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As the right wing circus celebrates the passing of the brutal dictator Hugo Chavez, life in the free states under our jurisdiction goes on:

Saudi human rights activists sentenced to 10 years in prison

Two human rights activists have been jailed in Saudi Arabia for inciting rebellion and misinforming foreign media. A Riyadh court sentenced Mohammed Fahd al-Qahtani and Abdullah Hamad to 10 years each. As members of the banned ACPRA pressure group, they had called for the introduction of elections and a constitutional monarchy in a state that forbids political parties altogether.

Stay out of my Facebook exchange

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Yes, he is that Michael Brown.

Michael Brown here. It’s FRIDAY! Another Caption This Contest. Considering that Hugo Chavez is still dead, and his funeral is being held today, here’s today’s photo. May the best – or worst – caption win. The winner gets…a pair of passes to Ski Loveland! Have fun!

Contest entries follow by the dozen, a few examples:

Michael J. Titera Book Title: “How To Fake Your Own Death”
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A challenging puzzle

Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.” (John Derbyshire)

Swede brought the above quote to me in a comment in another post. I’m a little concerned about that man, as his intellect is locked away in a steel trap, sealed off by hatred and inaccessible to him. He reads some, has exposure to a wide array of YouTube videos. That speaks of long obsessive hours online. The way the Internet is constructed now, post-Google, allows each of us to follow our own passion without exposure to the uncomfortable, even sane, reasoning of others. Google suits our fancies.

I did a quick Wiki-hit on Derbyshire, hardly fair to the man. There’s obviously been some furious back-and-forth editing going on there, and as Bryan Schweitzer reminds us, we should never judge a man when he is at his worst. Derbyshire did work for National Review, after all.
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Why are we having this discussion?

nationalsecuritystateA concept that is very useful in understanding politics is this: Individuals behave in one way, but groups of individuals in another. A group has characteristics quite apart from the individuals that make up that group. The key understanding that came out of group dynamics in the early twentieth century was that group behavior could be manipulated even as the individuals within the group were not aware of it.

That’s a large part of what advertising does – to identify groups and manipulate them. Political advertising is no different – group manipulation. When you hear a phrase like “soccer mom” or “NASCAR dad,” you are hearing the results of intense study of our society so that the advertising agencies that work for candidates know how to fine-tune their work. Advertising works, and the most discouraging part for me is that there is no connection between behavior of office holders once elected and the advertising that got them elected. Once the campaign is over, the office holders go back to work for their employers, the people who financed their campaigns. The public goes back to sleep.

Group dynamics is so advanced now that anything can be sold to us under the right conditions. 9/11 was an orchestrated event, a self-inflicted wound. It induced a mass psychosis, and thereafter any poison could be sold to us to salve our wound. Without knowing the inside wisdom, it is easy to see that never-ending war was a big part of the objective, as was passage of the USAPATRIOT ACT, which essentially repealed the Bill of Rights.
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Hugo Chavez, a job well done. Rest in peace

But it seems the good they die young. (Dick Holler, Abraham, Martin and John)

It’s the quality and not the length of a man’s life that counts. If a man is assassinated while he is fighting to save the soul of a nation, his death contributes more than anything else to its redemption. (Martin Luther King)

campaa_en_caracas_04_fb__3946I’m not going to look this up, as I understand the sentiment well enough that it stands without citation. Fidel Castro warned Hugo Chavez early in his career to be careful, that the United States would use democracy to bring him down. If you stop reading there, the message will be lost. Castro was not saying that our shadow leadership lurking behind our symbols of democracy actually believes in any of that stuff. Get real. He was saying that Chavez would have to play by the rules, while the US would not. He would have to fight fire with fire, and in so doing would be at a disadvantage. His every move would be publicized while those of the US would be kept secret.
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Testing 1 2 3

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One legitimate criticism of the work of Dr. Judy Wood is this: If such weaponry as directed energy that caused the destruction of seven WTC buildings on 9/11 existed, it would not be born as an adult. There would have to have been tests and smaller events during its development. After all, before Hiroshima, the Nevada desert was used as a testing ground.

We know hardly anything of US military activities around the world – if I were to guess, something like 1% might be visible to us, the rest hidden from view, unknown here in the land of the free and oblivious. Unknown unknowns are the rule.

But there was an anomalous event of suspicious nature at took place on April 19, 1995 in Oklahoma City – the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was destroyed. The deed was done, we are told, by Timothy McVeigh and accomplices. He went quietly to his grave, like Iago defiant and unwilling to talk. I remember at the time of the bombing an odd-duck right-in-my-face contradiction: TIME Magazine had an artist’s sketch of the crime scene, and in it was a large hole in the ground in front of the building that was created by the fertilizer bomb. The problem was that actual photos of the crime scene, as opposed to the drawing, showed no hole.* (See above.)
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The old “non-lethal” gambit

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High-profile people in high office in DC are just filling slots, but the policy output from those offices does not change nor is it original with them. Replacing Colin Powell with Condoleezza Rice with Hillary Clinton with John Kerry is merely shuffling of personalities to the podium to announce policy initiatives that come from inside the bowels of the Pentagon, CIA, “defense” contractors or Wall Street, or any combination thereof. The office Secretary of State does require a lot of traveling and face time with foreign personalities, and so is a good career choice for anyone unhappy in marriage or just wanting to travel the world. No doubt Bill Clinton was thrilled when Hillary took the job.

“Secretary of State” John Kerry announced that the US will deliver $60 million in “non-lethal” aid to the Syrian “rebels.” Those quotes are there to help you see through the mist.

  • Kerry, having served intelligence interests since his days as a war protester (infiltrator, “op,”), is semi-retired now.
  • “Non-lethal” aid is only the aid we are allowed to see. Real aid – bombs for terrorist attacks, chemical weapons, guns and mortars are either sent to Syria on the sly or routed through another country, like Israel, Poland, or some other complicit client state. (That’s the old ,Nicaraguan “Contra” ploy, where their weapons came from Israel, Iran, Czechoslovakia, South Africa).
  • And the “rebels” are run by western intelligence, and probably consist of fighters trained in Libya, Kosovo, Saudi Arabia, perhaps Guantanamo and other places. Often, when used for other purposes, they are called “Al Qaeda.” They are run by Americans, Brits and Israelis. Since Syria is a former French colony, it is logical to assume significant involvement by them too.

The attack on Syria is just another imperialist venture, and President Bashar al-Assad’s “crime,” the only one anyone cares about, is the refusal to allow his country to be integrated into the London-Washington financial system. That is why our terrorists decide that other people are terrorists.

On “thought” control

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true. (Henry Kissinger)

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That's Atta on right, in his non-demonic mode
That’s Atta on right, in his non-demonic mode
“Thought control” is a crude phrase, but an accurate one. There are gentler ways of putting it, but that seems the best description of the phenomenon where people assume they are thinking their own thoughts even as they are being manipulated by others. The question should be not whether it exists, by rather if it exists because of us, or some unscrupulous “them” who have entered our minds like body snatchers. (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, like Wag the Dog,” is a movie that makes this exact point in an artistic manner. Since I work with a hammer and not a paint brush, I cannot do what they did.)

The simple fact is that we are almost all subject to the wisdom of others, and none of us are original thinkers. Following is not by itself a bad thing as long as judgment is present. But that has to do with thought, and not perceptions.

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Adventures in the hall of mirrors

Oh, what the hell. We’re having so much fun anyway.

Linked here is an affidavit by John Lear, who is the son of the founder of Lear Jet. I have avoided citing him in any discussions because I am not sure he is trustworthy. One, he was a pilot for the CIA in Vietnam, flying for Air America, or the CIA operation that was used to fly heroin into Vietnam. In the 9/11 business, anyone with an intelligence background needs to be distrusted.

Two, he appears to be doing a garden-path limited hangout. The “limited hangout” is where an agent discloses a certain amount of truth, but only to mislead people. This is what Stephen Jones was doing with his nanothermite evidence – trying to lead people away from Dr. Judy Wood and directed energy, which appears to be on the right track. John Lear is a professional pilot and technically adept in flight engineering and dynamics, so I find his affidavit to be credible. However, if you follow him too far you will learn that he thinks there are people living on the far side of the moon and under the surface of the earth, and that we are all transported there twice before age 13. That is classic psy-op, to lure people with truth, and then crash them into a wall with obvious nonsense.

That in mind, I am putting up the link here because his affidavit was part of a real court case, and so is open to discussion and critique among professionals. It is not hard reading at all, but the concepts are foreign to the pedestrian. He concludes that no plane could have hit the Twin Towers because an inexperienced pilot could not perform those feats; because the building would offer too much resistance for it to be absorbed as seen on TV; because the parts of the plane would not disintegrate anyway, especially engines that operate at 650 degrees centigrade and weigh 9,000 pounds each; and because planes cannot fly that fast so close to the ground.

However, in cartoons, everything is possible! He therefore accuses NIST and the government and its contractors of fraud.

The affidavit is four single-spaced pages long. Takes about twenty minutes.