Daddy dearest?

imageNot too many people know or remember, but Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy became Jackie Onassis in October of 1968. She married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, one of the wealthiest men in the world. He died in 1975. In a lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-famous world, the two shared six residences, including a private island in the Ionian Sea called Skorpios. Jackie would inherit only a paltry $26 million on his death, however. Ari’s daughter, Cristina, battled her for the family fortune,

John_F_KennedyHer first husband, John F. Kennedy was a well-known womanizer – that marriage in retrospect appears arranged. Joe Kennedy, Sr., whose mob influence played a large part in securing his son’s election in 1960, realized that a bachelor had scant chance of being elected president in this land, then as now. He convinced Jackie to marry Jack. He was known to be a persuasive man.

image Here’s what is interesting … take a look at the two photos – John F. Kennedy, Jr., above, and a young Aristotle Onassis, to the left here. They appear to me far more likely to be father and son than John Jr. to have been sired by John Sr. The hairline, the lips and eyes seem far more a match.

British royalty is a rich well of fascinating debauchery and intrigue for some, but I find our own royal families to be as interesting. Here we have a Bouvier mating with a Kennedy, supposedly, but more likely with an Onassis to produce a young Adonis. And who could blame her – Ari probably offered her far more comfort than the promiscuous Jack. Her humiliations at his hands were legendary. Jr. near water

I’m not gay or anything, by the way, but John Jr. had to be among the most strikingly good-looking men ever to live. It’s a bloodline thing, I suppose.

What will happen when a trust baby runs a baseball team?

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Cobb Field, Billings, Montana (since replaced by Dehler Park)

I enjoy baseball, though my interest was waned in recent years. I far more enjoy a spring training game, passing time with the fans. The games themselves are ho-hum, lacking adrenalin and the latter innings reserved to rookies to showcase their skills. The overall experience of a spring training game is, however, very enjoyable.

The Cincinnati Reds had (and have) a farm team in Billings, Montana, where I lived until 2001. Consequently, I “branded” with that team, and indeed they put up some powerhouse teams, winning the World Series in 75, 76 and 90, and dominating the 1970’s.

The team fell on hard times, but has been re-emergent of late. Their general manager, Walt Jocketty, brought important changes to the franchise, changing the emphasis from high-risk run-scoring slugging teams to pitching. That brought them into contention recently, though they are now in a rebuilding phase again.

They have a new GM, Dick Williams, and Jocketty is being squeezed out the top. Williams will guide the team in the future. He will not be fired, ever, as his name is “Williams,” and that oligarchical family has a major ownership share in the team.

Here are some frightening snippets from a recent interview with Williams, a former investment banker:

“I got into baseball a little later in life. I was in my mid 30s. I had close to a 15-year business career in investment banking and private equity. My background isn’t totally unique in baseball front offices, but it’s somewhat unique, and it’s shaped a lot of who I am and how I think about problems. …”

“The exercise of building a projection model has you asking questions like, ‘What are the important variables?’ Then, over time, you go back and analyze why they maybe deviated from reality. Is there a deviation that can be explained by a flaw in the model? Is there a deviation that can be explained by some experience that a player had? It’s an iterative process over time.

“Whether you’re using aging curves or historical injury experience, your projections should, at a macro level, take into account the possibilities of injuries. If you’re talking about team performance, when you aggregate those player stats for next year – when we’re looking at our projected means – there’s a component that accounts for injuries.

“For one player, it’s a binary… he may miss most of the season, which makes my projections way off for that player. But when taken into context of the team, the fact that I’ve weighted these guys based on their age, based on their positions, based on their injury history – what I think might happen – as a team, those projections should be close to accounting for what happens.”

Are you reading what I am reading here? Yep. We’re screwed for a good and long, long haul*.

But there is always spring training!
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*Born on third base, he obviously thinks he hit a triple. (h/t, Barry Switzer)

Set anyone free lately?

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The above photo is of Paul Simon and a singer named Dion, who had a minor career for a few years in the 1960’s. His big hit was a schmaltzy pop song called “Abraham, Martin and John” wherein he claimed that Lincoln, Martin Luther King, and John Kennedy “freed a lot of people.” At least King tried.

A Facebook friend put up this photo, and it just jumped out at me. The two did some work together in 2009, and I would guess Dion’s people were anxious to latch on to Simon’s justly earned fame. Simon agreed to allow him to share a track.

But the interesting thing, if you can spot it, is that the photo is faked. Look at Simon’s head for a second, and you’ll see that it is out-of-place. The neck is a different skin tone. The head is oddly placed atop the neck, and the face is too large. Paul is not the best looking man, short and squat (truly talented however), but his chin does not hang down on his neck. And look where the brim of his hat meets Dion’s glasses – they had a problem with it, and so just blurred that area. I do not understand why people cannot see this stuff!

But that is just show business, and done all the time. It is also done in news reporting. Under the fold, because at first glance it appears quite gruesome, is a photo of the so-called “Bataclan Massacre” in Paris. I would not put it up if I thought it was real.
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Russia babysitting the French?

From Vineyard of the Saker this morning, Russia dramatically increases her anti-Daesh operations:

Finally, Putin has declared that he has ordered the Russian naval task force to ‘cooperate’ with the French naval task force lead by the aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle.  What better way to make sure that he French don’t “accidentally” strike the “wrong” targets than to fully “cooperate” with them?

Smart move!

I have to say I had a similar thought, as the Russians know how to play these games.

Of rabbit holes

I received some criticism down below of being too far down the “rabbit hole.” That’s fair – all criticism is fair if offered without an agenda. For instance, when I wrote about bison in another piece, I was set straight and brought up to speed by a couple of men of good will who simply know the issue better than I do. All I need do in that situation is get up to speed.

So understand, I do not mind criticism. It’s a healthy thing. But I do want to answer the rabbit hole remark, and in such a manner as to respect the integrity of my critic. He’s good and fair minded, the latter a rare quality among bloggers.

I wanted out of blogging a while back. I was tired of having the same conversation every day. Worse than that, I had seen too much of this world, this country, and had lost all respect for our institutions and leaders. I was tired of visiting the same issues and always arriving at the same conclusion – we are being lied to. I was tired of the extreme gullibility around me, how every lie is believed with utter credulity. That is still the case.

Knowing what I know, having spent 27 years of my life looking for answers, I can spot a lie fairly easily. For instance, every public word uttered by every politician is some form of a lie. They have to lie, as by definition they are serving two masters and cannot tell the truth to both. To survive in office, they have to be loyal to one and lie to the other. They always end up serving the one with the most power, and it is not the uniformed and gullible voter.

So I long ago lost interest in politics and politicians. It’s wasted energy, as election outcomes have no bearing on public policy. Representative government long ago took leave of this land. I can’t pin the date, but for my purposes, I will guess it was 4/12/45, the day FDR was murdered [or died naturally or faked his death], and his successor, Harry Truman, a corrupt and crooked man of little talent, took office. I like that date because it frames the events of my lifetime. I came along five years later. Before that time is probably just as corrupt, but I wasn’t around for it. Since our history is a lie too, there’s little point in going back too far.

We’ve not had real presidents in my life then. Just actors and aristocrats and intelligence operatives, as we have now. The news media was a joke even in the 1930’s, when General Smedley Butler was told not to worry about them in the 1933 coup attempt. It has not reformed itself, so that virtually nothing we see on TV or read in newspapers is true save perhaps the weather forecast. These days, with six companies owning just about everything, it’s a sad joke.

Some say the military runs the show behind the scenes, but I take it a step higher. The military serves at the behest of an even higher power, the oligarchy. And that force, our wealthiest families, our .1%, knows no end to its avarice and greed. The whole planet is on a platter before it, and the enormous wealth generated by this vast country is at its disposal. Our taxes are used primarily to fund wars, and when they run short of cash, they attack Social Security and Medicare, the only two government programs still functioning well.

It’s an endless quest. The American public is regarded as the domestic enemy, and so we are under constant attack, lied to, dumbed down by entertainment and sports, and kept barely literate by education (just enough to easily accept advertising and propaganda into our pretty little heads). We are now fed a steady stream of lies – easily unraveled by anyone with a functioning brain. And when there is need for a war, an attack on some still-unconquered and independent place, we are fed a false flag event to stir our silly little heads into a frenzy of support.

Thus did I know the Paris attacks to be fake. Where once they might shed real blood and do some real murdering (as with Operation Gladio), these days they don’t have to work that hard. They just set off some noisy firecrackers and call in the dogs of the media to spread lies. Soon enough we see Facebook filled with photographs covered with French flags, comedians offering solemn tributes to fake dead before they go back on script, and singers paying lofty tributes stirring our hearts to mourn for the fake dead. Your country is about to go on a another killing spree, real murders – not fake ones – and needs your support. Patriots, do not let them down!

Does that sound world weary? Probably, but I am not. I’ve never felt so alive as I do now. Truth is an energizer. It always thrills me.

I came to realize that the reality around me is fake, and that I would never get that point across to anyone, and so I decided to quit blogging and just tune it out. But that did not last long. I need to write. So I decided to stick closer to home and heart, and write about my home state, Montana. And to keep my wits about me, I decided to ban three men who bring me down into the depths of silliness and stupidity.

I may waver, but still intend to stick by my plan. As I saw Paris go down, and then saw all of the automatic Pavlonian credulity, I could not help but say “Folks, if everything before now was a lie, it is highly unlikely they decided to start telling the truth this time.” So I went off track and wrote about some obvious fakery there, an easily understood false flag event designed to lure the American and European public into support of yet another massacre. Can’t help myself.

But if you, dear reader, cannot help yourself but to fall for every fresh lie they put on your plate, who am I to stop you? Enjoy. It’s your brain. You can either use it or not.

Truth is not a “rabbit hole.” It is a source of solace, a calm port in a sea of turbulence. I will always find comfort there. I am my own man. Can you say as much?

Too stupid to survive?

We live in an gullible age, and “evidence” is not needed anymore to produce outrage and hysteria. I’ve been looking for actual evidence of deaths in the Paris bombings. I hope the readers will provide some. So far, I’ve got this from the Billings Gazette:

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Hmmmm. Gotta get me some Kong Squeaker Balls too.

But “friends of a cousin” doesn’t do it for me. We saw these sort of stories, probably planted or spread by false rumor, after Boston. That’s not good evidence. It is hearsay, and very weak at that.

So I searched for photos of the bombing sites. I found this:

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Must have been a small bomb. Most of the windows and light fixtures are not even broken. Bombs have several ways of doing damage – the immediate blast wave, which diminishes exponentially as it travels, is normally thought to be the destructive mechanism. But to kill a lot of people requires a lot of explosives, so devices targeting humans usually are loaded with shrapnel and incendiaries.  Either way, if a bomb had gone off in that building, the site should be littered with debris hundreds of feet in radius, broken windows and destroyed furniture.

This might be a civil defense drill – they are often used to bring in unsuspecting participants and to draw on government resources when false flag events are underway. The area is blocked from view, mostly, probably because there was at best a noise device, possibly some smoke at this site. It could also be a different kind of device, a POS bomb.

(POS = Power of Suggestion.)

NATO, back in the 1970’s and 80’s, did some terror bombings in Italy, intending to blame communists to keep them out of government. It must have been  different time, because the bombs were more than smoke and noise devices, innocent people were really murdered, and there was a real investigation with adversarial trials and punishments. Here’s the aftermath of a bombing of rail station in Bologna, Italy, in 1985, that killed 85 people and injured another 200:

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Imagine the quantity of explosives used to produce that much damage – it was not a shrapnel bomb, and those killed or injured suffered under falling debris or had their internal organs ruptured by the tsunamic blast wave.

It was horrible, but most Americans are unaware that NATO engaged in terrorism, was caught, and people were punished. It was called “Operation Gladio.” Americans immediately reject the idea that NATO is a terrorist organization. In our indoctrination system, NATO is good guys. Period. No further thought, and anything contrary not just rejected, but not even comprehended.

It’s pretty bad here in the United States. The bulk of the population is controlled by images and suggestion, even giving up grief and tears, anger and anguish on cue, like Pavlov’s dog. It is so bad that Peter Dale Scott said the following:

“Americans are not capable of believing truth. They have been brainwashed that truth is “conspiracy theory.” A population this stupid has no future.”

Indeed. I’ve been alive 65 years, and maybe it’s just the faulty and selective memory of an old man, but I have never seen it so stupid out there as now.

Ted Brewer flaks it up

This piece, Where chemtrails and Ochenski converge, ran yesterday in the Missoulian. It is by Montana Wilderness Association communications manager Ted Brewer. It is weird.

The object of scorn is George Ochenski, a conservation writer who occasionally has pieces published in that newspaper. MWA is sliming him, even trotting out Godwin. There’s real anger behind it, though not much substance.  It’s a hit piece.

What’s up?

It’s interesting to see all of the people working for MWA on this page –  Ted is down a ways. They have mostly had their pictures taken in natural backdrops. This seeds the impression that this is an outdoor-loving group. Indeed, Montana Wilderness Association sounds like a bunch of people who hike the mountains and ski the trails, but their true function is a little less earthy. The photos and hobbies are a nice smoke screen. (Ted … “enjoy[s] hiking with their two dogs, backpacking, Nordic skiing, and fly fishing.” He also writes their hit pieces.)

The “communications manager” doesn’t just fire off an op-ed, hoping something sticks. He has to answer to his superiors. Be assured that the content and tone of this piece was table-talked. It is out for blood. They want Ochenski taken down.

If indeed that happens, it will be the juice behind MWA that does it, as MWA, just a front group, has no real power.

The word that set them off was most likely “bribes.” Ochenski never used it. It is a scarecrow argument.

They do, however, protest too much.

The real story is behind the words. MWA is an AstroTurf organization. They claim grassroots support, but real backers are a list of foundations. They have a lush budget and a large staff with important-sounding titles. They keep busy, but they don’t get much done in terms of conservation. Most often they attack real conservation groups and cooperate with developers and extraction companies. They “facilitate” and “collaborate.”

Pew Charitable Trusts has been a prominent supporter of MWA in the past. That outfit is spawned by the Sun Oil Company fortune, and the Pew family behind it.  If you think that putting money in a foundation  separates it from the donors, I’ve got a bridge to sell you. Pew money is oil money. So it naturally follows: MWA is oil money.

The word “quisling” comes to mind, as MWA merely fronts for other more powerful interests. But I’ll settle for a simpler word requiring no knowledge of history. They are “phonies.” “Shills” works too.

MWA is part of the larger corruption that is our political system, where no one is what they appear to be, everyone bought. The Brewer piece is a smoke screen, flak designed to take attention off MWA and redirect it at a critic.

Forget Paris

I wanted to bring forward these words left by JC at a Reptile Dysfunction yesterday, which he brought over from Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge. It has to do with the passport left behind by one of the “suicide bombers”, the modern-day signature of the false flag event:

Now, we admit to not being experts on the nuances, or even basics, of “suicide bombing for terrorists 101”, but is bringing your own passport to an event that will be your last, really that crucial, especially when the passport is such a critical smoking gun?

Also, if a suicide bomber blows up while carrying the passport, does the passport survive intact every single time or just on specific occasions?

Just as with the passport found in the rubble of the World Trade Center, or the drivers license in the Charlie Hebdo hoax, we are asked to be credulous beyond the pale of even normal blind stupidity. And we fulfill our roles. It is discouraging.

As I sat here this morning reading (The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton), I found the words rolling over me and leaving comfort. That, to me, is a better activity than to dwell on the evil of CIA and all the other spooks who pull off these awful slaughters to advance their insane wars in blind pursuit of power. There is evil in humans, and those most capable of such perfidy as the Paris attacks advance to the front of the line. They get to kill the most people, destroy all that is good, and clink their glasses while exchanging their knowing winks at gatherings in Georgetown or London or wherever they hang out.

All they ask of us is blind stupidity. And we give it to them.

When I returned to writing here, I wanted to stay close to home, write about Montana, my home in my heart, and forget about the madness that is our world, as I cannot change it. As Dark Helmet reminded us in Spaceballs,

“Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.”

So enough about Paris. Forget Paris.
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PS: From comments below, Paul Craig Roberts: “Americans are not capable of believing truth. They have been brainwashed that truth is “conspiracy theory.” A population this stupid has no future.” (He sounds a little frustrated. I get that.)

Troubled times

American news is essentially state-sponsored propaganda, so I have long relied on other sources for news. But it is difficult to know who is honest in pursuit of truth, and who is just another liar. At this point in time I have decided to place some confidence in Moon of Alabama and Saker to guide me through the morass that is the “terrorist” attacks last night. From there will come an assortment of facts, links, and it will be up to me to use my brain to try and understand this current round of insanity.

The objective of terrorism is to create fear, and then use it to achieve greater objectives. 9/11 was, obviously, staged to justify the wars we have seen these last fourteen years, naked aggression against seven countries. Millions have died, and it ain’t over yet by any means.

French President Hollande is obviously a player in this current charade, reading his lines and already identifying a Syrian as an attacker. The timing, coming so shortly after successful routing of Western-backed terrorists in Syria by the Russians, is convenient, as Langley, Tel Aviv and London appear to be in panic mode. A cornered wolf is extremely dangerous.

Other shoes will fall all over … I suppose I should listen to Obama’s words, as there might be useful information about true objectives behind the attack in his coded language. I look to President Putin for a calm and reassuring response – the Russian government, from all appearances, has been a beacon of sanity in these troubled times.

Not so the Americans … The source of most violence in our world since 1945. It all started with a paperclip.

Insanity

We can’t know anything certain for days or weeks or months, even years, about what is taking place in Paris. However, if the media instantly solves the crimes, and if it unleashes new military aggression in Syria or other Middle Eastern targets, which is the current focus of American aggression, then be assured this is a false flag attack. The tension that is simmering with refugees caused by the American-backed terrorism in Syria is bound to boil over, and what CIA/MI6/Mossad and all the other spooks do best is create tension, then take advantage of it.

Still, it is frightening to see what the lion does when his claws are trimmed. Recent Russian action in Syria has set back ISIS, al-Nusra and al Qaeda, and has caught their American sponsors flat-footed. This might be the first response from Langley. Knowing nothing else, that would be my guess. Our leaders in Washington are clinically insane.