Perhaps the most difficult aspect of recent postings here is an attitude that I regard a “studied ignorance.” Mindsets are like prisons, and the bricks and bars are held in place by egos. The cell is a secure environment.

There is a Catch 22 involved here too: When told of the massive scam that has been perpetrated on the American people (the rest of the world is far less fooled), the automatic response is “no one could keep a secret like that.” But people on the inside looking out can and do keep secrets, as they and their loved ones’ lives are at stake. As was made very clear to people who immediately knew what was up, via the anthrax scare, the game is real and deadly, the people behind it cold-blooded murderers.

But the mass of easily uncovered evidence of that day was bound to make its way public. Most of it is hidden in plain sight. Supposed hijackers were still alive, flight manifestos for the two flights that actually took off had no Arab names. The video of two hijackers allegedly making their way to Boston was not date and time-stamped. There was no identifiable wreckage anywhere to be found. Aluminum wings that cut through steel in New York bent backwards and were sucked into the round hole in the Pentagon. One of the alleged hijackers packed his last will and testament in his luggage that he intended to take with him on a doomed flight. The “plane” that hit the Pentagon evaporated, but corpses survived. Not one toilet, computer screen, printer or telephone survived the Ground Zero inferno, but a hijacker’s photo passport did.

This is all insane, of course. What sort of person believes all of this nonsense? Only prisoners sealed tight in their egos.

But the Catch 22 is this: All of the above and much, much more evidence has come out, and yet the prisoners will not go near it. The reason? It’s a “conspiracy theory.” This is perhaps the most fascinating aspect of the American indoctrinary system that I have encountered. The word “conspiracy” has been sheepdipped, and all real world intrigue surrounding it removed. What is left is only fantasy. If it is a conspiracy theory, it is false.

Simple fact: Powerful people, even regular people, engage in secret activity. In an oligarchy where politicians receive private bribes to stay in office it is more the norm than exception. By definition money carries with it a hidden agenda, so that most business and affairs of governments are done in secret. How then to protect information that inevitably becomes public knowledge? Merely scare people away. The weapon that frightens the prisoners is ridicule. For the journalist (or any public person) it spells end of career. For anyone else, it is mere disdain of peers.

It is indeed fascinating to watch as Sir Isaac Newton is set aside, easily seen video forgeries are accepted as real, and a plot so farcical as to be part of the movie Airplane is treated with utter stone-faced seriousness.

If you are a prisoner, if I speak from the outside looking in, the most important key to this whole puzzle of the human psyche: Your cell is not even locked. You are free to go. It’s a big scary world out there, and nothing comes easily, especially “truth” or even information. Insecurity is the norm. We never know who to trust out here. It’s a damned hard row to hoe. It takes chops to live outside that cell. The question is, do you have it in you? Do ya, punks?

(See footnote)

I did not have to look through more than three pages of search engine results to confirm my suspicion: This matter is blacked out of American news. A British defense contractor, Britam, was hacked on January 22nd. Hacking is about the only real source of news left to us anymore.

Among the files uncovered was this, an email from the company’s business development director David Goulding to another director, Phillip Doughty, a former British Special Air Services officer:

It reads:

Phil

We’ve got a new offer. It’s about Syria again. Qataris propose an attractive deal and swear that the idea is approved by Washington.

We’ll have to deliver a CW to Homs, a Soviet origin g-shell from Libya similar to those that Assad should have.

They want us to deploy our Ukrainian personnel that should speak Russian and make a video record.

Frankly, I don’t think it’s a good idea but the sums proposed are enormous. Your opinion?

Kind regards David

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From About.com: At least we still have a sense of humor.

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Anyone who has traveled and spent time in Utah or around Mormons for any extended time, as I have, might offer a similar view: They tend to be very nice people, especially the youth, and they are very deeply indoctrinated. Perhaps the message here is that religion makes people happy, offers them safety from uncertainty and comforting answers to life’s exasperating complexity. They look to their leaders, and while it appears ridiculous to the rest of us that their bishops tell them what to think each Sunday about everything, including world affairs and politics, to them it seems perfectly normal.

That is thought control done on a very large scale, and very effectively. The key, of course, is that they are immersed as youth and the system is reinforced at every turn. When they reach maturity, it is too late. Youthful indoctrination is extremely hard to overcome, and while “Jack Mormons,” who drink or smoke, are not uncommon, Mormons who dispute matters of faith and politics are. They are subject to all our outside influences, live among us as friends and neighbors, and are under complete domination by their higher authorities.

Joseph Smith spotted something in the human species, as there were a lot of people in around before he started, but no Mormons. He had to invent them. He seemed to know that a cult of leaders was necessary, as was reaching people in their youth. Once he succeeded, he used his powers as a path to panties and pocketbooks, not uncommon. A new religion was born.

My upbringing was similar in the Catholic Church at a time when they were much more severe in their teachings and methods. I was indoctrinated in grade school, and “confirmed” when I reached the “age of reason,” twelve. (Little did they know – I am 62 now and have still not gotten there.) In high school I went through a “Search,” similar to a movement still active called “Cursillo.” We gathered at the school, and stayed awake for two days while listening to talks and attending worship services, all the while maintaining silence. (Because I was with a kid named Nordlund, I had fits of giggling the entire weekend.) My brother, prior to his ordination, said that the object of a Search was to drain us, keeping us awake a whole weekend. In that sleep deprived state, he said, they could tell us anything and we would believe them. It seems that Catholics knew something about our species too.

In the early sixties, the Catholic Church under John XXIII went through many reforms, loosening up on the indoctrination, reaching out to other faiths, and setting free millions of people as a consequence. They are often called “recovering” Catholics. Comedian George Carlin went to a liberal Montessori school where they had the notion that kids would arrive at Catholicism on their own and due to its merits. When the kids were instead set free, they stopped doing that.

The Mormons never made that mistake, never let up, so that ex-Mormons are rare. Perhaps, due to social pressure, shunning and loss of business connections, many of them simply keep their heads down, but that is a hard way to live, in constant tension between outer expressions and inner beliefs. It is much easier just to believe.

Yes, you know where this is going. There is no “them,” not in Utah, The United States, Saudi Arabia, China or Zimbabwe. There is only “us.” Religion is a set of irrational beliefs that we accept in faith and without evidence. All religion beliefs are handed down by authority figures, and we believe because they believe, and aqainst evidence. We are introduced in youth, reinforced, and take great joy and comfort in these beliefs.

Americanism is such a religion. We believe ourselves to be an exceptional nation, against all evidence.

The video of the plane hitting the south tower on 9/11 violates Newton’s Third Law, and therefore cannot have happened. It does not decelerate on impact, and the building, which has heavier mass, offers no resistance. What that plane did on that video is physically impossible. Therefore, the video, which is under the fold here, is fake. We have lots of technology, and did so then too. It is easily done.

Knowing one true thing does not always lead us to other truths, but does clear the air. Because we know one true thing, we also know that many, many things must be false.

If the video is fake, (so too is the one of the plane hitting the north tower), so too is the idea that these two planes were hijacked. (No plane = no hijackers.) If there were no planes, the explosions in the towers had to have been triggered by some other mechanism. If there were no hijackers, then this was not an Arab conspiracy, as Osama and the hijackers are the only Arab link. If there was no plane and no Arab hijackers, then U.S. attacks on the Arab world are unjustified aggression. If this the case, our leadership has committed high crimes and misdemeanors, including the most serious offense to come out of Nuremberg, aggressive war. If we can establish a link between the faked videos and our government, our leadership is culpable under our own and international law.

We may never know how 9/11 was done. They got away with it. It was a psychological and military operation, and it was skillfully pulled off, probably by a small cadre of well-placed people with many unwitting accomplices who are wisely unwilling to speak up. But by demonstrating one true thing, perhaps experts in the field of international law can bring a case at the Hague for prosecution of our officials at that time and those in office now and currently engaged in aggressive war. The Nuremberg punishment was death. They are certainly worthy of that sentence.

It’s a massive undertaking. The odds against success are enormous. But strutting about arguing over the events of that day, bombs and false witnesses and mini-nukes or directed energy devices, news network complicity and toasted cars and fake witnesses and all of that is academic. We’ll never know. But we do not need to understand the entirety of the crime to understand one true thing, and to judge from that thing that a crime was committed that led to many much worse crimes, and that people should be held accountable, as at Nuremberg.
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It is a traveling day today. We are on our way to be frisked by TSA, who are only there to remind us that we should always be afraid. And indeed I am afraid, of TSA. The bastards have cold hands and get really officious sounding when I tell them to back off.

Which reminds me: There is speculation around about the reason for shutting off cell service while flying. The official reason is that it might interfere with airline navigation, which is complete hogwash. The real reason is obvious, to me anyway. The regulation came about after 9/11, and most likely is there so that people could not learn for themselves that cellular communication is impossible from moving aircraft.

Have a nice day, frightened nation! The TSA today will be fingering countless ball sacks in search of box cutters.

Here’s a riddle, the answer to which might clear up a whole lot of foggy thinking. It is this: Why is there a prison at Guantanamo?

I don’t know the answer, but do know some non-answers:

• It is not there to hold dangerous prisoners. The US routinely kills people it thinks dangerous. If they thought these people represented a true danger, they would have murdered them.
• It is not due to alleged crimes. There are no such things as crimes in this current system, only punishment. The detainees are indeed being punished, but we do not know for what purpose.
• They are not being held there for torture. They might indeed have been tortured, they might be running experiments on more effective techniques (in making lamp shades?), but if they wanted to torture these people, they would not choose a publicly known location. They would have done so at a secret site, and probably have.
• They have not been sentenced, and will only stand trial under extreme publicity. Trials cannot be public! as they might talk about their treatment, or worse yet, the fact that they had no military intelligence value, calling into question, again, the real purpose(s) for the existence of this facility.

Given what we know it is not, what could it be?

• Precedent – it could be that Gitmo was set up to establish the sovereign right to capture and detain people and hold them without judicial proceeding. This is an important element of fascism – the all-powerful state cannot be held accountable.
• They screwed up. They had ideas about running a secret torture facility there, but word got out and they had to operate it as a semi-public facility.
• Training – it could be that the prisoners there are mere window dressing, and that the real purpose is to serve as a training facility for terrorists, agents provocateur, bomb specialists and infiltrators. (If a terrorist incident happens and appears to have no strategic or tactical consequence – say a market square bomb in Beirut – the odds are that western agents are behind it. Then it does make sense – to stir unrest, scare people, and justify intervention. Most of what we call terrorist bombings originate in Langley or MI5-6 or Tel Aviv and are pulled off by low-intelligence dupes like Shoe Bomber, acting under management of western intelligence.)

It must be clear here that I do not know the answer and if it is ever revealed will probably be as surprised as anyone. Furthermore, it could be a combination of factors, all of the above and then some.

The one constant is this: They lie. We are not told anything true about anything. So speculation, even if idle, is useful.
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Sara Flounders, the head of the International Action Center, says Washington’s series of overseas prisons helps the US sidestep the Geneva Convention on the use of torture against prisoners.

“The idea of holding prisoners around the world in secret detention was that they were therefore, according to their twisted logic, immune to any international law, human rights law or conventions that the US had signed,” Flounders said. “The UN report said 27,000 prisoners had been held by the US in secret prisons in of course Afghanistan, Iraq, countries throughout Middle East, countries throughout Europe, in Africa; on more than 17 US ships there were secret prisons,” she added. “So this is really part of a vast scale, of thousands of people being held with absolutely no rights whatsoever and being subject to horrendous torture.”

The U.S. is indeed over.

From an interview with Jeremy Scahill and Richard Rowley about their new documentary, Dirty Wars. the two have gone underground to view the War of Terrorism first hand:

JEREMY SCAHILL: … So we had read about this night raid that took place, and it was a horrible massacre. And what happened in Gardez was that U.S. special operations forces had intelligence that there were—you know, a Taliban cell was in a—was having some sort of a meeting to prepare a suicide bomber. And they raid this house in the middle of the night, and they end up killing five people, including three women, two of whom were pregnant, and another person that they killed in the house, Mohammed Daoud, turned out to be a senior Afghan police commander who had been trained by the U.S., including by the mercenary—or the private security company MPRI, Military Professional Resources Incorporated. They weren’t even Pashtun, the dominant—the almost exclusive ethnicity of the Taliban. They spoke Dari. And they’re—and what was happening that night was not preparing a suicide bomber; they were celebrating the birth of a child. And they were dancing and had music, and they had women without head covers on.

And they—and so the soldiers raid this house, and they kill these people. And instead of realizing that they had made a horrible mistake and that the intelligence was wrong and it resulted in these people being killed, they actually covered up the killings. And we interview the survivors of this raid, including a man who watched, while he was zip-cuffed, soldiers, American soldiers, digging bullets out of his wife’s dead body. And they then tried to—

AMY GOODMAN: And they did that because?
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Posting will be light here as I am off in another city visiting my new grandbabies. I am jotting this down between awakenings.

The bankruptcy of American party politics is on parade here. Here are the fatal flaws in the system:

• There is a presumption among all Democrats who post there that the people who are elected have any concern about public good once elected.
• There is no reward for such behavior, quite the opposite, people who actually swim upstream once elected are punished by loss of financial backing, bad publicity, and even well-financed primary opponents. Since wiretaps are common and every member of Congress is spied upon, most are subject to some kind of blackmail.
• But these Democrats are so emasculated as to think that weakly challenging an office holder in a primary is enough to set a bad guy like Baucus straight. He laughs about that, as do I.
• There is massive denial of the role of money in politics. You cannot get them to focus on it. I take that to mean that they know, recognize they are gelded, but would rather pretend to matter than not to matter at all.

Their only response is who, who who is my alternative to Baucus, but Baucus does nothing but respond to the punishment/reward system, as would his replacement. The bottom line in Washington is that moneyed interests punish good behavior and reward bad. All of the talk about who they are going to back, as if a new face is a remedy, makes them fools, strutting and fretting …

Somewhere in the comments far below our friend Big Swede brought us an article from Heritage, said that I would not look at it due to its source, which of course meant that I had to go look at the damned thing. Its conclusion (in 2005) was that European economies were suffering from too much government spending. It was a farce, as the authors could not separate and isolate variables, but that was also its strength. Dealing as they were with a massive data set and no meaningful way to manipulate it, the authors were free to insert their ideology to force their conclusion. The report was garbage, the science behind it the “Natelson method”, named after the self-proclaimed constitutional scholar who also self-validated in neoclassical economics. He introduced new depth and rigor into the field of confirmation bias.

Neoclassical economics is bullshit that persists due to its ideological utility. It serves power well, and so is the only economics taught at our most prestigious universities. Max Plank said that new scientific truth only triumphs because old scientists die off. The current bankruptcy of economics will persist until the Geithners, Summers and Greenspans join Milton Friedman in slumber, and that cannot happen soon enough.

Look what they are doing to us! Austerity, the “fiscal cliff” are political agendas that have their roots in bullshit economics. The stealth target is to gut our great social programs, and Democrats, please smell the coffee: your Obama is as filthy stealthy as any of them.
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