After some 3,000 Hmong had been flown across the Mekong Vang Pao and his CIA case officer, Jerry Daniels, a fifteen-year veteran of the secret war, flew out of Long Tieng and into Thailand – an ultimately, to Missoula, Montana, Daniels’ home town, where Vang Pao paid over a half million dollars for a cattle ranch, hog farm, and two large homes. By the end of the year, more than 30,000 Hmong refugees had fled across the Mekong into Thailand, the first wave of a mass exodus that would peak at 3,000 a month by 1979. “War is difficult, peace is hell,” concluded General Vang Pao. (Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin, p331)

General Vang Pao (1929-2011) was a Laotian commander of the CIA’s army of Hmong villagers during the Indochina wars of the 1960’s and 70’s, the so-called “secret war.” It was no secret in the region, of course, and that word refers to the fact that it was never publicized in the American news media. Vang Pao was regarded as ruthless and tyrannical so that even our CIA boys, themselves murders and assassins, treated him with care and caution.

But he got the job done, and that is all CIA has ever cared about.

During his tenure, the Hmong villages in the mountains of Laos were decimated, with young men impressed and usually killed in combat. When the Pathet Lao, indigenous resistance fighters, and North Vietnamese had the strength of numbers to mount an offensive, CIA tried to convince Hmong villagers to move away from their homes and to encampments. But Vang Pao by that time had soured them on any connections with Americans and their agents. They refused to leave even as food supplies were cut off. (Under CIA guidance, most villages had ceased production of rice and were exclusively growing poppy. Their food was helicoptered in (and the opium out) via CIA’s proprietary transport company, Air America.) So the U.S. did what the U.S. does so well, began to carpet bomb the Plain of Jars to force people out.

That is but one small chapter in a larger conflict, one that the CIA actually won. The area was pacified, resistance slaughtered or silenced, the countryside devastated. There’s a myth out there that the U.S. lost in Vietnam and the rest of Indochina. Not true. They accomplished their objective, and by 1975 thought the area was brutalized and devastated enough that it could be left to slowly recover. CIA was moving on, next stop Afghanistan and the war of devastation on that country of the 1980’s, and where oddly enough, poppy fields flourished as well. (They still do, under protection of the U.S. military, in case you wonder what your boys are doing over there.)

Indochina would endure yet another 25 years of economic warfare, with sanctions not lifted until the 1990’s. Mission accomplished. The area is alive today, but will never again present a threat to U.S. power. They learned their lesson.

I read about stuff like this all the time, the real history of Indochina, along with that of Iraq and World War II, Latin America … and it is all so ugly. The leaders of our country are not at all like the citizen of this country. They are brutal monsters. All that I wrote above is just another small passage, another small part of the world devastated by exposure to democracy, American style. The only reason I write this is to detail the final chapters in the life of Vang Pao, cited at the opening above, where he moved to Missoula Montana, a wealthy man, and bought houses and cows and pigs, and lived a life he denied to his countrymen.

The “two”-party system is a nice containment vehicle, a way to at once allow people the illusion of participation in their governance while preventing it. It requires constant management. Any real leaders who break free of party leadership have to be quickly contained.

The Amanda Curtis affair in Montana is an interesting one, but not unusual. The sacrificial lamb is an old strategy. The idea is that progressives have no place to go in our system but the Democrat Party, whose money-backed leadership finds them repugnant. Once every two years, if there is a contested primary, there might be some outlet for progressive voices in campaign rhetoric. Usually the person giving voice is a false leader who quickly shuts down after the election and reverts to form.

However, there is in the wake of wreckage a chance to teach progressives a lesson, and that is where the sacrificial lamb strategy come into play. The Montana Democrat Party fucked up royally in foisting John Walsh on its members. It’s not that Walsh lacked any real qualification or even the ability to think properly, but rather that these features of his ho-hum persona were exposed. The party’s money backers are perfectly happy with such zombies in office. Now that Walsh and the party leadership have been exposed, they have to beat a strategic retreat. So they assume the mantle of sincerity about putting up a real person in the place of a robot.

The Montana Senate seat is lost. It’s time to make lemonade. So Montana Democrat Party leadership is seizing the opportunity to show its progressive wing that progressives cannot win elections.

That is not true. Progressives can win elections. But they have no access to the big money that regular right-wing Democrats enjoy, along with TV exposure, without which no candidate can win. If the party leadership would turn their marketing wing to supporting a progressive, they could make it happen. Seriously, dear reader, if those geniuses can keep Max Baucus in office for 24 years; if they can make a man like John Walsh seem like a real human being; if they can land Jon Tester’s sorry fat ass in office for six years with 48% of the vote … then trust me. They can back a progressive to victory. They choose not to do so.

So the thrust of the Curtis “nomination” (selection) is for 2018 and beyond, to make sure that progressive Democrats in Montana know their candidates cannot win, to keep them in line and supporting the normal cloaked Republicans that the party likes.

As a Nader supporter I am well-schooled in these matters. Nader was not so much a threat to Al Gore as something else. Below the fold here, and linked here, is the 2000 Green Party platform that Nader ran on. Merely publicizing that platform was a reminder of what Democrats do not support. Nader exposed their bankruptcy, which is why the party leadership unleashed a venom on him never visited on Republicans.

Democrats, click the words “continue reading” below here to learn all about what your party is not. It will help you understand the massacre about to unfold in Montana. Perhaps then you will realize that you need an upheaval, that you need to change your heads, get rid of the low-life and lizards that currency run your party. It is time for some fresh air. The cold shower you will enjoy in November is not a defeat, but an opportunity to build a real grassroots party. If Curtis has chops, as she appears to, she might indeed have a vital role to fill in the leadership vacuum that will result.

(Can progressives win? In the coming week I am going to write about opinion surveys I have read about the general attitudes of most Americans. Our two parties are far, far to the right of the American public. You will be genuinely surprised, as my source is unimpeachable.)

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A rather long post I wrote yesterday is gone, but not destroyed. I simply took it from public view with the idea that I can say as much with perhaps one-fifth the number of words. Writing long pieces is merely laziness on my part. It is much harder to be succinct.
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“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” (Ron Paul)

“She’s not a girl who misses much.” (John Lennon, Happiness is a Warm Gun)

I put up a piece some time ago on Dave McGowan’s book, Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon. McGowan is a man with a sharp mind and wit. He might be the male counterpart Lennon’s friend above. Mr. McGowan also has a regular life and only writes in his spare time and not to pay bills. He spots anomalies and moves on. He is, however, a fun guy to read. He does not miss much.

A commenter, Mitch H, noted of that post

Delusional pattern recognition is known as “apophenia”. The human mind, which relies heavily on perceptual pre-processing to the point that anyone with any experience takes eyewitness testimony with a great deal of caution, is catastrophically prone to making connections where no connections exist. I’m about halfway through Weird Scenes, and the writer is one of those people of which The Police sang, “he knows all the suicides are faked”. I can sort of filter out of all the paranoid delusions an interesting narrative, but good lord! He makes Robert Anton Wilson seem a marvel of credibility and caution in comparison.

Several things are wrong with Mitch’s outlook, but first I need the antonym to “apophenia.” I choose the term “pastyfacedness,” defined as follows:

Pastyfacedness: Voluntary shutting down of the senses, considered an essential part of intelligence in an Empire of Lies.

In our Empire we can all see an event, whether real or on TV, and form our impressions. Then we listen to the talking heads explain it. After that, we file the anomalies away under “conspiracy theory.” Ours is an oppressive thought control regime, and lies are the norm. It is rare that anyone ever says something true. But to turn off one’s brain, to actually think that natural curiosity is a form of mental illness … is mental slavery.

Another John Lennon line: You’d better free your mind instead.” Voluntarily shutting down of the curiosity function, living in pasty-faced boredom, is thought control.

Eyewitness testimony can indeed be untrustworthy. That’s why people with sharp minds sort through it looking for patterns. It’s fraught with danger, so that a person engaged in pattern recognition in eyewitness testimony must use his or her brain.

Here is a common occurrence in our neighborhood – someone spotted a bear. Say that we have four “eyewitness” testimonies:

• “He must have been 350 pounds, was a boar, and was running down Cypress towards the east.”
• “It was a cub, maybe two years old, could not have weighed more than 200 pounds, and was cinnamon.”
• “I heard a noise and looked out and then there was a big thump. My bird feeder was knocked down.”
• “I was walking late at night, and there were noises and I knew I was being followed, so I hightailed it home. There was a bear out there. I felt it.”

A regular person of normal curiosity discounts the latter two statements, as they filled with speculation, and in the latter case, paranoia. However, it is reasonable to conclude that there were two bears seen in the neighborhood, and that they harmed no one.

Now take something that really happened on 11/22/63: An eyewitness in the crowd looked up, and in the sixth floor window of the book depository saw two men. One of them was [possibly Mexican or black]. a black man. After the shooting, three two employees went down the stairs and out the back door of the book depository, and were met by a large black man.

Significance: It’s Dallas, the president was shot, a [Mexican or] black man was seen in the window, and then later a large black man at the back of the building. People in Dallas in 1963 remember seeing black people. It’s natural.

Conclusion: It’s a lead. Follow it to where it might take you. What did the Warren Commission do? They ignored the sighting of the [Mexican or] black man in the window, and altered the testimony of the women make it a few minutes later. That way, they would have missed Oswald running down the stairs, which they would have seen had it happened, but did not.

That’s how we handle eyewitness testimony in the Empire of Lies. We either ignore it, or change it.

Eyewitness testimony is indeed reliable, but must be carefully sifted with allowance made for speculation and our desire to enjoy a moment in the spotlight. Police detectives, except in a high-profile case like the public murder of a president, seek out all the eyewitness testimony they can find. Then they sift, sort, look for patterns, and use their brains. A pattern becomes a lead, often a dead end. Often not. Any detective will tell you that there is never a shortage of evidence and testimony. The good ones are those who see the underlying patterns and follow them, using their brains in the process.

I cannot emphasize enough the need to turn off our TV’s and turn on our brains. The television is much like carrying a flashlight on a moonlit night – it creates more darkness than light. Without the flashlight the entire countryside lights up, and a whole world of images delight the eyes. It’s not apophenia. Far from it: It is being a sentient human with a functioning brain.

The Kiev Putsch government offered satellite evidence showing that its defense systems were not in the area at the time if the crash of MH17. The problem, says the Russian Defense Ministry, is that the photographs offered up were taken at a time when Ukraine’s satellites, Sich 1 and Sich 2, were at another location. Base on the time of the photographs, it could only have been taken by an American Key Hole satellite. Russia wonders why the US does not wish to claim ownership of the photos, instead allowing Kiev to claim they came from another source.

In response, the Obama Administration today announced that it has ask Colin Powell to briefly come out of retirement to appear at the UN to give a photo presentation of the crash site proving that Ukrainian rebels, using Russian equipment, shot down the airliner. “Our credibility is at stake here, ” said an administration spokesman, “so we wanted an unimpeachable source.”

Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was a Boeing 777.

Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 was a Boeing 777.

Both aircraft have the Fly-By-Wire, a Raytheon anti-hijacking system. If hijacked, the craft lands itself. Both airliners have sophisticated communication systems with 16 constant data feeds, five satellite feeds.

Both airliners are gone, one shot down and one simply disappearing. No way did tracking systems not know exactly where 370 was when it went out of communication. No way do they not know what happened to it.

It all smells.

Every critical student of American news media knows that there is only a brief window in which news reporting has value, and that is within a few hours after events. Thereafter, agencies weigh in, executive orders come down, spooks and moles start messing around, and everything is corrupted.

With an event like the downing of NH17 in Ukraine, where there was obviously foreknowledge, the chances of getting clean reporting are even more remote.

At this point, the US and Russia have agreed that Russia will not be blamed. It is a given that, guilty or not, the US will be neither investigated or blamed.

What can we conclude? It was either a US spook covert operation that did not go down as planned, or a true accident.

My guess … As a long time student of the US and the psychopaths and lying liars who run this asylum? Need you ask?

The conclusion of most Americans, tied as they are to American news and entertainment (but I repeat myself): It was the Soviets. I mean Russians. I mean Putin.

Thanks to Swede for link to Newsweek as seen here.

The degree of self-delusion required to be a journalist in our American empire of lies is difficult to conceptualize, like imagining the space between stars.
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First, a brief stop by our newest court jester, John Oliver, and his new HBO program, Last Week Tonight. I’ve seen a couple of the programs, and he’s got some good writers and an unusual delivery style, almost as if he is as surprised by what he says as we are. It makes him very entertaining.

In an empire of lies, however, court jesters are only allowed to go so far, and must adhere to the big lies with the same blind incuriosity as regular journalists. So while Oliver did an excellent job taking on the FCC and net neutrality, Obama’s latest broken campaign pledge, he was rigidly in line as he viciously attacked first Syrian President Assad, and then the Chinese government. The Chinese crime, as I gather, is not being transparent about the events of June 4, 1989, known in American propaganda as the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
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I spend a lot of time up to my knees in the backwaters – its part of staying informed. I do my best, but can never say I understand events well enough to be ‘on top’ of anything. The only things certain are uncertainty and the knowledge that liars lie. Time and distance usually fill in much of the missing information. But with the exception of E. Howard Hunt, we are never given benefit of confessions by guilty parties. In the United States, the guilty either walk free or themselves die ugly deaths.
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Readership shot up on June 5th, if I can use that expression for a low-traffic blog. The post was “Bill Pepper’s lonely journey,” about the murder of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, and the overwhelming body of evidence now accumulated proving (I rarely use that word) Sirhan Sirhan’s innocence. I doubt if anyone actually read the Pepper interview, as I understand behavior in a thought-controlled environment quite well. You are curious, but also afraid. So even if you clicked on the article, you decided not to pursue it any further.

Yes, Robert F. Kennedy was murdered by a domestic conspiracy. At least the Los Angeles police department was involved, as we know they confiscated and destroyed important evidence. But we also know now that Sirhan was under control of a group of psychiatrists prior to the event, that he was hypnotized and drugged and shocked, and that night he was in the control of a woman in a polka-dot dress, and that the bullets that killed RFK came from close behind him and were probably fired by a security guard, Thane Cesar, who now resides in Simi Valley and is living the life. We know that two agents connected to the CIA intimidated witnesses into silence. We know a whole lot now.

Who carries out such elaborate plans? Who decided that RFK had to die? Who has the power to prevent an investigation of the murder? Who, forty-six years later, can still muffle media coverage of the event? It’s called “shadow government” and is not a new phenomenon. Fletcher Prouty called it our “secret team,” and Winston Churchill referred to it as our “High Cabal.”

This force is so powerful and deeply embedded in all of our institutions that most likely even those who planned and carried out the murder do not know the answer to those questions. We are a pathocracy now, a country so infested with evil and corruption that we cannot be saved. We can only die and be reborn, as were the Russians*. Maybe we’ll be that shining city on the hill again some day down the road. Right now, we’re just a big dirty ghetto.

But that does not even begin to describe the nature of this power. This link will take you to a two-hour presentation by Dr. Judy Wood which will debunk the 19-Arab-Guy-In-A Cave theory about the events on 9/11. This link is to a man who explains how government agencies and military drills are used to run these false flag events. You will not click on these links, will not watch these videos, just as you did not read the William Pepper interview. You’ve been conditioned to avoid evidence. Not only are your thoughts controlled. So too is your behavior.

I am not taunting you into clicking on the link. I am describing the immense power that resides in this land that controls you. You won’t click on the link because you are afraid, both of the content, but also the ridicule that you have to endure if you dare commit thoughtcrime. In a society like ours, with institutions corrupted beyond repair and which has the lowest of liars and cowards for leaders, something else must be said: our people are corrupt too. Just because you are afraid, confused, thought-controlled, is no excuse. You need to be alive and vigilant and sentient, and you are not.

You are part of the problem. You are corrupt too, reader. Yes, you. You look away, tune out.

You were expecting, perhaps, to get off easy here? Not hardly.
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Today, June 5th, is the 46th anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. The circumstances around his death are clear and convincing, and the evidence, including autopsy, ballistics, forensics and eyewitness clearly show that RFK was shot from behind by an unknown gunman (or gunmen) while people wrestled with Sirhan Sirhan in front of him*. There is no doubt about that.

The RFK assassination is perhaps the hardest to swallow, as it seemed at that time that hope died. There was no one else then, and none have stepped forth since to fill his shoes.

William Pepper has been Sirhan’s lawyer since 2007, and is struggling to get evidence into the legal system through an evidentiary hearing. He is blocked by a magistrate. His greatest fear is that Sirhan will be assassinated while in prison before this happens.

Pepper worked for James Earl Ray for 37 years. Ray died in 1998 from Hepatitis C. His was a preventable death – he was effectively killed by the Tennessee legal system when it refused to allow him access to health care. In 1999, having been blocked in all other venues, Pepper took on the family of Martin Luther King as clients, and sued a bar owner named Loyd Jowers (and other unknown conspirators) in Memphis court for the assassination of King. The trial lasted thirty days and over seventy witnesses appeared. The jury’s verdict was that Jowers did indeed participate in a conspiracy to do harm to Dr. Martin Luther King along with governmental agencies including the Memphis Police and Fire Departments, the FBI and United States military.

The transcript of that entire trial can be accessed here. Judge for yourself.

Remarkably, aside from a Memphis TV reporter, not one major American news outlet attended the 1999 trial. As Pepper says in the interview that follows, the American news media is “so well controlled” that the trial was not covered and most people don’t even know it took place.

I doubt Pepper is so dumb as to imagine we can have a real investigation of RFK’s murder in this country. We are far too corrupt, and no judge would allow a fair trial. Anyone sitting on the bench has an intuitive sense of where power lies, and knows that messing with the RFK assassination is inherently dangerous. People do not attain such positions without understanding our system. The only objective, then, is to keep the truth alive, as with passage of time lies become official history unless there are vigilant citizens working to expose them.

Below the fold here is a transcript of an interview with William Pepper from May 12 of this year. Again, as you read, please understand that the innocence of Sirhan Sirhan is not in doubt, that the evidence exonerates him in total, and that the whole of this matter is cock-blocked by both our courts and media silence.
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*Many suspect, as I do, that Sirhan was firing blanks, since the real assassins were behind Kennedy and might have been hit by real bullets. However, there is no physical evidence to support this.
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