How to Spot Controlled Opposition: Hype and Sensationalism

 

 This has been my most popular zine lately.

 I think that's a good sign. 

As more people start to become aware of the heinous psychological operative and orchestrated global scheme that have been underway for almost two years now, we can expect the power establishment to get its 'big guns' out as far as controlled opposition. Controlled opposition elements could be permeating more of the public discourse in 2022, while also becoming more complex, more embedded, and more difficult to separate out from the true resistance. Things become more confusing as people are unsure whom to trust.

This zine talks about some of the ways to sniff out controlled opposition agents and groups (ie. rats) so as to protect your mental and psychic space, as well as the energy and effectiveness of the real resistance.

Here, I would like to highlight one of the telltale signs of controlled opposition: hype and sensationalism.

Controlled opposition often re-packages what we already know, what others have already said, and what the true resistance has already established, but this re-packaged (and usually, highly sensationalized) version goes viral or gets extreme play when it is released by the controlled opposition agent or group. This creates the illusion that the controlled opposition agent or group is the source or the fount of the information or perspective, and this illusion then leads people into a Figurehead-Follower dynamic. In this Figurehead-Follower dynamic, people look to controlled opposition to tell them what to think and what to do. People will often wait for the controlled opposition agent or group to take action so they don't have to. (Surprise, surprise - effective action never comes.)

One thing to remember is this: the work of "exposing the power scheme rot" does not make a person famous. Millions of people are doing this work all around the world, and this has been the case throughout much of human history. 

If you can recognize the fake "hype energy" associated with some of the most prominent controlled opposition, instead of being fooled by its charismatic and glamourous outpourings, you can reject this poisoned energy before it gets its meat hooks into you.

This is not to say that controlled opposition will always have hype or sensationalism associated with it. As stated, as the real resistance gets stronger and more vocal, the establishment will pull out all its tricks, which involve sensationalism and diversionary hype as well as a quieter and more embedded version of controlled opposition. Think: controlled opposition agents being paid to comment on and monitor social media groups, for example.  

I wrote the article and made this zine in 2019 when Jupiter in Sagittarius was in a square aspect to Neptune in Pisces. 

Jupiter is now in Pisces and will form a conjunction to Neptune at 23 degrees Pisces on April 12, 2022. This will be followed by Venus conjunct Jupiter in Pisces (the Conjunction of the Benefics) on April 30, 2022 at 27 degrees Pisces. The Venus-Jupiter conjunction will also occur in close conjunction to Neptune in Pisces.

On the one hand, this extreme Pisces energy indicates a surge of illusions, delusions, and controlled opposition fakery. New threads and new narratives being floated. Heightened public confusion. Psychic fatigue that causes mistakes in judgement. Stronger than usual impressionability and willingness to be led by others. Smokescreens. Diversions. Bold-faced lies. A general dissipation of energy and focus.  

On the other hand, the influence of this Venus-Jupiter-Neptune conjunction in Pisces indicates that we can identify and reject controlled opposition and its pathetic little agents with a little help from our friends. We can join together to batten down the hatches ahead of time. Forewarned with this information is forearmed. Under these astrological influences, we can take back our psychic space and enforce spiritual principles and spiritual law as an antidote to the scams and schemes being played out on humanity. 

As always, this is some good punk advice, but these days, it's good advice for everyone:

You can read the text of the zine here: Jupiter Square Neptune and How to Spot Controlled Opposition

All WWA articles on controlled opposition

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A Re-Activation of the Jupiter-Neptune Square Themes - How to Spot Controlled Opposition: Reclaiming the Energy, Passion, & Effectiveness of the Resistance

How to Spot Controlled Opposition: Reclaiming the Energy, Passion, & Effectiveness of the Resistance

 

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This article (after the break) on How to Spot Controlled Opposition was first posted on the blog on November 18, 2019, and it has now been compiled into a zine, available at Etsy.

I wrote this guide when Jupiter was in Sagittarius (truth, dogma) forming a series of three square aspects to Neptune in Pisces (illusions, fog, deception). The Jupiter-Neptune square was strongly in effect from late November 2018 to mid-November 2019 and indicated a primary theme of determining what is real and true from what is illusory and deceptive. 

 

As written about in a previous article, we are now experiencing a re-activation of the themes of the Jupiter-Neptune square with transiting Neptune in Pisces in square aspects to the nodal axis as we close out 2020 and begin 2021. These squares will be exact January 26, 2021. 

 

Tricky and karmically-loaded "truth versus deception" themes are particularly indicated by the square between Neptune in Pisces and the South Node of the Moon in Sagittarius. We're addressing manipulation of truth, knowledge, public education, medicine, religion, and spiritual wisdom that has been going on for millennia. We're addressing the ways in which humanity has been blinded and fooled for generations, and this often has an esoteric, sinister occult, or pseudo-spiritual element.

 

Neptune in Pisces square the Gemini North Node and Sagittarius South Node indicates truth and perspectives that have been kept invisible within the broader discourse - which perspectives are acceptable and which perspectives are kept out. Truth and perspectives that are mocked, vilified, or attacked. What people believe and how this has been shaped, manufactured, or manipulated by forces that are deceitful or less than fully honest, including mass media.

 

These themes will be further intensified, potentially dramatically, throughout the month of December as the Sun, Mercury, and then Venus transit Sagittarius, forming conjunctions to the South Node and squares to Neptune in Pisces. The Sun makes these aspects on December 9 and 10; Mercury on December 13 and 14; and Venus on December 30 and 31. 

My Most Pilfered and Ripped-Off Article of All Time From 2009! The Vilification of Virgoan Analysis and Scorpionic Intuition Within the New Age Meme Complex

Copyright © 2008-2020 Willow's Web Astrology. 

What follows is a re-post of an article I wrote and published in June 2009 that has the dubious honour of being the most pilfered and ripped-off article I've ever written! It comes from a series of articles I did on deconstructing the New Age meme complex. These are a couple others from the same time period in 2009:

From April 21, 2009: Saturn in Virgo Calls Bullshit on The Secret/Law of Attraction Phenomenon

From May 29, 2009: New Age Solipsism 

You can see all Willow's Web Astrology articles on Deconstructing the New Age Meme Complex here.

Also see Dark Moon Podcast #3 - Deconstructing the Cult Mind and Pyramid Scheme Power

I've seen the article I'm re-posting here regurgitated and passed off by unscrupulous individuals more than once now. Beware the New Agers who try to pass themselves off as New Age critics. (Their softball attempts at reforming a poisonous mind and spiritual control mechanism, all while regurgitating New Age 101 ideology, certainly give them away.) The most recent time I saw the article regurgitated was by a fan of Hitler. It's funny this person is against New Age, since Hitler was a big fan of it. Spiritual supremacy and racial supremacy are one and the same.

Because I don't have a smoking gun (unlike other times I've been plagiarized like this and this), I can't name these people, but lets just say they're shameless in ripping off other people's work and passing it off as their own. Even more repugnant to me is the fact that I do not support or agree with the ideas spewing from any of the sources that have used my work without permission or attribution.

There are a lot of snaky fucks out there. That might be the biggest understatement you've ever read. To help expose them, I follow this New Age deconstruction article with a more recent article on how to spot controlled opposition. That article will quite likely be co-opted by controlled opposition dipshits, as well, but I hope people with good character can use it to nullify the power and influence of these unethical individuals and groups, with which the current intellectual, spiritual, and political spheres are, unfortunately, rife. 

An original Willow's Web Astrology article from June 1, 2009, The Vilification of Virgoan Analysis and Scorpionic Intuition Within the New Age Meme Complex

"Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense."

- From 1984 by George Orwell

The last post on New Age solipsism got me thinking about how important both Virgoan analysis and Scorpionic intuition are, especially these days, in determining real from fake. It also got me thinking about how both those things are vilified in much of the New Age ideology of the day.

The manipulation of the people has very much gone to the embedded stage. The trick of the day is to mix a grain of truth with a little trend-a-licious language and imagery along with a whole lot of garbage designed to achieve certain hidden, control-based motives - and hope people swallow it whole.

Mercury Wraps up its (Insanely Long) Transit of Pisces With Many Informational Threads Coming Together

With Mercury in latest Pisces, many threads I've been covering on the blog during this oh-so-long transit are coming together into a coherent scheme. Mercury first entered Pisces way back on February 3, and it feels as if we've lived through an entire year since then.

YouTube has just banned all videos linking the rollout of 5G with the orchestrated pandemic.

(Good thing I made a back-up of Dark Moon Podcast #6 on Bitchute.)

This crackdown on information being shared through social media follows the Event 201 pandemic drill protocols, outlined in this video by Spiro Skouras, that I wrote about in the February 27, 2020 article, "Coronavirus: Neutralizing the 'Terror of Contagion' with Mercury Retrograde in Pisces."

From the article:

"About six weeks before the first reported cases of coronavirus illness, on October 18, 2019, a "global pandemic drill" called Event 201 was held in New York City that was hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. (The involvement of ole Bill & Mel should perk up the ears of anyone with even a single conspiracy research bone in the body...) This event brought officials together to play-act a scenario where a pandemic [caused by a novel coronavirus] was unfolding around the world, and the simulation included uber creepy simulated news reports. Members of both the Chinese and United States Centers for Disease Control were involved in the simulation...

In the Event 201 drill, criticism was floated about "misinformation and disinformation" around the virus, including "conspiracy theories" on the internet, which were said to be decreasing public compliance with official bodies. Proposed actions included censoring websites and social media, whole-scale internet shutdowns, and arrests.

The vaccine truth movement was brought up as a specific target, with a stated desire to "increase trust" in pharmaceuticals companies and government. (Good luck with that.) There was a strong focus on dominating and controlling the public discourse through a centralized body, in this case through the World Health Organization under the United Nations." 

We can see quite clearly (as clearly as possible with Mercury in late Pisces, anyway) how these Event 201 pandemic drill policies are now being rolled out in real life.

YouTube spokesperson: "Now any content that disputes the existence or transmission of Covid-19, as described by the WHO [World Health Organization] and local health authorities, is in violation of YouTube policies.

This includes conspiracy theories which claim that the symptoms are caused by 5G. "

False Heroes, Fake Rebels, and Pseudo-Alternatives in the Astrological Aquarian Era

I'm not sure when you will be reading this - maybe it will be a few years from now or even a few decades. With Saturn now leading the grand-scale shift into the Aquarian Era, our communication has to take on a future-oriented tone. We're building toward a preferable future vision on this planet, toward a free humanity, but we don't know when this vision will be materialized. 

We're under increasingly authoritarian rule on Planet Earth. They call it many things, including the New World Order, the Global Government, One World Government, Global Fascism, the Globalists, and the power elite, among others. 

The groups in the pyramid caps have millions of civilian foot-soldiers doing their dirty work within human society, policing each other, ensuring that top-down protocols are being followed and that no one gets any big ideas about going beyond those protocols.

Let me try to describe the situation for you. In the year 2020, most of the human population has been mesmerized by either mainstream media or pseudo-alternative media or a combination of the two. Our communication channels are being censored and filtered, and false narratives of various kinds are dominating the public discourse. 

The mind control is thick, the implanted thoughts and agendas are many, but most do not see the way their mental synapses and spiritual energy are being hijacked by people and entities who do not have their best interests at heart. 

Our personal power is being hijacked by various schemes within the mainstream political realm, including one where the "White Hats" are working behind the scenes to free us all from tyranny.  Oh, but they first have to bring in tyranny (only temporarily!) in order to save us. "It's all part of the plan. We need to bring in authoritarian hyper-control of your every movement as a cover so we can swoop in behind the scenes and get rid of all the corruption. We're arresting the bad guys and gals as we speak! Be patient. Trust the plan. We have it handled."

Our spiritual power is being hijacked in various ways, as well, including by the New Age pyramid scheme and its slick proponents. "It's all part of the divine plan. It's all part of the Grand Ascension to the 5th Dimension. The mass deaths are simply the Earth shedding an old paradigm, a paradigm we made ourselves by creating our own collective reality! Raise your vibrations! Love and light! The enlightened will not be affected. The dead and dying are simply a necessary purge of old energy."

Or then we have the Christian "wait for Jesus" paradigm. "Revelations is coming true! Jesus is coming back to save us all. All you have to do is pray and be faithful and wait right where you are, and he'll take care of the rest. No resistance or action necessary. All true believers will be saved! Don't concern yourselves with anyone else."

We hear echoes, echoes, echoes throughout the ideological camps. Passivity, deference to "authority figures," and acceptance of the unacceptable as a temporary necessary evil are common denominators in these manipulative, control-based schemes.

Charismatic figureheads are being followed near-blindly straight off a cliff. 

We even have controlled opposition agents "outing" other controlled opposition agents as a way to control the discourse around controlled opposition. Oh, how meta! 

Independent thought, research, and action are a rarity, though these do exist in highly-inspiring pockets. The people who know and who cannot be coerced are very powerful at this time on the planet, and this is why they are being thwarted, attacked, censored, and shut down at every possible turn, including by fellow citizens/community members.

Let me make this very clear: there is a difference between a "Truth-Teller (TM)" and a freedom-fighter. There is a difference between an "enlightened New Age guru shepherding us to the 5th dimension" and a freedom-fighter. There is a difference between a pseudo-alternative commentator or journalist and a freedom-fighter. There is a difference between a high-ranking politician and a freedom-fighter.

If their primary objective isn't to extricate and liberate humanity, body, mind, and spirit, including from them, they are most likely trying to hook you into their construct, into the scheme that is providing their elevated position and status. They may talk the talk of freedom and liberation, but watch how they walk the walk. It most often stands in stark contrast to their words. 

New Moon in Aries at Apogee Conjunct Chiron: Resisting "Medical" Martial Law, the Surreptitious 5G Roll-out, and the Expansion of Authoritarian Control in Our Daily Lives

March equinox 2020 is a pivotal point in time when we can either allow and accept the expansion of authoritarian control in our daily lives or we can push back and reject it in ways that will disrupt the advancement of the control-based frameworks. 

There are several key points throughout 2020 that must be met with awareness of these control-based machinations and manipulations, and the period around equinox (March 19) and the New Moon in Aries (March 24) is one of these. 

March equinox 2020 has some particularly powerful "launch point" energies, and the things set in motion now, following into the spring season, could have very long-term ramifications, for good or ill.

March equinox is a time when the power establishment often launches war-based attacks, either overt or covert, and we are most certainly under attack as the daylight hours and nighttime hours move into perfect balance.

5G Towers Are Being Surreptitiously Installed in U.S. Schools During the Forced Shutdowns

One of the most pressing situations underway is the surreptitious roll-out of deadly 5G technology as the public is kept terrorized and distracted by an orchestrated pandemic. A recent video produced by LogicBeforeAuthority (linked above) has exposed the fact that 5G towers are being installed in U.S. schools during the forced shutdowns. The companies installing the towers are being instructed to call themselves "disinfecting companies" that are there to clean the (closed) schools so as to fly below the radar and avoid public dissent. These companies are being required to sign non-disclosure agreements. The installation of 5G is going on at closed schools across the United States at this very moment, unrolling like a perfectly executed, perfectly coordinated military manoeuvre.

As this is a lock-step global roll-out of not only 5G technology but of the famed "New World Order" control grid, the installation of these energy weapons is going on now and will continue going on in the future in locations world-wide. 

I wrote about this in the March 14, 2020 article, "Major Aquarius Ingresses 2020 - 2023: Resisting 5G Technology, Energy Weapons, and the Creation of Digitized Dystopian Hell." 

Another psychological operative and machination of mass diversion going on at the moment are continued information drops from the President of the United States and from a supposed inner circle insider known as Q Anon as they convince people that accepting medical martial law is "all part of the grand plan" in removing the bad guys and gals from power. Both the President and Q Anon are controlled opposition. They are providing what are referred to as limited hangouts, pieces of insider information that convince people (wrongly) that these agents are part of the "good side" and that they are doing everything they can to expose and eliminate corruption. 

If that is actually the case, why is the 5G roll-out continuing unabated? In fact, why are forced shutdowns and medical martial law being used to surreptitiously install the 5G towers at U.S. schools with as little public dissent as possible? Why is Fukushima fallout not getting even a mention as we mark the nine year anniversary with announcements that more than a million tons of radioactively-contaminated water will be released directly into the Pacific? Why is the corrupt, Zionist-owned banking system continuing unabated? Why are unregulated stock market derivatives schemes continuing to cause economic crisis and lack for millions of people? Why is an ex-member of Goldman Sachs still in charge of the U.S. Treasury? Why is most of the hierarchical pyramid scheme of criminal power continuing to operate untouched? Why are many of the real power players (particularly of Jesuit and Zionist background) not being exposed and arrested? 

The current smokescreen being used is the "takedown of pedophiles in high places." This is being used to divert attention from the roll-out of 5G technology and the cementing of the authoritarian and psychopathic New World Order as it takes new levels of control over our daily lives.

Jupiter Square Neptune and the Importance of Seeing Through Neptunian Glamour

In honour of the current Venus-Jupiter in Sagittarius square to Neptune in Pisces (the Venus-Neptune square is exact today), what follows is a re-post of an old article on the importance of seeing through Neptunian glamour.

As we are now almost ten years on, I would extend this necessary puncturing of glamour to celebrity of all kinds, as well as to pseudo-alternative controlled opposition, particularly of the puffed-up, "Truth-Teller (TM)" ilk.

Jupiter in Sagittarius (truth, wisdom, teachers) is within range of a square to Neptune in Pisces (illusions, deception, glamour) into November of 2019, and this keeps the maya-penetrating themes at the forefront. 

Too many people these days have their own precious minds and thoughts enmeshed in charismatic wannabe gurus and figureheads, following rather than taking independent action.

I outlined the themes of the Jupiter-Neptune square in my November 5, 2018 patron article on Jupiter in Sagittarius, titled, "Jupiter Enters Home-Sweet-Home Sagittarius: Dismantling Illusions, Deceptions, and the Stranglehold of Controlled Opposition With the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth." 

I also posted an excerpt from that article on the public blog, called, "Jupiter Square Neptune and How to Spot Controlled Opposition."

From way back on April 23, 2009, "Saturn in Virgo and Seeing Through Neptunian Spiritual Glamour":

Jupiter Square Neptune and How to Spot Controlled Opposition

 So beautiful. So picture-perfect. But don't be fooled. This photo captures a very ugly underlying phenomenon: a full winter of flat, grey cloud cover (previously unheard of on the sunny prairies) produced via chemtrails and weather modification... 

Cosmic Spotlight Jupiter in Sagittarius (truth) comes into range of an extended square to Neptune in Pisces (illusions, fog, deception) just as Neptune, extra-potent in the zodiac, stations direct on November 24. The Jupiter-Neptune square will first be exact on January 13, 2019, but it will be within orb and in effect from late November 2018 to mid-November 2019.

Both communication/intelligence planet Mercury (now retrograde) in Sagittarius and action/aggression planet Mars in Pisces are activating (aggravating?) this square as Jupiter comes into range. 

The Sun-Mercury Rx interior conjunction at 4 degrees Sagittarius on November 27 (also conjunct Jupiter and square Neptune) brings the themes of this Jupiter-Neptune square to the forefront even more.

A long-term Jupiter-Neptune square, with both planets strong in their own signs, indicates a primary theme of determining what's real and true from what's illusory and deceptive.

Under this square, a year-long veil of fog has been dropped. Illusions will be thick. And there will be an unfortunate tendency to be taken in by, as I put it in the November 5 patron article on Jupiter in Sagittarius, "pretty manipulators, confident deceivers, and charming liars." 

In light of this theme, if there's one thing - literally just one thing - I would like people to come to understand during the transit of Jupiter in Sagittarius, it is the manipulative stranglehold on the collective discourse and public mind held by controlled opposition. To this end, I offer:

How to Spot Controlled Opposition

1. The person or organization is famous, a household name (at least in certain circles), and/or is covered on mainstream media. This is a dead giveaway. People who have the real-deal information, who do the real-deal research and journalism, are suppressed, ostracized, mocked, isolated, and even murdered by the establishment. They do not rise to any sort of prominence within the public, especially with the assistance of mainstream media. They have to fight tooth-and-nail to get the truth out there amidst monstrous opposition. They are certainly not provided with large public platforms or mainstream media play, even if only as supposed "enemies of the state." Real whistleblowers are stepped on, intimidated, shut up, or killed. They don't hit CNN or CBC or BBC or Fox News. They don't hit VICE or Democracy Now or Dr. Oz. (Unless, that is, they are being used by the establishment as unwitting controlled opposition.) 

Within the pseudo-alternative media, controlled opposition agents will often have relative fame - a relatively large public platform in the hundreds of thousands or low millions. These individuals will often seem just a little too slick or a little too rehearsed to be real people. They may have an extreme and unnatural level of charisma, and this charisma can draw people in. (The standard cult leader personality.) This type of charisma can be generated with mind control techniques, occult-based machinations, or both.

2. Limited hangouts: a controlled opposition agent will release very juicy insider information to the followers to make them believe that "someone is doing something; someone is on top of this." This is a common technique by the power establishment of "throwing people a bone." Because the agent is releasing information that the powers-that-be would not generally want released to the public, information that makes the established order look bad, the controlled opposition agent gains legitimacy in the minds of the followers. The followers trust that this person is "one of them, on the good side, playing for the right team." The information being released is often partial, outdated, diversionary, or of limited scope. If the information is legitimate, nothing effective is done with it. The controlled opposition agent or group does not direct people to take viable action based on this information. Often, the limited hangouts merely scratch the surface. They do not go to the real roots of the situation or call out the real people and organizations responsible. Limited hangouts are often used as a "look over there!" tactic to divert attention from other areas. 

Limited hangouts by controlled opposition agents have the effect of controlling dissenting discourse within the public. Followers hang on the controlled opposition agent's every word, waiting to be told what to think or what to do, never doing their own research or coming up with their own thoughts, ideas, or actions. The discourse only goes so far as the controlled opposition agent allows it to go. Limited hangouts are being used to great effect by Donald Trump and supposed Trump insider Q Anon, as well as by other puppet-celebrities. (Don’t worry – the establishment left is just as chock full of controlled opposition as the establishment right.) The public has never before experienced a high-level politician or celebrity producing such a steady stream of juicy limited hangouts, and many people are utterly mesmerized and mind controlled under the spell of it. 

The reason limited hangouts are being used so extensively at this time is that the public has successfully uncovered so much of the true reality on this planet. The people have uncovered things that can't be swept back under the rug, and the power establishment must now try to take control of this information.

3. The controlled opposition agent will often have ties (past or present) to mainstream organizations, government agencies, or establishment groups. A controlled opposition agent is often a supposed dissenter who rejected some mainstream organization or industry in order to "tell people the truth." (I've personally found these types of fake rebels or critics to be common within the New Age establishment - people pretending to be critics of New Age while actually being adherents to New Age beliefs and ideology.) While true dissenters and whistleblowers do exist, they almost never gain large public platforms. The ultimate allegiance of a controlled opposition agent is with the establishment, and they may receive funding directly from related industries or organizations. If being an "establishment rebel" is a strong part of the person's schtick, there is reason to be suspicious.

4. The controlled opposition agent creates and reinforces a strong Figurehead-Follower power dynamic. This is a hierarchical dynamic where the Figurehead sits at the top of a pyramid scheme of power with the followers gazing up in rapt devotion. This often takes the form of the "Wise Fatherly" archetype with the controlled opposition agent being looked to as the pinnacle of wisdom and the ultimate fount of information. The Figurehead is seen as the most intelligent and most important individual in the pyramid scheme and certainly receives the most attention. Narcissistic tendencies can commonly be observed. The Figurehead must be deferred to at all times. Dissenting information is generally censored, and anyone considered a dissenter is cut out of the fold. There is no climate of intellectual equality, even though lip service may be paid to that. People often want to get closer to the Figurehead, moving up the rungs of the pyramid scheme to the inner circle. Once in the inner circle, people will defend and protect the lofty position of the Figurehead to maintain their own position. The energy, ideas, intellect, talents, and efforts of the followers - those on the lower rungs of the pyramid - are funneled to the top and often folded into the Figurehead's own work. In this way, the followers are used to prop up or bolster the position and status of the Figurehead. This is energetic theft, and it's really the only way the bloated public platform used by the Figurehead can be maintained over time. 

5. The Figurehead controlled opposition agent has extreme influence on the thoughts, ideas, and speech of the followers to the point of mind control. This takes the form of hundreds of thousands or millions of followers parroting the Figurehead's exact ideas and catch phrases. (Hatefully referring to the public as “sheeple” is one that springs immediately to mind.) This phenomenon can be easily picked up on by those objectively viewing the dynamics, and it is another dead giveaway. Free thinkers do not parrot the same catch phrases, idioms, or ideas at the same times as hundreds of thousands or millions of others. Independent researchers and thinkers do not obsessively focus on the pet subjects or ideas of the Figurehead to the exclusion of other, more important matters. The common denominator when seeing these types of dynamics will be exposure to one particular Figurehead.

6. The Figurehead controlled opposition agent often stirs fear, anger, rage, frustration, confusion, or despair in followers with no healthy outlets for those feelings. Anger and rage will often be directed toward certain groups of people as the cause of the ills. These groups may be gender-based, race-based, or politics-based but can also be the public at large (“the sheeple”). Massive amounts of time and energy are directed toward particularly divisive topics as well as to matters of secondary importance, skirting around the real, core issues of the times and the real individuals, organizations, and entities responsible for the harm being caused. The Figurehead can also stir confusion and a sense of futility or helplessness in the followers, ensuring that followers do not take independent action (“there’s nothing we can do about it, anyway”) and that they will continue to look to the Figurehead for instruction on what to think or what to do. Dependence on the leadership of the Figurehead is encouraged, even if not expressly.

These are some of the characteristics of people who act as controlled opposition. You can use these points to sniff them out. People can be used as controlled opposition consciously (with their knowledge), or they can be used unconsciously (without their knowledge). Whole movements or "scenes" can also be infiltrated by controlled opposition - maintaining establishment control over dissent and the exposing of truth by scratching the surface, appearing to allow a public platform for alternative views, but never going to the real roots of the situation or truly liberating people's minds or lives.  

Controlled opposition agents are looked to as primary leaders for a cause, and this is exactly the dynamic they create and reinforce until dependence on them as figureheads is fostered. These agents are actually put in place to mislead, to lead in the wrong direction, or to entirely shirk leadership at critical moments. This hijacks, confuses, and diffuses grassroots movements and independent action that would otherwise be effective.

Willow's Web Astrology articles on Controlled Opposition

 

A critique of controlled opposition/gatekeepers in the protest movement: This Mind is Otherwise Occupied.