The New Boys From Brazil (Venezuela, the Argentine, etc.)

Yvonne Owens, Ph.D.
Aug 22, 2017 · 18 min read
American actor Gregory Peck (1916–2003) as Dr. Josef Mengele in the thriller ‘The Boys from Brazil’, 1978.

As reported by Arthur Jones (whose name couldn’t be more Welsh if he’d been christened “Tom”), ‘According to Jon Cooper, the Chairman of The Democratic Coalition, former National Finance Chair of Draft for Vice President Joe Biden, and former LI Campaign Chair for President Obama, talks of resignation are already being floated around the White House. With articles of impeachment being drafted by a couple of congressman already, and many people questioning President Trump’s desire to actually continue being President, it’s hard not to consider a scenario in which he eventually resigns the office of the Presidency before Mueller’s scrutiny of his family and businesses begin to go even deeper.

‘Last night, after the President’s prime time speech, Cooper tweeted: “Source who’s been accurate in past tells me there have been some preliminary talks in WH re POTUS resigning. Mostly hypothetical what-ifs.”

“While the source of this information remains anonymous, Cooper has been accurate with his reporting in the past. Even though details remain sparse, it’s hard to imagine that the possibility of resigning hasn’t come up in discussions between Trump and his legal team and/or advisers in the past. If Mueller’s probe into Trump could result in the discovery of criminal activity, it might be in Trump’s best interest to resign in hopes that it may stall or even halt some of Mueller’s actions.” (Arthur Jones, The Independent Reporter, Aug. 2, 2017)

Actually, that likelihood the first thing I thought of when Mueller started closing in. Have we not considered the fact that that Trump is likely terrified? And that it’s not only him who is going down, but his children, his son-in-law, his Vice President (not that he gives a shit about THAT guy), and all the power brokers he promised (and delivered) all kinds of Russia-connected deals and perks to, who are now hopelessly implicated. If no pardons are forthcoming from any successors, which could be the case in a finding of felony treason, he’s totally hooped. The only precedent was the pardoning of Robert E. Lee, who had been convicted of treason in the wake of the Civil War. The pardon was granted by President Andrew Johnson, May 29, 1865, the infamous Proclamation of Amnesty and Pardon, which — as we have readily seen — was a huge mistake, with ideological repercussions to this day in a very big, nasty White Supremacist kind of way.

In fact, it would be in his and his immediate family’s best interests if he were not only to resign, but leave the country and settle somewhere with no Extradition Treaty with the United States — maybe somewhere in South America, like the escaped Nazis, perhaps Venezuela, after the various Evangelical and ‘Objectivist Economics’ arms of the Alt-Right have re-colonized it, provoked a coup with regime change, and installed a corporate-friendly, ideologically Neo-Nazi proxy government in its demise as a sovereign nation, as in Ukraine.

The toxic Ayn Randian economic model, AKA ‘Objectivist’ economics, is enshrined within ‘The Atlas Network’ (from Rand’s dubious theories of self-interest promoted in her third-rate novel, ‘Atlas Shrugged’). Bankrolled by the Koch Brothers and Robert Mercer, this behemoth has been busy for years, promoting their philosophies of human worth around the globe and promulgating regime change and coups of both the soft and violent kind, as in Brexit, the Trump victory, and Ukraine. Brexit and the Trump campaign were both achieved through the services of the Mercer owned psychographic data mining and military psi-ops corporations, Cambridge Analytica and AggregateIQ. (AggregateIQ is a Canada-based company not under Mercer’s direct ownership but he own the IP, so it amounts to the same thing in terms of deployment.) These psi-ops companies and affiliates, including Russia-based companies and dark operations, have achieved overwhelming public voter and consumer behavioural changes and behavioural patterns around the world.

“The right-wing British politician Nigel Farage, and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are aligned with Mercer and the Koch Brothers in their love of Russian oligarchy and Putin. Farage led the Brexit campaign, which served Russia’s aim of weakening the European Union. Robert Mercer assisted that campaign by donating the services of his psychographic data-mining, voter & consumer behaviour-modification companies, London-based Cambridge Analytica and Victoria BC-based Aggregate IQ (of which Mercer owns the trademark Intellectual Property), an intrusion being investigated by British electoral authorities. Why does Mercer support Russian interference and graft? Because of Putin’s conservative autocratic/plutocratic/kleptocratic values, certainly, but more importantly because of his professed championing of ‘Judeo-Christian values’ and his ersatz Christian Orthodox faith.” (Yvonne Owens, ‘Bannon, Breitbart, Polak, Mercer, De Vos, Atlas Network, Acton Group, Hate Practices, Russia, and the Trump Presidency,’ Medium, Aug. 19, 2017.)

Who are some of the operatives in this world-wide coup attempt on the part of Libertarian ‘Free Enterprise’ aficionados, and how far have they come in achieving their ideological goals? Atlas Network and the Foundation for Economic Education hosts conferences, talks, workshops, think tanks and receptions across the globe, featuring speakers like Lawrence W. (Larry) Reed, the President of Foundation for Economic Education, and Tom G. Palmer, the Executive Vice President of Atlas Network. Their promotional materials promise that Larry and Tom will discuss their most recent books, like Real Heroes and Self-Control or State Control: You Decide. Larry Reed purports to give us “forty flesh-and-blood models of character in action, showing us how to put principles to work in everyday life,” while Tom G. Palmer “delves into the relationship between freedom and responsibility, their philosophical and scientific underpinnings, and the practical value of self-control.” “Heavy hors d’oeuvres” are touted as being served at their events, and suggested dress is “business casual.”

Palmer is the executive vice president for international programs at Atlas Network. He’s responsible for establishing operating programs in fourteen languages, and for “managing programs for a worldwide network of think tanks.” On Nov. 10, 2016, Palmer was named the George M. Yeager Chair for Advancing Liberty at Atlas Network. He is also a senior fellow at another Mercer-funded operation, the Cato Institute, and serves as director of Cato University. He frequently lectures in North America, Europe, Eurasia, Africa, Latin America, India, China and throughout Asia, as well as the Middle East on “political science, public choice, civil society, and the moral, legal, and historical foundations of individual rights.” He has published reviews and articles on politics and morality in scholarly journals such as the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Ethics, Critical Review, and Constitutional Political Economy, as well as in publications such as Slate, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Die Welt, Caixing, Al Hayat, the Washington Post, and The Spectator of London.

Tom G. Palmer, the Executive Vice President of Atlas Network

Palmer has been very busy for a long time. He is the author of Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice (expanded edition 2014), and the editor of The Morality of Capitalism (2011), After the Welfare State (2012), Why Liberty (2013), Peace, Love & Liberty (2014), and Self-Control or State Control? You Decide (2016). Palmer received his B.A. in liberal arts from St. Johns College in Annapolis, Maryland, his M.A. in philosophy from The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., and his doctorate in politics from Oxford.

Lawrence W. (“Larry”) Reed has also been very busy. He has apparently delivered at least 75 speeches annually in the past 30 years in virtually every state and in dozens of countries from Bulgaria to China to Bolivia. His best-known lectures include “Seven Principles of Sound Policy” and “Great Myths of the Great Depression,” both of which have been translated into more than a dozen languages and distributed worldwide. He became president of the Foundation for Economic Education in 2008. Prior to becoming FEE’s president, he served as president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Michigan. He taught economics full-time from 1977 to 1984 at Northwood University in Michigan and chaired its department of economics from 1982 to 1984. He holds a B.A. in economics from Grove City College (1975) and an M.A. degree in history from Slippery Rock State University (1978), both in Pennsylvania. He holds two honorary doctorates, one from Central Michigan University (public administration, 1993) and Northwood University (laws, 2008).

His self-promotion tells us that, as a “champion for liberty, Reed has authored over 1,000 newspaper columns and articles and dozens of articles in magazines and journals in the United States and abroad. His writings have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, Baltimore Sun, Detroit News and Detroit Free Press, among many others. He has authored or coauthored seven books, the most recent ones being Excuse Me, Professor: Challenging the Myths of Progressivism and A Republic — If We Can Keep It. He is frequently interviewed on radio talk shows and has appeared as a guest on numerous television programs, including those anchored by Judge Andrew Napolitano and John Stossel on FOX Business News… His numerous recognitions include the Champion of Freedom award from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and the Distinguished Alumni award from Grove City College.”

John Tillman bills himself as one of the nation’s most prominent leaders of a state-based think tank. “As CEO of the Illinois Policy Institute, John has transformed what many wrote off as a blue state into a place ripe for free-market reform. John has founded or co-founded a variety of key organizations in Illinois to create the competitive capacity needed to turn Illinois around. In addition to leading the re-launch of the Illinois Policy Institute 501(c)(3), John founded Illinois Policy 501(c)(4), the Liberty Justice Center, a 501(c)(3) public-interest law firm, the Illinois Opportunity Project 501(c)(4), the Illinois Liberty Political Action Committee, and more.”

The very language of Atlas Network assumes the missionary position, and takes a missionary tone, stridently proclaiming that they are, “STRENGTHENING THE WORLDWIDE FREEDOM MOVEMENT!” It bills itself as “a nonprofit organization connecting a global network of
more than 450 free-market organizations in over 90 countries to the
ideas and resources needed to advance the cause of liberty.” Atlas Network promotional materials shout that that they “do not receive funds from any government or quasi-government institutions. Since its founding and according to its bylaws, Atlas Network has relied solely on voluntary gifts from those who cherish the principles of a free society,” these being the Koch Brothers, the De Vos family, and the Mercer cabal, for all intents and purposes, as far and away the biggest billionaire Libertarian ideologue funders of Atlas Network. Assuming their sanctimonious position, the think tank preaches, “Atlas Network has the critical mission of strengthening the worldwide freedom movement. You will be inspired when you meet the special people who sacrifice to fulfill this mission.”

The De Vos family underwrites the Acton Institute, the Evangelical Mega-Church-based arm of the Atlas Network for Free Enterprise. Their promotional materials tell us, “For over 27 years, the Institute has worked to connect economic freedom, free enterprise, and entrepreneurship with a vibrant Judeo-Christian moral culture. Through a wide range of research publications, visual media, and educational conferences, Acton reaches millions each year with its trademark synthesis of faith and freedom. In addition to common demands for limited government and lower taxes, Acton believes that liberty is best preserved when man’s God-given dignity is recognized and respected. Only when our rights are rooted in something deeper — our intrinsic value as image-bearers of God — are they absolutely secure. Such a vision frees us from intrusive and utopian government initiatives, allowing us to produce wealth and share it with those most in need.”

Rev. Robert Sirico and other “supporters and friends of Acton” are hosting an evening cocktail reception and special keynote address on Thursday, October 5 at the Park City Club in Dallas. The reverend is the president and co-founder of the Acton Institute and the pastor at Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish Mega-Church, both in Grand Rapids, MI. The Acton flier tells us, “A regular writer and commentator on religious, political, economic, and social issues, Rev. Sirico’s contributions have been carried by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal,Forbes, Washington Times, CNN, ABC, CBS, NPR, and the BBC, among others. In his recent book, Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy, Rev. Sirico shows how a free economy is not only the best way to meet society’s material needs but also the surest protection of human dignity against government encroachment. Rev. Sirico holds dual American and Italian citizenship.”

As I have written here, in an earlier piece, Acton and Atlas organizations are part of a sprawling network of Far-Right, ‘Judeo-Christian values’-touting, Libertarians in wolves’ (Republicans’) clothing. The American Enterprise Institute, (AEI) and Young Americans Foundation, (YAF) is another couple of ideological infiltrators, also bankrolled by Charles and David Koch and Helen and Richard DeVos. Richard and Helen are the parents of Dick DeVos, husband to Betsy Prince DeVos, sister of Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater and mentor and benefactor (read “bankroller”) to Vice President Mike Pence. Robert and Rebekah Mercer are major contributors to the Young Americans Foundation (YAF), and wherever you find the Mercers you find the former Chief Strategist Steve Bannon and his production company, Glittering Steel. Glittering Steel has bankrolled different speakers on campuses, including Milo Yiannopoulos’ infamous engagement at Berkeley that predictably broke out into a riot.

Who do Right Wing billionaires sponsor to speak on college campuses? One of the stars on the roster is eugenicist and hate-monger Charles Murray, author of “The Bell Curve,” who argues that inequality in income exists because white men are genetically superior to black people, Latinos, women and the poor. Not surprisingly he has been labeled a white nationalist by the Southern Poverty Law Center. University departments usually will not invite such obviously racist and discredited figures onto their campuses, but student chapters of the American Enterprise Institute are primed to make these invitations, while the AEI picks up the tab. Academics and alumni have united in pointing out that traditional free speech arguments fall flat in justifying university endorsements of White Supremacist propaganda, saying that Murray’s shoddy theories are “…the same thinking that motivates eugenics and the genocidal white supremacist ideologies, which are enjoying a popular resurgence under the new presidential administration.” (Alex Kotch, ‘How the right-wing Koch and DeVos families are funding hate speech on college campuses across the US,’ Alternet, Apr. 20, 2017)

The new presidential administration has also empowered the Young Americans Foundation which booked Ann Coulter to speak at Berkeley recently. The engagement was cancelled by the Berkeley administration because it was feared at another Yiannopoulous type incident would ensue. Coulter’s Hate Speech style, which compelled the administration’s decision, promotes regime change and genocide in non-Christian countries: “We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.” As an alumna of the YAF National Journalism Center’s internship program, she regularly makes headlines for her outrageous racist and anti-Muslim statements and writes for the white nationalist website.

Charles Koch poured over $142 million dollars into proselytizing their agenda. In response to fringe, far-right speakers often facing student protests, conservative legislators in many states are pushing ‘free speech’ legislation. Two think tanks funded in part by the Koch brothers and Robert Mercer created a model bill, on which many of the state bills are based, that calls for harsh penalties, including expulsion, for students who disrupt guest speaking events. Meanwhile, the same wealthy conservatives’ family foundations fund ideological higher ed programs that serve their business interests. From these programs, Koch-funded think tanks and political groups recruit their favorite students to join the Kochs’ mass libertarian sociopolitical movement.

“The Kochs may label themselves “libertarians” but that is a false front. The Kochs will co-sign anything that the Mercers and DeVos’ are on board for and that is a right wing evangelical dominionist oligarchy of billionaires, plain and simple.” Their plan is that the Kochs, Mercers, DeVos, and “their golden boy Bannon (and of course Mike Pence, let’s not forget him),” will ‘inherit the Earth.’ The “think tanks” that are placing hate-mongering propagandists on college campuses across the country are sponsored by the billionaires who have seized the reins of power in the U.S. government and the Republican Party. They have their figurehead in the White House and their top man, Steve Bannon, pulling the strings, even from outside the White House as the reinstated Chair of Breitbart, as per Mercer and Bannon’s agreement. “But the long game is to get the youth involved in their dominionist oligarchy agenda. They want to plant the seeds early and deeply so that they get a good, solid crop. They are twisting and debasing First Amendment rights in order to justify hate speech on college campuses.” (Alex Kotch, Alternet, Apr. 20, 2017)

The Atlas Network has heavily infiltrated a shadowy secret ‘Judeo-Christian’ secret society, called ‘The Family,’ that is centred in Washington D.C. but which maintains chapters throughout the world, including within the Vatican City. The Fellowship is a secretive Fundamentalist Christian association led by Douglas Coe. Like Bannon, The Family (also known as ‘The Fellowship’) elevates nihilistic fascist leaders like Lenin, who they liken to Jesus. The organization fetishizes power by comparing Jesus to Lenin, Ho Chi Min, Bin Laden and others as examples of leaders who change the world through the strength of the covenants they had forged with their “brothers.”

‘The Laying on of Hands’ Evangelical ritual imposed upon the President by Mega-Church pastors in the Oval Office in July, 2017

The Mega-Churches are organized through the De Vos Evangelical billionaire family’s ‘Acton Institute,’ the religious, theological arm of the ideological ‘Atlas Network.’ Active around the world, they function as a sort of Judeo-Christian values-touting missionary task force, promulgating corporate infiltration in countries like Venezuela at the moment. Touting an Ayn Randian racial-elite ‘win with Jesus’ theology, they are very active in Central and South America with regard to promulgating incendiary corporate-friendly regime change, which is where Trump’s otherwise incoherent recent statements (re: imminent military operations in Venezuela if they don’t shape up) came from. This faction is bucking to send in the De Vos scion and corporate mercenary militia warlord, Eric Prince of Blackwater notoriety. But their influence is especially noticeable in the Alt-Right Movement of the current White House and administration. The Acton Institute confederation of Mega Church pastors are who had their hands all over the president in the Oval Office, an Acton Institute initiative that went viral with the Tweeting by one of the Mega-Church pastors on his cell-phone of the photo above.

The Boys from Brazil (1976) is a thriller novel by Ira Levin. It was subsequently made into a movie of the same title that was released in 1978. Yakov Liebermann is a Nazi Hunter character loosely based on Simon Wiesenthal. Lieberman runs a centre in Vienna that documents the crimes against humanity perpetrated during the Holocaust. The waning interest of the Western nations in tracking down Nazi criminals, and the failure of the bank where he kept his centre’s funds, has forced him to move the centre to his own lodgings.

In the story, Liebermann receives a phone call from a young man in Brazil who claims he has just finished eavesdropping on the so-called “Angel of Death”, Dr. Josef Mengele, the concentration camp medical doctor who performed horrific experiments on camp victims during World War II. “According to the young man, Mengele is activating the Kameradenwerk for a strange assignment: he is sending out six Nazis (former SS officers) to kill 94 men, who share a few common traits. All men are civil servants, and all of them have to be killed on or about particular dates, spread over several years. All will be 65 years old at the time of their killing. Before the young man can finish the conversation, he is killed.

“Liebermann is hesitant and wonders if the call was a prank. But he investigates and discovers that the killings the young man spoke of are taking place. As he tries to determine why the seemingly unimportant men are being killed, he discovers by coincidence that the children of two of the men are identical. It eventually transpires each of the 94 targets has a son aged 13, a genetic clone of Adolf Hitler planted by Mengele. Mengele wishes to create a new Führer for the Nazi movement, and is trying to ensure that the lives of the clones follow a similar path to Hitler’s. Each civil servant father is married to a woman about 23 years younger, and their killing is an attempt to mimic the death of Hitler’s own father.

“Liebermann manages to work out who one of the intended targets is, and travels to warn him that his life may be in danger. However, Mengele reaches the man first, kills him, and then encounters Liebermann. Liebermann is shot but Mengele is killed by the targeted man’s collection of dangerous dogs. The plan is halted, but 18 Hitler clones have already lost their fathers. Liebermann destroys the list of the 94 clones so that a younger Nazi hunter will not be able to kill what may still turn out to be harmless boys. However, the book ends with one of the Hitler clones developing what may be delusions of grandeur.” (Wikipedia)

In a 2011 review for The Guardian Sophia Martelli wrote: “Although the book is now fairly dated, at the time of publication the inclusion of real or near-real characters (Mengele’s nemesis Liebermann is a conflation of Nazi hunters such as Simon Wiesenthal and Serge Klarsfield, who attempted to capture Mengele in South America) must have added a chilling dimension. What scares today is Levin’s premise based on biological engineering: in the 1970s, although scientifically possible, Mengele’s plan belonged firmly in the realm of fiction; now it’s not nearly so far-fetched.”

Jack Harmsen in “The Boys From Brazil”

In the truly excellent 1978 film made of Levin’s excellent novel, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, Dr. Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck) clones Hitler 95 times, spawning a host of creepy White Aryan ‘supermen.’ He hopes to raise the resulting boys in Brazil, giving them childhoods identical to Hitler’s. The existence of an expatriate Nazi elite ruling class in Brazil makes this easier, and propagandizing ceremonies, talks, fancy balls, and receptions are planned toward the achievement of his goals, in a long game. His ultimate plan is to create a band of Nazi leaders that can continue where Hitler left off, forming the Fourth Reich. Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier), is a long-suffering Nazi hunter who learns of the plan and is determined to thwart it. Ultimately, the two meet face-to-face in the home of one of the Hitler clones. The boy, in a version of the timeless moral stand-off between nature and nurture, must decide which of the old warriors he will assist.

In some ways, Robert Mueller is the ‘Simon Wiesenthal’ of our times, though his purview is vastly expanded beyond merely busting a cabal of mere Nazis enjoying a revival. His remit more resembles the systematic take-down of a sprawling Alt-Right network that has theologically and ideologically justified unlimited free-enterprise, laissez faire, and private profit at the expense of the integrity of sovereign nations across the globe — those who eschew ‘globalists’ while embodying the worst interpretations of that term. The mentally, morally and emotionally expatriate elite ruling class are those agencies and individuals who have no country beyond their own self-interested ‘Judeo-Christian values.’ Their propagandizing receptions, ‘conferences,’ talks, and fancy balls hope to function as the fulminations of a Fourth Reich, of sorts, headed by people who devoutly believe that “inequality in income exists because white men are genetically superior to black people, Latinos, women and the poor,” and who therefore feel comfortable ruling (economically, religiously, and politically in Third World countries and at home. Men such as these, and the religiously male-identified women to serve them, are being fertilized, cultured and cultivated like elaborate fungi in the shadows of religious and ideological networks, foundations, and think tanks.

The proselytizing missions of Atlas Network and Acton Institute, insidiously embedded on campuses and in poor nations and neighbourhoods, are focussed on promulgating the Alt-Right agenda, which is to say, “the eugenics and the genocidal white supremacist ideologies, which are enjoying a popular resurgence under the new presidential administration.” Nations, neighbourhoods and demographics traditionally reliant on the left-leaning social programmes offered by collectivist social democratic parties and candidates are their prey. The Koches, the Mercers, and the De Voses are focussed, like Josef Mengele in Levin’s The Boys From Brazil, on producing “a good, solid crop” of White Nationalist ideologues to occupy an elite corporate class in economically re-colonized nations like Venezuela, as well as in Europe and domestically. (Alex Kotch, Apr. 20, 2017)

In concert with investigations looking into these parties’ illegalities and improprieties already launched in Britain, Mueller’s investigation, if allowed to continue, spells the imminent demise of this president and the Trump brand. More than that, it spells the ultimate demise of the Republican Party, the Acton Institute, the Atlas Network, the Mercers, the De Voses, the Koch Brothers, and all the other ersatz agencies and actors the much-infiltrated Republicans serve as a beard for. Mueller’s investigation is how the insertion of Objectivist ‘Free Enterprise’ plants by these behind-the-scenes actors get outed and ousted from their roles in dismantling the EPA and other protective government departments and legislation.

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Yvonne Owens, Ph.D.

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