We appear to reach a point in our development that I think of as “calcification,” wherein opinions harden and new information cannot penetrate consciousness. I suppose it happens to all of us, and I have either experienced it and do not know it, or am in line for the event. Nonetheless, I will operate on the assumption that at this point in my life, I can be reached and persuaded with new evidence, and that information can be assembled and reassembled to yield new and better explanations than those I currently rely on to make my world view seem coherent. The world is immense and complex, and we experience so little of it no matter how much we read and pay attention. We have to be open to new ideas!

I say this because my blog discussions yesterday, here with Swede and at 4&20 with Turner and Craig Moore, are with people ahead of me in line. All three seemed impenetrable, that is, they stand poised with baseball bats to swing at anything thrown their way that might interfere with calcified opinions of … what – 40 years in Swede and Craig’s cases? Turner, confronted with new information that did not match his existing explanations of events, got up on a high horse and said “prove it to me.” I told him to use his computer, fingers and brain to investigate for himself, to which he suggested I not be condescending.

That is probably true. I do that. If it is about changing minds, it’s a quixotic quest. My attitude is that minds cannot be changed by persuasion. Most opinions have been implanted by media, are not reasoned, and are constantly reinforced in the full spectrum of news, education and entertainment. They cannot be changed. People deviate a little from the herd, and then get pulled back in. Hardly anyone examines why they “know” things. To dislodge an implanted impression requires shock, which produces cognitive dissonance, which discomfort requires adjustment and realignment of viewpoints.

The normal reaction to shock, however, is what I call the “eye flash,” wherein a defense system put in place by education, news and entertainment deflects nonconforming information much as a baseball bat sends a ball off on a long trip. I first encountered that phenomenon with a young college student who was learning how to make movies. She wanted to do a documentary on the Armenian Holocaust, which she said was the first genocide of the 20th century. I suggested to her that perhaps the US treatment of tribes in the Philippines qualified for that honor, and I noticed an eye flicker. “Does not compute. US no do genocide. Only foreigners.” That flicker was the sign that the new information has been instantly dismissed, and was deep in the left field seats.

I have no duty to prove anything to anyone. Each of us is charged with observation and investigative duties. Over the years I’ve come to understand some things and have had to change my outlook on many, many occasions, and yet still have to wonder if anything I know is true. Here’s just a brief rundown:

• Education as we know it does not set us free. It enslaves us.
• Most people hate freedom. Hate it. They prefer security.
• Democracy only sort of works, and then only if there is a high level of organization, not currently present in our country.
• News media does not report news, but rather focuses our attention as leaders desire, on some things, away from others.
• Climate change might be real, might be an illusion. Individuals cannot affect it.
• Climate change should not scare us, however. We’ll survive, easily.
• Voting occasionally matters, usually on issues close to home.
• We’re not running out of energy. We can’t. There can be incalculable potential unlocked from the atom by cold processes, shown to us in a startling way on 9/11/01.
• In all political systems everywhere, real power is present but silent, and attempts to control all factions. Those that it cannot control, it attempts to destroy.

I got more and better stuff. We’re all unknowingly in a Stanley Kubrick film, and he’s hinting at us, poking ever so gently, because that was all he was allowed to do without himself getting killed. You think this world is strange? Oh yes, it is. Strange and fascinating. More so that we can fathom. And yet, comprehensible.

Long day, it was. But illuminating. Swede ended it on the proper note. Confronted with a comment longer than than one short paragraph, he said “Too long. Just skimmed.” “Go fuck yourself,” I responded, wanting to shorten the message for his attention span. I think he actually read that comment.

I’ve been around this block a few too many times. The war is on now, thousands of innocent people are being driven from their homes, and how many wounded or killed won’t be known for some time. It is well-known in the area what is going on. The further away one gets from Syria, the more clouded the issue will become. But by the time one gets to the USA, the issue will not be clouded at all. It will be a gigantic lie. Years from now we’ll learn that our American boys flying our American toys are bombing Syrian villages and towns, and reinforcing ISIS positions in the process. The whole thing is one big goddamned lie.

The war is on now to topple the democratically elected government of Syria. It is not a perfect government, but is far more representative of its people than our own. Americans haven’t a clue what their own government is doing. The United States military now is performing its terrorist function, and while supporting terrorists, is bombing and murdering innocent civilians. Soon they will hand out pictures of soldiers giving candy to children. The US military has an abundant supply of machines and bombs, stupid and deeply indoctrinated fighting men and women, and candy.

Those pictures of candy and kids – honest, that shit works. Americans eat that candy up.

Anyone who takes time to review evidence scattered about the Post-War era will find, as I have, certain oddities. The enemies of the United States generally have broad popular support. The allies of the United States, say for instance the leader of “free China,” Chiang Kai-shek, or Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, or Augusto Pinochet in Chile or our most recent friend and ally, Petro Poroshenkoturn of the Ukraine, turn out to be terrorists and often enough drug runners and thieves to boot. We generally can label them “fascists,” but that label, like “Nazis”, has lost substance, and only means “bad.”

More to the point, the people the United States supports are well-connected to large financial interests like oil companies or mining concerns, or even companies selling such trifling items as soda pop. In Syria, it is natural gas production and distribution at stake, with ExxonMobil and Aramco wanting to displace the current route of gas to Europe from Tehran to Damascus with an alternative route that benefits their own coffers.

It’s that simple sometimes.

I read a little story some time back in a book written in 1970 by Fletcher Prouty called The Secret Team. Prouty was attempting to illustrate how corrupt agents within government manipulate honest and corrupt officials alike to their own ends. The events that he described eventually mushroomed into what became known as the Bay of Pigs, an invasion meant to sucker JFK into bombing the island. The driving force behind the invasion was pissed off businessmen and mafioso who had lost casinos, sugar plantations and mines. They regarded Cuba as their island paradise.

Most of the American-connected criminal element had left Cuba and taken up residence in Miami after the revolution. In Prouty’s example a few of them were in touch with some workers at a sugar refinery in Cuba. They hatched a plan to set off bombs in that refinery and destroy it. The CIA thought it was a good idea and supported the idea, supplying the bombs.

In case you’re wondering, that is a criminal act. The U.S. was not at war with Cuba. It was simply terrorizing the place.

On the night that the terrorist act was to be committed, Cuban military officials intercepted the boat and the bombs and arrested the agents and those at the factory who supported them. Cuban security was very good because of the neighborhood block reporting system. The Cuban government not only knew about the scheme, but allowed it to develop so that they could arrest the perpetrators and get them out of their hair.

There’s a lesson here that I believed as a youth and Swede, who has not read this far, still believes, and it is this:

Cuba is not free. We are.

I woke up this morning wanting to write about football or Star Wars trivia – anything to get away from the dreary humdrum repeated spectacle of American politics. Zbig’s words “stunningly superficial” repeat again and again in my head. As I used to say about my departed older brother, there are many ways to reason with him … none work.

There are many ways to approach Americans about lies, propaganda, the futility of party politics, the utter corruption of our society and the warmongering machine that is raining hell on the rest of the world. None work. Americans are unreachable, secure in their ignorance, and happy to be diddled and bamboozled time and again by the owners of this place. This time it is ISIS. Before it was to prevent a massacre in Libya (when they were really causing one). Before that it was those fake WMD’s, also used to justify a massacre. There was the whole of 9/11 … it’s a hugely successful franchise.

It’s so frustrating. These plays always work! It’s like the American public has no defense, can’t stop the pass, can’t stop the running game, is even clueless about how the game is played. Americans are playing football without their helmets. No wonder they always lose.

• Did you see that? Do you believe it? A game winning touchdown called back because timeout was called!!!!!
• A whole supposed invasion of Ukraine by Russia a big lie with zero evidence in support!!!
• That pass knocked down in the closing seconds as the Broncos held on to beat the Chiefs!!! Close call!!!
• The whole of ISIS easily seen to be an American-financed terrorist force being used to justify more American aggression!!!
• The Bills are 2-0!!! That’s so good for that city, so that the owner might not pull the rug and do a midnight move to Toronto!!!
• Airliner disappears in mid-flight over the Pacific? Just disappears? Bullshit!!!
• Democrats and Republicans so painfully obviously using the same play book!!!
• Too many interceptions in that Vikings game. Maybe the Pats are spying on their practice sessions. Another SpyGate!!!

So by chance, at Facebook of all places, I came across an interview with Noam Chomsky, put up at Alternet and probably in a book I have on my shelf as well. The words are tightly reasoned and illuminating, and gave me great comfort. I know only a couple of people will bother to read it, least of all Swede, who will comment anyway. But these words landed on me like a soothing warm shower after a long hike.

QUESTION: You’ve written about the way that professional ideologists and the mandarins obfuscate reality. And you have spoken — in some places you call it a “Cartesian common sense” — of the commonsense capacities of people. Indeed, you place a significant emphasis on this common sense when you reveal the ideological aspects of arguments, especially in contemporary social science. What do you mean by common sense? What does it mean in a society like ours? For example, you’ve written that within a highly competitive, fragmented society, it’s very difficult for people to become aware of what their interests are. If you are not able to participate in the political system in meaningful ways, if you are reduced to the role of a passive spectator, then what kind of knowledge do you have? How can common sense emerge in this context?

CHOMSKY: Well, let me give an example. When I’m driving, I sometimes turn on the radio and I find very often that what I’m listening to is a discussion of sports. These are telephone conversations. People call in and have long and intricate discussions, and it’s plain that quite a high degree of thought and analysis is going into that. People know a tremendous amount. They know all sorts of complicated details and enter into far-reaching discussion about whether the coach made the right decision yesterday and so on. These are ordinary people, not professionals, who are applying their intelligence and analytic skills in these areas and accumulating quite a lot of knowledge and, for all I know, understanding. On the other hand, when I hear people talk about, say, international affairs or domestic problems, it’s at a level of superficiality that’s beyond belief.

In part, this reaction may be due to my own areas of interest, but I think it’s quite accurate, basically. And I think that this concentration on such topics as sports makes a certain degree of sense. The way the system is set up, there is virtually nothing people can do anyway, without a degree of organization that’s far beyond anything that exists now, to influence the real world. They might as well live in a fantasy world, and that’s in fact what they do. I’m sure they are using their common sense and intellectual skills, but in an area which has no meaning and probably thrives because it has no meaning, as a displacement from the serious problems which one cannot influence and affect because the power happens to lie elsewhere.

Now it seems to me that the same intellectual skill and capacity for understanding and for accumulating evidence and gaining information and thinking through problems could be used — would be used — under different systems of governance which involve popular participation in important decision-making, in areas that really matter to human life.

There are questions that are hard. There are areas where you need specialized knowledge. I’m not suggesting a kind of anti-intellectualism. But the point is that many things can be understood quite well without a very far-reaching, specialized knowledge. And in fact even a specialized knowledge in these areas is not beyond the reach of people who happen to be interested.

(My emPHASis)

I was half-heartedly watching a TV drama called Ray Donovan the other night. It is one of those productions for pay channels that draws rave reviews, most likely because it has swearing and nudity and is not interspersed with mind-numbing and psychologically subversive advertising. Consequently it seems more coherent than regular TV fare. The acting and casting are more skilled. One of the main characters is Mickey Donovan, played by Jon Voight, otherwise known as Angelina Jolie’s dad. I’ve not been able to locate him in the casting available on websites, but Mickey has a certifiably crazy friend, with erratic mannerisms and a goofy unshaven appearance. (I am guessing here that this is “Bunchy Donovan”, a family member who suffers from depression and addiction. I have not paid enough attention to be sure.)

As I was watching the other night, I noticed that Bunchy was talking about 9/11, and realized that I was witnessing some of the only permitted discussion of that event on television. And of course, the show’s writers and producers had it come from the mouth of a crazy person. But why?

This naturally leads to discussion of how much of our thought control regime is intentional, how much accidental, how much self-induced, and how much merely instinctive. In this particular episode, there was no reason to discuss the 9/11 event in terms of plot. The character was merely riffing. The writers could have been trying to demonstrate the character’s instability, and so chose skepticism about 9/11 as evidence. Or, in a more sinister manner, the show’s writers could have been trying to warn us that only crazy people doubt the official truth of 9/11.

If the latter, the show’s writers certainly have no skin in the game. They were hired because of their skill at their craft, and it’s highly unlikely that natural selection would yield people who are botkih skilled writers and who want to warn the U.S. public not to doubt its government. So I suspect that the lines were interjected in the drama from outside sources.

Who? From where? I have no clue. This I know, however: There are only a half-dozen companies that own all of our media, and there is no variety among them. They all spout the same lies as news, they all use stupid pretty faces on the screen to seriously tell us what serious events are happening in the world. Right now, for instance, all American media outlets, news and entertainment, are telling us that the Russians have invaded Ukraine and the Vladimir Putin is an evil man. That appears to be a lie. Sources closer to the action over there say otherwise, that there’s no evidence of any such troop presence of invasion, and Putin is highly regarded all over the planet outside our bubble.

Whether true or false, in a free media environment, there would be perhaps one skeptical voice saying “Wait, where’s the evidence?” There is not. All speak with one voice.

That speaks of heavy-handed control. I am not in the least surprised. Television is a powerful tool in the hands of the state, as it lulls viewers into a state of somnambulism and high suggestibility. No way does that tool escape control, no way are Americans allowed to see anything but approved opinions via that medium.

Those of us who have seen the evidence around 9/11, and I am boldly speaking for all of us skeptical ones, are deeply troubled by the nature of the event. Yes, there were real deaths and real explosions, and buildings really did evaporate before our eyes. But most of it was made-for-TV. There were no planes, but by the time we were told that one such phantom plane had hit the Pentagon, the idea was so firmly planted in our minds that we did not even have to see it. We never have seen it. We are also told that the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania (the “Let’s Roll” fable) went into an abandoned coal mine, and sunk into the ground leaving behind no airplane parts. That’s utterly absurd, and yet that is the power of suggestion coupled with the hypnotic effect of TV. People don’t doubt it.

They would doubt it, easily so, if one credible doubting voice were ever allowed to speak on TV. But there are gates and walls around it. Any who say anything contrary to official truth are disciplined, or, as Charley Sheen learned, out of work.

What is so troubling is threefold, one that it speaks of immense power of mind control to get away with such ludicrous fables as the official 9/11 one; and two, that there were many people involved in planning the event beforehand. Three is most upsetting – that they know our minds so well. They know how to do mass suggestion, and make it stick. I am not speaking of the pretty stupid people who read their scripts before TV cameras, as they are most likely clueless. I am talking about corporate executives, well-connected reporters like Andrea Mitchell (wife of Alan Greenspan), and government, military and intelligence officials at all levels.

After an event of that magnitude follows a cover-up, and fear is endemic among those who know the event was a lie. These are quite a different group than those who had foreknowledge. These are frightened people who know to shut up. They are guilty of nothing more than accessory after-the-fact, and with good reason. They need jobs, and also like being alive.

The cover-up of the murder of JFK has been going on now for fifty years. There are still no media voices who doubt official truth. There’s never been a credible official investigation. Fear is so inculcated in our media that even if there were smart people incidentally having pretty faces giving us our news, they would know to shut up. This is a powerful regime of thought control, and escape is virtually impossible. Occasionally we see a movie like Wag the Dog or Invasion do the Body Snatchers that attempt to smuggle some truth our way, but on television, there is none of that. Ever. Occasionally, and this may never be seen again, a bold effort is made to give us the truth directly, as did Oliver Stone with his movie JFK. That was 23 years ago, and there’s been nothing like it since. Hollywood is completely submerged now, and is even an official outlet for lies and fables, as the award-winning and god-awful movie Argo demonstrates. (You get no links from me on that piece of crap.)

So when I see a minor and certifiably crazy character on a made-for-TV drama with high production values and budget doubting official truth, I know it is no accident. We are being sent a subliminal message: Only crazy people doubt our government. It’s just reinforcement. If the character were a normal person of intelligence and possessing some pattern recognition and problem solving skills, he would not be given those lines.

September 11 should not pass without remembrance of honorable people who died in an act of disgraceful cowardice. A building symbolic of democratic government had its dome blown to bits. A respected president died of (an apparent) suicide in the face of execution by thugs. Then followed concentration camps and inquisitions, and a fascist government installed – one of the minor criminals of the 20th century, Augusto Pinochet, came to power.

There have been many others, much more important criminals, such as Churchill, Stalin, el-BJ!, Henry Kissinger and Nixon, George H.W. Bush, his son, and of course, Cheney. Poroshenko is getting rave reviews but is a minor player, like Pinochet a mere puppet on the CIA string. Barack Obama: I don’t know if he has a criminal mind or just reads his lines and enjoys all the perks of being president. He has stood idly by, however, and so has a place reserved in the annals of war criminals, men who should face civilized justice followed by “up the long ladder and down the short rope*”

September 11, 1973 was the day the democratically elected government of Chile was overthrown in an US backed coup d’etat. It is a dark day in history. May we never forget Pinochet or the thousands of victims left in his wake. May we 41 years later vow that it never happens again.

Oh wait. The current puppet just announced he’s going to topple the democratically elected government of Syria. It’s 9/11! It’s on! Syria’s president, Bashar Assad, is a brave man, I hope. Our thugs, given a chance, will murder him in cold blood as they did Allende, as they did Qaddafi (to Hillary’s delight). It is sad and distressing that men of low caliber such as Obama are held in high esteem while men of real value go down.

But for every American crime, every aggressive war, new leaders rise up. One man sat by as the US attacked Serbia without just cause, his country too weak to stop the attack. Vladimir Putin has become the most important statesman on the world stage today. May Russia rise to become what the United States always said it was, but wasn’t, really.
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“Up the long ladder and down the short rope,
To hell with King Billy and God bless the Pope!
If that doesn’t do we’ll tear them in two
And send them to hell in their red, white and blue.”
Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem, closing down the bar.

“When an honest man, honestly mistaken, comes face-to-face with undeniable and irrefutable truth, he is faced with one of two choices, he must either cease being mistaken or cease being honest.” – Amicus Solo

I suffer from the illusion that people will actually look at the evidence in matters of criminal behavior, especially the major events of our time. But they don’t. That’s my bailiwick. Most people get their opinions via absorption of mass media. Consequently, evidence can scream at them but they will not hear it.

For example, take just one small matter, that of the murder of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. The coroner’s report by Thomas Naguchi said that RFK died from a gunshot wound fired at close range directly behind his right ear and leaving powder burns. Sirhan was in front of him and too far away to have fired that shot.

There you have it.

But here’s a critical point: Hardly anyone knows about what I just wrote there. It passes into a void of fear and silence, and anyone with a public reputation who brings it up will come under severe attack. That’s why I conclude that there is considerably more power exerted in covering up these crimes than their actual commission. The culture of fear we live under is as oppressive as any Stalinist state, and don’t get me wrong here: I know Stalin had people murdered who knew too much. I am not being hyperbolic.

Here’s but one small example, an unimportant person, comedic actor, legendary dissipator, Charlie Sheen. He’s not even terribly bright, but he did have some swagger and had the balls to appear on Alex Jones’ Prison Planet (did I mention that Charlie is not that bright? Jones is nothing but a gatekeeper, in my opinion.) He said he did not believe the official story of 9/11.

We’re conditioned never to connect dots, but what happened to Charlie after that indeed was a direct result of his speaking up. He lost his job on Two and One-Half Men, Where I enjoyed his work, and later found himself locked in a closet in Manhattan covered in cocaine and surrounded by hookers. I assumed at the time that Charlie was supposed to be killed that night, but have since reconsidered. Our spooks are so goddamned good at the art of killing, if they meant to kill him he’d be dead. Charlie merely received a message:

STFU.

Celebrities have more impact on public opinion than politicians, and certainly more than academics and intellectuals. That’s why Charlie was singled out. His Jones appearance got the attention of a lot of people. He had to be silenced.

More importantly, any other celebrity who did not have his mind right got that message. That’s our culture of fear.

We had a lengthy discussion below, and I am pasting a redacted and long comment I made for the simple reason that it is the evidence contained in Dr. Judy Wood’s book Where Did the Towers Go? Like the bullet that got Bobby, people will shy away from knowing about this. Many will stop reading right here. But I am putting it up here anyway because just like a dog barking in the night, it may recede into the background of your consciousness, but will not go away. If you read this, it will trouble you.

Good bye, then.
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I got no takers below on the question of who is behind ISIS. I kind of expected that result. The minute I suggest that people are being diddled by mainstream media, there’s a rush for the exits. Why, the very idea!

We could be self-reliant, never trusting, always verifying, and dredge through information trying to piece together complicated scenarios to explain the behavior of power. We could use deductive reasoning, insight and experimentation, and try and fail until we form a coherent picture.

Or, we could just watch TV and, in a semi-hypnotic state, and passively absorb our views. We could just be somnambulist sponges.

Here’s Eric over at 4&20:

Well JC, it’s sure nice to know that Russia did not take back Crimea, and that their troops and tanks aren’t anywhere near Ukraine – LOL.

It’s the “LOL” that got me. The guy is not only stupid, but smug to boot! I’m not worried about hurting his feelings, as my take on Eric over these many years is that he’s impenetrable, and also, that he never comes near this blog. So feel free to talk about him, even insult him, as this is an Eric-free zone.

I’ve got a bigger mission here … why these constant wars? There’s no moral justification for them. We are in no way threatened by the countries we attack. But we are constantly attacking people. Why?

The character O’Brien in Orwell’s 1984 says to Winston Smith,

The primary aim of modern warfare … is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living … if it became general wealth it would confer no distinction. … The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must also not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare.

O’Brien also says

“You could grasp the mechanics of the society you lived in, but not its underlying motives … [that] the party seeks power entirely for its own sake.”

But there’s something more going on with our empire than that. These guys appear to be running scared.

We’re bankrupt, have been for decades. That’s a given. The only reason the rest of the planet pays us any heed is because of our military. Fletcher Prouty, whom I’ve just begun to appreciate, wrote that after World War II the US had a massive cache of weaponry stored in Okinawa, and that half was shipped to Korea, the other half to Vietnam.

The bomb, said Prouty, was a game changer. It was well-understood that we could not afford a nuclear war, and yet needed these constant wars. So rather than global conflict, US planners decided that future conflicts would be localized. Apparently they knew shortly after the war ended where the ensuing conflicts would take place.

But it’s hard to keep people in a constant state of fear and anger necessary for public support of wars. It requires constant agitprop. Planners settled on the Soviet Union as the source of all evil, and launched a massive agitprop campaign that went on for decades. No matter who the U.S. attacked, it was because of the Soviets. When that threat vanished, terrorism was used as the new motivational force, and our planners gave us 9/11.

But agitprop is a destructive force in itself. Have you ever tried to unlock your car, get in it, start it up and drive off when you are in a state of fear? That’s because our primitive brain, the amygdala, has overridden our cerebral cortex, or modern brain. This constant state of fear that agitprop keeps us in – of terrorists, immigrants, communists, terrorists, criminals, blacks, terrorists … it takes its toll on our thinking abilities. It reduces normally intelligent people to what we see around us, frightened fools.

So if I read Orwell right, we are kept at constant war to prevent ordinary people from benefiting from our massive material output. That is done because powerful people always crave more power and fear losing it. And I add to that the state of the Empire, in protracted collapse, and suggest that our leaders are running scared.

What, after all, did Iraq ever do to justify its destruction? They had switched from dollars to euros to trade their oil. If a little matter like that can cause such a huge panic response, how vulnerable are we?

It does not bode well for the immediate future of the species. There is pain and suffering in store for millions of people, and we will be the cause.

A while back I linked to an online IQ test and suggested readers take it and keep results to themselves. Please go back and review, as it is testing our problem solving and pattern recognition skills. Dr. Judy Wood, who uncovered much of the apparent technology in play behind 9/11, suggested two three reasons why Americans cannot connect the dots around that and so many other crimes:

• 1: Poor problem solving skills;
• 2: Fear of the implications;
• 3: Group think.

Problem solving skills involve pattern recognition. If you go back and take the IQ test again, you’ll see that’s all they are testing. The better your recognition skills, the higher your score. Journalists are trained not to recognize patterns, as they believe it introduces bias into reporting. The rest of us are scared away by the use of “conspiracy theory” meme, which implies mental instability and lack of intelligence.

Quite the opposite, patterns are all around us, easily seen, and problems are easily solved. It’s just the implications that are so damned troublesome.

So why, on one hand, are Americans scored during their education based on pattern recognition abilities, and then ridiculed when those skills actually come into play? It is simple: In the Empire of Lies, blindness is a virtue, incredulity a vice.

The reason why the powers behind the throne can do awful things like shooting down airliners and beheading people and get away with it is a simple matter of faith. This is evil shit, and we do not want to think that our leaders are behind it. That places enormous responsibility on us to change our leaders. And anyway, we like Obama and cannot imagine he would do such stuff.

But that problem is easily understood once we understand the implications of 11/22/63: The office of president since has very little power, and is usually occupied by actors.

So set Obama aside, as he is just a spectator, and like most politicians, just a third-rate human. “He” is not doing this stuff. But who is? Much easier to think it was “them,” and if the “them” happens to be darker skinned people who live in far-away places, who we shown on TV to be irrational anyway, so much the better. Then we can demonize them, bomb them, topple their heads, take their land and resources, and even feel morally superior in the process.

Please understand, people, that the patterns are right before your eyes, and that the evil resides within our country, and not without. Solving the problem is the easy part. Accepting the implications is tough. Please do so. The hardest part: Accepting responsibility. We allowed this sinister force to take control of our government, and now look the other way whenever it misbehaves. It is time to grow up.

The rest of the world very badly needs for Americans to topple our own heads.