If one views Syria as a mere proxy battle between the US and Russia, then use of Chechens as patsies in the Boston bombing makes more sense. Public figures could easily communicate in private and convey their threats and make their deals, but every word by an official has to carry with it a demonstration of the power to carry out threats. So in some fashion the Boston bombing, while at once keeping Americans in a high state of tension, also served to send a message to the Russians.

(It also was a nice cover for another bombing incident at the JFK Archives.)

What to make of it all? Who knows. If Russia has made it clear by its own actions that an attack on Syria is a red line, and if the Americans are now a telling Russia that they are ready to cross that line*, then we’ve got problem. But all of this posturing and redlining has a purpose. Powerful people are talking to one another.

In our highly censored environment we only hear the voices of our sock puppets. But American and NATO forces so far have caused the deaths of 70,000 Syrians, and the Russians are keenly aware that many more are at risk if the Americans unleash the NATO dogs once more. The stakes are high – I wonder if the people in DC who so easily kill so many have more surprises in store for Syria as well as poor schmucks who like to run in foot races.
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*No one in Washington gives two shits about chemical weapons. Get real. Americans drenched Vietnam in Agent Orange and sold chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein and then sat idly by while he gassed Kurds … This country is the Bizzaroville, a poster child for hypocrisy in the art of posturing.

From the book Stiff: The Curious Lives of American Cadavers, by Mary Roach.

The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you.

That is the opening paragraph to an interesting book by one of our better humorists. Her picture to the left, if you pick up on it too, is of a woman of mischief.

Now substitute any of the following for the word “dead:”

• Democrat
• Republican
• Randian
• Patriotic
• An American journalist
• A news anchor
• A blogger
• An American college student

While I’m at it, here are some of my more memorable passages from notable wits regarding education, the subject of the post above this one:

• Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. (Clarence Darrow)
• Only in history is stupidity the result of more, not less, schooling. (James Loewen)
• I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. (Wilson Mizner)
• American college students are like American colleges – each has half-dulled faculties. (James Thurber)
• Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. (Bertrand Russell)
• The truth is that schools don’t really teach anything at all except how to obey orders. (John Taylor Gatto)
• The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike that those who think differently. (Nietzsche)

Add your own, of course. And remember the rule of foxholes – lighting up makes us targets. Enjoy!

From the New York Times:

Senator Max Baucus of Montana, the chairman of the powerful Finance Committee, will retire from the Senate after 36 years, the sixth Senate Democrat to head to the exits in 2014, according to Democratic officials close to the senator.

A Democratic official said former Gov. Brian Schweitzer of Montana, a Democrat and still one of the most popular political figures in the state, is leaning toward running for the seat, ensuring that Democrats still have a strong chance at retaining it. But Mr. Baucus’s departure means the Democrats will now be defending open seats in Montana, West Virginia, Iowa, Michigan, New Jersey and South Dakota.

Archetype: (in Jungian psychology) a collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., universally present in individual psyches.

One of the reasons I suspect that events like Boston are probably false-flag is that normal people don’t do such things. It requires hatred of humanity, a desire to inflict pain on others, and a sense of political purpose all at once.

In case you think I have accidentally defined “terrorist” here, I have, but only as a deliberately implanted archetype. Americans are taught to believe that there are America-haters out there. Such creatures do not exist. If they did, events like Boston would be everyday occurrences, and we’d never be safe to travel. Our own “patriots,” the other side of that coin, have bombed so many countries, inflicted so much suffering on the planet that revenge ought to be the soup of the day, but it is not.
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Stupidity covers our land like thick and too-sweet frosting on a bakery cake. The Tsarnaev brothers not only do not get their day in court, but one has been murdered, the other is near death. The neighborhoods of Waterton were searched without warrant, people driven out of their homes at gunpoint as helicopters hovered menacingly overhead and German shepards barked.

All because people are frightened of boogeymen. Americans are so scared they will tolerate any abuse of police state justice, the Bill of Rights shredded as innocent people stand with hands over heads.
Continue reading “Fear, Inc.” →

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.”

Continue reading “Syria: American rhetoric of noninvolvement can now be suspended” →

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.
Continue reading “War on the home front precedes war abroad” →