How voting machines were used to steal the 2020 election in USA and probably why Trump is slowly assaulting Venezuela

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Russia’s Newest Fighter Having High Impact in Ukrainian Combat: Su-30SM2 on the Frontlines

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Swedish entrepreneur and freedom fighter launches new fully independent media platform to crush Sweden’s state-funded, left-wing media monopoly

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Innocent woman, 26, set alight on Chicago subway ‘by serial criminal, 50’ freed on ankle monitor by soft touch judge in horrific echo of Iryna Zarutska murder

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FBI missed multiple opportunities to stop Thomas Crooks before he tried to assassinate Trump, ex-assistant director says

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Trump is taking down the Maduro regime in Venezuela because a small group of patriots stopped 2024 election fraud and figured it out

The Club des Cent is a secretive, invitation-only foreign policy group that has operated since the early Cold War period

The Club des Cent (sometimes referred to in intelligence literature as the “Cercle des Cent” or simply “Le Cercle”) is a secretive, invitation-only foreign policy group that has operated since the early Cold War period. It is distinct from the gourmet dining club of the same name in Paris (the actual “Club des Cent” for food critics). The intelligence-related group is often called Le Cercle in French sources or The Pinay Circle in Anglo-American ones, named after its most influential early chairman, former French Prime Minister Antoine Pinay.

Origins and Structure

  • Founded in the early 1950s by Antoine Pinay and French Prime Minister Jean Violet (a lawyer with close ties to French intelligence, particularly the SDECE – the predecessor of DGSE).
  • Created as a private, anti-communist forum to coordinate Atlanticist (pro-NATO, pro-US–Europe alliance) foreign policy and intelligence efforts outside official channels.
  • Membership has always been small, elite, and transnational: senior politicians, intelligence officers, bankers, diplomats, industrialists, and occasionally royalty. Former members or attendees include:
  • Franz Josef Bach (German diplomat and CDU politician)
  • Alan Clark (British Conservative MP)
  • Giulio Andreotti (Italian PM)
  • Otto von Habsburg
  • Henry Kissinger (attended at least once)
  • David Rockefeller
  • Margaret Thatcher (met with the group)
  • Senior figures from MI6, CIA, French SDECE/DGSE, German BND, Belgian Sûreté, etc.

Involvement in Covert Operations

Le Cercle has never been an operational intelligence agency, but it functioned as a high-level private intelligence coordination and strategy group. Its documented or strongly alleged involvement includes:

  1. Anti-communist propaganda and psychological warfare
  • Financed and coordinated anti-Soviet and anti-leftist operations in Europe through linked organizations such as the Interdoc network and the Institut de Politique Internationale.
  • Funded anti-communist trade union activities and media operations.
  1. Africa and the “Françafrique” network
  • Jean Violet and other Cercle members were deeply involved in French neocolonial networks in Africa, especially through the Safari Club (a 1970s intelligence alliance between France, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Morocco designed to bypass CIA restrictions after the Church Committee).
  • Supported interventions in Congo/Zaïre, Chad, and elsewhere.
  1. 1980s anti-neutrality campaigns in Europe
  • Coordinated private funding and strategy against European neutralism and the peace movement (especially in West Germany and the Netherlands). Linked to the creation of front organizations that received covert CIA and MI6 funding.
  1. The “Clockwork Orange”–style operations in the UK
  • British Cercle members (Julian Amery, Brian Crozier, Nicholas Elliott) were implicated in attempts to destabilize the Labour government of Harold Wilson in the 1970s via smear campaigns involving MI5 and private intelligence networks.
  1. Support for the 1980s Reagan–Thatcher hardline policies
  • Acted as a back-channel between European conservative circles and the incoming Reagan administration, particularly on intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) deployments in Europe.

Secrecy and Current Status

  • The group deliberately avoids publicity. Meetings are held twice a year in different countries, always under heavy security and with no minutes published.
  • After the end of the Cold War, its focus reportedly shifted toward the Middle East, Islamic terrorism, and later Russia/China.
  • As of the 2010s–2020s, it is believed to still exist in a much reduced form, sometimes under different informal names, with younger Atlanticist politicians and intelligence veterans.

In summary, the Club des Cent / Le Cercle was one of the most important private covert action networks of the Cold War era – not an official agency, but a place where senior Western intelligence officers, politicians, and financiers could plan and fund operations that official agencies could not or would not touch. Its influence peaked in the 1970s–1980s and has significantly declined since, but its model of private–public coordination continues to fascinate researchers of “deep politics.”

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At a minimum we’re looking at overlapping intelligence-grade activity in the air corridor of Charlie Kirk’s assassination

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Pope Leo XIV must denounce Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes for sinful antisemitism – opinion

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Neurosis as a semiotic phobia

Human beings are semiotic entities. We largely live in and react emotionally to semiotics. Virtually everything we think, feel, and believe is built on a foundation of signs and symbols—semiotics.

A recent German study elegantly shows that people with arachnophobia see spiders more quickly than people who do not fear spiders.

The study can be found here: You See What You Fear: Spiders Gain Preferential Access to Conscious Perception in Spider-Phobic Patients. An article about the study is here: Phobias alter perception, German researchers say.

The authors of the study say that there probably is “an evolutionary advantage to preferentially process threatening stimuli, but these effects seem to have become dysfunctional in phobic patients.”

I would argue that “these effects” have also migrated into human semiotics and are similarly dysfunctional. That is, humans perceive some signs and symbols as more threatening than they are. For some of us these signs and symbols can seem so threatening we become “phobic” or neurotic about them.

For example, insecure people may become hypersensitive to signs of rejection. People who have been abused or tortured may perceive signs that seem ordinary to others as serious threats. If the person who tortures you also smiles, you will probably see human smiles as being dangerous when to others they indicate kindness.

Once a semiotic becomes associated with strong emotions, and this can happen in many ways, we will tend to see that semiotic as an emotionally charged sign from then on.

FIML practice is designed to interrupt our emotionally-charged responses to semiotics the moment those responses occur. By doing this repeatedly with the same sign, FIML practice can extirpates the neurotic response to that sign.

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Edit: Extirpating semiotic “phobias” or neuroses should be easier to do in most cases than extirpating phobias based on visual perceptions of things, such as the spiders discussed in the linked study. This is likely due to the more direct connection between emotional or limbic responses and the visual cortex. Complex semiotics are signs and symbols built on top of other signs and symbols, and thus their “architecture” is more fragile than direct visual perception and probably simpler to change in most cases. Human facial expressions probably fall somewhere between complex signs and direct visual perception. A good deal of what we call “psychology” are networks of complex semiotics. When a network becomes “neurotic” it is probably true that it contains erroneous interpretations of some or all of its semiotics. That said, a complex neurosis than involves many semiotic networks may be more difficult to extirpate than a straightforward phobia like arachnophobia.