NPR misses boat on how to tie shoes

I listen to two NPR programs, Car Talk and Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. The latter was conceived as a way to replace Car Talk as the boys aged. But I imagine even now with one of the boys dead and the other retired Car Talk reruns still rule. The reason: They were nice, they liked each other and reacted naturally to their callers as real people. They were spontaneous, funny and welcoming.

Wait Wait is more normal NPR fare, ostensibly making light of NPR while in reality taking NPR very seriously. If they would just try to do comedy without mixing in “news” (as if NPR news had any of that content), they’d be better fare.

So last week, Wait Wait did two things I found offensive. One, in their “Bluff the Listener” segment, they promoted the use of LSD. They claimed that in light doses it will get you off the Internet and onto buses, or in other words, be beneficial.

LSD is illegal. How on earth do we get hold of it? Even if we do, how can we get a “light dose” LSD was promoted by CIA during the 60s and 70s, and gave us a whole generation of fucked up musicians along with Monterey and Woodstock. It did not expand anything, but rather made us unable to think. In a light dose … it makes  us think clearly?

That’s fine – that’s just NPR doing the Steve Jobs thing, promoting a drug known to fuck us up, and in the guise of mind expansion. Very subtle.

But Wait Wait was not done. In a Q&A segment, we learned that TED Talks ran an episode on how to tie our shoes. And they mocked TED for it.

That happens to be the best TED Talk I have ever seen, something really useful. I learned to go backwards when I looped my laces, and so to this day never have an untied or loose shoelace.

Good grief, Wait Wait, there was value in that TED Talk. But like everything else, it whooshes right by you!

Joie de vivre

By the way, I get accused of cynicism now and then, and do not buy it. I am not at all down on people, but life choices and circumstances dictate that some people behave badly. Those who must perform acts of deceit in public (business people, advertisers and politicians) do not deserve respect, and those who are paid to honor them (journalists and some bloggers) as well are not worthy of respect. And those are the people I write about mostly, along with spooks. They are our underclasses, our wretched waste, our pointless people.

But this moment I am about to share is more like the real life I live, my little life, and after I do so you’ll see that it is not something important to write about. It is like we all live our lives in close quarters with one another. Most people are nice and friendly and well-intentioned. Most people are not politicians, business people, advertisers, journalists, bloggers or spooks.

We have a long driveway at our house, and plowing is a major task, and we get a lot of snow. Along about March, especially after just returning from Costa Rica, snow was not welcome, but we got seven inches. I am plowing the driveway, not at all enthused, ready for spring. A neighbor is out walking her three dogs, and one of them, a bigger old lab mix, sees me and bolts from her towards me. I instantly recognize a friendly dog, and show no fear, and as he runs up to me I smile. He comes up behind me and I pet him and he nuzzles my leg. He is used to good attention. I smile at the lady, and she is just beaming ear to ear.

When a dog approaches a stranger in that manner, it often ends differently. But this dog is a nice dog, meaning it has a nice owner, and everyone enjoyed the moment. It was a little special.

That’s more like I live, like everyone lives. We are all mostly good and nice. But our leadership dance to a different drum. They are not nice, good, or well-intentioned.

Ergo what is called cynicism. I was called a cynic on Facebook for suggesting the Steve Bullock “moment” was faked (that’s where I saw the photo). But I have to ask, if you are so trusting of politicians, who are paid to deceive us, what is the opposite of a cynic? A damned fool?

It looks like the US wants to use the Brussels incident to invade Syria. Get ready for another bloodbath. And does that not make one suspicious that the US was behind the Brussels incident? (Cui bono?) And if so, would not a normal and intelligent person suspect the incident might be faked? Again?

Blonde reporters

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The scene above is the train station in August of 1980 Bologna, Italy, after a bomb exploded and killed 84 people and wounded 200 others. Back in those days terrorists used real bombs and really did kill people. That particular bombing was part of “Operation Gladio,” and was done by agents of NATO as part of what was called internally a “strategy of tension.”

The idea then was to pull of these acts of terror and blame Communists, as they wanted to be sure that there were no communists in government. Only fascists need apply. The notion is about that Gladio ended when people were tried and jailed in Italy, but I doubt it. The strategy of tension is all around us to this day. The object is to keep us in a state of fear – the easier to manipulate and control us.

I was at the gym this morning, and as I sat lifting my weights, I was humming along with a  song in my earphones. As I looked up in the mirror, a lady behind me was snapping her fingers and dancing to my tune. We both laughed, and later I told her the name of the tune. She said “I didn’t pick up on that, but you were entertaining for us when the news on TV is so bad.”

Thus did I learn that we have had another event. Brussels this time.

People, I know you won’t listen, that you’ll automatically believe what’s on the TV. Even now, as CIA agent Anderson Cooper is in flight to the scene of the crime, the American news media is full of uncritical vapid pretty faces repeating every morsel handed them by the agents of terror. Just understand that blondes are no better at news reporting than they are at any other facet of life.

In other words, hold back. Don’t assume anything is true. Wait for evidence. Analyze it for yourself. Remember that the New York Times, fifty-two years after the fact, is yet to admit the the Gulf of Tonkin was a hoax, and that trusted source has not transformed over the years into an agent of truth.  Not hardly.

Use your heads! Please.

A highly effective system of oppression

I was looking over available movies yesterday, thinking one might be worth a trip down the hill. Meh. It all seems like crap. Maybe it is the fact of aging and maturing, but enjoyment of a movie requires willing suspension of disbelief. It is harder to do at age 65 than even at age 60. At age 20 I bought into all nonsense. Now I can embrace hardly any. A really good movie, like No Country for Old Men, is so rare as to be worth an automatic academy award, hands down.

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Saturday fun …

imageI ran across this photo a couple of years ago, and then shelved it. Too weird. See if you can spot the reason why. And think innocent thoughts. That is probably the Brooklyn Bridge in the background, so this would have been taken when the Beatles were still touring, pre-1966.

The photo has not been doctored in any way. Shadows and lighting are natural. And frustrating as it is, it is not conclusive. Just weird.

I am testing you … I have noticed these past few years that people are not able to spot fakery in photos, even obvious stuff. But this photo is real.

For instance, see this photo below here, Monica and Bill:

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It is an obvious fake, but it had you at first glance, right? They used body doubles, and all body doubles have to do is to fool you at first glance. Suggestive power does the rest. All presidents have doubles, and this guy above was obviously used by Clinton. I don’t know the circumstances –

Anyway, this is how I spent my Saturdays. Probably I suffer some form of mental illness, right? As I learned yesterday, our country has a mental health “crisis.” Here silly me merely thought that normal people have sadness, anger and depression, mood swings, and are susceptible to manipulation by TV, a hypnotic tool. Then there is all the agitation propaganda foisted on us by our spooks in the form of fake events like 9/11, the Boston Marathon bombing and San Bernardino, to name just a few.

There has been a horrible shooting up in Bozeman, Montana, my former home and first love, and people are driving right by the obvious suspicion, prescription drug side effects, and right to the least likely explanation … mental illness. The gal was suffering post-partum depression. That’s painful, but normal. Of course I don’t know, but am suspicious she was dosed up with antidepressants, most of which don’t even work and which are known to cause side effects like exacerbated hostility and suicidal ideation.

(Especially when mixed.)

Didn’t see that coming, did you. He’s rambling. Must be the drugs.

Fake Rodeos

Ah, so discouraging to watch as we endure yet another election contest, as if … after November, nothing will change. Nothing. Party politics has no effect on public policy, foreign or domestic. Those policies set to be implemented in the coming months will happen as if no election happened at all. There will be faux legislative battles, random court decisions, more manipulation of behaviors via fake terrorism, but mostly our governance is by edict and without reference to public opinion in any form.

What effect activists might have, those who take public officials and corporations to court, is minor, and about all we have left. But what else is there to do but act locally? If they could, our leaders would dispense with elections entirely, but they are apparently seen as necessary to foster the illusion of self-governance.  Continue reading “Fake Rodeos” →

How do I know Bernie is fake?

imagePlease take note of the Mark Twain quote in the upper right corner of this blog. In days gone by I would rotate quotations as my mood dictated, but that one has stayed out now for months.

Indeed, it is incredibly easy to fool people. I have been fooled time and again throughout my life by advertising, politicians, public hoaxes and various women. I settled with my wife, as I would venture most people do with their mates, having found someone in whom I could place unconditional trust. Marriage is a refuge in a deceitful world.

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The guy’s secret life is public

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This falls under the heading “Duh!,” as when I realized what I was seeing, I knew I had been had yet again by our spooks, those who control our every perception. These are covers of Time Magazine back from the time of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Both are fake, or pasted-up photos. Apparently no real photos of the two together exist.

On the left, Bill is in sunlight and has clearly defined and sharp features, while Monica is filtered, and has softer light from a photo obliviously taken indoors. In the second, Bill’s hair is poorly barbered, and he is a much taller man than that, much taller than her. It is just some guy, and the picture of her and everyone around her are pasted in from other sources.

Monica, in fact, never belonged in the White House, had no qualifications, probably has nothing more than an acting degree from a small college.

How do they get away with this? It is the power of suggestion. For instance, when Clinton was in Billings, Montana in the late 90’s they ran a motorcade up to the airport on North 27th Street,  I assumed that it was him in the limousine that went by. More likely he was in a less conspicuous vehicle or rode to Air Force One in a military helicopter. But the mere suggestion, limousine, motorcade, allowed me to fill in my own blanks.

Far more important here – Clinton, who suffered a near deal-breaking scandal due to the Monica affair, was aware that these photos on the cover of a national magazine were faked. Therefore, he knew about it, and approved of it. What does that tell you?

Again, I slapped my forehead and mouthed the words “I am too stupid to live!!!” The answer is beneath the fold.

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America: Exceptional all the way down

It is months to go until the Democratic Party covention in Philadelphia in late July. It is very easy to see that Michigan was flipped to Bernie Sanders to keep the drama alive, keep progressives interested. Polling errors like that do not happen, but electronic voting machines, which can be controlled by either party, can dramatically alter election outcomes. If it can happen (nothing prevents it), it will happen. It did.

Here’s a long list of reasons why the polls went wrong.  They are all wrong.

It is embarrassing to watch pollsters flog themselves in public about how they screwed up when they didn’t, and for supposedly smart analysts to trip over the elephant in the room without acknowledging it. One smartass commenter I stumbled on said “Hey, I voted in Michigan and filled out a long paper ballot. End of story, OK?”

Well, no. Not end of story. You’re not thinking it through, commenter! The ballots are counted by electronic machines that can be hacked, and there are no audit procedures in place to make sure that the tally is accurate. It is called a “black box” for a reason – no matter what goes in, only what comes out matters.

The silence on the matter is fear. I encounter it often. Americans, those few left with functioning brains, know more than they say, and are afraid to face the demons. We’re not a free society, we don’t have a free press, honest elections, and are corrupt through and through in every way imaginable. It is only left now to collapse under the weight of our own hubris. We’ll imagine ourselves exceptional all the way down.

  • We’ll think we are an example to the world, which laughs at us.
  • We’ll think our institutions squeaky clean, even as students in other countries study American brainwashing techniques.
  • We’ll continue to attack other countries to subjugate them and steal their resources, imagining we are defending ourselves.
  • Our spooks will continue to run false-flag operations that a child can see through, and most Americans will eat it up.*
  • We’ll imagine our education system makes us smart when it makes us stupid.
  • Just as our nutritionists know nothing about nutrition, our political scientists do not understand politics …
  • Our educators will still not know how to think properly, and our voting machines will not know how to count votes.

Our press, far from keeping an eye on crooks, is owned by the crooks. Down in the trenches, among rank and file reporters, they don’t even know to ask the question … How did that happen in Michigan? They honestly do not have that thought. It never occurs to them. They are that far gone.

So are you, dear reader, if you cannot look at an obvious fraud and say the words “It looks rigged,” and the investigate how that might happen. There is nothing to say. You cannot be reached. I can only hope future generations recover the lost art of critical thinking.
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*On the bright side, the Tate/LaBianca affair went unchallenged for over forty years before being revealed to be, along with the Manson trial, a hoax. Sandy Hook was exposed within weeks. The only resort for the spooks against such prying eyes is to stigmatize those who easily see through the hoaxes, and that, sadly, is effective enough to keep most people in mental chains.

Dave McGowan: Whoosh!es on out

As I read it, Dave McGowan died last December. Author of Weird Scenes in the Canyon, about the intelligence connections of various and medocre musicians of the period 1965-75 in Los Angeles, McGowan touched on a lot of topics, but never really followed through.

He also touched on serial killers, the moon landings, the Lincoln assassination, but never really followed through. I assumed his work was incomplete because he made his living doing other things and only wrote as a sideline. That has to be a working premise.

But some of the stuff he missed is monumentally important. His work appears to be nothing more and a compendium of the known, with nothing new or important divulged. With Weird Scenes he did not take time to attempt to run down any of the musicians still living to get their reactions. That would seem basic. Crosby, Stills and Nash just broke up, again,  and the old farts will probably go to their graves never having been confronted about their shady pasts. That’s a crime.

This has led some to speculate that McGowan was a disinformation agent, appointed to lead opposition and make sure they never learn anything important. His death, sudden (lung cancer) is not accompanied by obituaries that I can find. If anyone has links, please supply them.

Here is the biggest link missed by McGowan, and also by another person thought to be a cutting edge researcher, Mae Brussel: Sharon Tate’s father, Colonel Paul Tate, along with so many others in the LA scene in the late sixties, was a government agent. He was not just a suit, but an infiltrator. He dressed like and smelled like the hippies of the time. He was in and around the canyon during the Manson affair.

This is vital information, never mentioned, and which opens the door to speculation, reinforcing current theories that the Tate murders were staged, as was the trial, in order to kill the hippie movement and discredit the Vietnam War resistance, which had been linked with hippies in mainstream media.

Hey Dave: Whoosh!

[Here is an interesting link on Tate/LaBianca.] Lots of information to digest.