By Laurent Schiaparelli for The Saker Blog
How to keep the Empire’s subjects asking for more submission
Much has been written about how Hollywood has demonised Arab Muslims, Russians, French or Chinese people, depending on the geopolitical wars fought by the US abroad.
Much less has been said about how the prospects of a successful career in Hollywood or Las Vegas have been used as a dog treat thrown to the dwellers of the Empire’s provinces in Europe, and to a lesser extent in Asia, to create the impression of benevolence of the Empire towards its subjects.
In a nutshell, the message delivered to Europeans and Asians is that instead of yearning for success and recognition in their own country, in their own cultural codes, they would be better off living the American Dream and have a crack at Hollywood. Europeans and Asians are conditioned to think that they have everything to benefit from being submissive to Uncle Sam (whose full name we’d like to know) and consume American cultural and manufactured products.
This trend started in the late 1970’s and has followed a simple but effective strategy: pick one fame-lusting “slasher” (athlete / actor, actor / model, etc.) from a European or Asian country, import him more or less legally into the US, make him go through years of formative hardship, going from one menial job to another during the day while hitting the gym and attending auditions at night, to finally land a role in Hollywood and eventually become an international movie star, and a role-model in his country of origin.
Our purpose is in no way to belittle the hard work and the hard times that these celebrities had to go through in order to make it big. Our aim here is to demonstrate that these European and Asian celebrities were hand-picked to serve a specific purpose. They were selected and used for the geopolitical purpose of strengthening America’s soft power over regions already under its thumb, but who could slip out of its grip at any given time.
One could even argue that these feel-good rags-to-riches immigrant stories are in fact the soft side of the post-second World War stay-behind operations such as the Gladio network.
Your gladiators will perform in Rome
There are over 800 US Army bases outside of the US. From large bases hosting thousands of military personnels to innocently called lilypads hosting a few hundreds of special forces and intelligence personnel, they are to be found in virtually every country in Europe, Africa and Asia. According to Ami go home: Zwölf gute Gründe für einen Antiamerikanismus (Twelve Good Reasons for Anti-Americanism) by Wilhelm Langthaler and Werner Pirke (Wien, Promedia, 2003), the authoritative book on the subject, even countries that were thought to be free of US military presence (such as Austria) actually host discrete, if not secret US installations (listening posts, military bases), without revealing their location or the number of personnels.
Coincidentally (or not), every major European country with a history of hosting massive US or NATO military installations and troops, or a major imperial inter-governmental organisation have had one, and one only local hero allowed to succeed in Hollywood. We’ve compiled a list of countries with US /NATO military presence and their homegrown Hollywood movie star.
It’s the geology, stupid !
In the 21st century, this trend continues in the new battlefields of America’s “oil-for-democracy” push in Africa, not so much with film celebrities, but with athletes.
Mixed-martial arts are a popular avenue for African athletes trying to achieve some level of success in the West, and the successful ones come from the same countries where the US is stationing bases.
For instance, the mixed-martial arts promotion Ultimate Fighting Championship’s heavyweight juggernaut, and probably soon-to-be crowned champion Francis Ngannou is a French-Cameroonian. The US happened to open in 2017 and operate till today the Contingency Location Garoua in Garoua, North Cameroon, at the exact time Francis Ngannou started to be heavily promoted in the UFC.
There are 11 known lilypads in Africa, and coincidentally more African-born athletes start to be heavily promoted in the UFC, such as Nigerian-New Zealander newly-crowned middleweight champion Israel Adesanya and Nigerian-American newly-crowned welterweight champion Kamaru Usman, who both proudly carry Nigerian flags whenever there is a photo-op and talk extensively of their immigrant backgrounds. Nobody had ever heard their name before their meteoric rise which started about two years ago.
In Asia, the scope of this strategy has been smaller (the extent of the American influence being contained to Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong), but not less successful, as the recent anti-China riots in Hong Kong have shown. The unexpected crowning of the first ever Chinese UFC fighter, Zhang Weili, at the UFC’s first event organised in Shenzhen (right across the border with Hong Kong) in 2019, at the height of the riots in Hong Kong, against the Brazilian champion, who was a strong favorite, is too much of a coincidence not to raise eyebrows.
The recent selection by the UFC Performance Institute in Shanghai of no less than 20 Chinese and Hong Kong fighters, at the height of the political crisis in Hong Kong, is the same effort to further penetrate the Chinese market and lure young people to the US and its ideology of liberal hedonistic individualism.
The UFC is owned by WME-IMG, a talent agency co-owned by Ari Emanuel, brother of Rahm “Rahmbo” Emanuel, former Chief of Staff of Barack Obama and former mayor of Chicago, who in 2012 passed the Welcoming City Ordinance to make Chicago a “sanctuary city” for illegal immigrants. Other major shareholders are Egon Durban (board member of Silver Lake, Dell, co-board member with Chelsea Clinton at the Grace Foundation), Silver Lake Fund (notably Glenn Hutchins, former Senior Adviser and Special Advisor to the Clinton administration), Michael Dell (through his investment fund MSD Capital), and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
The UFC is a 100% Democrat-leaning company, posing as a patriotic company (with programs with the US Army veterans), while in fact peddling the same pro-migrants, pro-feminism (the UFC initiated women MMA fights, which the president of the UFC, Dana White, publicly said would never happen under his watch, before inexplicably changing his mind), pro-LGBT (the UFC boasts having the first ever lesbian female champion, as if sexual preferences were relevant to martial arts) propaganda as Hollywood and MSM media.
Unsuspecting accomplices
This sudden rise of African and East-Asian fighters, quickly groomed at the UFC Performance Institutes in Las Vegas and Shanghai, matched up again sub-par opponents to pad their record before being lined-up in championship fights with less-than-convincing and sometimes eyebrow-raising victories, is no coincidence and must be looked at from the same perspective as the Soros-sponsored African migration condoned by Democrats in the US and governments in the EU.
Here again, we do not take away any of the hard work and dedication from these athletes, who probably have no idea why they are being pushed to the front stage, and probably think their success is only due to their talent.
The fact that President Trump is an open supporter of the UFC has nothing to do with this Democrat-sponsored brain-washing effort, but more to do with a few American fighters that he has personally supported and congratulated in the past (Tito Ortiz, Colby Covington, Jorge Masvidal) because they carry high the American flag and the values of hard work, sacrifice and patriotism, and that one can assume a majority of UFC fans are middle-class Americans who voted for Trump.
Audiences in the US and Europe are starting to wake up and realise they have been served an increasingly vapid globalist propaganda, insidiously inserted in their favorite entertainment. The continuously declining box office receipts of famous Hollywood franchises (the Star Wars, The Avengers, Terminator, Rambo, etc.) are proof of the Western’s audiences fatigue towards this “United Colors of America” nonsense.
These film franchises, together with sports, have become vehicles of aggrandisement of minorities and belittling of the majority, primarily delivering a political message, that of the distorted definition of democracy, which places active minorities above and in control of the silent majority.
The celebrities created by this monstrous propaganda machine are, one can only hope, unsuspecting accomplices. But they ought to wake up to the fact that they are mere tools of a System that does not wish well to their countries of origin, if it hasn’t already enslaved them.
Thanks Laurent, this is truly interesting. We kinda know, but you made it real.
I was in an African country just some while ago, and on visiting a professional office, I saw just a batch of USAid posters advertising various initiatives, from sport to cultural outreach to birth control. We always talk about Full Spectrum Dominance and think militarily, or economically, but your piece makes it clear that it is truly Full Spectrum, across all aspects of life. These lily pads must go back home.
Well written article and entertaining (despite the severity of the topic).
Here is an article that takes a more detailed look at statistics regarding homelessness in America:
https://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-homeless-in-america-washingtons.html
Washington has hundreds of billions of dollars to spend on regime change around the world through the flexing of its military might but has forgotten that part of its mandate is to help the neediest of Americans. Additionally, the world is being taught that the United States is “the” nation to be emulated by all yet statistically speaking, the United States is far from a nation that the rest of the world should be envious of.
I spent about 6 years in San Francisco (I left 2 years ago) – and I can tell you the homeless situation has been getting worse every day while I was there and it’s now worse than ever according to my friends who still live there.
I have never seen such desperation and poverty anywhere else and I have been in many countries around the world.
Not just that they have nothing at all, they are also very dirty, sleeping in their own piss, drug addicts, Many are veterans of Uncle Satan’s criminal wars…you can tell they don’t even get on well with each other – so they have nothing but even worse they have no social connection with anyone.
And apart from European tourists (who can’t believe their eyes since they also have been brainwashed to believe Hollywood BS propaganda of American ‘wealth and freedom’) nobody even looks at members of this underclass. I was told that Seattle is even much worse (as is Honolulu). I find it hard to believe – since this is already pretty unbelievable to me.
Uncle Satan’s USSA is a very poor plantation/gulag/MORDOR of a country
That’s why they spend so much money on their propaganda tricking people around the world that they are some kind of experts of humanity, democracy and good life. In reality they are more like dumb prisoners/slaves who can’t even unite to do anything meaningful…
1. In a nutshell, the message delivered to Europeans and Asians is that instead of yearning for success and recognition in their own country, in their own cultural codes, they would be better off living the American Dream and have a crack at Hollywood. Europeans and Asians are conditioned to think that they have everything to benefit from being submissive to Uncle Sam (whose full name we’d like to know) and consume American cultural and manufactured products.
2. Bias view points from overseas Vietnamese from Western countries.
3. Pro-US Faction in Vietnam.
Three things above is currently destroying Vietnam one by one in slowly process.
The fact about the U S Military presence in all those Countries cannot be disputed; but the focus on the ” names ” of the Individuals from each of the Countries seems to me to be a ” Bit of a Stretch ” ; unless one focuses on the predominance of the ” Group ” that controls Hollywood ; then the Author might have a point.
Interestingly enough, actors that are born in the US to immigrant parents are often “based” and therefore hard to use.
Case in point: Stana Katić – openly supported (and supports) Krajina. Big no-no, but I guess her saving grace is that we’re now irrelevant
Where did you get these names of actors from? Stalone is just one of hundreds of italian-american actors, he isnt italian. Dolph Lundgren is a z-celeb and you got lots of others swedish actors in Hollywood that are more relevant. Steven Segal representing Japan, really? Pretty far fetched.
It is indeed a monstrous propaganda machine, run primarily by zio-globalists, who aren’t too subtle about their nation-wrecking agenda and their total disdain for the goyim peoples, interests and identities. This is an ancient Antichrist program coming to bitter fruition in our time. The important thing is to awaken people from their slumbers, show them the reality of what we face, and get them to stand up to this Antichrist System that seeks to enslave the world. Our institutions are thoroughly corrupted and co-opted, so this war must be fought at the grassroots. Tell your friends, family, strangers on the street; it’s the great cause of our age.
The idiots in Eastern Europe — Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, etc. — don’t seem to contribute anything here. Sufficiently ”reliable” populations ideologically-wise not in need of any infotainment promotion of some carefully selected specimina?
This article is poorly researched. Sylvester Stallone who you have chosen as the local Italian is in fact a US, native born, citizen (New York City), not an Italian. Believe me there is a huge difference between Italian-Americans and actual Italian citizens. I lived in Italy for 22 years. I know what I’m talking about.
Steven Seagal has three passports, US, Serbian and Russian. Perhaps we should pencil him in as the “local” Russian who made it big in the USA, instead of your “local” representative from Japan?
Yep, and Dolph Lungren was an Aussie bouncer (from memory).
Steven seagal was the first foreigner to open his own dojo in Japan.
So Jackie Chan is a US puppet?
Take a look at what he has to say about the US and about his country, China.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWZbsIhv44A
“America is the most corrupt country in the world”
Hint: All the Schwarzeneggers, Bruce Lees, and Depardieus are crypto-Jews, and Zionist Intel lifetime actors. Good to see Laurent Schiaparelli catching up with the millennia-old game …
Interesting thesis, but very weak argument.
Among other things: including 2 born in America, Americans as “foreign representatives”.
Also, the “national representation” is very weak. Scandinavia as a single entity? What about the Netherlands? Africa? Central America? South America?
Steven Seagal for Japan?
Ever heard of The Nordic Council ? The Kalmar Union ? The Scandinavian Cross on every one of the countries’ flag ? NORDEFCO ? There even is a common airline. Yes, despite differences between Nordic countries, there is a Nordic identity.