I was reading in today’s newspaper some journalists having a laugh at people in social media outlets getting it wrong, spreading bad information, and in general jumping to conclusions. Funny, I thought, that eventually many people will know more of what happened, but that the last in that line would be the journalists who do not seek truth, but rather transcribe it has handed down by official sources.

See if in your reading and viewing that any American journalist questions the official story now of the guilt of the Tsarnaev brothers. It’s an amazing display of blind and uncritical loyalty to power.

That said, the Czech Ambassador having the explain to the American public the difference between Chechnya and the Czech Republic was funny.

Russian ‘Alpha’ Special Forces team-veteran and vice-president of its International Association, Aleksey Filatov, believes there is more to the case than meets the eye. He emphasizes, firstly, that the origin and religious beliefs of the suspect, along with the specifics of the bombing, have all been carefully pre-meditated and planned by someone within the United States in order to distract the public from the true identity and long-term aims of the actual planners.

“Putting a young Chechen in those shoes was top-notch professionalism in distracting everyone from the true identity and motives of the planner. The executors were chosen to confuse the American public and simultaneously untie the White House’s hands in a way that would justify a departure from the rhetoric of non-involvement in military action on foreign territories.”

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It could be Al Qaeda, it could be someone influenced by Al Qaeda, or it could be a domestic lone wolf. (CBS News “expert analyst”)

Those are the only possibilities. Got it folks? Those are THE ONLY POSSIBILITIES.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Oh for the day when a real leader asked Americans to be courageous, rather than the clowns and actors as we have now playing on fear. But times have changed. Post war, fascism merely moved to the other side of the Atlantic.

We have no enemies. No one wants to do anything to us ever except perhaps extract revenge. The amazing thing is that despite our historic provocation, and the ease with which a bomb can be planted on a bus or left in the queue waiting to be scanned at the airport, it has not happened. There is no defense against such attacks. They have not happened.
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I suppose security will be worse now at our airports, and the little Mussolini’s that work for the jobs program called TSA will be super-vigilant. The humorous part of that is if there really were non-American terrorists set to inflict harm on us, all they would have to do is blow us up while we wait in the queue to have our balls x-rayed.

This is a restatement of a point from the comments down below, without personal references. It has to do with what Ellul described as the destruction of the intellect due to agitation propaganda. Anyone my age or younger is a victim of it, for us older folks going all the way back to the 1950′s. In essence, the long-term effects of agitprop are for one part of the thought processing system to flourish, another to recede. In a state of constant fear, it is the amygdala that takes control and the whole of one’s existence is fear-response to fear. That is the primitive brain, the survival, fight/flight-survive-at all-costs-brain. It’s very hard to dislodge those thought processes, but I clearly remember in 1988 when I realized that Ruskies presented no threat to us, never had, and then breathing a huge sigh of relief, as decades of fear-mongering was suddenly lifted. And I was only lucky.

The cerebral cortex, where reasoning takes place, does not have much control in a fear-based environment, as we all know when faced with a crisis situation. I pretty much see the whole of the USA, post-9/11, as living in fear and not processing information properly, not that good information is even available. So while it appears when viewing the Democrats in action, or the Tea Party or listening to talk radio that humanity is a very stupid lot, we are only viewing fear at work. High intellectual capacity exists in almost all of us, but emotions override reasoning powers in an agitprop environment, which is unrelenting in our country.

They key to defeat of any system of propaganda, as always, is simply to be aware that it exists. Once that happens, it loses all power – even becomes the subject of wonderful humor, as in the old Soviet Union. Stop being afraid!

That won’t happen, of course. And the words above, if they strike too close to home, will be called “psychobabble.” But ask yourself what intellectual capabilities you exhibit when you think there is a burglar in the house.

After 9/11 there was a series of anthrax-laced letters delivered to various public officials, including the one at the right. Anyone attune to the methods of intimidation knows the meaning: STFU. Resident evil pinned the crime on Bruce Ivins, but we’ll never know who did it, as Ivins committed suicide. The fake investigation ended there. (Most likely, it was a staged suicide, but that will never be investigated either. Curious people die.)

Shades of those events, Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker received a letter laced with ricin, indicating that he might be curious about the Boston bombing. He’ll STFU.

American journalists, known to be housebroken, will scratch their heads at this odd coincidence, but it stops there.
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Update: It is indeed 9/11 all over again, with a ricin-tainted letter allegedly sent to Obama. (Whether that is a real event or fake, its implications are the same.) Something big is going down, the game is afoot, and I can only guess it is designed to ignite a Mideast War, with South Korea and Japan put on notice by the Korean provocations. I am only waiting, as are millions in Syria, Lebanon and Iran, for the other shoe to fall.

Not too long ago I read Nick Turse’s book, Kill Anything that Moves. I didn’t realize it, but hundreds, if not thousands of Vietnamese towns and hamlets have constructed monuments naming the dead in civilian massacres committed by young US soldiers, many of whose names are on the hundreds of monuments we have constructed to ourselves. The difference, of course, is that they were the victims.

The book is a recounting of a human tragedy that has happened too often on this planet – an imperial force ramps up its internal propaganda machine and then turns its killing forces loose on another country. The reasons, the real ones anyway, are never stated. It’s always due to some evil force, usually imaginary. The results are indescribable suffering and death.
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The US ran war games on the Korean Peninsula during the entire month of March, and they were not defensive, but rather a practice of “pre-emptive” war. Part of the drill included flying stealth B52’s from Missouri to Korea. Those aircraft are capable of nuclear delivery.

The entire operation is a massive provocation, and North Korea, which has no way of knowing the intent of US war planners, did what any rational actor would do – it responded in kind. They ramped up rhetoric, went into high defense posture, and explained what they were capable of doing at this point – dropping a bomb on Tokyo.

In the US state-controlled media, this is “provocation” by those crazy nuts in the DPRK. We’re rational, they’re not. I’ve looked through the first three pages of Bing search results on the B52 incident, and found that it was reported by two American sources – US News, and Yahoo. In each it was described as a warning in the wake of North Korea’s provocations.
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