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Pope Night (also called Pope’s Night, Pope Day, or Pope’s Day) was a holiday celebrated annually on November 5 in the colonial United States. It evolved from the British Guy Fawkes Night, which commemorates the failure of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Pope Night was most popular in the seaport towns of New England, especially in Boston, where it was an occasion for drinking, rioting, and anti-elite protest by the working class.

Gang violence became part of the tradition in the 1740s, with residents of different Boston neighborhoods battling for the honor of burning the pope’s effigy. By the mid-1760s these riots had subsided, and as colonial America moved towards the American Revolution (1765-1783), the class rivalries of Pope Night gave way to anti-British sentiment. Under the leadership of Pope Night organizer Ebenezer Mackintosh, Boston’s North and South End gangs united in protest against the Stamp Act of 1765.

Local authorities made several attempts to crack down on the festivities. In 1775, to avoid offending Canadian allies, George Washington issued an order forbidding any troops under his command from participating. The last known Pope Night celebration in Boston took place in 1776, though the tradition continued in other towns well into the 19th century.

The Discordians still celebrate this holiday annually to this day, by burning effigies of the authorities for religious purposes.

Elizabeth Christ Trump (born Elisabeth Christ) was a German-American businesswoman and the paternal grandmother of Donald Trump. She married Frederick Trump in 1902. They had three children, Fred, John, and Elizabeth. She co-founded the real estate development company E. Trump & Son with her son Fred, the father of Donald Trump. Elizabeth Christ Trump was considered the matriarch of the Trump family. She remained close to her son Fred for her entire life. She is buried in the Lutheran cemetery. Thus, technically, Donald Trump is a direct descendant of Christ, and moreover, a grandson.

Evangelical Christianity has played a significant role in the life of the Trump-Christ family. The Trump family are Lutheran members of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate. Members of the family’s American branch tend to be Presbyterians, or adherents of other Reformed churches. Fred Trump was a supporter of Southern Baptist evangelist Billy Graham, whom he took his family to see speak at Yankee Stadium. At the megachurch in Miami, evangelicals are literally praying over Donald Trump:

Evangelicals Pray Over Trump at Miami Megachurch by Bloomberg

At the same time, Ivanka Trump, Donald’s daughter, practices Judaism, having converted upon marrying her husband Jared Kushner, a prominent Zionist. In Judaism, Zionism is a current of adherents of the idea that it is necessary not to wait for the fulfilment of divine scriptures, but to implement them on one’s own (found Israel, tear down the mosque on the Temple Mount, build the Third Temple on that site, and so on). Similarly, in Christianity, evangelicals methodically attempt to bring the second coming of Christ closer, formerly calling this practice the ‘immanentise the eschaton’ (in modern terminology, this process is sometimes described as ‘hastening the eschaton’ or ‘ hastening the apocalypse’). In this sense it refers to a phenomenon related to the specific Christian form of millennialism which is based on a particular reading of the Christian Bible’s Book of Revelation especially popular among evangelicals in the United States.

For example, many evangelicals believed that Trump’s embassy in Jerusalem would hasten the second coming of Jesus. Some evangelical Christians believe that recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel will bring on the end of the world. The significance of Jerusalem and Israel to evangelicals concerns the ‘Third Temple’ prophecy. Prophecies of a Third Temple are made in the books of Daniel, Matthew, and Revelation, and in the Second epistle to the Thessalonians. These have been interpreted by some to suggest that the building of a Third Temple, known as the ‘Tribulation Temple’, will occur during the period of the Antichrist and bring on the apocalypse. This is said to be followed by 1000 years of rule on earth by Christ himself, which some evangelical Christians are in favour of seeing happen.

Just a few days ago, the official Chabad Lubavitch website reported that ‘President Trump Marks Oct. 7 With Prayer Visit to Ohel’: Donald Trump marked the one-year anniversary of the terror attack with a personal prayer visit to the grave of Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson. Earlier, Trump received the Friends of Zion award. Fred Trump, Donald’s father, donated land in order to build a Jewish centre and synagogue in New York.

It is possible that the Trump family is an example of deliberate co-operation between evangelicals and Zionists in hastening the apocalypse, in a situation where the Christian end of the world cannot come before the Jewish end of the world, because the Jewish one-world ruler, the Moshiach, is the Antichrist who must precede the coming of Christ. Some religious groups opposed to the immanentisation of the eschaton have noted the Trump family’s direct ties to the AISB (The Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria). Either way, given formal descent from the Bavarian Elizabeth Christ, Donald Trump and his descendants, such as son Barron, have formal family rights to the place of the Christian one-world ruler prescribed by the scriptures.

But it is also possible that formal descent from Elizabeth Christ will not be enough, and instead of the Christian scriptures, the Trump family will embody the writings of Ingersollom Lockwood: ‘The Amazing Underground Journey of Baron Trump’ and ‘1900; or, The Last President.’ Notably, Lockwood’s adventures of Baron Trump began in Russia, so already at least this part – already realised.

On this day 57 years ago, the CIA sent its employees classified memo #1035-960 outlining strategies for neutralizing criticism of the Warren Commission to quell doubts about the conclusions of the Presidential Commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy. This document called for the use of the “conspiracy theory” charge with negative connotations in the media and books.

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), taking advantage of previous academic work equating those rejecting official accounts for significant political and social events with pathology (Popper, 1949; Hofstadter, 1964), intentionally set in motion a process leading to the creation of the terms conspiracy theory and conspiracy theorist as pejoratives (deHaven-Smith & Witt, 2013). These pejoratives were subsequently adopted as such by academics, the news media, and other authorities (Green, 2015). This conspiracy theory meme has been used to shut down critical thinking and analysis to control public debate about actions of those in power. Stated simply, the terms have taken on such negative connotations that some people will repress their own conspiracy suspicions and accept the official account for fear of being stuck with the label (Chomsky, 2004, 2009).

Ed Rankin, PhD, in his academic work “The Conspiracy Theory Meme as a Tool of Cultural Hegemony – A Critical Discourse Analysis.pdf” noted:

People who do not accept the official accounts for events like the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy (JFK) or the attacks upon the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 (9/11) are often called conspiracy theorists, and their theories conspiracy theories (Green, 2015). Being labeled a conspiracy theorist implies one is delusional or otherwise unable to accurately perceive reality, among other things (Bale, 2007; Basham, 2001; Chomsky, 2004). Indeed, often conspiracy suspicions are not dismissed at the level of evidence, but simply by applying the label “conspiracy theory” (Bratich, 2008).

Those holding power have obvious motives to silence those who challenge their authority by questioning their official interpretations of policy and actions, such as justifications for going to war or rationalizations for new laws (Herman & Chomsky, 2002). Those who reject the official accounts for events like assassinations and terrorist attacks often compete with epistemic authorities (e.g., academics, government agencies, government-sponsored special commissions, etc.) who may support official government positions (Harambam & Aupers, 2015). As Harambam and Aupers (2015) stated, “conspiracy theorists compete with (social) scientists in complex battles for epistemic authority in a broader field of knowledge contestation” (p. 466).

Those buying into a conspiracy were characterized as either cognitively-impaired or suffering from paranoia (Hofstadter, 1958, 1963, 1964). Yet research suggests many people overtly reject conspiracy theories while privately accepting them as true (Douglas & Sutton, 2010). Do Chomsky’s (2009) and Monbiot’s (2001) rejections of the speculation that these events were the result of conspiracies represent their true beliefs, or do they fear being discredited by the conspiracy theorist label? As Bratich (2008) stated, “Among the competing accounts for any event, the official version is not merely the winner in the game of truth—it determines who the players can be” (p. 7). Clearly, labeling someone a conspiracy theorist is a tactic employed as a strategy of subjugation (p.7) or a strategy “by which…disbelief is validated and…counterknowledge [sic] is discredited” (Fiske, 1994, p.192).

The term “conspiracy theory” was not invented by the CIA, but it was the CIA that started to be used in the 1960s after the assassination of John F. Kennedy to suppress meaningful national debate on the subject. As independent journalist Brandon Smith has observed, the term is now actively used not only by CIA agents and government media, but also by so-called “useful idiots.” In political jargon, a “useful idiot” is a pejorative term for someone who is seen as a propagandist for a cause without a full understanding of its goals, and who is cynically used by the leaders of that cause. The term was originally used during the Cold War to describe non-communists who were considered susceptible to communist propaganda and manipulation.

It is worth noting that the “conspiracy theory” meme has infiltrated other cultures due to the spread of US popular culture. Quite possibly purposefully, given that according to documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the CIA and the Pentagon have tirelessly “worked behind the scenes on over 800 major movies and more than 1,000 TV titles.”

The spread of this meme in other cultures through the penetration of US mass culture is clearly illustrated by the frequency of mention of the phrase “conspiracy theory” in the Russian language, where a noticeable growth began back in the USSR, during the late perestroika period, precisely at the time when US mass culture began to spread in the USSR. Since then, Russian-speaking people have increasingly used the term in connotations originally caused by the CIA.

Operation AMWORLD is the CIA’s code name for their supporting role in the coup plan planned by the Kennedy brothers 60 years ago. Any information about this operation was for a long time highly classified and hidden from the Warren Commission and from congressional investigative committees. Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann, who first revealed to the public the details of this Kennedy brothers’ plan, reported:

“Ultimate Sacrifice” presents evidence from thousands of pages of declassified documents that John and Robert Kennedy planned to stage a coup against Castro on Dec. 1, 1963, and that the plan was infiltrated by three Mafia bosses (from the mob families that controlled Chicago, Tampa and Dallas). The Mafia chiefs then used parts of the coup plan, including some U.S. intelligence assets, in their plot to kill JFK — first trying in Chicago, then Tampa, and finally Dallas — in a way that forced a coverup to protect national security, and the coup plan.

AMWORLD, which began on June 28, 1963, was an integral part of the Kennedys’ plan for a coup in Cuba and it’s impossible to consider one without the other. Coup planning began in January 1963 as a slow-moving, bureaucratic exercise, and the plan was only in its fourth draft by June 1963. But that month, planning began in earnest after the real opportunity for a high-level coup arose. After the CIA created AMWORLD, millions of dollars began to be devoted to the coup plan. From that point forward, coup planning proceeded rapidly, demonstrating that it had become a live operation. By September 1963 the “Plan for a Coup in Cuba” was in its 13th draft, and the rapid pace accelerated further, continuing through November of 1963.

By Nov. 22, 1963, millions of dollars had been spent on the coup plan, hundreds of Cuban-American troops had been trained, U.S. assets were going into Cuba, and everything was ready.

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/104-10308-10080.pdf

Daniel Schorr on National Public Radio summarised this hitherto little-known episode in US history as follows:

President Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, bitter about the disastrous 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, in 1963 concocted a secret plan to stage a palace coup to unseat Fidel Castro with the aid of the US Army. The coup leader would declare martial law and proclaim a provisional government, then cut ties with the Soviet Union and join the United States in partnership. Robert Kennedy was personally in charge of this invasion plan. D-Day–or, rather, C-Day for coup day–was to be December 1st, 1963. But two weeks before that, President Kennedy was killed, and that was the end of the invasion plan.

It may be added that shortly before his death, the famous author and researcher of conspiracy theories, Robert Anton Wilson (personally acquainted with the marine who served in the army with Lee Harvey Oswald, one of the co-conspirators in the plot to assassinate JFK), in his personal blog chose to use an image with the date of the failed military coup in Cuba as his userpic.

So – D-Day is an event that didn’t happen, an annual commemoration of the event is made to celebrate the prevention of a coup in the island country by will of Lord Omar in conspiracy with the fifth member of the Discordian movement, Brother-in-law.

Exactly 46 years ago Elemér Albert Hoffmann (better known as Elmyr de Hory), a man who had been hunted by Interpol for many years, committed suicide on the island of Ibiza.

In August 1968 the Spanish government imprisoned a man on the island of Ibiza for creating a long series of sketches and paintings-beautiful, intensely lyrical works that Art Experts had universally proclaimed as masterpieces.

Pablo Picasso Style

The imprisonment of this Maker of Masterpieces did not represent censorship in the ordinary erotic or religious sense. Nobody even accused the artist of Political Incorrectness. He got jugged for a technical matter-namely, that he had signed the wrong name to his works ... or several wrong names, in fact. Names like Picasso and Van Gogh and Modigliani and Matisse, for instance. He later collaborated (with Orson Welles, no less) on a film - F For Fake.

Vincent Van Gogh Style

In fact, Fake! says Elmyr had painted over a thousand of the classics of modern art. Every time you walk through a museum and see a Picasso or a Matisse that you particularly like, you should stop and ask, “Now did Picasso or Matisse do that, or did Elmyr do it?”

Of course, not everybody believes that Elmyr committed quite as much great art as he gleefully confesses in the biography. Many Experts claim Fake! (a title to ponder, and ponder again) engaged in shameless bragging and exaggeration, to make Elmyr seem cleverer than the facts warrant.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Style

Unfortunately, these Experts had-many of them-authenticated some of the fakes that Elmyr undoubtedly did paint. As Elmyr’s co-author, Cliff, says, these Experts do not want their cover blown-they don’t want us to know how often, and how easily, they have gotten duped by Elmyr and other skilled forgers.

Marc Chagall Style

We simply do not know the extent to which Elmyr has entered the canon. Maybe 2 per cent of the masterpieces in modern museums emanated from his wizard’s brush, as virtually everybody now admits. Maybe the figure (at least for post-impressionism, fauvism and early cubism, Elmyr’s specialties) runs as high as 25 per cent, or 50 per cent. … An ouvre of “more than a thousand” paintings might make up something in that percentage range of canonical 20th Century Classics. These implications appear heavily suggested in Irving’s Fake! and even more stressed in the Welles-Reichenbach film…

Amedeo Modigliani Style

At the end of Welles’ F For Fake, after we have suffered prolonged doubt about how many Picassos should get reclassified as Elmyrs, one character cries passionately “I must believe, at least, that art is real!”But this voice of Faith and Tradition belongs to another art forger, one who allegedly faked even more of the canonical Renaissance masterpieces than Elmyr had faked of the canonical Modems. We cannot have faith in this faker’s faith …

Claude Monet Style

In recent years appeared so-called "Fake Elmyrs", that is, paintings written by a new generation of falsifiers who forged Elmyr's fake paintings: http://web.archive.org/web/20180220053621/http://www.elmyr.net/fake-elmyrs.html

Here you could to watch Orson Wales's latest lifetime film "F For Fake", which captures the footage of Elmir's work on his fakes: https://archive.org/details/f-for-fake

Used Pope's Bob "Cosmic Trigger III" quotes: https://diasp.org/posts/14066336