I’ve been doing some interesting reading these mornings down here in the desert and for quite a few months. I’m not going to link or name books and all of that, as people who are interested will find their own way. And anyway, the books I have read are quite a few and the conclusions I draw involve much speculation. Each reader would have to travel this path alone.
But first came important piece of knowledge from many months ago about how events like assassinations or 9/11 are pulled off – people automatically say that the government cannot keep secrets. Oh, but it can, and has many and varied weapons at its disposal. There are careers, pensions, health care plans and all that in jeopardy. People who they fear might go public meet sudden unexpected death, suicide, car accident, cancer or heart attack, small plane accidents and the like. People with inside knowledge who they fear might leave some deathbed information behind are let to know that if they do, their loved ones will suffer. Most people deeply involved might be considered aliens to us, psychopaths who suffer no known emotions, and so have no care or concern. Keeping a secret, for these creeps, is not an issue.
And finally, when secrets do leak out, people are ridiculed into silence. I was told a few nights ago when I mentioned that it is likely our own dark forces that blow up market squares and mosques in Iraq and other places that such thinking “makes a person bitter.” God forbid we should ever be bitter about our own behavior rather than those “others” we love to hate, kill and maim.
All of that aside, it was also important to know innocent people are caught in these webs of crime and deceit. They are sucked in by noble motives, job demands, innocence, patriotism, indifference. Once in, there is no getting out. For each of the many high crimes we have witnessed over our lives, from JFK to RFK, MLK, the Reagan shooting, 9/11, OKC, Waco, JFK Jr., Wellstone, Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004, just to rattle off a quick list, are hundreds of people who know what happened, at least in part, and know to shut up. They were caught in a trap.
Such a trap involved Lee Harvey Oswald. What do we know of him besides the bad stuff, the official truth? Defector? Bad marksman? No Driver’s license? Communist? Pro-Castro?
None of that is true, according to a woman who claims to have had a torrid romance with him in the spring/summer of 1963. It was all a carefully crafted trail of evidence, and he willingly went along with it, thinking it his patriotic duty. He was a intelligence agent, low level, and involved in a scheme to murder Fidel Castro. She and a famous doctor, David Ferrie, Dr. Mary Sherman and many others were working hard that summer to weaponize a strain of viral cancer that would be smuggled into Cuba by Oswald, and injected into him by a doctor who had gained his confidence. (Some thought they were actuablly working on a cure for cancer.) This is why he was appearing in public in support of Castro. It’s called “sheepdipping.” Castro, who had countless attempts on his life from other angles, was wary, so that this was seen as the best hope to kill him. (It’s why I was suspicious that someone had gotten to Hugo Chavez in that manner. But who knows.)
In the end, his operation, name unknown, was blended with others in November of that year, and “flipped live.” A presidential succession drill was being carried on, as it was on the day Reagan was shot. A patsy had been selected, and a trail of evidence affirmed his guilt. The trap was sprung. Lee Harvey Oswald, a deer in the headlights, became the John Wilkes Booth of his era.
Oswald’s lover watched him killed on TV (by “Sparky” Rubenstein, a man both she and Oswald considered a friend and who probably had no choice) and realized that she too would be murdered if she spoke up. She went back and led a quiet life, only going public in 2000, and even then fearing for her life. So she says. Her story has many quirks and anomalies. We never really know anything for certain. It’s been fifty years since JFK, and the cover-up, including misdirection (the Waldron movie scheduled for release later this year, for instance) is ongoing.
Had Reagan died, he might now be considered a martyr for a cause. We only know for certain that a Bush would have ascended to the presidency. That name has a way of popping up.
We don’t know much about anything, really. Ever.
We are off to Tucson today, fun awaits! I’ll have to edit, fix typos, etc., later today.
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If presidential elections don’t matter (as you frequently say) why would the 2000 and 2004 elections need to be fraudulently rigged as you imply above and who would stand to gain?
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It is my belief, Jack, that while different power blocs reside in the shadows and shift their money for maximum advantage, that there is nothing at stake for ordinary folks.
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Jack, you do realize that they (the Democrats and the Republicans) no longer debate the defense bill in congress, right, even though they do debate bills to restrict abortion or bills to extend unemployment insurance. So in some ways elections do matter while in other ways they don’t matter, IMHO. But neither Obama or Romney were going to veto the defense appropriations bill. Some stuff is beyond elections and representative government.
At least that’s how I see it.
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Clinton(s) and Obama haven’t missed a beat. Architects of The Project For A New American Century perhaps didn’t anticipate Clinton upsetting Poppy, but it sure seems that the neocon gang — Pearle, Wolfowitz, Kristol, Powell, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bolton, Libby, Rice, et al. — was ready to go in the early 1990s.
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Just another series of hobgoblins.
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Your studied opinion? Or just your regular?
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Oh, I’ve studied it.
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Swede, here is a list of countries by incarceration rate. You will notice that we incarcerate more of our citizens than Cuba does, and way more than Venezuela does. That’s because we are a prison country.
Lizard genes or not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
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Some times ya just got to ask yourself the question Steve.
Why?
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-inevitable-result-of-amoral-secular.html
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Maybe we should do what the Chinese did, except we could sterilize the mother after her first child. Or we could do dna tests and castrate the men after fathering their first out-of-wedlock kid.
How many kids you got Swede? More than your fair share, i’d imagine. I hope at lest one is a hippy. You deserve it.
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I support legislation allowing one illegitimate child per welfare recipient. Any additional babies must have the fathers (sperm donors) names supplied in order for the state to attach their wages.
Have had three kids. All college athlete non-hippy types.
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CAUCASIAN studies at Redneck U?
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So no Albert Einsteins or Carl Sagans or Steven Jobs’ in your little clan, eh? Well i feel for you. Not everyone’s kid can go out and transform our understanding of our world. Don’t worry, somebody has to be the Joe Theismanns and sell pills to keep our prostates from having a “fit.” There’s a good living to be made selling pills. And of course we love them. Who doesn’t love Joe Thiesman? And Notre Dame? And our kids?
Hopefully they won’t ever be asked to pay taxes to run all those prisons and keep all those humans on ice. That would be horrible, wouldn’t it?
Do your kids believe we live in the land of the free and the home of the brave? Or do they know and think about the fact we put more of our citizens in jail than Cuba and Venezuela and China and Iran? Or do your kids just figure that freedom means more jails, Swede?
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Oldest went to private college on academic and athletic scholarship. His last semester profs gave him a 4.0, graduated with a cumulative 3.5. Others are “B” students.
As far as “icing” our population are you proposing letting some out? Have you noticed what’s happening in many urban areas? Chicago, for instance?
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ComplexMedia Kimble author.
“In 2012, Chicago amassed 506 counts of homicide, making it the country’s murder capital. While murders in the windy city have dropped drastically since the 1990s (By comparison, there were 943 homicides in the city in 1992) 2013’s statistics are already troubling. There were 43 murders in Chicago in January alone. What will this mean for the rest of the year?
The homicide rate in Chicago received widespread media coverage last summer after 152 deaths occurred between June and August, leaving the city and its leaders under scrutiny as the nation waited for someone to take action.The death of Hadiya Pendleton, an honor student who performed at President Obama’s inauguration and was killed just a week later, proves that action has yet to come.”
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Liberty College? Grove City? Patrick Henry U? Juest guessing here.
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Most of my writing here, Swede, has to do with twisted morals of the kind you demonstrate. Don’t EVER come here and preach, you goddamned CAUCASIAN. Ever.
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Swede,
Does that wage-attachment clause apply to “out-of-wedlock,” single, divore`es and divorce`s too? Widows and widowers? Or what about eliminating the per-child tax deduction? No worries, just a theocratic psudo-hobgoblin on the loose, no doubt.
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