How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again! (Mark Twain)
The title above is perhaps only partly in jest. Back in the early 1960’s, when there were people of integrity in the House and Senate, Congressman Wright Patman of Texas conducted an inquiry into CIA funneling of money through various foundations to intended donors who wanted to be free of the taint of spook money.
Continue reading “Is Montana Wilderness Association a CIA front?”
My readings lately have taken me back to the immediate postwar era, when CIA was just underway and one of its first goals was to train and contain the American intellectual class. It wasn’t hard – intellectuals are normally driven by an aversion or ordinary people, and are easily bought with money and a taste of power.
The task at hand was censorship, but done in such a way that it would not be called that. It was shaking hands with the velvet glove.
My older brother was a Catholic priest, and an excellent man. He was scholarly, wise and caring, so that the influence that he exerted over his parishioners was done for good. In private conversations I came to realize that he did not believe in the mythology of Christianity, and yet was happy to “preach the gospels” because within the mythology is a recipe for personal happiness without harming others. If it turned out that Jesus and Mary were not real, and all of the saints and martyrs were merely reincarnations of pagan gods, it did not matter. He used mythology for good.
Most people are simply not capable of grasping the hard cold reality of life as it is, and need their myths.
I have read the news article beneath the fold here several times, and my head is abuzz. I have never seen such a compact and orderly collection of euphemisms, politically correct grammar, and barely disguised attacks on public policy in one article. Phil Taylor, author of the piece, is to be commended. He’s surely an A student.
It is hard to know, however. His bio is sketchy, as are those of Michael Witt and Kevin Braun, founders of E&E Publishing, Taylor’s employer. (E&E = Environment & Energy.)
In Taylor’s article below the fold here, “White House in talks to reform budgeting, streamline NEPA,“ I have emboldened and underlined his disguised language. I suppose I’ll have to take it down soon, as it is available only on subscription. E&E is a very expensive group to subscribe to – between $2,000 and $150,000, according to this article. That is a tell – it means that E&E has an exclusive and private clientele who are willing to pay a lot of money for there service. (Read: Industry insiders, congressional aides, and lobbyists.) It’s an industry publication masquerading as a public interest group.
Below is a list of words used in the article, along with a translation. I speak fluent euphemism:
The Taylor article is a primer on how to write on behalf of industry by clever use of coded language understood by insiders. I’ve never seen so much dishonesty and euphemism in one piece of journalism.
Note to Reader: This blog post has been put “under review” as we have had growing pains in developing the technology we use to identify twins, replicas and zombies. The eyes behind the technology are getting better, so as you read this piece note that if you are troubled by its conclusions that we will be looking at it in more depth and with better eyes. For the time being, it is speculation.
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Michael Jackson retired from public life around 2001, and was replaced by a body double.
Body doubles are very common in intelligence, celebrity culture, business and politics. They work easily because most of us are just glancing without skeptical eye. For sake of security, body doubles are essential. High profile people need time alone. Powerful people have security concerns, so that body doubles can draw attention away from their real activities.
Below I wrote about Stephen Hawking being replaced by a body double. People have long contended that Paul McCartney was replaced in 1966 – I tend to agree with that, but now see that the Beatles were a project involving many people to promote them, write their music, script their appearances, so that the original McCartney might have merely stepped aside. Replacement would be unusual for a real phenomenon, but not so much for a PSYOP.
But then, the whole of the music business is fraught with impostors who only survive by power of suggestion. I remember recently listening to Crosby, Stills and Nash in a reunion appearance on the Tonight Show, and thought “Wow, these guys suck.” But their recordings were different, better instrumentation and sound effects, perhaps even some better voices added to make them sound less like the high school band. Bob Dylan has a mystique about him that allows him to survive inability to sing. There’s a joke about what a Deadhead says when he runs out of pot: “Man, this music sucks!”
But there is talent about us, some of it remarkable. The McCartney replacement is a very talented performer, as was John Denver. These are my generation – younger people can rattle off names of other truly talented performers for me.
And perhaps one of the most talented men I have ever seen in my lifetime was Michael Jackson.
I watched as MJ changed before my eyes from a black man to a white man. I did not question it. His heavily made-up face was creepy, and his dabbling with young boys turned me off. I reverted to Thriller Mike – that was the guy I wanted to remember. That album, like the work of the Beatles, was the effort of a group of talented behind-the-scenes people, but like the Beatles, the man who fronted for the whole effort was a talented performer.
I never occurred to me until I recently slapped my forehead with Hawking that the man to the left here is a different person than the one to the right, a body double, and not even a good one. Look at the nose! And, fer Chrissakes, he’s white.
I do not know what happened or why, but apparently the real Michael Jackson left the scene around 2001. Maybe he’d had enough of fame. He is probably still alive somewhere – if he is dead, it makes me sad. The fake MJ was scheduled to go on a world tour before his “death” in 2009, and I speculate that perhaps he just didn’t have enough talent to pull it off, so they pulled the plug on him. I don’t suggest for a second that they killed him, but did retire him permanently, faking his death. That too, I am learning thanks to Mr. Mathis, is not uncommon.
Of course it is disturbing that I did not suspect that replacement MJ was being foisted upon us due to our gullibility. But then again, power of suggestion is highly effective when we are not paying close and critical attention. If there is a motorcade going down the streets of Denver and I am told on the news that it is the president, no matter who is in that limousine, I will think it is the president. I have no reason to suspect otherwise.
So I’ve been had again. And will be in the future, again. But the celebrity culture is a huge cash machine, so there is great need to maintain the images of the celebrities. It was a mistake for Crosby, Stills and Nash to appear on Fallon and remind us just how much they suck at music. The handlers of fake Michael Jackson decided not to make that mistake, and I tend to think it was the right call. They drowned their replacement baby in the bathtub.
Smart move.
I was curious about the Hawking post below – how many people would read it, and more so, how many people would go so far as to click on the Mathis paper to get a close-up view.
46 people clicked on the home page (I still get many more hits than that on old posts, but 46 is the number who came for a fresh view). Eleven people clicked on the Hawking piece, though that was not necessary to read it. That could mean that eleven people jumped to the comment section, where JC had a go at me. In the old days, that was what people I have banned would do – without reading anything, head for the comments. I got tired of that practice.
I deliberately noted that the Mathis piece was 3,700 words, or about 14 pages of reading. One person clicked on that link. One. Who, I ask, who? Reveal yourself!
This merely reinforces my impression that people don’t like to read – it’s all like homework to them. They want it quick and easy. If it requires analysis and thought, it loses audience quickly.
Thus the success of Huffington Post. Picture and headlines are all that it takes to convey the information our thought controllers want conveyed.
This article from the Independent by Nick Harding is worth a read. Harding, light of intellect, is doing the usual ridicule routine, questioning the sanity of anyone who does not, like him, believe with utter credulity and doe-eyed incuriosity every hoaky fable fed to him by official sources.
It is how he got his job, and how he keeps it. He’s a stupid man, an incurable condition.
Down deep in the article we find the following passage:
“The number of people who believe conspiracy theories is staggering. According to various recent surveys, a third of Brits believe Princess Diana was murdered (a Daily Mail survey), a quarter believe the moon landings were faked (from Engineering and Technology magazine), nearly half of all Americans do not believe global warming is man-made (a Yale University survey) and 84 per cent of them believe 9/11 was an inside job (a New York Times/CBS poll).”
Is it not interesting that the 84% figure he cites from New York Times/CBS is reported not in the New York Times or on CBS, but rather in a British publication?
Nothing surprises me in this crazy country, but to know that those who believe the official 19-Arab fantasy about 9/11 are actually in the minority, well, that surprises me. I have to rethink. I am in the majority, but we are carefully kept from knowing about it.
False flag attacks are nothing new – they have occurred throughout history. Weak countries are not stupid, and do not readily provide strong countries with reasons to attack them. So the stronger country has to do it for them.
Thus do we have many famous incidents in history – all conveniently justifying a much larger agenda for military aggressors – the Battleship Maine, the Gulf of Tonkin, and a faked invasion of U.S. territory (Mexico the supposed villain) in 1846 which caused freshman Representative Abraham Lincoln to demand of President James Polk evidence of the spot where the supposed invasion took place. (See “Spot Resolutions.”) To no avail.
9/11 was a false flag attack used to justify an entire remapping of the Middle East by the U.S. The first step after 9/11, oddly, was an invasion of Afghanistan, innocent of any crime. The lure there was not a military objective so much as a prize coveted by U.S. intelligence – poppy fields. Just as the Vietnam War secured for the CIA and western bankers behind it control of the world drug market via the Golden Triangle, the Afghanistan invasion achieved the same end. (Oddly, to this day, even with thousands of American soldiers standing guard, no one has ever seen a poppy leave a field there on its way to a laboratory for processing.)
San Bernardino appears to be a booster shot for the 9/11-weary American public. Syria was on the list of countries the U.S. wanted to take down in 2001, and appears to be the object of the most recent fakery. The Russians are mobilized and achieving great results in that country, defeating the terrorist armies that are armed, financed, fed and supplied by Western intelligence. This makes a U.S. attack on Syria a potentially dangerous affair, and not the usual cake walk preferred the desk murderers of Langley and Georgetown.
Which reminds me – today is Pearl Harbor Day, a day the was the end result of infamous scheming. That was a different kind of attack, a real one by a real enemy. It is widely misunderstood, and American history books and Wikipedia are not about to clear the air.
Lieutenant Commander Arthur McCollum of Naval Intelligence in 1940 penned a memo to his superiors outlining eight steps to lure Japan into making an overt and aggressive act of war that would justify U.S. entry into the European conflict (after disposing of Japan). The object was to preserve the British Empire, and McCollum was cognizant of the fact that that empire was in its closing days. The U.S. would be the natural successor. I urge the reader to look over the memo, as it unmasks real U.S. policies and planning prior to 12/7/1941.
“It is not believed that in the present state of political opinion the United States government is capable of declaring war against Japan without more ado; and it is barely possible that vigorous action on our part might lead the Japanese to modify their attitude. Therefore, the following course of action is suggested:
- A. Make an arrangement with Britain for the use of British bases in the Pacific, particularly Singapore.
- B. Make an arrangement with Holland for the use of base facilities and acquisition of supplies in the Dutch East Indies.
- C. Give all possible aid to the Chinese government of Chiang-Kai-Shek.
- D. Send a division of long range heavy cruisers to the Orient, Philippines, or Singapore.
- E. Send two divisions of submarines to the Orient.
- F. Keep the main strength of the U.S. fleet now in the Pacific in the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands.
- G. Insist that the Dutch refuse to grant Japanese demands for undue economic concessions, particularly oil.
- H. Completely embargo all U.S. trade with Japan, in collaboration with a similar embargo imposed by the British Empire.”
FDR implemented all eight proposals, including putting the fleet in the area of Pearl as bait. By late 1941, Japan felt it had no option but to strike first in an inevitable war, perhaps dealing a crippling blow. That was all the U.S. wanted, and set in motion U.S. entry into the bloodiest conflict in human history (except perhaps for the one they are toying with now).
Happy Pearl Day! Remember the Maine! They hate our freedom! And keep that drug pipeline open.
The San Bernardino mass shooting event was faked, of course.
I know that most who read that sentence will think I am nuts, but I assure you, it is not me, but you who has the problem. I am one of the few sane ones left in this country.
Stop and think: Have you even looked at the evidence? Of course not. You assume that with all the hoopla and those very pretty and trustworthy television people and the and crying actors on TV that it must be real. Right? And you’re wondering what is going wrong with this country. You’re certain there is insanity in the air, and that the next mass shooting might be in your town. It’s got you in a state of anxiety, right? We gotta get ISIS! Right?
Fake mass shootings require fake victims. So I took a list of the list of victims, and since I don’t want to spend a lot of time on this (the next “event” is in planning stages already), picked just one. I chose “Sierra Clayborn.”
They have to make up the names and supply identities, but use real people as models. Here is a photo of “Sierra:”
She’s a pretty girl, whoever this model is. She looks to be a mixture of Asian and African descent, but with a name like “Clayborn” it is hard to know. This is a well-lit photo, no shadows, indicating a light screen used by professionals. It could be a family portrait, or she could be a model. The face is very narrow. The head is too big for the body, however. It is so big that if you turned it sideways, it would extend shoulder-tip to shoulder-tip. Either it has been superimposed, or this girl is a circus freak.
A web search for her yields a person by that name, age 27, living in Rialto, California, and another in Illinois. As a possible relative of the California Sierra we find “Jacinto Alonso,” but no one with the name Clayborn. Huh? Modern families, I suppose.
That’s it. But “Clayborn” is a bastardized spelling of “Claiborne,” a European name made famous by the fashion line sold at JC Penney. There are lots people by that name, famous people including Lindy Claiborne Boggs, the widow of Hale Boggs, a member of the House of Representatives from Louisiana and of the Warren Commission, who disappeared in a small plane over in Alaska in 1972 after having been driven to the airport that day by none other than a certain young man named Bill Clinton. For all we know, he died, fake-died, or was murdered. That’s an aside … just rambling.
Moving on: Assume she is a real person, then I am disrespecting the dead, right? Let’s find her parents … it does not say. Two obituaries do not list her parents.
Odd, but let it go. They might be in seclusion. She has a sister, Tamishia, we are told, who is in charge of her memorial fund. Here’s a photo of the two of them together, a selfie, with Tamishia doing the selfie squint and Sierra looking again like a model.
There is, of course, a slight problem here: They don’t look at all like sisters. But modern times, and all, perhaps one was adopted, or they share one parent, but since we don’t yet know the parents, it’s hard to guess. They are of different races, and other than the shape of the mouths, seem to share no physical characteristics. Tamashia’s hair … odd. But that could be camera angles and all that. I know I hate selfies – no way could I put up a photo like Sierra here in a selfie.
The photograph is fake. Both images have been pasted in from some other source. You can tell because of the sharp, sharp lines, but more importantly, the shadows don’t match. Also, while the angle is up at up at Tamashia, it is straight on at Sierra, even as she appears to be the taller of the two. Tamishia’s face is lit by light from her left and above, while Sierra is lit from the right and above, while the phone used for the photo cast a shadow from behind. That’s three separate light sources. There is a hand [with fingers Photoshopped off] or something under Sierra’ dangling ear piece too, holding it in place? It looks to be six or seven feet behind her. Who knows. Fake photo.
Here is a photo of Tamishia from “Sierra’s” Facebook link:
Yikes! Worst Photoshop job ever! The left eye has been superimposed, and does not line up with the right eye. They are not even looking the same direction. The top half of the face is one person, the bottom a another, or she has five o’clock shadow. It has been blurred down below and above in the hairline while well defined about the cheeks and eyes. And this is not the Tamishia in the photo with her model sister above. The nose says it all.
Take a look at your own collection of photos some time, and notice the consistency of light and lines and shadings. These sort of problems only occur with photo fakery. The people at Langley who do this stuff are busy these days what with fake events every month or so. They are also bored, as Americans are so easy to fool that they don’t have to try very hard.
Anyway, I’ll stop, and I will do no more with the so-called San Bernardino victims. If one is so obviously a paste up, the others will deconstruct as easily too.
I have a three-part writing mission, and get sidetracked. Part one is to merely establish that the American people are not capable of self-governance* – not now, anyway. Time might heal us, make us sane again, but agitation propaganda destroys intellectual abilities, permanently, so that it takes new people with fresh brains to lead us out of our current mess.
But each new generation is put through the same grinder of mass media, thought control and education that produces these empty-headed robots who pass for responsible citizens.
I suppose out of that attitude comes the haughty notion that some of us are smarter than most of us, creating resentment. “Are you calling me stupid?” Even stupid people resent that. However, we are talking about a particular kind of insight, the understanding of politics and psychological manipulation that only a few people possess.
This country, since the end of World War II, has been deeply brainwashed, boiled in agitprop all the way from having kids duck and cover and do air raid drills in the 1950s to the current military flyovers at sporting events and the onslaught of fake shootings. These events are designed to keep us in a high state of tension. In that state of mind, we cannot reason properly, and are susceptible to suggestion and manipulation.
Those of us who can see through this nonsense simply have the ability to relax. There ain’t no boogeymen out there, ain’t no terrorists knocking on our doors, ain’t no reason to walk around in fear. If you know that, you can sit quietly and read a book or contemplate a sunrise.
Events like 9/11, Boston, Paris and now San Bernardino (which, until proven otherwise I assume to be just another planned tragedy) are “agitation propaganda.” (A quick tour of Wikipedia and other sources will tell you that Lenin, Hitler and Mao practiced it, but will offer no suggestion that it is going on here this very moment.)
But classical study in propaganda teaches that people cannot live in such a high-wire state for long, and need intervals of relaxation in between agitations. In the United States these days we are not getting any time off. The agitation is unrelenting.
The results of unabated agitprop are resignation of the intellect (the stupidity we see about us now) and insanity. The underlying goal, support for more wars, is what drives the masters of deceit, but in the end they are left with a population that cannot think and only knows how to hate on command.
They seem to want that. So it is that otherwise capable people have been reduced to snarling wolves wanting revenge against the latest target for the United States military. Right now it is Syria. Next week it could be Tonga.
If we stop and think about it, we have no more reason to attack Syria than we did Vietnam, Iraq, Serbia, Libya or Afghanistan. But who has time to “stop and think?” The current ongoing mass shootings are serving the purpose of Orwell’s Two-Minute Hate, to remove thinking from our daily lives and replace it with a cause for action.
I wish they would let up. I wish they would let us relax. I am tired of the stupidity, tension, hatred, and insanity that is the United States today. But all of this reinforces the idea that causes me to write these words: We are not a people capable of self-governance. Not now, anyway.
Maybe for a brief interval after World War II, before the decision was made that we would be a National Security State in search of enemies, that we would be propagandized, we were a sane people. But that ship sailed in 1947.
Until we are given a decent interval of relaxation, a time to recover our senses and learn to reason again, we will not have the intellectual capacity needed to make wise choices or form sane popular movements for peace and human decency.
Oh, wait – what’s that I see? Another mass shooting? Where this time? Let’s go check it out! Gotta go! New reason for hatred! See ya!
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*Part two is to analyze our political class and voting system, part three, the hardest part, is to describe what is behind the curtain, how our system of governance really functions, in concrete terms. I hope to get to that point someday.
