A summary of news headlines from around the world:

• Afghan AOPP News: Insiders report that American President Obama, troubled by sagging poll results, has suggested to his campaign staff that they arrange for Osama bin Laden to be killed again. His staff has came up with a number of possibilities:
  • He drifted ashore;
  • He reappeared as a zombie, since the original Navy Seal raid forgot the need for a double-tap;
  • He was found drifting in a life raft;
  • And the most likely choice, that he was not actually killed in the first raid. Under this plan, Obama would assert that the Seals had mistakenly killed one of his Dopplegangers used as stunt doubles in the various short films credited to him over the years.

  Faced with the possibility that the American public would not buy a second staged killing of the same man, Obama’s campaign chief, Jim Messina, said that they were not worried about all of public opinion, and only had to fool Democrats, “…quite an easy task, actually.”

• Jerusalem אפרטהייד: Polls show that African Americans far harder to fool than whites. A recent poll offering phrases such as
  • “You wanna buy this car?”
  • “We are an equal opportunity employer;”
  • “No, seriously, Democrats really care about you” and
  • “We’ll meet you at the apartment for a showing at 1:00 PM, don’t be late”

  most often elicited the answer “Sheeeeit – you makin me a fool?” from the list of choices.

• Tehran Times: “Americans are just fuckin’ liars,” says a government official after President Obama announced that the US was seeking peaceful resolution to the current crisis. “There’s nothing to resolve,” said Nazim Abdullah, head of the Iranian State Bureau to Cut Through Western Bullshit. “What the fuck is there to resolve?” said Abdullah. “We’re just sittin’ here chillin out, and like pow! Scientists get knocked off, battle ships in the harbor … Holy Crap!” The general consensus on the ruling council, as put forth by Mullah Mohammed Omar, is “Get us a fuckin’ bomb, and soon!”
• Damascus Gaspro headline:
  

  “Yeah, like all this shit goin’ down, and we like just go and shoot some Turks. Yeah. We’re that stupid.”

Obama will probably win, but Romney might. Both have powerful factions behind them.

Nothing else changes except …

If Romney wins, the Democratic base will assume the old pre-Obama posture of opposing the very things they are now supporting.

Oh yeah, almost forgot: If Romney wins, Republicans will stop talking about deficits. Blessed relief!

There’s been chatter around since the debate in Denver that Romney won, or failed to lose less than Obama failed to win. It’s a moot point to me, but important, I suppose, in a land where the only confrontation allowed without paid ads are the so-called debates.

One question is why did Obama not attack? There are several possible answers:

• Angry Black Man: There are still racial undertones, and Obama succeeds because of his smooth-spoken command of the English language, and his beautiful wife and children. He’s half white, and that is the part that many white people vote for.

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I start with the assumption that 98% of the terrorism in the world originates in the bowels of the Pentagon/Langley, MI6 and Mossad. If you want to argue 99% I won’t put up much of a fight, but I won’t go 100%, as the world is full of bad guys.

But weak people don’t ask to be attacked. So the attackers have to do it for them.

That is a constant theme throughout recent history, and probably through all of military history. From Operation Himmler to Tonkin to Brothers to the Rescue to 9/11, provocative attacks of no military or strategic value are senseless unless self-inflicted. Even Shoe and Underpants bombers are likely psychopathic losers under control of western intelligence. They reinforce our fear. Israel is especially well-practiced at this, and the ease with which they can launch a few rockets at themselves allows them to terrorize the West Bank and Gaza at will and invade Lebanon with near-impunity. (Hezbollah effectively ousted the Israelis from Lebanon, which is why we call that group “terrorists.”)

A question arises – really ugly terror like bus bombs and department store massacres – would western intelligence pull those off as well? What about car bombs in Iraq, marketplace massacres, snipers, beheadings … are these deeds done by agents provocateur? There are two possible answers here in my view: Most likely, and yes.

And please understand, and I repeat – the world is full of bad guys. They are not all employed by us. But there are weak bad guys and strong ones. The weak ones don’t go around begging to be attacked by the overwhelming military power of Israel, NATO and the U.S. Counterforce operations are designed to be effective – like Tet and Pearl Harbor. These were intelligent, well-planned and well-timed. The Japanese, under embargo in 1941 and knowing war was imminent, did not decide to blow up a shopping mall. The Vietnamese did not set their underpants on fire.

So when we read that a lone drone entered Israeli air space, it is not only wise to suspect that it was done by the Israelis, but perfectly logical. Who the hell else would pull such a stunt? More importantly, why?

The post down below drew the expected reaction, silence, pity and/or disbelief. That is neither discouraging or off-putting. The accusation drawn from it was that I held the American people in contempt. That is in part true, but I reserve my contempt for our intellectual, academic and journalistic classes. They are the ones we call on in times of need, and who answer only to power.

So if my position is merely one of contempt for regular people, then it cannot be that the evidence is unsettling or troubling, but rather merely a clash of personalities. I am then self-deluded to the point of imagining myself all-knowing while silently imagining all others to be stupid. But that’s neither true nor useful. Anyone traveling through life, attending meetings and conferences, family gatherings and parties, cannot help but notice the overall intellectual competency, even excellence, of the professional classes. The technical classes – electricians and mechanics and even accountants, people with a modicum of education and reading ability, also carry high intelligence for less abstract pursuits. But anyone attending a tailgating function cannot help but be discouraged.

All levels of awareness, and all levels of perceptions and intelligence exist among us. If the object is to reach people and mobilize them, the first move would be to fry their TV sets. More specifically, to turn off their news. Television news is a drug, a source of delusion in that it allows people to feel informed while shielding them from information.
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Journalists tell the truth to tell a lie. Novelists tell a lie to tell the truth. Norman Mailer (perhaps apocryphal)

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see very day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can have. (T.H. White)

He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future. (George Orwell)

In a an obscure movie we once watched called “Wag the Dog,” the entire premise is built around the notion that Americans do not get their news from television – they get their truth from there. It’s a really fun movie to watch – the president has been exposed as having molested a Girl Scout, and his staff needs a distracting story. They call in the expert, CIA man Conrad Brean (Robert Di Niro), who says that the scandal is so damaging that a war is needed to push it off to obscurity. But there is never a real war – there are only words and images (done in Hollywood using CGI), which is all the American people need. When other factions within government “end” the war, Brean “starts” it again.

But prior to the restart, Brean informs the president’s campaign staff that they are beaten – “The war is over. I saw it on TV.” That is, reality aside, what happens. TV is reality for Americans. No matter how illogical or contrary to nature, if it is read from a script by a credible person, if an image is shown, people believe it.

It’s a very good movie, based on the book American Hero by Larry Beinhart.

I vowed I was not going to do this, no sir. It’s a time-sink. No one will believe it anyway, as it is not on TV. But I did it. I am speaking of the events of 9/11, a very large and sophisticated military/intelligence/psychological operation. With such a phenomenon, street-level “researchers” enter a hall of mirrors. Those sophisticated and powerful enough to bring this event to fruition also know that a few hundred thousand skeptics will not buy the official story. Books will appear, photos will be analyzed, so that the stagers must run a counter-“truther” operation as well. Such an operation is replete with false leads and discrediting sideshows like fake moon landings and UFO’s. In that manner, those who question 9/11 are caged with those who believe in space aliens. For our benefit there are spooks masquerading as “Truthers” doing “limited hangouts.” I waded through much of this, but was fortunate enough to be able to eliminate the noise and clutter using a simple premise: If it looks like a garden path, leave the garden.
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I was driving around Denver yesterday looking for a company that, even as Mapquest says otherwise, does not exist. In boredom, I turn on the radio. The NPR station is doing one of it’s non-newsy time-filling shows, which is what they do best. Talk radio offered three outlets on 630, 760 and 850, and as I turned to each was blasted by advertising. But I did manage to collect the following two exchanges, which I paraphrase:

Caller: Someone told me about how Obama had signed this bill where he can throw any of us in jail for any reason …

Thom Hartmann: (interrupts caller) yeah – that’s a Republican talking point, trying to break up the Obama support. They talk about how Obama signed the Defense Authorization Bill and how he has that power now. They also talk about how he assassinated an American citizen. These things are true, and I disagree with the president on these matters.

My emphasis, of course. This is what immediately came to mind: In one of my favorite movies, Forget Paris, Billy Crystal and Debra Winger, Mickey and Ellen, are walking by the River Seine in Paris. Mickey is an NBA referee and Ellen mentions to him how in a soccer match in South America a stampeding crowd had killed a referee. Said Mickey: “See now, I’m against that*”.

That’s what Democrats are like – the look out over the sea of crap that we call American politics and sigh, and vote for their candidate like it is going to somehow sweeten it up. They don’t know how. Their candidates stab them in the back at every turn, engaging in ugly betrayal. They are against these things, of course. But they vote for them. It begins there, it ends there.
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