In many respects, the original archonology series is an evidence-based exploration. At the time, it seemed necessary to explore or demonstrate the materia of various control mechanisms and groups. Directed energy weapons, tax havens, electro-gravitics and so on.

The thinking behind it is and remains the proverbial “it only takes one black swan to prove that not all swans are white”. Throw out a bunch of red pills so that readers could stop looking for answers or even sanity in the public expression of politics. And I quite like that the series is a bit of a ruin now. Many of the evidential videos have mysteriously vanished from YouTube, for instance. (The popularity of the series itself may have had something to do with it.) It feels like something that had to emergency land under heavy enemy fire.

And almost two years ago I started banging the ‘war in heaven’ drum, which is to say that the middle layer or fulfilment layer of the Anglo-American control hierarchy was being downsized. As with the original archonology series, this statement had to climb a wall of cynicism through Brexit and Trump and the Dow and Amazon and all the rest.

To my eyes, it seems pretty hard to argue against this contention now. But with the entirely-predicted Saudi/Iran/Lebanon thing that happened this week (that I went into considerable detail on in the Blue Mountains earlier this year), I look around me and see that even the ‘cleanest’ alternative analysts are all at sea when it comes to interpreting what is going on.

This is a classic fog of war. I have never seen reality diverge quite so far from what people really believe is going on. Not just the ‘Russian collusion’ op, but falling back on some kind of 70s nonsense to do with petrodollars, return to gold standards, fighting the deep state with bitcoin, the purported collapse of the dollar and all the rest. It took this long for Americans to work out they have an empire and now they’re looking at it as if Nixon’s still in the White House. Empire as cartoon. Imperiology requires more nuance than that.

If I am being charitable, I can attribute this to the difficulty in thinking like a psychopath when you are not one. My pro-tip to get started would probably be to just assume the absolute worst about mankind and scenario plan from there. This is a challenging mindset to find and an even more challenging one to stay in for any length of time.

Here’s a slide from my Devil’s Dice Game presentation that sums it up. I may share more of it in the coming weeks.

Once you get into the headspace, you really only need to ask yourself one question.

“How does G7 maintain control of a world where the majority of future growth will come from areas outside its typical footprint?”

Putting it another way:

“What does Empire look like when it is no longer cost-effective to enforce it in traditional, military ways?”

The short answer to that is what Catherine Fitts has been calling free-range totalitarianism. The longer answer to it is forthcoming in this series. The medium-term answer is welcome to the downsizing.

So for this return of the archonology series, we are going to let the demons speak for themselves. If you subscribe to the All Red Line you will know I have been earnestly recommending people upskill themselves on ‘Conspiracy 101’.

Conspiracy 101 is deceptively simple. Over the course of the 20th century, The Anglo-American super-elite would periodically publish more or less exactly what they were going to do (and have mostly done), or exactly how they see us. It is deceptively simple because you are genuinely listening to demons at this point. They lie. Or they tell us what we want to hear. But even the publishing of their thoughts is itself part of the operation. Tragedy and Hope, for instance, appears to have had as at least one of its goals the perpetration of a psy-op against the Soviets by demonstrating how successful and powerful this Atlanticist group really is.

If you haven’t done this before it is difficult. You have to listen to people you do not agree with, who are not only lying but often telling you they are lying (is that a lie??). The temptation is simply to dismiss what they are saying because they are a source with an agenda. But a representative of the agenda throwing out a source once in a while is ITSELF part of the agenda. So you can’t look away.

We begin with an ‘easy’ one. If you ever wanted to know what the world looks like from the inside of McCain’s cancer-riddled brain, then look no further than Peter Zeihan. Formerly of Stratfor and now an ‘independent intelligence analyst’, this 12 month old presentation is hugely interesting for getting the ‘war hawk’ view of the planet. And it is compelling to see how much of this appears to be landing now -particularly around this administration’s treatment of the Middle East- which only makes sense in the scenario of a Tanker War. The rearrangement of alliances along Saudi/Iran axes currently going on appears to be because the countries concerned have cottoned to that and are scrambling for their seats at the new multiplayer grand chessboard. Here’s a version I cleaned up for AV clarity.

Think about Zeihan’s presentation in light of the leaked cables showing a Saudi/Israeli detente to go to war in Lebanon, Trump’s military sale to both the Saudis and, very recently, Japan, ALL THE TALK ABOUT North Korea, Tillerson’s recent tour of the Middle East trying to get Afghanistan and Iraq to side with the Saudis against Iran and the apparent end of ISIS (which can only happen once the US is done with them as a strategic asset, which can only happen if they’re moving into the ‘tanker war’ phase.)

I’m not sharing this video -or any of the subsequent analysis in this series- because I agree or disagree with it. Or even because I think it is predictive. This is the ‘low resolution’ view of the world that has turned alternative analysis into the dumpster fire it has become.

This is being shared because it is an insight into how those who purport to run the world actually see it. THAT is the object under examination here. The inside of the demons’ heads.

And I share it deliberately today, on the 99th anniversary of the “guns going silent”. Australia’s involvement in World War I (And the kiwis, too) was a defining moment in the development of our national identity. Where our ‘sacrifice’ in defence of our nation is remembered. Fine. But if you know anything about the history of World War I, Churchill put the soldiers of the empire -second class citizens to him- through a meat grinder as a distraction because his classical notions of the Eastern Med had him insistent on taking Constantinople. (The official story remains it was ‘an error’ that led to the Gallipoli landing where it was. Bullshit.)

If we replace the words ‘sacrifice’ with ’slaughter of innocent victims from the colonies by the same Atlanticist mindset that has so wrecked the world’ then we can and should remember them.

But in this series we remember instead the mindset that led them to their deaths in the first place. The same mindset that makes Zeihan’s mouth water when he talks about US aircraft carriers. The same Atlanticist imperial mindset that is mostly to blame not only for the origins of World War I but its subsequent use as an opportunity to rearrange the world of the twentieth century.

The mindset of the archons.