How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again! (Mark Twain)
Lobotomies were a common medical procedure during the 1960’s, with over 10,000 children receiving them. Electroshock therapy, now on the rise again (promoted by none other than Carrie Fisher), was also common.
These treatments were shown to be redundant and unnecessary due to the rise of TV
Dave McGowan offers here, from the preface to his book Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon, advice not on investigative journalism so much as on proper thinking in general.
Although I am regarded by many people as a “conspiracy theorist,” which is more often than not used as a pejorative term, I do all my research through very mainstream channels. I am a big believer in the notion that ‘the truth is out there,’ but don’t expect it to be delivered to you in a tidy package by any mainstream media outlets. Finding it involves assembling a jigsaw puzzle of sorts, with the goal being to gather up all the bits and pieces of information that other writers tend to present as throwaway facts and/or interesting anomalies. Sometimes those bits and pieces end up being no more than interesting anomalies, but past experience has taught me that if those divergent facts are properly assembled a new picture often begins to emerge that is strikingly at odds with what is widely accepted as our consensus reality.
At the end of the day, its is really all about pattern recognition.
It is a feature of our brainwashed society that critical thinking is ridiculed, often called “conspiracy theory” but just as often relegated to paranoia. But the whole notion that there are no conspiracies to unfold is groupthink, creating an atmosphere in which the most incurious and non-inquisitive people get to parade about as intelligent because they do not question official truth. This creates a society of inert brains, tyranny of the dull. Lord knows as I walk about American news media and blogs that I am struck by how our writers, journalists, comedians and entertainers, talking heads, bloggers and pundits lack basic skepticism, and barely register on the scale of intelligence in public affairs. It’s pretty damned boring.
Advertisers know that groups of people exhibit characteristics that are not apparent in the individuals within those groups. An adult American might think himself skeptical to a fault (and a critical thinker to boot), but as a group the American public is highly suggestible and gullible. It believes in fairy tales and are easily manipulated by symbols and lies. Our relationship with the government and news media is that of parent-child. News is written at a fifth grade level, and symbols and imagery are used to make it believable.
Continue reading “The transformation of al Qaeda into freedom fighters, again”
Mark Twain said that a book considered a classic was one that “… people praise and don’t read.”
Similarly, “free markets” are things that people praise and studiously avoid. Clever use of the word “free” is part of it, making it sound like a noble ideal. But substitute the more correct “unregulated” or “unfettered” for “free,” and it gives you a better idea of what is really going on.
People hate free markets, and with good reason. They are destructive of life, business, and freedom itself. “Free” markets expose everyone to competition, a destructive force. Price competition drives companies out of business. Competition for market share drives price cutting, with the same result. There is security in free markets, but only to the degree one is insulated from competition. Freedom from competition is market power. But it is not a free market.
Continue reading “Free markets: economic jihadism”
Take the Eric Cantor defeat in Virginia’s 7th district. He lost by 10 points, or 8,000 votes, while his internal polling showed he had a typically American gerrymandered 34 point lead. It could happen, people make mistakes, change their minds, and last minute events can turn elections. (Brad Blog, as usual, on top of this.)
Continue reading “But I vote, dammit!”
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.
Continue reading “Not even light escapes …”
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.
Continue reading “Corruption”
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.
Continue reading “William Pepper’s lonely journey”
Don Progreba writes about Republicans at Intelligent Discontent. He is predictable, repetitive, rote and routine, unimaginative and incurious to a fault. He invites ridicule, but imagines that it is only the party impulse that brings it about rather than an impulse we might call, thinking here thinking ….. intelligent disc… never mind.
But I laughed out loud when I read his most recent post, 12 Reasons Montana s Can’t and Won’t Elect Ryan Zinke. Perhaps a few of my readers share my sense of humor in these affairs. Here is Don’s first reason:
He can’t be trusted.
“Freedom” is one of those things that people talk about but do not understand. In fact, when faced with it, most find that they to not want it much less cherish it. People do not want to think for themselves, and will easily trade what little freedom they are given in life for a little security. This is the human condition.
That’s about the only thought going through my pretty little head on the morning after an election. I have not looked at the results, don’t care about them. This is what we have left of the tattered constitution … well, this and a gun if you want it.
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