Parroting intelligence

Another person, not me, took the words of our friendly resident sociopath wherein he attacked me for the umpteenth time, and noted that he doesn’t seem to be able for formulate thoughts in a coherent manner. He’s going through the motions, using words that seem to fit … but not quite. He’s imitating. There is no native intelligence.

That’s was a potent observation. If it were just him, I’d not bother writing here. But it couples with other thoughts I’ve had in dealing with so many others on the blogs … they don’t change! They don’t get better. They don’t move forward. If they believed eight years ago that the moon is a balloon, they still believe it. No amount of evidence will sway them.

I look back occasionally on things I’ve written in the last eight years, and I am generally happy with content and sentence construction, but also see that there was much advancement in store in the future. For instance, I was writing favorably of Obama back in 2008, and I would not just become disenchanted with the man, but come to understand that the office has zero power, so that only craven actors can have “successful” presidencies. Looking back, I see I have covered much ground in understanding. I’m happy about that, because it means I have purpose in my writing, that I am moving forward.

I remember the words of Kevin Costner in the movie JFK, that what happened on 11/22/63 was coup d’état, a line delivered with excellence by a highly skilled actor. I did not understand it. After all, we still had elections and anyway, coup d’état is what happens when men in bling-bling uniforms go on TV and tell us we have a new government.

I understand the line now. He was right.

Forward movement, better understanding, each day pushing the ideas that are so hard to grasp. Understanding only comes if I keep pushing, and yes, with each new breakthrough comes a bigger problem. Now I am confronted with not just a crime, coup d’état, bad actors and a riddles inside conundrums, but Oglesby’s words, “…the corruption and criminality of the state itself.”

And I will keep on pushing for better understanding. I love writing, of course, but more importantly, I love the idea that in so doing, along with reading and thinking, that I am moving forward in life.
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Here’s a troubling thought: Swede says global warming is a hoax. He needs to follow through on that, but won’t, of course: A hoax to what end? Why do so many scientists lie? Are they all dishonest? Are they so shallow that they are bought for a few grants here and there? Do they have no integrity? Swede is badly in need of forward movement, a breakthrough. because frankly, I think he’s on to something. He has merely reduced it to its simplest elements, people lying for money.

Most people are not like that. There are people who knowingly tell lies and get paid for it. But all of those men and women who are advancing climate change are not bad people. They studied too hard for too many years, and pride themselves on intelligence, insight and integrity. There’s something more going on there. I am not going to worry about it, but do ask that Swede come forward now and advance his ideas on the subject with the idea that while he has spotted a problem, he needs to push it harder to reach a better understanding. It’s work.

I don’t say that because I have the answer. I don’t. Maybe the scientists are right. Here’s where I am at: Many years ago I sat on our couch reading, and I remember a moment like a wave of fresh salty ocean in my face. I realized that my fear of communism, embedded in me by news, school and entertainment, was based on lies. There was nothing to be afraid of, and that dark foreboding menace, the Soviet Union, was nothing to be feared. I could relax. It was a breakthrough!

So too have I come to realize that this foreboding nightmare that so many smart people, even Chomsky, are prattling about, climate change, is something that I can do nothing about. Buying a Prius won’t help, nor will these annoying fluorescent bulbs that don’t put out enough light. I am relaxed. I don’t care about it.

I want to know more. Al Gore is not a man of character, in my view, so that his decision after 2000 to become the climate change guru was probably calculated for some unstated purpose. But the lack of integrity of one disingenuous man is not enough to base a whole outlook on. If climate change is a hoax; if we have nothing to fear, then what is going on? It is more than money. Is it groupthink? Cultism?

Answer please, Swede.
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Life in These United States: Use of critical thinking skills = “having a conspiracy theory”

We have … used that computer model about input, process, output, where the process is the thinking about whatever the input, or activating event is. … I remember the first time I talked about this on the show was after the supposed assassination of Osama bin Laden … in 2011 … May … Obama gets up and he gives a speech where he basically says “Yup. We got some actionable intelligence about the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. We sent this elite group in called Seal Team Six …” that sounds like something out of a Hollywood movie … “and they killed bin Laden.”

Ten minute speech, over a hundred logical fallacies. No evidence presented. They dumped the body in the ocean. And like an hour later people were doing the Pledge of Allegiance at Ground Zero. Not a lot of processing [of] evidence there.

I’ll never forget the day I was listening to Rush Limbaugh and one of his callers – it was a rare caller who was taking issue with something he said – and the caller had the audacity to say, on the air, “Well, I really encourage your listeners to do their own research.” And Rush Limbaugh snapped at him and said “No! My listeners don’t need to do their own research. That’s what I’m for.”
(Bruce Veinotte, January 20, 2014 Podcast #331, Procrastinating NOW! (or soon), Part 2 – Techniques for Less Worry and More Action)

It is rare to come across anyone in this land who can see through something so transparent as the supposed killing of Osama bin Laden back in 2011. No evidence, body dumped in the ocean, no photos, as they are too gruesome (say the people who rush ISIS beheading videos front and center for us). I saw all around me that people were eating it up (the Pledge at Ground Zero inducing “think I’m gonna puke” sensations). And I thought “what the hell is wrong with these people?”

My way of thinking is far more basic – do not go where evidence does not take me. It is called “critical thinking,” otherwise known in this dunce-capped land of ignominy as “having a conspiracy theory.”

Helric Fredou
Helric Fredou
The events around Charlie Hebdo are fraught with similar lapses in credible evidence, the very photos of the supposed Kouachi Brothers are two men wearing hoods! Come on people! At what point do you stop trusting?

There is one event during that affair that might prove a Rosetta Stone to what really happened. Police Chief Helric Fredou supposedly committed suicide hours after the other killings. The story is slipping down the memory hole, as it does not fit the narrative. But for people who actually have critical thinking skills, and even an ounce of natural skepticism, it has to register with a loud thud. Something ain’t right.

JC, over at 4&20 cites the following from Paul Craig Roberts:

Neoconservatives arrayed in their Washington offices are congratulating themselves on their success in using the Charlie Hebdo affair to reunite Europe with Washington’s foreign policy. No more French votes with the Palestinians against the Washington-Israeli position. No more growing European sympathy with the Palestinians. No more growing European opposition to launching new wars in the Middle East. No more calls from the French president to end the sanctions against Russia.

That more or less sums up what I would call a “credible motive.” No doubt Roberts struggled with the word “using” instead of “causing.” And no doubt he knows, as I do, that when he uses the word “neoconservatives,” he includes one who doesn’t mingle with them in public but surely knows them all in private, Barack Obama.

We suffered now fourteen years of Neocons in the White House. I don’t worry too much about that, however, as I know the power of that office to register just barely above zero.
There’s an old Taoist saying: “Those who know don’t say; those that say don’t know.”

Fantasyland

I committed a cardinal sin of writing yesterday … oh wait. I do that all the time. Up on the right above it says something about the difficulty of being concise. It takes work, and with blogging writing is throwaway stuff, seen once and forgotten. So I don’t put much effort into it. Anyway, my sin yesterday was writing about more than one topic in a post. I started off writing about football and gambling when I really wanted to write about that sociopathic monster. I’ll get better at blogging. I’ve only been at it eight years now.
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fantasy-footballBut I started to write about when I was young and in Billings and when we went to the horse races, drank beer, and when the horses were coming down the stretch if we had bet a winner, our brains were just lit up with excitement. For a measly $2 bet. Later I read that the sensation we experienced, the combination of beer and gambling, is the same nerve center lit up by cocaine.

Not too long after that I was the guy in charge of the office football pool. All we did was pick winners, and the person who got the most right won $30 or so. Again, small stakes, but we watched football as if there were a huge stake involved. A little bit of gambling goes a long, long way.

I have talked to a few people now about the Seattle/Green Bay game, and we are all in agreement it was an amazing athletic performance, but each person I talked to also mentioned the bet he made, taking the points, giving the points. Football is about four things, maybe in order of importance: gambling, drugs and alcohol, advertising revenue, and the game itself. That last item is in the right spot. The first three, I am not sure.

I watch a couple of talk shows on sports now and then, and have picked up a couple of insightful remarks. One had to do with the games that were broadcast from London earlier this year. The commenter, whose name I’ve forgotten of course, said that the league does not care if fans actually go and watch the games in London. What they want is an early morning Sunday game to go with the three others, so that Sunday from 9 AM to 9PM is all football. The NFL understands television.

On another occasion someone mentioned that perhaps 7% of NFL fans had ever actually been to a game. I have been to games in New York City, and found them boring. It was hard to see the action, half the time at the other end of the field, and the wind was freezing cold. The players spent an inordinate amount of time with helmets off just standing and talking. TV ads were playing.

Football is made for TV. TV is owned by advertisers, everything else secondary. Get a group of people with jobs and money in one place, and advertisers light up like they are high on cocaine. It should come as no surprise that the Superbowl is an advertising celebration more than a football game. They are spending hundreds of millions on those ads, which have become an event.

Back in the early 90s I was invited to join a new gambling enterprise called “Fantasy Football.” With a friend I formed a “team” of players we “drafted” and then “played” other teams each Sunday to win maybe a couple of hundred bucks at season’s end. By luck of the draw I was given the first draft pick, and so took Joe Montana. Our team did not do well. But eventually I ended up being the “league commissioner.” Each Monday morning I had to gather the stats off the sports pages and put out a sheet showing winners, losers, scores. I did that for two years, and burned out.

And dumb as I was, I thought that perhaps the NFL was not keen to the fantasy idea. After all, it was turning the game into a gambling spectacle. Little did I know that the NFL invented the idea. Football was already popular, but fantasy football took it to yet a new level. As Green Bay fan, I wanted to see their games. As an owner of a fantasy team, I had a stake in just about every game shown on TV. I now had a reason to watch football all day every Sunday. That is all Fantasy leagues are for – a way to get people to watch more games, out-of-market games.

I gave it up, and now only watch some football, usually with an iPad or a book in my lap. If I am interested in the outcome of a game, I record it so I can fast forward through the ads*. If I am really bored, I can fast forward between plays too, as a game is really only about 18 minutes of action.

As I watched the crowd reaction to Seattle’s impressive win, I realized that they were experiencing that rush I experienced watching horses – gambling fueled by alcohol, probably other drugs too. This nation is not addicted to football. It is addicted to gambling. It is like cocaine. That is all the NFL is – a gambling vehicle.
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*The NFL has to be concerned about fast-forwarding through ads and must be working on ways to get people not to do that. Here’s one I heard about recently: Texting. People are chatting about the game as it goes on with their mobile devices, and so have to stay in real time. Clever, eh? By power of suggestion, I expect texting to be part of each Sunday’s religious experience along with the booze, the gambling, the advertising, and – oh yeah, almost forgot – football.

Philistines

I had breakfast yesterday morning in a small restaurant nearby, and sat with my back to the wall, as is my custom. I like to watch people. At the table next to me was a couple, obviously not married, as they were conversing. She spoke in a loud voice, self-assured and used to commanding attention. She calmly explained to her partner that the reason for current low gas prices was a plot to put the Bakken producers out of business, so that the United States would not attain energy independence.

As the conversation went on she tossed out some technical jargon, and I realized that she was probably a CPA, or somehow connected to taxes and finance.

She’s part of the best and the brightest, I suppose. I don’t think she has a clue, but she operates on that high level of cluelessness that insulates her from reality, probably reading the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Forbes. Those are all good publications, of course. They are just not enough of the world.

I spent most of my career on the perimeters of the oil and gas business, among small producers. These are smart and technically gifted people, engineers, land swappers, geophysicists, and yes, even geologists. I started out knowing nothing, of course, and learned a lot from them.

But a man has to be a man, at least once in a while. The adhesive glue that binds those people together is no different from that which binds teachers, Democrats, or the Ku Klux Klan: groupthink.

These men and women, called “independent oil and has producers,” need a huge gift from the public, access to our commons. To approach the public with that idea and to say “we want to do it because we hope to get rich” does not fly. They need a cover story, so they use energy independence.

What a crock. Higher up the line, in the real oil business, the one where they talk about “elephants” instead of the small pockets of hydrocarbons that independents chase, there are no national boundaries. None could care less whether or not the United States makes enough oil and gas to feed itself. There’s no need to let these people onto our lands, building their roads and pads and pipelines. They like to imagine they have no impact, but that is only true in the same sense that the impact of the desk sitting here in my office is measured only by the small footprint the four legs have.

Anyway, I did something both stupid and smart at once … there was a meeting held by the supervisor to the Lewis and Clark National Forest in Billings one night, a woman who stood up against the oil and gas people and was eventually hounded (and personally threatened) out of her job. That night I sat on the side of the room with some fellow Montana Wilderness Association members, and spoke against allowing these people on to the Rocky Mountain Front. I’ll never forget the palpable greed and anger that filled that room, the searing glances … “He spoke against us” said a fellow named Mac the next day. I’d never have a another client in that room, and shortly thereafter took a hefty pay cut from one for whom I did work.

Eventually I would ease out of Billings entirely, make my way to Bozeman, and eventually Colorado. This is not a straight line, a linear progression. I was changing in so many ways, and was unknowingly easing myself out of that business. To that point it was all I knew, but my world was getting bigger by the day. Many things were going on in my life, but from an economic standpoint, having so few ties to the business in Billings certainly helped make it easier to decide to move on.

Some might say I did a stupid thing. In retrospect, I suppose it isn’t that big a deal, and did not make that much difference. I was a well-known progressive anyway, so that my words that night were not a coming-out so much as pure defiance. And, I did OK after, not like I entered a monastery.

But group pressure and financial incentives are a driving force that will eventually destroy everything around us. It can be no other way. Anything that has the potential to produce private wealth, no matter its aesthetic value, will be destroyed by incessant pressure of unrelenting commerce. Roadless lands, wilderness, even national parks will come under pressure, and never a true word will be said about the reason for their destruction – greed. All other supposed motives are window dressing.

The only thing that stands between assets of high non-monetary value and the Philistines of the world of commerce is government. So it should come as no surprise that “gubbmint” is a hated evil, one that industry despises. They will always despise government until they take complete ownership. They are very close to their goal.

Don’t get 399’d

Shhoters

The shooters in the images to the left are, we are told, the Kouachi Brothers. How do we know that? They are masked, after all. They could be anyone from CIA to Mossad to MI6 to the Tsarnaev … Hey! The news says those are the Kouachi Brothers! That’s all you need to know. Shut off your mind. Get those swirlies going in those eyes. Believe, dammit. Believe.

Here’s a news item from Le Monde, which ought to seal the case.

PARIS (AFP) – Investigators disclosed today that Bernard Maris, chief editor of Charlie Hebdo, was mortally wounded by Warren Commission Exhibit 399, otherwise known as the “magic bullet.” Officials at the National Archives in Washington, DC, confirmed on Thursday that the bullet, long encased in a thick plastic display, had escaped the week prior and was known to be on the loose, doing its thing again. Its whereabouts are currently unknown. Citizens world-wide are advised to be on the lookout for a pristine bullet that stops in midair, makes sharp turns, and shows no wear despite having caused unimaginable human suffering.

In other news, from trusted source New York Times…

PARIS – Investigators, who thought they had found Said Kouachi’s ID in a getaway vehicle backtracked, saying that to their own amazement the ID was actually that of 9/11 hijacker Satam Al Suqami (whose ID was also found in the rubble of seven buildings in New York in 2001 even as no plane parts manage to survive the cataclysm). How it made its way to the scene of the Paris shootings is a mystery. “But,” said a police investigator, “we have found with events of this nature that strange things happen and that we are wise just to keep quiet and believe what we see. Otherwise, we might get 399’d.”

I love to make fun of the ordinary Joe, the doe-eyed casual news observer who sees events like this and unquestioningly accepts all the evidence as real. But I have been that doe-eyed person. I have taken events on the news at face, only later being set straight by those of more skeptical bent. So after years of observation, getting better as time goes on, it is easy to see the holes in Charlie Hebdo and be highly suspicious that this is yet another false flag.

That, of course, does not solve the crime. As anyone who as plunged the depths of these events knows, the underworld of intelligence operations is littered with false clues, false leads, and real domestic white Christian criminal masterminds. It is important, then, to try to keep eyes on the prize. To what end? It was easy to see with 9/11 that the object was a clash of civilizations, and attacks on a string of Middle East countries that happened to be Muslim. Charlie Hebdo appears to be designed to advance that narrative.

I do not know, of course. I do live in a parallel universe to the typical observer of events, seeing through most lies, probably only fooled on a higher level. After all, the “clues” left behind in events like 9/11, Boston, Hebdo are so stinking obvious that it is almost as if we are being taunted. “Look,” they are saying. “Look at the ease with which we fool John Q. Citizen. What are you gonna do about us?”

Here’s a guy who can string together clues over decades, making a case that many major events in our recent past are contrived for higher purposes.

“There have been four incapacitating political crisis in Washington since World War II: McCarthyism, Dallas, Watergate and Contragate. Students have been struck by the deep continuities between them: continuities of personnel, transnationality, and outcome. … By their decadic regularity, they deserve to be regarded as period readjustments of the open political system in which we live. At the center of all four crisis have been perceived threats to the prosecution of the Cold War. … I am not suggesting that the four crises were part of some single conspiracy, only that we should recognize that in all cases the outcome was roughly the same: a prolongation of a system committed to the Cold War. … In all four crises, one sees the recurrence of CIA and other intelligence officials and assets, repeatedly those with more militant anti-Communist stances than the Presidents they have worked under. Another common denominator for such individuals has been the exposure to narcotic trafficking, from the China Lobby of the 1950s to the Contra support networks of the 1980s’.

In the case of Dallas, Watergate, and Contragate, a common denominator at a lower level has been former CIA Cubans working with [Johnny] Roselli and [John] Martino at the JM/WAVE CIA station in Miami. I suspect this continuity is more of a symptom of deeper relationships than a major causal factor in itself, but the symptoms are over and hardly marginal. (Peter Dale Scott, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK)

Since the end of the Cold War all of the happenstance events of terror involve a clash of cultures of a different type. Once it was Commies under every bed, now it is terrorists. Every event from 1990 forward has invoked Islamic archetypes. In the next theater, after the Middle East is subdued, I suppose our nightmares will be occupied by Chinese, or Russians, or who knows … but the obvious point is that within our own societies there exists an evil force that is managing our in-house movie, making sure we hate and fear the correct enemies so that the state is not impeded in its ongoing wars of aggression.

Images of Abu Ghraib torture were kept off American media, as our president did not want to upset our sensitivities. Recently images of beheadings by supposed ISIS members (more likely covert Western agents, says parallel universe guy) have made their way directly to our screens unimpeded by any thoughts of our sensitivities.

C’mon, people. Think about it. Who is managing your internal movie screen?

Free thought in a land of Latter Day Saints

Richard MooreRichard K. Moore retired from Silicon Valley in 1994 and moved to Ireland, and since then has been trying to understand “how the world works.” That’s quite a task, not unlike trying to understand plate tectonics while standing in a corn field in Iowa. There is only so much the human mind can grasp. By definition all of our understandings of the complicated human affairs around us are reductionist. Still, we must try.

Moore’s piece from late last year, Mind Control: Orwell, Huxley, and Today’s Reality, has sat in my basket for quite a while, Post-It flags sticking out of it like quills on a porcupine. Here are a few insightful passages:

One of the first large-scale deployments of cult technology, informed by this [mind control, aka MKULTRA] research, was the creation of the Jihad movement by the CIA. The immediate purpose was to destabilize the Soviet regime, by tying it down in a quagmire in Afghanistan. This operation was quite successful. Since then, the Jihad cult movement – aka Taliban, Al Qaeda, Kosovo Liberation Army, ISIS, etc. – has proven to be an extremely useful tool for the purpose of destabilizing regimes, in pursuit of US geopolitical objectives. These destabilization operations in turn provide an excuse for direct US intervention, as we’ve seen recently in Libya and Iraq, and as we may soon see in Syria.

It is perhaps best not to hit you, dear reader, which such a far-reaching idea so early on. It would help to read the whole article, a mere 4,000 words or so. But indeed, the CIA after after World War II did embark on mind control experimentation, leading to psychiatric abuses rivaling anything credited to the Nazis, and experimentation with drugs, including introduction of LSD into the mainstream consciousness during the 1960’s.

That is more or less where I left off, and Moore now fills the picture for me. I knew that Jonestown was a cult experiment followed by a mass murder (not suicide). To what end I could not fathom. To begin to broaden my picture, and see the Jihad movements, color revolutions, and now ISIS, as the result of decades of research and experimentation by our spooks … is not comforting. But it does speak to the nature of people, the need to follow, trusting that someone has better and deeper knowledge. We are tribal beasts.

We see this same multi-cult dynamic operating in the US, in the divisiveness between liberals and conservatives. Liberals are kept in the fold by stories of conservative folly, and conservatives are kept in the fold by stories of liberal folly. In a propaganda-only system of control, there would be one party line for everyone. In this multi-cult system, there are two party lines, which we might characterize as CNN vs. FOX.

While the two party lines have many differences, in order to keep the two cults separated, they in fact share basic essentials in common. They both sustain the myth that state policy is a response to public sentiment, and they blame the other cult for providing support for the ‘bad’ policies. In fact US policy is made outside of government, by financial elites, and the state aims to control public sentiment, not respond to it. In this way we can see CNN and FOX as collaborators, sharing the common goal of hiding this fundamental truth from the people. The Democratic and Republican parties collaborate toward this same goal, using Congress as a stage, where they carry on a theater of divisiveness, providing the appearance of a democratic decision-making process.

This part I get. I used to watch the Daily Show religiously every evening, taking delight in the crisp, smart humor. But then I thought … who listens to this stuff but the choir? FOX followers, the object of much of the humor, don’t watch the Daily Show. They are busy talking about liberals, making fun of them in the same manner, though FOX people are not very funny. Still, it is inner-directed group reinforcing behavior, nothing more, solidifying group identification and that of the enemy.

The Barack Obama phenomenon provides an excellent example of cult tactics in action. Obama himself is obviously a natural cult leader, articulate and charismatic. He came onto the scene offering an inspiring core belief in deep reform, “The ground of politics has changed; Yes we Can!”. The dramatic effect was intense, as if we were witnessing the Second Coming. Campaign volunteers became the core of the budding Obama cult, and they were given lots of work to do, binding their identity to Obama and his professed mission. … The success of this mind-control operation was truly amazing. Obama in fact proceeded to carry on and expand everything Bush had been doing; the ground of politics hadn’t changed at all. But the cult binding was so strong that his support continued, by the very people who had hated Bush because of the same policies. Packaged arguments were put forward, to keep people in the cult, blaming Obama’s performance on Republican opposition – the standard divisiveness tactic. Even today there remain legions of Obama loyalists. Once bound to a cult, leaving becomes psychologically difficult.

Well, I have no doubt lost all readers by this point, so I’ll write the rest of this to myself. No worries about offending anyone.

Mormons are a cult. Any religion is, but Mormons are the best example because they openly practice what others do only subtly, indoctrinating their youth, expelling any bad-thinkers, and making sure that the authority of the Elders is never, ever questioned. We all know about that. The thing that strikes me about the Mormons that I know is that they are so goddamned happy. They don’t have to think.

There’s another word that Moore uses that struck me as useful: Immunization. I know about this, having been brought up Catholic. Not only was I indoctrinated, I was immunized. Anyone who spoke against Catholics was doing the work of the devil, and I knew to avoid them.

There is another form of immunization going on in our society, and it is aimed at the likes of me and Moore and any others who have freed their minds, escaped, so to speak. It is the “conspiracy theory meme.” Moore writes quite a few paragraphs about it. Here is his close:

Thus for the majority of the population we have a tightly controlled, two-tier, mind-control regime. The thoughtcrime dynamic governs what the media says, and the conspiracy-theory dynamic immunizes people against other views. For the majority, the party line (either CNN or FOX) is ‘truth’, as in Orwell’s world, but without the need for Big Brother’s extreme methods.

Thus do I marvel at the mountains of important writing and research done by smart people with inquiring minds and scholarly habits, and how people who imagine themselves smart instantly reject and avoid it as a “conspiracy theory.” Thus is our most important information hidden in broad daylight. That is an amazing thought control accomplishment.

It is sheer genius. There’s no winning in our greater Latter Day Saint world. We’re mostly Mormons in the spirit. Consequently, I don’t worry about convincing people, converting people, or doing anything to advance the cause of free thought.

You either get it, or you don’t. If you do, then you understand what I am about to say: Life is beautiful, interesting, and intriguing. It is fun. And we cannot be fixed.

The modern-day oversoul

TVLife is interesting. I don’t know how to get that across to people who are living down below, down in that place where truth is handed you on a platter, where nothing is understood until explained by a two-dimensional talking head possessed of a one-dimensional brain. I wonder what it was like before television.

We reflect our environment. Americans have no reason to wonder why they revere certain facial structures, such as Lincoln or Washington, and abhor others, such as Hitler or Osama bin Laden. They don’t realize that it is merely stimuli used to control their thoughts.

BeheadingPerhaps two thousand years ago, certain leaders realized the state of the average human, and sought to bring order to chaos by introducing fables and symbols. No one understood the nature of the sun, the giver of life, so it became a god, the big deity alongside other minor ones like the moon (Meres, or Mary), the five wandering planets. Each year in the northern hemisphere, where most of us live, the sun would each day move further away on the horizon, and it got cold and plants withered and died. It kept moving away, but then stopped, and appeared by optical illusion to rest in place for three days. And then journey back. The son rose again.

BadattaWithout that return journey, humans were doomed. The solstice was a celebration of the son’s return. People imagined it had faces and personality and powers, and that it even cared about us.

Roman leaders realized that if they could place human faces on those symbols that people would bow to people instead of planets, and could thereby be controlled. Thus did the Roman empire adopt Christianity as the one true religion, destroying all the remnants of any other it could find, along with the people who believed otherwise.

LincolnIt’s a practice that repeats in other parts of life. Concepts that are too large for the average mind to grasp, like security in resources, elimination of underclasses, encirclement of potential enemies, and power for its own sake – no leader will appear on the TV screen and admit these to be the true objectives of wars and conquests. Instead, human faces have to be put on the concepts, making them into deities of a sort. In recent times, the desire to control resources became Osama bin Laden, the need to eliminate lesser beings the hooded “terrorist,” and the encirclement of potential enemies is now called “Putin.” These symbols become our reality, sublimely suggested to us day in and out on our electronic screens. Thus are our minds under control of the state.

French-terror_coldbloodedmurder-THUMBWe’ve had a bit of a blog kerfuffle these past few days over the attacks in France, whatever substance lie beneath. It’s mere imagery, the use of the “terrorist”, the mindless robot who kills without reason and out of sheer hatred and who therefore must be himself killed. It’s timeliness is undisputed, as it comes at a time when the President of France and those around him were deviating from control, making nice with Russia. That the actors were available, the script written in advance, and that it is all understood from one capital to another – befuddles people. Surely they cannot manufacture events of this magnitude on a dime! Surely it is a random event, unplanned, and unpurposed.

gw ghostStep back, jump on a cloud, get above it all. Of course they can and do. The leading classes and their armies of technicians, and planners, and hired thugs can put on plays of this type almost at will, as their resources, experience and technical skills are almost unbounded. The politicians whom we imagine to be our elected leaders are just actors, themselves scared of the power that manifests around them. They play along to survive.

140617bryan-williams1_300x206It’s a complicated world, but an interesting one too. Think of it this way: If they can make you believe, really believe in virgin births and men who rise from the dead and reside in your brain and need to be conversed with daily, can they not make you believe anything? They do have power over your perceptions, and they do have control of the TV screen. They do own your reality.

Thanks Zbig

Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski from Le Nouvel Observateur, January, 1998:

  • Q: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs [“From the Shadows”], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?
  • Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.
  • Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to provoke it?
  • B: It isn’t quite that. We didn’t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
  • Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn’t believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don’t regret anything today?
  • B: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

From The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, by Alfred W. McCoy, revised edition, 2003, page 505:

During the protracted civil war, rival factions used opium to finance the fighting, transformed and being transformed by the opium trade. If we combine U.S. satellite estimates and UN field surveys, Afghanistan’s opium harvest had grown tenfold from 250 to 2000 tons during the covert wars of the 1980s; and now doubled from 2,000 to 4,600 tons during the civil war of the 1990s. Through this twentyfold increase during the two decades of warfare, Afghanistan’s economy was transformed from a diverse agricultural system – with herding, orchards, and sixty-two field crops – into the world’s first opium monocrop. With much of its arable land, labor, water, and capital devoted to opium, the drug trade became the dominant economic force. The superpower withdrawal from Afghanistan left behind chaos that encouraged rapid growth in opium production. By 1992, when Russia and the United States ended military aid to their proxy armies, fourteen years of warfare had left – in a population of some 23 million – 1.5 million dead, 4.5 million refugees, and 10 million land mines. One third of the country’s population was displaced and rural subsistence economies had been “deliberately destroyed.”

I totally get you Zbig! What’s to regret? You scored some geopolitical advantage!

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Throughout history one person has been at the center of the most important events … the patsy. The events in France clearly indicate that Said and Charif Kouachi were patsies. My prime evidence in this matter is this: They are now dead. There will be no trial. That’s key in false flag operations. There can be no inquiry after the fact.

Here’s an interesting sequence of events, back in 1963 (the use of patsies goes way back in history, to Guy Fawkes and before). It’s one of those things that we simply accept at face value until we realize that it had to be planned. Lee Oswald was given a ride to work on the day Kennedy was murdered by a co-worker, Buell Frazier, who later testified that Oswald was carrying a package that the Warren Commission would say contained his gun.

But stop and think. If Oswald was being sheepdipped in the months prior to the assassination, he had to be monitored. He had to be kept available, out of jail, in the area. And indeed Oswald had a collection of ‘friends” – people of high station who we now know were CIA agents, Michael and Ruth Paine, and the white Russian immigrant George de Mohrenschildt. Such people are assigned the task of “babysitting” the patsy.

But what about Frazier? His job, it would appear, was critical, and not to be left to any ordinary Joe. He was assigned the task of making sure that Oswald went to work that day. What if Kennedy was murdered, and the patsy had called in sick?

Was Frazier part of the plot? Most likely he was hired and paid to do a job, and then later understood his role, and knew he’d be wise to shut up. After all, he is still alive. That’s a tell.

Patsies are housed and stabled and kept available for events as needed. When we hear that the Kouachi’s were on a “terrorist watch” list, I quickly understood the real meaning of that phrase. They were being watched by the real terrorists, and made ready when needed to take the fall for a crime.

So too, as the discerning eye looks at 9/11, for instance, we see the supposed hijackers kept on the loose, and reports on the suspicious activates mysteriously bottled up at lower levels of our law enforcement bureaucracy. The patsies were being babysat, moles inside the agencies were protecting them. They had to kelp kept free and available to take the fall on 9/11.

atta_universityparty_cu Badatta I assume they are all dead for real now, but imagine the horror that Mohammad Atta experienced when he saw what the photoshoppers at CIA had done with his photograph – they made him into a monster! They widened his head, lowered his ears (look at how they are almost down on his neck!), gave him a brand new mouth and chin, and made his eyes into sinister torches. Why, it’s the stuff nightmares are made of!

False flaggery, and this attack in France has all the earmarks of that, can only work if the ground is fertile. It plays into hatred. People love to hate selected groups, and Muslims right now are that group. The murders in France, now pinned on Muslim terrorists, feed hatred. People are loving it, eating it up. It feels so very good to be so morally superior. Now we get to go on a killing spree of our own. Hatred fuels more hatred, murder fuels massacres.

Americans, lock and load! More massacres are about to be committed in your name. Stand up, be counted. Be part of it.
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PS: By the way, you have to develop an eye for this sort of thing, but if you focus on the “Atta” photo above and on the right, you’ll easily see that under the nose is someone else’s mouth and chin, a total paste up, with the real Atta’s eyes and lowered ears, widened face. The lines where two photos are blended are obvious. Look closely, you’ll see two people in one photo. I can’t believe they get away with this stuff, but hell, it was on TV news. It’s true.

Clash of civilizations is a Western concept, not Eastern

From Thierry Meyssan:

We do not know who sponsored this professional operation against Charlie Hebdo, but we should not allow ourselves to be swept up. We should consider all assumptions and admit that at this stage, its most likely purpose is to divide us; and its sponsors are most likely in Washington.

Read the whole thing if inclined to weigh a dissident French view of the affair. I’ve been reading Meyssan for years and find him to be a keen observer.