rothschild by M. S. King.
You can argue that the book's depiction of Adolf Hitler verges on hagiography but in a way that's almost necessary in order to shock you out of the mainstream characterisation of him as the devil incarnate. The propaganda reinforcing this view of Hitler has been relentless over the decades following the end of World War 2. By contrast, villains like Churchill and Roosevelt who ensured that war erupted have received the opposite treatment. Histories like the two volume Planet Rothschild help redress this gross distortion of history. The book also contains links to other interesting material. In particular, a book titled "Ben-Gurion's Scandals: How The Hagganah and The Mossad Eliminated Jews" by Jewish author Naeim Gilandi. The author's claim is between 1947 and 1952, Zionists staged antisemitic terror in order to frighten Jews in Arab States into moving to Israel.
At first the book only seemed available in hard copy but I was able to locate on e-version on PDFDRIVE (link) that I've now downloaded. I'm looking forward to reading it and its content clearly reinforces the brutal origins of Israel and the ruthlessness of its leaders. Here is short blurb about the book that accompanied the ebook:
Painful truths about the Zionist rape of Palestine and deliberate planting of anti-Semitism in Iraqi Jewish communities during David Ben-Gurion's political career to persuade Iraqi Jews to immigrate to Israel. The Zionists' goal was to import raw Jewish labor from the Middle East to farm the newly-vacated lands and fill the military ranks with conscripts, to defend the stolen lands.
Cover of the Book
This excerpt from Wikipedia describes the struggle to publish the book:
In the foreword of the book, Giladi writes that he did not submit a manuscript in Israel for fear of retribution. "Before," he wrote, "one can publish a book in Israel, permission had to be granted by the censors.... When I was contemplating writing and publishing this book, two of my colleagues and well known Israeli journalists (Maxim Gilan and Samuel Mour) were arrested and put in jail for exposing the involvement of the Israeli secret police ... in the kidnapping in Paris of Mehdi Ben Barka ..., charged with crimes against national security and ... locked up for six months. Moreover, the Israeli media were gagged and not even allowed to mention that the two journalists had been arrested. If the authorities had wished, the two men would have been kept in jail for the rest of their lives."
Also in the foreword, Giladi writes that upon emigrating to the United States in 1980, he found several publishers interested in publishing his work. He says he declined to publish because all interested publishers wanted to reserve the right of editorial control over the finished manuscript and he did not want to agree to this. Twelve years after his arrival in the US, he self-published at a cost of $60,000, which he reports was almost all of the proceeds of the sale of his Israeli property.
Born on the 18th of March 1926 in Hillah, Iraq, Giladi died on the 6th March 2010 in Queens, New York.
