as we wait on the potentially pivotal German elections

Propaganda (Dusseldorf) from 1984

Dr. Mabuse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fEDeyWQqoE (Wembley live)

(put a dash – between the t and u to skip any commercials; and read the comments)

Dr. Mabuse is a master of disguise and telepathic hypnosis known to employ body transference, most often through demonic possession, but sometimes utilizing object technologies such as television or phonograph machines, to build a “society of crime”. Mabuse rarely commits his crimes in person, instead operating primarily through a network of agents enacting his schemes, thus remaining a shadowy figure

Much of the Mabuse works are comments by Jacques on German society, in some case, the political excesses of the 1930s

Dr. Mabuse is from A Secret Wish, which was then and still is way ahead of its time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbWrgLYllKI (complete with a skip near the end on Duel)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUk2_h5OMPA missing Frozen Faces

to complete the circle, from below

“It was the artificiality of the party-created communist world that led many dissidents to lose their minds. This was explained perhaps best in Orwell’s oft-cited masterpiece 1984. It was also brilliantly explained in Arthur Koestler’s equally monumental book, Darkness at Noon. It is not enough to be loyal to The Party. You must believe in your heart those things that your head tells you are not true.

The surface of this scandal has not even been scratched. And the focus is on Ukraine because that is most in the news. But the fake world USAID created around Ukraine was replicated across the globe.”

“Don’t Be a Fool — Never Look Back”