I don’t have three hours and seven minutes to watch Jake the Awake carry on about the supposed uprising in Mexico these past few days. I knew it was fake. I did not know why it was staged, and still don’t.
I like Jake (formerly “Jake the Asshole”) and appreciate his comedic chops and insight. In the past he has ridiculed the NFL and its staged contests. I am surprised he is still on YouTube, as controlled an outlet as Tass ever was. Perhaps YT knows that because of his antics Jake will not be taken seriously by people who believe in news.
Anyway, last night and the night before I watched James Bond die, spending over two hours of my time on that farce, thereby avoiding the Mexican one.
Daniel Craig is aging, and if you look at his facial profile, and focus on the ears, as I do, he has a bit of an Alfred E. Newman quality about him. It was time for a replacement, and this time they are apparently focused on a black woman, British actor LaShana Lynch. I don’t see that working, not because she’s black, not because she’s a woman, but rather because she is not white, and not a man.
Anyway, back to Jake, I know two people who were on the Western Coast of Mexico in a tourist compound, and who were in a State of Fear. In polite society, I have learned to keep my f****** mouth shut. But they are back now, and safe, Jake be thanked.
Piece of Mindful 
Mark, what are the uprisings in Mexico? No fucking idea. Please explain.
When I was in Thailand during the holidays we drove by a giant billboard that said Pray for Thailand. I asked my wife what Pray for Thailand was all about. And i started giggling when I heard it was because Cambodia was “attacking” Thailand. Because Thailand is at war with Cambodia. Did anyone here know that? Be honest. No, you didn’t, but that’s OK because we know this shit is staged.
Like the new war with Iran. What a bunch of 1984-ish nonsense.
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The story in Mexico is that drug kingpin was killed by government forces, and that the “cartels” reacted by setting the country on fire. The U.S. issued “shelter in place” advisories for U.S. citizens down there. My two relatives, I think near Cancun, were in a resort compound, and were afraid, the whole objective, state of fear. Police were visible all about.
The movie Wag the Dog does a good job of explaining how a war can be created on TV. At one point Di Niro explains to someone who is still in war mode “The war’s over. I saw it in TV.” Not one shot was fired but the whole country was convinced that U.S. troops were fighting in Albania. All because the President molested a girl scout, and they needed misdirection.
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Meanwhile I haven’t seen a battle headline for the Ukraine war hoax in over 3 months. Guess all the film crews and actors were moved to the middle east, which oddly just like last year the attack ended in a day. Wonder if oil stocks will be up on Monday morning…..pfft!
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Some hoaxes don’t age well, like the “we stand with Ukraine one”. The blue and yellow yard signs are looking very long in the tooth now, if you can find one anymore. I started noticing after about a year – in 2023, ancient history now – the yellow started fading really badly.
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“I don’t see that working,”
You might also have mentioned preposterously (for the historic role) FAT… and DENSE of thought.
DEI, rainbow horseshit.
Back to the movie(s)… I probably mentioned this before; Daniel Craig is my favorite Bond. Yep, agreed, he’s done – he knows it. I recently tried to watch a few of the older Sean Connery offerings, and then one I remember clearly laughing at: Live and Let Die (Roger Moore and Jane Seymour). Moore’s humor is really awful, but the bits with the other characters still made me chuckle – especially Sheriff J.W. Pepper – whom I have quoted in other screeds.
Skyfall.
Ben Whishaw might also be the best – Q.
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Forget to mention that the theme song there in Live and Let Die was allegedly composed for the movie. I wonder if the crew that wrote the Beatles stuff also went on to assist “Paul” with Wings, etcetera.
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Live and Let Die was a George Martin composition. McC was commissioned to write the theme, but was probably not up to the task, being a phony. I was surprised to learn that Martin put his name on the song. Maybe he got fed up.
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I watched that movie recently myself.. first time I ever really paid attention to the lyrics of that song. Kind of a horrible message to pump out for decades over the airwaves – inverting “live and let live” into “screw you, I’m out for number one, and just following orders, whoever I have to walk over” – but great composition by Martin..! LOL. I love the tone shifts and everything. And I understand the appeal of cynical, gangster romanticism.. as fantasy and escapism from the grind most people are in.
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Wag the Dog is not cynical enough of course. It was prelude to Monica Lewinsky, and Clinton bombing the aspirin factory or whatever it was.. priming people to view it through the lens of “he needed a distraction.” There’s even a scene that uncannily foreshadows the Lewinsky imagery – a photo was released of her in some sort of girl scout looking uniform. I forget exactly, but so on the nose that, when I looked it up with some “normies” once, even they were a bit at a loss to explain it away.
But of course the whole Lewinsky affair had to be a manufactured narrative – reshaping the mass mind, men are pigs, the president and institutions are bunk, etc etc. The movie hasn’t been made that really gets to the higher level scripting – though I guess there are also PR flaks at lower levels, like Deniro and Hoffman in that film. Just that the whole thing probably muddies the water even more than a more transparently phony myth making movie.. in that it purports to peel back the curtain.
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Fakeologist had somebody on explaining how the price of silver played into the staging of the Mexican hoax. Apparently silver is in abundance within the Mexican sphere of influence. I do not find it hard to believe that the bottom line on all of these hoaxes is the bottom line.
Meanwhile, it looks like the Iranian fracas is mirroring the Venezuelan nonsense as it appears there is an ongoing overt change of management for the world’s oil companies. What popped into my head was the regime change of ancient Babylon with Persia coming in and taking over. That change has always been claimed as an all out war when IMO it was one close cousin replacing another and simply changing the signage and the letterhead. (The actual capture of the city of Babylon was achieved without resistance.) I think that’s what we have here in these new wars is simply change of management with a soupçon of military drama thrown in to camouflage the fact that these el supremos et al share the same diseased blood.
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Nice summation Tyrone. Can you clarify what you mean on the silver price? As people here should know silver has been skyrocketing in value past few years (mostly after 2022), along with gold and other precious metals.
I’m in Washington area this week and seems like people are on edge about the Iranian affair. You’d have to stick a hot poker up my keister to get a response out of me these days from the news. I have trouble feigning concern into the latest crisis of the day when it comes up in small talk. It’s led to some awkward moments like when my old man was breathless about the Isreali “kidnappings” back in October 2023, – there even may be a hostage or two left?? Anyhow I started giggling when he expressed outrage at the Hamas barbarians. I don’t know if other people here suffer that same issue.
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Just like today on the news that had some douchebag from the department of defense on the news saying “Iran will never have nuclear weapons!”. One of the few true things I have heard on the news, or from the mouth of military officer in a long time. Because as we know nukes are fake, so no one has the weapons.
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I find it refreshing, though I do not know what is really happening in Mexico, Venezuela, or Iran, that the Trump regime is taking us back to more reflexive impulses, that we solve problems by bombing the shit out of places that cannot be visited.
Here’s a cautionary tale that I’ve never been able to sell, not even to the bright minds who stop by here now and then: OPEC was a creation of the oil cartel, and not of nomads riding camels. When they needed a price adjustment, OPEC was a useful demon. For that reason we never openly attacked Saudi Arabia. It is our stepchild. The Cartel owned OPEC and used it effectively.
So, during Covid did you notice that all of the countries of the world were on the same page? There were minor deviations, like Tanzania and Sweden, but minor for sure. We visited Kenya last year, and even out in Safari country there were still stickers on the floor about where to stand and warnings about masks posted on doors. They appeared everywhere at once! We have a one-world ruling class, always have. As such, squabbles among countries, as the U.S. bombing Venezuela and Iran, are staged. Some other game is afoot.
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You don’t need to sell it… it is self evident.
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So which families currently own the oil companies and which are getting them, if that’s the case? Are they linked to different state power blocs, ie Western vs Eastern?
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The only ones I would know about would be Standard of New Jersey, Ohio, Arco, BP … Rockefeller family. Pantepec, as I recall, was owned by the Buckley family.
Interesting, I read once, that the family that founded Motorola, the Galvin’s, still held the majority interest and that all of the publicly traded stock was a minority share. Official sources say that is not true, that Vanguard now owns most of it. So I could be full of shit.
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Absolutely, a change of signage. Ever notice that the teeming masses of these central and south American countries look indigenous, but the ruling class looks Aryan?
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Vanguard, correct me if I’m wrong, but I think they generally just “own” shares, via their index funds (?) and don’t exercise any managerial control.. I ought to know this more certainly but I can never keep it all straight. Maybe technically they could exert some control, but in practice they never do? In general though pretty sure they just buy or sell based on their various “index” parameters, so that family could still have management control even with less stock. And too they probably have some different class of stock that gives more executive control. I’d guess.
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